Chapter 386 "A Thousand Years"

After finishing an album promotion event, Kelly Chen heard from Li Yaming that Huanyin asked her to audition for a new song.

She was of course happy about this. Which singer doesn't want to have more songs? Even if Huanyin's songs are not good, she has the right to choose not to use them.

Now that she is in Taiwan, it won't take up much time to audition Huanyin's new songs.

But just when Kelly Chen was about to agree, Li Yaming told her that she needed to go to Yanjing to audition the new song.

"Go to Yanjing?"

Kelly Chen was stunned. She couldn't understand why she had to go to Yanjing to audition the new song.

Her new album was about to be released. At such a critical moment, how could she have time to go to Yanjing?

And why Yanjing? Isn't Huanyin Company in Taiwan?

At this time, Li Yaming finally revealed, "This new song is the theme song of Zhou Yan's movie."

Hearing this, Kelly Chen's attitude changed immediately. Zhou Yan's reputation in Hong Kong has long been advanced to the level of a music master. For a newcomer like Kelly Chen, Zhou Yan's name is naturally like thunder in her ears.

As for Zhou Yan's new movie, Kelly Chen has also heard about it. This matter was reported in the news some time ago, and it was quite popular.

Kelly Chen is not a fan of Zhou Yan's movies, but she has also watched the two movies "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" and "The Sixth Sense", not to mention the music in these two movies.

She also knows that the theme song of Zhou Yan's new movie is a good opportunity for her.

Therefore, she did not hesitate any longer and asked Li Yaming directly, "When do I need to go to Yanjing?"

"The specific time has not been determined, but it should be available in the near future. If you are willing to go, I will communicate with Huanyin about the time in a while. In addition, I have to talk to Zhengdong about this matter."

Fumao Records is now only the agent of Kelly Chen's Mandarin album. If Kelly Chen sings the interlude of Zhou Yan's new movie, there is no direct benefit for them. Li Yaming must talk to Zhengdong Records to seek more benefits in this matter, otherwise, it would be a waste of time.

Li Yaming did not consider the possibility that Zhengdong Records would not allow Kelly Chen to sing the interlude of Zhou Yan's new movie, because no record company could refuse this.

The fact is just as Li Yaming expected. Zhengdong Records was very happy after knowing this matter and did not set any obstacles.

At the same time, they also said that the cooperation between Kelly Chen and Huanyin could be carried out through Fumao Records.

In other words, Zhengdong Records gave Fumao Records a profit.

In fact, this choice is right, because Kelly Chen is now in the stage of starting up and rising, and she needs this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. There is no need for them to care about the temporary benefits.

As long as Kelly Chen's voice can shine in Zhou Yan's new movie, the benefits given up now will be recovered soon.

Soon, the parties reached an agreement.

Kelly Chen put aside the publicity work at hand and stepped up to go to Yanjing.

…

Zhou Yan had just sent off Kudo Shizuka and Nakamori Akina, and Kelly Chen and Wang Lihong arrived in Yanjing.

They didn't agree to come together, but they arrived together by chance.

From this time on, Zhou Yan's work really became busy.

Because he was very busy, Zhou Yan had no time to waste, so he asked someone to take them to the recording studio directly, but Zhou Yan did not let them enter the same recording studio, but waited for him in the No. 1 and No. 2 recording studios respectively.

Kelly Chen has been looking around curiously since she came to the studio. The studio looks quite old from the outside, but she didn't expect it to be full of secrets inside. She didn't see other rooms, but the No. 1 recording studio she was in was very professional and the equipment was very advanced.

Xiao Lin, the assistant who came to Yanjing with her, was also very emotional, "I didn't expect there would be such a professional studio here. The key is that the outside of the studio is too confusing. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. I was quite disappointed when I was outside just now."

Her voice was not loud, but the recording engineer Xiao Liu heard it. Xiao Liu smiled and said, "This was originally a warehouse. It was really dilapidated before it was transformed into a studio. Many people who come here for the first time feel the same as you."

Kelly Chen asked curiously, "When I passed by the No. 2 recording studio just now, I seemed to see someone inside. Are they recording songs?"

Xiao Liu nodded and said, "Yes, they are recording new songs. A new person has come."

"Are they also recording the interlude of the movie?" Assistant Xiao Lin inquired.

"I don't know what they are recording. Studio 2 is not my responsibility."

Xiao Liu certainly knew that Studio 2 was going to record "How Long Will I Love You" today, but he was tight-lipped and didn't want to reveal too much.

Assistant Xiao Lin was a little disappointed that he didn't get any information, and then asked, "What song are we going to record today? Can you show us now?"

Up to now, Kelly Chen didn't even know what she was going to record.

Because it was unknown, she had no idea.

She came here just to record it, not to say that this song would definitely be sung by her.

"I don't know about that either." Xiao Liu shook his head again.

This time Xiao Liu really didn't know. He only got the news last night that Studio 1 was going to record a new song today. As for what song was going to be recorded, he, like Kelly Chen, didn't know at all.

He even had less information than Kelly Chen.

Kelly Chen at least knew that the new song to be recorded today was an episode in Zhou Yan's new movie.

Seeing that Xiao Liu didn't know anything, Kelly Chen and her assistant lost interest in asking him for information.

The three of them had nothing to talk about, so they could only sit in the recording studio, and the atmosphere was quite awkward.

This awkwardness lasted for more than half an hour before Zhou Yan finally pushed the door open.

Kelly Chen and Zhou Yan met for the first time, but she was familiar with his face. When she saw Zhou Yan coming in, she greeted him politely, "Hello, Teacher Zhou."

Zhou Yan glanced at Kelly Chen, smiled and nodded, "Hello, welcome to Yanjing. It's not easy to come here. It must be tiring, right?"

"It's really not easy to come here, but I believe everything is worth it."

Kelly Chen's Mandarin is not very standard, but there will be no obstacles in communication.

"Because the filming will start soon, I'm busy with work, so I can only trouble you to come early." Zhou Yan explained briefly, and then handed a copy of the music score to Kelly Chen, "Take half an hour to look at the score and lyrics of this song. If you don't understand anything, ask me later."

"Okay."

Kelly Chen took the music score with anticipation, and was about to say something, but then she heard Zhou Yan say, "Okay, then we'll see each other in half an hour."

After that, Zhou Yan turned around and pushed the door out of Studio No. 1.

Watching Zhou Yan's back disappear at the door, Kelly Chen held the score with a confused expression.

From Zhou Yan's entry to his departure, was it one minute?

This efficiency is too fast.

But she just sighed a little about Zhou Yan's style of doing things, and quickly focused her attention on the music score in her hand.

The name of the song was written on the first page of the score, "a thousand years", which is an English song. She was not surprised by this, because the reason she was able to come to try recording a new song was because she had sent a demo of an English song before.

Although Kelly Chen often participated in music competitions when she was very young, she did not really receive professional music training, so her ability to read music scores is not very good.

In fact, a singer's ability to read music scores does not have a big impact on the singer's development. Many singers know nothing about music theory, but they still sing very well, because their musical perception is not weak. As long as they are given a good demo, they can sing according to the demo.

No one will stipulate that singers must be able to sing when they see the score.

Most pop singers do not get a score for the first time, but a demo of a song. Usually, the song demo has already studied the song, and the singer only needs to refer to the demo to sing.

Even some singer-songwriters are not good at music theory. Compared with professional composers, they are more free to do what they want when composing songs.

This is not a rare thing. Early folk songs and mountain songs basically did not have scores. They were all created freely by folk singers, and their creative method was to hum and sing based on their own feelings.

Kelly Chen has some knowledge of music theory, but it is not good. At least she can't sing the song as soon as she sees the score like Celine Dion, and she needs to use musical instruments to slowly explore.

So when she saw this song, Kelly Chen didn't care about the melody first like Celine Dion, but looked at the lyrics first, because even if she looked at the score, she didn't have an impression of the melody for a while.

In her opinion, it may be better to find the emotion of the song by looking at the lyrics first than by looking at the score first.

Sight singing includes many aspects, such as pitch, rhythm, style of the song, and the emotion expressed by the song. These need to be studied. If you don't have a good ability to read music and study, you can't get it right.

After studying the lyrics, Kelly Chen felt that it was good, but she didn't feel surprised, at least not as good as the song "young and beautiful" written by Zhou Yan before.

This song uses the most common words, and the expression of emotions is more direct, unlike "young and beautiful" where many lyrics are relatively obscure.

For example, "I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid

I have love you for a thousand years

..."

This sentence is common in many English songs.

Seeing such lyrics, Kelly Chen even felt that she could write it herself.

...

After Zhou Yan walked out of Studio 1, he went to Studio 2.

In Studio 2, Wang Lihong was recording "How Long Will I Love You".

Because Wang Lihong had got this song for a long time, he was very familiar with it, and Zhou Yan had given him the general direction before, so he performed quite well. For today's recording, Zhou Yan only needed to correct some details.

When they met again, the relationship between Wang Lihong and Zhou Yan changed. Now Zhou Yan has become Wang Lihong's boss.

However, Wang Lihong's attitude and feelings towards Zhou Yan did not change because of the change of identity. In his heart, Zhou Yan is still the senior he admires, even a teacher.

Wang Lihong was of course very happy to see Zhou Yan again, but Zhou Yan didn't have time to greet him now. After a few simple words, he started to get into work mode.

He took Wang Lihong to try twice, and half an hour passed.

Zhou Yan looked at his watch and said to Wang Lihong, "Lihong, you should think carefully about the questions I just mentioned and let your throat rest for a while. We will continue later."

After saying that, Zhou Yan turned around and went to Recording Studio No. 1.

After entering the recording studio, Zhou Yan asked, "How about it? Can you try singing it again now?"

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Kelly Chen showed an embarrassed look on her face, "I'm not familiar with this song yet."

Just now she spent seven or eight minutes just studying the lyrics. In the next twenty minutes, she was also carefully exploring the score, but she hadn't figured it out yet.

Zhou Yan was a little embarrassed when he saw Kelly Chen, but he didn't blame her.

This is actually Zhou Yan's fault. The singers he worked with before were all very capable of sight-singing, but he forgot that not every singer has good sight-singing ability.

Without saying a word, Zhou Yan walked directly to the keyboard and said, "Let me take you through it."

Kelly Chen said in surprise, "Do you want to sing it again?"

"It's not singing, it's humming."

Although Zhou Yan didn't sing well, he hummed pretty well. He could at least express the pitch, rhythm and emotion of the song. For Kelly Chen, it was enough to have these.

Then Zhou Yan didn't waste any time and just hummed while playing.

After Zhou Yan hummed a sentence, Kelly Chen suddenly became enlightened and sang directly.

“heart beats fast

colors and promises”

Originally, when Kelly Chen was groping by herself, she stumbled and did not feel the charm of the song. But now, following Zhou Yan, singing each note accurately and in the correct rhythm, the charm of the song suddenly emerged. .

The one who felt the deepest feeling was assistant Xiao Lin. When Kelly Chen sang it by herself just now, she thought the song was not very good, but now it is completely different. These are two completely different songs.

Especially the chorus part, the lyrics that originally seemed very simple now sound so graceful and beautiful.

When Kelly Chen was groping by herself, she felt that the score was very difficult, but after Zhou Yan led her to hum it once, the melody was directly imprinted in her mind, and everything became very simple.

This is what singers like her are like. Although her sight-singing ability is not good, as long as you listen to her once, she can sing it.

By the second time, she didn't need Zhou Yan to hum, she could finish it very well and added some of her own understanding.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but nod, this song is indeed suitable for Kelly Chen.

The song "A Thousand Years" is very romantic. Kelly Chen's voice is clear and soft with a bit of resilience. It is very picturesque. The treble part is ethereal and melodious, with a fantasy flavor, which fits Zhou Yan's requirements very well.

There is a difference between the singing of movie interludes and ordinary songs.

Some singers have very good skills and very good vocal conditions. They may be able to give a very good performance when they stand on the stage, but it is not interesting to let them sing interludes.

Many times, when people watch a movie, they don't care whether the voice of the singer singing the interlude is full of tension or whether the scale changes are skillful and comfortable.

In fact, as a director, Zhou Yan hopes that the audience will not be too attracted by the technology embodied in the interlude, but rather be immersed in the world woven together by the songs and images.

The soundtrack and interludes serve the movie. If they attract the audience's attention too much, it is not a good thing.

As for Kelly Chen's voice and singing style, there is a sense that the pictures are disconnected. Her voice is the sticking point and can connect the pictures. (End of chapter)