Chapter 9

Generally speaking, a complete music album should include at least ten songs. According to the contract, Xiao Siqi's album must be finished by the end of this year. In addition to almost a month's recording time, Xiao Siqi will have to submit at least 10 songs' scores, lyrics and sample songs to the record company for approval after more than a month. Writing ten songs a month is an impossible task for Xiao Siqi, but he has been preparing for this album. Half a year after the car accident, regardless of the time, Xiao Siqi was not without inventory more than a year ago.

For this album, Xiao Siqi wrote more than 20 new songs in more than a year. But Xiao Siqi, who has suffered two losses in a row, is also very strict with this album. In these 20 new songs, Xiao Siqi thinks that only seven songs can be selected into the new album. So what Xiao Siqi needs to do now is to write three more songs that can be selected into the new album in the next month. It seems that this is not an impossible task.

After several months of studying with Xiao Siqi, Xiao Yao has mastered the basic knowledge of music theory, the basic skills of voice production and voice training, and the basic playing methods of three kinds of musical instruments, and has entered the stage of a lot of practice. Xiao Siqi's focus on the creation of new songs on his album has little influence on Xiao Yao.

In order to give Xiao Siqi an undisturbed creative space, Xiao Yao moved his usual musical instruments out of the music room and moved his practice place from the music room to the living room. Anyway, the sound insulation effect of his home is good. Even if he practices in the living room, as long as he doesn't press it like crazy, he will not disturb the next door neighbors. As for why not just move to the fitness room, which is about to become a special room for Xiao Yao, it is because one of the three instruments he wants to practice is the piano in the living room, which can't be moved.

Xiao Yao's current musical instruments are electronic organ, piano and ukulele. The electronic organ is the most suitable instrument for Xiao Yao to learn, and it is also his earliest instrument. After mastering the playing skills of the electronic organ, Xiao Yao put his mind on the piano, which is known as the king of musical instruments, and the guitar, which is a kind of magic instrument.

It's easier to say about piano. After all, it's similar to the posture and fingering of the electronic organ. Although his height can't effectively reach the bottom pedal at present, it's still useful to be familiar with the different keys of the piano and the electronic organ. When the physical conditions are sufficient in the future, he will be able to play the piano faster and better.

The guitar made Xiao Yao a little difficult. His height was not as high as an ordinary wooden guitar, and his small palm made his fingers unable to completely cover the six strings on the guitar. When Xiao Yao was very depressed and prayed that he would grow up soon, the word "Hawaii" mentioned on TV once made him think of another thing. Ukulele, also known as the Hawaiian Quartet. It is very similar to the guitar in appearance, shape and playing skills, but the whole body is much smaller than the guitar, and there are only four strings, which can almost cover his small hands. So Xiao Yao asked Xiao Siqi to learn how to play ukulele.

As a professional musician, although Xiao Siqi has never played ukulele, he also knows how to play this instrument. Thinking of the size and chord number of this instrument, he also knew that Xiao Yao was preparing for learning to play guitar in the future. If a child wants to learn, he is naturally willing to teach. As a person who plays guitar very well, although he has never played ukulele, it is easy to learn this kind of instrument which is very similar to guitar but much simpler. It is not difficult to teach Xiao Yao after learning it.

Xiao Siqi, who plunges into the music room and works wholeheartedly, used to take care of each other with Xiao Yao in his life. Now he simply gives Xiao Yao everything in his life. For example, Xiao Siqi's cooking skills are very poor. Originally, Xiao Siqi would take Xiao Yao out for dinner, but occasionally he would call to order food and order takeout if he was too busy and missed the meal point. Now it's three meals a day. Xiao Yao calls for takeout. Xiao Yao didn't have any dissatisfaction with this. Anyway, he just cleaned up his family. He had been living alone in his previous life, and he was very handy with these jobs.

Of course, Xiao Siqi is not completely isolated from Xiao Yao. Whenever he admitted to writing a good melody, Xiao Yao would play it to him. Only when Xiao Yao nods his head and says it sounds good, will he continue to expand and perfect the melody into a complete piece. It's not to say how high Xiao Yao's music literacy is now. He can only simply tell Xiao Siqi that he likes to listen, that he's average, that he's not so good and so on.

The reason why Xiao Siqi takes Xiao Yao's judgment as a criterion of whether to continue or not is because Xiao Siqi is deeply impressed by Xiao Yao's extraordinary performance. In order to test his most intuitive feeling of music works, he once performed his more than 20 completed songs to Xiao Yao one by one, and asked him to rank them according to the degree of feeling good, listening to more than ten songs in his previous life In 2005, Xiao Yao, who had heard countless songs, still had some music appreciation ability. As a result, the seven songs that Xiao Yao ranked in the top seven were exactly the seven songs that Xiao Siqi selected into the new album. Therefore, Xiao Siqi, who thinks Xiao Yao's music taste and aesthetics are very good, regards Xiao Yao as the first inspector of his music.

Xiao Siqi seems to be playful in doing this, but he is quite childish. Once he is willful, he is just... Willful.However, music creation is really not a matter where efforts will lead to results. Ten days later, Xiao Siqi still didn't create a song that satisfied himself enough to put on the new album. Xiao Yao can't bear to see Xiao Siqi haggard day by day. Xiao Siqi's performance in this period of time is in his eyes. He has worked hard enough and worked hard enough. Xiao Yao wondered whether he should open his golden finger to help him.

Xiao Yao, who has been in this world for more than half a year, has a good understanding of this world. Especially after returning home and getting a higher family status with Xiao Siqi, he has already obtained his own tablet computer and the right to surf the Internet at any time. During his time studying music, he had already understood the entertainment industry in the world. I learned that compared with previous lives, the world turned a corner a hundred years ago. The historical trend is the same, the events are still there, but the characters and time have changed. The same is true in the entertainment industry. The course and trend of the development and evolution of popular culture and popular trend have not changed, but the people who lead the trend are not the same, and the classics that lead the trend are not the same. That is to say, the classic music and film and television works that I heard in previous lives have not appeared in this world. The same culture, the same trend, the same aesthetic, then the classics of the previous life moved to the present world, nature is still classic. Those classics in my memory are equivalent to a private treasure house.

After learning about his family, Xiao Yao once lamented that his life had entered a simple mode after reading files. Later, Xiao Yao took the initiative to learn all kinds of things and set all kinds of learning goals. It was Xiao Yao who forced himself to increase the difficulty of his life. When he felt that his life was more than the ordinary mode and closer to the difficult mode, this discovery undoubtedly made his life return to the simple mode. In order to make his life less boring and boring, Xiao Yao didn't intend to open golden finger so early, but seeing Xiao Siqi's tragedy, he thought it might be OK to open golden finger in advance and take something out of his pocket.

There are many classic songs in Xiao Yao's mind, but how to give them to Xiao Siqi still needs to think of some ways. Xiao Siqi insists that the songs in his album must be original. No matter who throws a finished piece to him, he won't want it. So Xiao Yao has to think that the classic songs he chooses are created by Xiao Siqi himself. In this way, it seems that there are not so many songs to choose from.

"Dad, take a break and talk to me."

On this day, Xiao Yao finally came up with a way to pull Xiao Siqi out of the music room and sit down on the sofa in the living room. He is sitting in the usual seat to practice.

"There's nothing to talk about." Xiao Siqi had no choice but to smile bitterly.

"Just talk about it." Xiao Yao said with a smile: "look at your light bubble music room every day. My grandfather taught me a word called relaxation, and he also taught me a sentence that if you want speed, you can't reach it. So I'll let you relax properly. Take a break and change your mind. Maybe you can get some new inspiration. "

Xiao Siqi also understands the truth that speed makes failure. Looking at his son's thoughtfulness, it's not good to let him down. So he said, "OK, what do you want to talk about? I'm not as literate as your grandfather. " Said, in the sofa adjusted a more comfortable posture, obviously also want to relax.

"Talk about you and my mother." Xiao Yao tilted his head and thought about it, then asked, "is my mother beautiful?"

"Of course it's beautiful," Xiao Siqi said with a smile. "There are pictures of her all over the house, and you can't see them."

"Is my mother the most beautiful woman in your heart?" Xiao Yao continued. With Xiao Siqi's reply, his fingers pressed a string of notes on the electronic organ.

"Of course, in my heart, your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world." Xiao Siqi sighed, as if recalling Chen Zilin. Then he found something wrong and asked Xiao Yao, "what tune did you play just now?"

"It's not a piece of music. I just played a piece." Xiao Yao said with a deliberate smile: "just now I heard you say that my mother is the most beautiful woman in your heart. Naturally, I played so many times."

"It seems very good. You wait. I'll write it down." Xiao Siqi said excitedly: "I have the words all of a sudden. As I said just now, you are the most beautiful in my heart. "

Watching Xiao Siqi excitedly go to get the blank staff and pencil, Xiao Yao's mouth quietly tilts a radian. What he just played was the melody of the first sentence of the chorus in Yuquan's song "the most beautiful". As a highly educated musician, Xiao Siqi can naturally hear the excellence of this melody. Even the matching lyrics pop out of Xiao Siqi's mouth under the deliberate language guidance of Xiao Yao.

However, Xiao Yao only played the first sentence of the chorus, only two bars, far from a complete work. To make this song take shape in Xiao Siqi's hands, it still needs efforts. Xiao Yao can't and isn't ready to play the whole song to Xiao Siqi, so this song won't be the original of Xiao Siqi. Xiao Yao's plan is to pick out the impressive sections of the main song and the chorus, and pretend to play them inadvertently. The rest will be improved by Xiao Siqi himself. When many musicians write songs, they first have a great melody, then gradually add and perfect it, forming the main song and the chorus, then fill in the words, and finally become a complete song. This creative process is very normal.Watching Xiao Siqi accurately turn the two bar melodies he just played into notes on paper and add words below, Xiao Yao continued: "Dad, go on talking. What was your first date with my mom like? Do you send flowers? What flowers did you send? Rose

"Hey, I said you're a kid. How do you know so much? Come on, you're not a normal kid anyway. " Xiao Siqi threw the pen and paper on the tea table and leaned back comfortably on the sofa. "The first date, of course, is to send flowers, dating, in addition to sending girls roses can also send carnations?" Xiao Siqi said with a smile, as if recalling his first date with Chen Zilin.

However, Xiao Yao nodded seriously and said, "from the performance of living with you in recent months, I think it's appropriate for you to send carnations."

Xiao Siqi was stunned for a while before he responded. Xiao Yao said that his life skills were too poor. It was obvious that Chen Zilin was taking care of everything in life. Chen Zilin is taking care of Xiao Siqi like a mother taking care of her son.

"Hey, don't you? Did you say that about dad? " Xiao Siqi feigned anger.