Chapter 183

After dinner, Xiao Yao satisfied Betty's wish and replaced her first gift with a piano piece.

This time, Xiao Yao, who prefers newage, did not choose Kevin Kern's music any more, but played a very rhythmic piano piece of his previous life, Jim Brickman's Serenade.

Apart from being pleasant to listen to, the biggest feature of Serenade is its sense of rhythm. Therefore, in addition to the piano sound, rhythm and drums are added as the background sound in the original version. In order to restore the overall effect of Zhongyuan music in his previous life, Xiao Yao also asked Keith to move out the electronic keyboard and put a fixed rhythm of drums on it to accompany his piano music.

Looking at Xiao Yao's fingers dancing on the piano keys flexibly and listening to another beautiful piano music that she had never heard before, Betty could not help sighing: "I haven't seen you in a few years. This little guy has not only improved his playing skills, but also become more and more able to play. It's just that I don't know where he got this new piece of music that combines drums and piano. "

Keith, who plays rock music, is obviously less interested in this kind of piano music than Betty, but after watching Xiao Yao's performance, he has to admit his wife's evaluation. When it comes to playing the piano, he is not as good as the 17-year-old boy in front of him. Although he can also play the piano, he is the lead singer and guitarist of the band, not the keyboard player.

At the end of the song, Betty and Keith gave their applause for Xiao Yao's performance. Xiao Yao nodded his thanks with a smile.

"Yang, what was that song just now?" Betty asked.

"It's Serenade. It's my father's friend XY's work. It's new this year." Xiao Yao never changed his face. In a sense, it doesn't seem to be a complete lie. Although he told his father Xiao Siqi that all the new songs he wrote in the future would use his own name, Xiao Yao still put him under the name of XY for such pure music works.

"Do you want to help Mr. Bernie buy it again?" Xiao Yao looks at Betty and says. Seven years ago, her two piano pieces "memories of childhood" and "sunny dreams" played in front of Betty sold the playing rights to her piano player friend Horne Bernie through Betty's intermediary relationship.

"Smart," Betty agreed, and then said with a smile, "but I don't have to work today. In a moment, Horne will come to the party tonight, and let him talk to you. I don't care

"OK, no problem. Anyway, I can be XY's plenipotentiary in selling song copyright." Xiao Yao shrugged.

After about an hour or so, Keith and Betty invited friends to join the party and began to arrive one after another.

Craig's house is big enough. The main area of the ladder is the living room of the house and the lawn around the swimming pool in the courtyard connected to the living room through a huge glass door.

Although Keith is playing rock band, but this time there is no crazy program. It's just a social gathering of friends. Most of us walk around with drinks, chat and get in touch with each other.

Of course, as the first time to visit Craig's home Xiao Yao. Keith and Betty made a brief introduction to his friends, which also brought Xiao Yao into the circle of friends they knew.

"Did Keith and Betty organize this fight to introduce this Chinese middle school student to us? It's a bit of a fuss, isn't it? " After a brief introduction, we started to walk around and chat at will, so there was also a discussion about Xiao Yao among the guests.

"Make a mountain out of a molehill? Betty from the top model to the transformation of their own fashion brand, is still a big figure in the fashion circle. Keith's "daydream" band has existed for more than ten years, and has been popular for seven or eight years. It is also an old world in the entertainment industry. Are they the kind of people who do things without thinking? " Someone responded with a curl of his mouth.

"Don't just see that boy is 17 years old and a middle school student. But didn't you listen to Betty? He is both a music player and a photographer. Whether it's Keith's music circle or Betty's fashion circle, this guy has a lot to do with it. It's obvious that they both have great potential. If he can make good achievements in the future, they who have a good relationship with him now will benefit a lot in the future There are also people nearby to join the discussion.

"It's just to organize a fight. Anyway, they have a lot of fights. They will do it once in a while. Even if the boy is mediocre in the future, Keith and Betty will have no loss. This kind of networking investment is the most cost-effective. "

Some of the guests were so excited about the Craig couple and Xiao Yao, because they were not in the main activity area of the ladder at the moment. After introducing the Craig family's new friend Xiao Yao, the Craig couple called horn Bernie and went with Xiao Yao to a more private place, Keith's music room on the second floor. In addition to these four people, there is also horn Bernie, a friend who is also engaged in music and a film sounder, Ron distin.

After hearing Betty say that XY, who sold him the commercial performance rights of two piano pieces "memories of childhood" and "sunny dreams", has made new works, horn Bernie immediately became very interested, and drew up his good friend Ron, who is also a musician, and followed Betty to Keith's music room."Where is the score? I'll play it first. " As soon as he entered the music room, horn was excited to sit by Keith's piano.

"Wait a minute," Betty said with a smile, stopping horn. "There's no score this time, and you don't have to play it yourself. The person who knows that song is here. Just sit quietly and listen to it. "

"Who? Keith Horn curled his lips. "He plays the guitar well, but forget about the piano. It's better to write the score and let me do it myself. "

"Hey, horn!" Keith exclaimed discontentedly, "don't think we are good friends, I won't beat you." With that, Keith raised his tattooed arm.

"No, it's not Keith, it's young!" With a smile, Betty points to Xiao Yao who comes in with her and says to horn.

"It's him!" Seeing Betty pointing at Xiao Yao, Keith didn't insist on playing and gave up the position. He didn't question Xiao Yao because of his age. On the one hand, he and Xiao Yao didn't know each other until this evening. They didn't know Keith so well. It's very impolite and uncivilized to say anything to question. On the other hand, he didn't know much about Xiao Yao. If he had studied piano since childhood, he could have practiced it for more than ten years by the age of 17, and he could have practiced it to a very good level.

Xiao Yao is not polite either. He first turns on the rhythm and drum on one side of the electronic keyboard, then sits in front of the piano and plays serenade, which he played once before.

Drum with piano, the world's new age music development to the present situation is not absent, but such an excellent piano music is still rare.

"Yang, why do you play this song so skillfully? What's your relationship with XY? " After listening to Xiao Yao's performance, Horne clapped heartily. Instead of rushing to talk about the performance copyright, he was curious about the relationship between Xiao Yao and XY.

"XY is Yang's father's friend, so he is Yang's elder." Betty replied, "remember the performance rights of the two songs I recommended you to buy? I also heard those two songs from Yang. If you like this song and want the right to perform it, Yang can be the representative of XY's copyright transaction. You can talk to him directly. "

"Yes, of course." "It's a great piece, and I want to play it in my own recital," said horn Bernie

"There's not much to talk about." Xiao Yao said, "I know that Mr. Bernie, you are a very famous pianist in the United States and a composer of piano music, so it's an honor for you to see the music. If the price of performance copyright is based on your market price, I believe Betty and you. "

"OK, no problem. I will prepare the copyright transaction contract as soon as possible, and I won't treat my friends badly in price." Horn said with a satisfied smile. At the same time, Horne Bernie also thinks that he has found out the reason why Keith and Betty opened the stairs for Shaw tonight. Xiao Yao's piano playing level and his musical talent are enough to make friends with Betty and Keith.

"Hey, horn, your problem is solved, but mine is not." At this time, Ron Dean, who has been a spectator, said.

"Oh, yes." Horn patted on the forehead and said to Keith and Betty, "Ron has a problem for you, especially Keith. You can help him solve it."

"The problem? Is it the soundtrack of the animated film you have? You haven't done it yet? It's said that it will be on early next month. " Betty looked at Ron in surprise.

"That's right." Ron nodded. "That's it. The soundtrack in the movie has been basically completed, but the theme song has not been finished yet. "

"I'm also responsible for the theme song of this movie." Ron continued, "it's an animated movie, but it's not just children who get into the theater, it's adults. The main audience of this film is children, parents and young people, so the theme song needs to be accepted by all ages, neither too young nor too deep. At the same time, in order to match the theme of the film, we need to be active and healthy, and also reflect the rebellious, personality and free and unrestrained of young people. "

"What?" Hearing this, Xiao Yao is not calm. "It's not going to be Dawei, is it?"

"I haven't written or found a suitable theme song for the movie." Ron shook his head helplessly and said, "it's getting closer and closer to the release date, but the theme song hasn't been finished. It's really hard to say. Now the director and the producer are putting a lot of pressure on me. So I wonder if Keith can help me write a theme song like this? Or Betty, you've recommended three great piano pieces for horn. With your personal connections and excellent ears who are good at finding good music, can you also help me find such a suitable theme song

"Positive, healthy, rebellious, personality, free and uninhibited..." Keith and Betty frown and repeat Ron's key adjectives.

Keith first shook his head and said: "the last few words are the style of our rock band" daydream ", but the first two words are not suitable for theme songs of animated films. If you ask me to write a song in a few days, I can't guarantee to finish it on time and with good quality. ""Excuse me... May I ask what the movie is about?" Xiao Yao finally broke in.

Seeing Ron looking at himself in surprise, Xiao Yao gave a dry cough and explained: "XY's works have also done episodes and soundtracks in Chinese movies, so I think he may have a suitable song on hand. Of course, the lyrics of his songs are in Chinese, but it's much easier to change the lyrics than to write a song now. "

"Of course," said Ron, hearing that XY had also done a film soundtrack. He also had a hope in his heart. He immediately said, "the film tells the story of a stubborn and brave young man with special abilities in a fictional city who formed a" young policer "alliance with some young men with special abilities to fight against criminals in the city."

"No big white," Xiao Yao thought regretfully in his heart, "it sounds like a juvenile cartoon version of a superhero movie like the Justice League or the Avengers League."

After Xiao Yao asked, Betty thought of Xiao Yao's student band's performance of the song "immortals". It seems that Ron mentioned a few key words, this song is not all in line with it?

So Betty said to Ron with a smile, "I have a song here that seems to meet your requirements. But I want to remind you that this song is just the work of a student band, and the creator is not well-known in our American entertainment circle now. "

"It doesn't matter if you're not famous," said Ron, not caring. "This animated film is going to hit this year's Oscar for best animated feature film. Its quality is absolutely excellent. It doesn't need a theme song to enhance its popularity. I just want the theme song to match the quality and theme of the movie. "

"It's just..." Ron hesitated. "What's so good about a student band? Is it worthy of this movie?"

"I have a performance video of this song. As for whether it is worthy or not, please judge for yourself as a professional. " With a smile, Betty takes out her mobile phone, calls up her own live video of the performance of immortals and hands it to Ron.