Chapter 736

"Is this lid like thing an instrument?" Director Steve mcgrove asked curiously as he glanced at the screen of the cell phone that Dawson Gru had taken over.

"I seem to have seen something like this somewhere." "It seems to be a kind of instrument. It's a direct percussion instrument, isn't it?" frowned the composer Dawson Gru With that, Dawson Gru returned the phone to Xiao Yao.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded and took back his cell phone. "I guess you may have seen it on the Internet. I've recorded several videos of playing this instrument and posted them on the Internet. There are also others playing this instrument. But now this kind of instrument is still used to perform more, it seems that it has not appeared in the soundtrack of film and television works. Moreover, the sound characteristics of this instrument is relatively ethereal, and it has never been used as the music for suspense plot. "

"To score suspense and tense plots with ethereal musical instruments? I'm very interested. " Dawson Gru said immediately, "I'd love to see it."

"No problem," Xiao said with a smile. "I just said that if you are interested, you can go to the studio of daydream in the evening to watch me play and record."

Do you have to wait until evening? We have our own studio, and you can start working now. " Dawson Gru couldn't wait to say a word, then responded, "wait, whose studio do you say? "Daydream" Just now, both of them were attracted by the picture of the musical instrument on Xiao Yao's mobile phone. Dawson Gru obviously didn't pay attention to Xiao Yao's words.

"Yes, the studio of daydream." Xiao Yao nodded and said, "although your crew has a recording studio, they don't have a handdisc. My handdisc is in the hotel. I need to go back to the hotel to get it. My hotel is close to the studio of daydream, and I have been doing music arrangement and accompaniment in their studio yesterday. I am familiar with the equipment there

"Steve, the soundtrack is on schedule," Dawson Gru said to the director next to him. "If young can really handle the soundtrack of that suspense and tense plot tonight, the soundtrack can be advanced, so I think I won't have a problem if I don't work tonight." What he meant was obviously to watch Xiao Yao play the music with his hand disc.

"Of course, no problem," director Steve mcgrove said, immediately nodding as he understood what the score meant. "In fact, I'd like to see it."

"In that case, let's start now. It's not too early." Xiao Yao got up and said.

"You're going back to the hotel now, and you're going to take your instrument to the studio?" Zhou Jingyi asked Xiao Yao in surprise, "I'm going to invite you to Dino's for dinner. It's a great restaurant. I've already made a reservation. "

After the filming of the crew, it was almost time for dinner. Because of work, we all eat fast food together in the crew at noon. Originally, Zhou Jingyi wanted to wait for the end of her work to make the best of her friendship and take Xiao Yao and others to have a good meal in the evening. She knew that the director asked Xiao Yao to do the soundtrack, but she thought Xiao Yao just looked at the video material today, and then slowly conceived and created after going back in the evening. She didn't expect that Xiao Yao was going to record the soundtrack immediately.

"It doesn't matter. Please invite my mother and them to eat." Xiao Yao said, "anyway, they don't have to accompany my mother when it comes to recording."

"Still, Minyi, you can go with me. Don't accompany me to the studio." Xiao Yao and the other side still and Pei Minyi way, "the car I drove away!"

Xiao Yao turned to Zhou Jingyi and said, "Jin, after dinner, please send them back to the hotel." With that, Xiao Yao took out his cell phone and walked to the parking lot outside the studio: "Keith, are you still in the studio? I'm going to borrow your studio for the evening. Well, in half an hour! Of course, I welcome your place. By the way, I haven't had dinner yet. You can bring me something to eat. "

"Ladies, nice to meet you. I hope you have a good time here today. Now we're going to watch Yang do the soundtrack. Goodbye The director and the music engineer said hello to Ye Jiaying and others in a hurry, and they also went after Xiao Yao.

While waiting for Xiao Yao to pick up the instrument downstairs, the music composer Dawson Gru also took the opportunity to search for several videos of hand disc playing on the Internet and watch them with the director. As Xiao Yao said, the sound played by this instrument is really ethereal, and the music played by hand discs on the Internet is also ethereal and quiet. While marveling at the fact that Xiao Yao, who seems to be only about 20 years old, invented this kind of musical instrument that can make sounds that seem to touch people's hearts, it's also strange how Xiao Yao wants to create an atmosphere of suspense and tension with the music played by this instrument.

When the three arrived at the studio of daydream, Keith Craig, who was eating out with shawski, had not come back. However, Xiao Yao had been in the studio for more than half a day yesterday. The staff in the studio knew him and Keith Craig called back to greet him, so Xiao Yao brought Steve mcgrove and Dawson Gru directly into the studio.

"Don't you have to wait for Keith Craig to come back and record?" Looking at Xiao Yao sitting in front of the console, skillfully operating the equipment, Dawson Gru asked in surprise. He knew that Keith Craig was also an excellent recording engineer and producer, and thought that Xiao Yao insisted on coming to daydream studio to let Keith Craig record for him."No, no, no, now I record all my music myself." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I've been familiar with the equipment here yesterday. I know how to operate it."

After some operation on the console, Xiao Yao holds his hand and enters the recording room. Taking into account that Keith has never seen his own hand disc, Xiao Yao does not start to play and record the part of the hand disc first. Instead, he puts the disc aside and picks up the violin in the recording room. The instruments in the recording room are more abundant and complete than those in Keith Craig's piano room, not only the wooden guitar, but also the big violin.

"This is the beginning of recording? Has his music been written for a long time? " Steve mcgrove and Dawson Gru look at each other and coincidentally put on the monitor headphones on the console.

When Xiao Yao finished the string part of his violin performance, Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi came back together.

Xiao Yao introduced Keith Craig, shawski, Steve mcgrove and Dawson Gru to each other. After they got to know each other, Keith Craig handed Xiao Yao a paper bag in his hand and said, "originally, no one was allowed to eat and drink in the control room of my studio, but today, I'll make an exception for you."

"Thank you Xiao Yao took the paper bag, "rules are rules, or I go out to eat?"

"Come on!" Keith Craig put Xiao Yao on the chair in front of the console and said, "what I'm saying here is the rules. Since I've made an exception for you, you can eat here. I also want to wait for you to finish earlier and enjoy your new work. "

"The soundtrack of film and television works, tut Tut, you really know everything!" Keith Craig shook his head again and sighed.

"Oh, you've got the saucer, too." While Keith Craig was talking to Xiao Yao, Xiao Siqi noticed that there was one more instrument in the studio.

"Yes," Xiao Yao said as he opened the paper bag and took out the food, "thinking that Keith hasn't seen me play hand saucer, so the part of hand saucer hasn't been recorded. I don't think these three gentlemen have ever seen someone play a hand disc with their own eyes. Anyway, I'm going to have dinner now. Why don't you play it first and show it to them? "

"Good," said Xiao Siqi, rubbing his hands. "It's just that I haven't played for a long time." The number of such second-generation handsaucers is still relatively small. Considering that his handsaucers are only ordinary, and there is already a first-generation handsaucer, Xiao Siqi didn't ask AK Robinson for one in Nashville, only Xiao Yao took one himself. He has long wanted to find Xiao Yao to come and play.

"Hand dish? that? Is that a musical instrument? " Keith Craig followed shawski's eyes, found the same thing as the lid of the pot in the studio, and asked.

"Yes, it's a new musical instrument invented by young last year. It's called handplate." Xiao Siqi gave a brief introduction and ran to the recording room to get the disc. Now there are three people in the audience, and there are only two monitoring earphones on the console, so Xiao Siqi still takes the disc back to the control room to play, so it sounds more convenient for everyone.

Xiao Siqi didn't intend to play for Xiao Yao's music, nor did he ask about the melody of Xiao Yao's music. He knocked several times on each of the parts of the music. After getting familiar with the scales of each part, he played a song "Yanyu Qingdai" to three audiences.

Keith Craig brought Xiao Yao a simple fast food, and Xiao Yao ate fast. After Xiao Siqi finished his three minute song Yanyu Qingdai, Xiao Yao also wiped out the food in his hand.

"Great Keith Craig and the other three couldn't help clapping.

"You just said that this kind of musical instrument is called handplate? How can I get one? " Keith Craig asked eagerly. It was the first time that he heard the music played by this kind of instrument, and he fell in love with it.

"I started a musical instrument company in partnership with someone to make and sell this kind of musical instrument." Xiao Yao smiles, takes out a business card and hands it to Keith Craig. "We only accept orders. You can place orders."

"You start a musical instrument company?" Keith Craig stares at Xiao Yao's business card.

"In partnership with others," Xiao Yao stressed, "I give out the patent and half the capital, half the equity, but I don't care about the specific operation of the company. But if you name me, you should be able to enjoy a certain discount

"You unscrupulous businessman!" Keith Craig laughs, "I thought you'd give me one for free!"

"Please! A few thousand dollars is nothing to you, but I can't break the rules of the company! " Xiao Yao said, "the company needs income on the book. If you don't want to pay, it doesn't matter. I'll help you out with the money!"

"So, when you make this piece of music with a handdisc, you want to advertise your new musical instrument and your musical instrument company?" Asked Dawson Gru.

Although I saw this kind of video on the Internet when I came here, the feeling of listening on the spot was still different. Just now, when Keith Craig said he wanted this instrument, Dawson Gru was also excited. However, when Xiao Yao said that he had opened a company to sell this instrument, he hesitated. After all, inventing an instrument is not the same as starting a company to sell instruments. He is not as familiar with Xiao Yao as Keith Craig and Xiao Yao."It can be said that," Xiao Yao nodded generously and admitted, "I know that you want to use my current topic to promote your drama, but in any case, the quality of the work itself is the most important thing. Anyway, I've played a guest role in your series. You've already used me to promote the series. If you think my score is not suitable, you can not use it at all, I will not force it! "

"So this Chinese boy knows everything!" Steve mcgrove said, "we use his name to promote the show, and he uses the soundtrack of our show to promote his instruments."

"I'm not in charge of publicity. I'm only in charge of the music in the later stage." Dawson Gru's mind was much simpler, and he said directly, "whether you use our show to promote your instrument or not, as long as you make something good enough and suitable, I will use it!"

"That's what I mean, too!" Xiao Yao held out his hand, took the handplate from Xiao Siqi's hand and said, "now I'm going to continue to work. You'll wait and see. Oh no, wait and listen to my achievements."

Now that Xiao Siqi has demonstrated it to the three, Xiao Yao doesn't need to let them feel the effect of the hand disc any more. He takes the hand disc directly into the studio and starts recording.

Dawson Gru and Steve mcgrove gave Keith Craig and shawski a hesitant look.

"Go ahead!" Keith Craig, who understood them, waved his hand. Xiao Yao's recording is a work, and these two people are waiting for the acceptance results, so Keith Craig and Xiao Siqi didn't grab the monitoring earphone with them either.

"Thank you Dawson Gru and Steve mcgrove nodded and went to the console again to put on the headphones.

Through the glass window between the control room and the recording room, they can see that Xiao Yao's percussion speed is obviously faster than Xiao Siqi's just now, and his skills are also more proficient. From the melody of the music he played, it's really different from the song Xiao Siqi played just now. However, they can't be sure that this section is suitable for the plot where they want to make the score.

About half an hour later, Xiao Yao finished playing part of the hand disc. Then he sat in front of the console, put on the monitor headphones, and began to post process and synthesize the previously recorded music materials.

"Well," after another half an hour, Xiao Yao copied the completed piece of music to a USB flash drive and handed it to Dawson Gru, "a total of two minutes and 23 seconds, just the length of the plot. I saw you come here with your laptop. It has video material on it, right? You can feel it now. "

"Good!" Dawson Gru is not polite either. He takes the USB flash drive from Xiao Yao, opens the laptop he brought with him, inserts the USB flash drive into it, and then opens the video material in the computer, pulls it to the position he needs, and plays it synchronously with the music on the USB flash drive.

The sound of music, the scene of other people are also curious to come together to feel the effect of Xiao Yao's music.

"Great More than two minutes passed quickly, and Dawson Gru nodded first. "I think it's all right." The length of the soundtrack and the score of the plot match are not bad, and the ups and downs match the plot very well. The most important thing is that the whole soundtrack really brings people into the suspense and tension of the plot.

"I agree!" Steve mcgrove nodded and said, "this is the soundtrack for this part!"

"You are an eye opener to me!" Dawson Gru said to Xiao Yao, "I didn't expect that this kind of ethereal sound combined with string music could give people such a feeling. Now, I have another question. "

"What's the problem?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

"Can I have a business card, too?" Dawson Gru said, "you have provided me with a new idea of music. I think I need to study the new instrument you invented."

"Of course Xiao Yao took out a business card and handed it to him.

How many people in the TV audience care about the musical instruments used in the soundtrack? Xiao Yao's goal is to make this kind of instrument popular among the musicians behind the scenes.

"Speaking of research," Keith Craig interjected, "young, can this instrument work with rock music?"

"Why not?" Xiao Yao shrugged and said, "music is full of infinite possibilities."

"That's right." Keith Craig nodded. "Can you teach me how to play this instrument? I think we can add the music of this instrument to our daydream works in the future. "

"No!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "although this instrument was invented by me, it doesn't mean that my way of playing is unique and the best. As a matter of fact, this instrument is used to tap different areas to produce different scales. As long as you are a professional musician, you can hear different scales corresponding to different areas. As for the skills and techniques of percussion, there are no strict regulations. My skills are developed by myself, and I also hope that the musicians who play this instrument can create their own playing skills and form their own unique way of playing by virtue of their own exploration and understanding. "After Xiao Yao invented this new musical instrument, he never uploaded any teaching videos. He hoped that the musicians would study different playing methods according to their interests, so as to make this new musical instrument more attractive.