Chapter 547： Inspiration collision

As a musician, he is always cautious and cautious about his debut album, hoping that his first cry can achieve his own thoughts on music, and also hope to be recognized by the public.

After the first album, the second album is often the continuation and supplement of its musical concept.

In this way, the style of the musician is gradually formed.

However, here's a problem: if the debut album has become an irreplaceable classic in people's memory, and the sales have achieved staggering good results, then in this 21st century music market full of fast food culture Inside, how likely is it that you hope to release the second best-selling album in a row? As a result, singers who unexpectedly made breakthroughs in their first albums are bound to face the expectations and critical eyes of everyone when they are making their second albums, and pressure will inevitably swarm.

Linkin Park debut album "Hybrid Theory" sold in 2001 with an astonishing seven million sales

The year-end sales champion of the year, and the global sales have exceeded 15 million so far, which can definitely be said to be an impressive album. In addition, Linkin Park won Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammy Awards for the album Oak. This band, which had been working hard in its hometown of California in the mid-1990s, finally conquered the ears of the world at the turning point of the century.

So, when Linkin Park ended a long tour and entered the studio to start preparing for the second album, the pressure from the outside world began to brew in the rain.

In fact, compared to Linkin Park, Evan Bell faced the same pressure.

The 6.1 million sales of the album "One" also stunned the United States, and the performance of winning four gramophones at the Grammy Awards made Evan Bell the center of attention overnight. . When Evan-Bell was preparing for the album "Two", the pressure from the media and the audience was definitely more than that.

Last summer, however, a smear campaign took all the pressure off of the public's attention to "Two", allowing Evan-Bell to devote himself entirely to the production of the album.

When "Two" came out in October, Evan Bell delivered an astonishing answer with the most splendid music, with 7.5 million sales, and seven Grammy trophies. Bell ranks among the top singers, not to mention the "Sky Light" that has been recorded in history.

As for Linkin Park, what the public expected from their second album was nothing to them. Indie bands who have lived in the underground band for a long time always have their own personalities and tenacity: otherwise, they will not be able to wait for the day when they can survive.

Chester-Benington, Mike-Shinda and others have never paid attention to and pursued various unreliable expectations of them from the outside world.

The only thing they follow is their own standards, and according to this standard they can satisfy themselves, they carefully and fully prepare the album. In this regard, Linkin Park and Evan Bell are strikingly similar.

The last time Evan Bell jokingly brought up the media's attention to Linkin Park in an exchange with Chester-Bennington, who was on the other end of the phone with the foul language "Stupid media, they too. It's just that there's no talk to hype such a boring focus. It's **** luck that the album sells 10 million copies. It's not every good thing in this business, don't they know?

For Chester-Bennington's depression, Evan-Bell felt pity for each other, and at the same time, he felt more comfortable, because he had already yelled "go to hell" to those reporters who were afraid of chaos in the world. So after the album "Two" came out, Evan Bell went directly to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew, which made the media extremely depressed. "They just want to fool the audience with these stupid topics. Everyone knows that if the album quality is not good, even the Beatles won't sell much better."

The most important thing to do when making a new album is to ignore the results of the previous album, good or bad. From a brand new perspective, being responsible for the song mí, for the music, for yourself, and for making music that you are satisfied with, is the core focus. As for sales, to be honest, the decision is never in the hands of the singer.

Linkin Park is like this, their biggest pressure is from within, each member is the most demanding listener, they want to make an album that the band can be proud of, make the best songs, that's the focus of Linkin Park Focus. Of course, there is also one of the best listeners in Linkin Park: Evan Bell.

Today's relationship between Linkin Park and Evan Bell is not only superficial as the outside media understands. Every communication between the two sides can feel that kind of like-minded happiness.

In particular, their cooperation in music can always have a collision of inspirations, which can produce incredible effects. "Never walk alone (ne is true, just completed "catalyst (catalyst as well. Chester Bennington and Mike Xintian, the two inspirational figures of Linkin Park's music production, are very fond of Evan Bell's talent and personality, so every time the two have a dispute over the idea of ​​music, the only exception is Linkin Park. The rest of the members, Evan ※Bell tends to be the best person to offer advice.

Chester Bennington pulled Evan Bell, who had just entered the door, and pressed him directly onto the boss chair. Then the six band members surrounded Evan Bell like bodyguards.

Evan-Bell was not flustered, and was already familiar with this situation. Looking at the tracks on the computer screen, he couldn't help frowning "Why is it again" my belonging (ng

I've listened to thirty-two versions of this song, haven't I?" "This is the thirty-eighth version." Mike's reply confirmed Evan-Bell's guess.

Evan-Bell didn't feel impatient at all. That's what music is all about. It took so long to create the song "Tianguang (ent after repeated revisions and revisions. Before, Evan Bell gave a lot of opinions to the song "My Belonging", but Lost Bennington and Mike Xintian always thought it could be better, so they started all over again. , so repeatedly. The first fifteen times were all major revisions to the entire piece, and the other seventeen times that Evan Bell listened to were all revisions to the chorus.

"Understood." Evan Yibel stopped talking nonsense, put on the headset, and turned on the music directly. All six members of Linkin Park stood behind and waited patiently.

After listening to it once, Evan Bell did not speak immediately, but listened again. In fact, all the different versions of this song combined, Evan Bell listened at least one hundred and fifty times. But making music is what it is, and it requires constant sculpting. Different arrangements, different mixes, including different singing styles, and different instruments will produce different effects. The charm of music is always untapped. Making music requires a lot of patience.

After listening to it for the third time, Evan Bell took off the headset. He did not ask Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda the focus of the dispute just now, because that was their point of view. What Bell needs to do is to put forward a new point of view from his own standpoint, and then join the discussion.

"The chorus part, the bass part of the guitar can be more prominent, and Chester, your roar is not enough, and the emotion is not released, I think" Evan Yibel paused, as if thinking about adjectives that fit his own thoughts, The others around them were waiting quietly, "It should be a little more wild, you know that there is still disappointment and should be a little heavier." After speaking, Evan Yibel still seemed to be thinking, always feeling that he was still Some parts are not finished, 1 "Right, right, the bass is not heavy enough, I think it should be lowered by another key."

At this moment, Evan-Bell turned around and looked at the partners behind him. Neither Mike-Shinda nor Loust-Bennington spoke, and seemed to be chewing on Evan Bell's words. On the other hand, the guitarist Brad-Delson said first, "Evan, do you mean that the bass part of the guitar should be emphasized?" Evan-Bell was about to speak, and Mike I-Shinda nodded, but it was not pure The approval is more like his approval of his own ideas "Try, Evan, let's try to re-arrange this part of the chorus, you use the guitar?, …

Everyone's eyes were focused on Mike Yixintian. At this time, Chester Bennington also responded, "Evan, do you mean to enrich the arrangement of the music?" "Yes, I think this can make you and Mike's voice more prominent." Evan Bell took the guitar that Brad-Delson handed over, and he has a lot of instruments in this studio Single There are seven guitars. "That's why I think that if you control your roar a little more, it will be more savage." "Then try it. You and Mike try a new arrangement, we Listen to it." Chester Bennington is also not sure, according to Evan Bell's remarks, what effect will be after re-singing the song, he also needs to find out the feeling.

Evan Bell did not answer, but turned to discuss with Mike Xintian. When it comes to arranging, the content contained in it is very rich. In short, arranging a melody is to try different aspects of rhythm, musical instruments, etc. of a melody, which can expand a variety of new songs. Many covers, from folk to rock and R&B to jazz, are re-interpretations of the arrangement. A truly outstanding arranger plays a decisive role in music creation.

After a brief discussion, Evan Yibel held the guitar, and Mike Yixintian performed electronic mixing, re-recorded, and then merged the audio tracks. Now you can try again to hear the effect.

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