I have too many parts

Chapter 175 Arrangement
Li Ze ignored all the outside voices, locked himself in his apartment, took out pen and paper and began to re-create King of Karaoke.

I thought if it was sung with good intentions.

"Well, in 4/4 time, in the key of D. The melody of the first sentence is: 12 3 21 7 5..."

Brushing, brushing, speaking, Li Ze then lowered his head and began to write numbered notation on the paper.

It is not so easy to plagiarize a song.First of all, Li Ze needs to transcribe all the lyrics, and then transcribe the melody.

Writing a melody is not an easy task. It requires you to have an absolute grasp of the pitch, as well as rich knowledge of music theory and a sense of music.After all, it is not a simple matter to convert those words into those fixed symbols.

But it was not difficult for Li Ze, just like this line by line arrangement, line by line reorganization, quickly wrote out the numbered notation melody of the King of K Songs.

A song has emerged from scratch.Writing lyrics and composing music can be regarded as the initial stage of a song, and it is also a process and beginning from scratch, and the next things can be followed step by step.

Once you have the melody, the next step is the arrangement.

Arranging music is a huge project. Although it has changed from direct performance by the band to computer software editing, it is still a complicated job.

To use a computer to arrange music, you not only need to have an understanding of many instruments, but also need to be proficient in at least one or two instruments.While being familiar with music theory, you also need to have some knowledge of computer knowledge and various uncommon English words.

There are also computers and music arrangement software in the space, but Li Ze doesn't really want his avatar to do it for him.Although I copied this song from a doctor, in this world, it is definitely my first debut song, so I must do it all by myself, the meaning is very important.

Two days ago, Li Ze had installed a software called CUBASE on his computer. There is also a software with the same name on Earth.

The function of this software is very powerful, with a total of 5.6G. It is a software that integrates arrangement, mixing and recording.There are many built-in audio sources in the software, so CUBASE can be said to be able to complete an arrangement without any external requirements.There is also a twin software produced by the same company as CUBASE, called NUENDO.Its functions are similar to CUBASE, but there is an additional function of video production. Li Ze does not need video production, so he did not install that thing.

And because people have demand for the quality of music, the quality of some of the sound sources that come with it is a bit too bad to be used. At this time, you can use CUBASE as the host software, and get some huge music from other channels. sound source used in it.

In the music arranger world, many sound sources occupy a huge amount of memory. For example, the famous ivory piano sound source on the earth requires more than 100 G in memory alone.Ordinary computers really can't run it.Long story short, after all, Xiao Bao used to be an arranger, and now that I've written about his job, I can't help but say a little more...

The avatar helped Li Ze learn computer music, so Li Ze is no stranger to these things. He skillfully opened CUBASE, connected the sound card, and turned on the monitor speakers he bought online for 10 yuan two days ago. It's a start.

"The prelude to the king of karaoke is an electric piano solo. I should be able to find a similar sound in the 'Spinach Tofu Piano Sound Source' I bought online two days ago."

Li Ze murmured, and then clicked on the Spinach Tofu sound source. Looking at the hundreds of piano tones, he couldn't help feeling a little headache.

Sighing helplessly, the arrangement is so hard, it often takes a long, long time to find a timbre.Indeed, orchestrating (choosing instruments suitable for the melody of the music) in composition is a very complicated task.

There is no way, looking at those cold English letters, Li Ze doesn't know which timbre is suitable for this song, so he can only click on it one by one, and try to listen to it one by one.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

"Da da da~"

"Ding Ding Ding ~"

There was a monotonous and boring sound in the room, and soon, Li Ze finally decided on the tone of an electric piano.Then load it into the track, enter the piano roll and start writing.

Writing notes in the piano roll requires clicking one by one with the mouse. This is undoubtedly an extremely brain-burning, time-consuming and labor-intensive task.Because for some commonly used audio tracks, such as harmonic instruments such as piano and guitar, an instrument sometimes requires thousands of notes, and these are all written one by one with the mouse.

An ordinary popular song is very common. Basically, all the instruments in an arrangement (the arrangement is the accompaniment of the song) can be divided into dozens of tracks and tens of thousands of notes. Under normal circumstances, you need to use the mouse to write out one by one.The workload is enormous.

Therefore, in the entertainment novels written by many authors, they always emphasize how great the plagiarized songs are. It seems that as long as the songs are released, they will definitely become popular. It seems that as long as the songs are written today, they will be heard by the audience tomorrow.This is actually unscientific, because the work of arranging is too complicated, and the work of arranging can only be done by one person, and two more people are actually no different from one person.

Usually, the arrangement of a song takes three to five days to complete, unless it is the kind of panacea arrangement that is priced at the cabbage price, it can be produced in half a day and a day.

Using the mouse to write, Li Ze really has no patience. He is not a person who can waste time now. Writing notes with the mouse will take forever.Then he called Haiming:
"Haiming, is school over yet?"

"Just after school, what's the matter?"

"Come to my apartment and buy me a MIDI keyboard on the way."

"What is a MIDI keyboard?"

"I can't explain it to you. It's like an electronic piano, but it's not an electronic piano. You go to the music store and tell the boss, and the boss will naturally know."

"it is good."

Not long after, Haiming and Xu Jing came back with an "electronic organ" more than one meter long.Seeing Li Ze writing and drawing on the computer, the two wondered, "What are you doing?"

Old Xu glared: "Wow, this is composing music. Li Ze, you know how to compose music? When did you know it? Why don't I know? What else do you not know? I heard you want to Now that you’ve released a song, can you still write songs?”

Li Ze gave a wry smile. He really didn't bother to talk to these two nagging guys. He took the MIDI keyboard from Haiming's arms, and pushed them out: "Okay, okay, don't disturb me. Don't come in." .”

"Hey, don't chase me away, let me take a look."

"I want to see it too. I've never seen anyone making music before. Let me see it."

'bang'

The door was locked, and the two stood outside the door smiling bitterly at each other.

(End of this chapter)