Follow the sound and follow the way

Lin Yan's traveling across the ocean for love this time was on a temporary basis, and he was planning to make ends meet, so he could only stay for less than five days.

For such a precious five days, naturally no second can be wasted for a talented person with a love brain.He compressed Fan Xing's recording time from the original eight hours to a pitiful four hours. After lunch every day, he left Fan Xing with a sentence of "practice yourself", and took Lin Yan away on time.

Even though it was only four hours, the hard-working Fan Xing was still under the shadow of broken love, and was forced to taste all kinds of high-end dog food with wonderful taste.

This pile of nutritious dog food greatly improved Fan Xing's insight.For example, he found that "Mr. Mu is so fierce" is an untrue proposition from the outside world, but it doesn't seem to be true in front of Evan.

At [-]:[-] p.m. on Wednesday, Fan Xing, who had spared time for the recording but was abandoned by the producer, stayed alone in the recording studio, thinking deeply about the falsification of "Mr. Mu is so fierce".

The most direct counterexample is... Mr. Mu not only hasn't scolded anyone these days, but also smiles like a flower all the time.

Fan Xing held his chin in an ecstasy: Mr. Mu is so handsome when he smiles.

Then he sighed in frustration: But he only smiled at Evan.

He not only smiled at Evan, but also unconsciously tidied Evan's hair, secretly warmed Evan's hands, and carefully picked out fishbone for Evan.

Evan also looks good when he smiles.

But his best smile is only for Mr. Mu.

Not only does he look the best when he smiles at Teacher Mu, he also helps Teacher Mu change the tune, massages Teacher Mu's shoulders, and eats dishes that Teacher Mu doesn't like.

But these are not all.Fan Xing thought enviously: There are still many subtle details.

Every look, every breath, every smile between them is synchronized.

It's as if every strand of hair, every finger, and every inch of skin between him and him are indistinguishable from each other.

Fan Xing was a little sad, a little jealous, and a little weirdly happy, and opened the song score of "The Lake and Me" again with complicated emotions.

The recording of the album is coming to an end, this is the last unrecorded song, Fan Xing has practiced for many days.

He knew he didn't sing well last time.

Before that, Fan Xing didn't know what was "not worth mentioning, a thousand-foot-thousand-chest state", nor what was "a selfishness that was suddenly awakened".However, during the period of cooperation between him and Mu Kang, not only did he see the talent of thousands of feet, but also the selfishness that would never make it to the top.

He felt that he seemed to be a little closer to the song.

Fan Xing relaxed his abdominal cavity, simply played a few chords with his fingers, and hummed softly from section B:

"He has a chest of ten thousand feet that is not worth mentioning,

Dedicated to heaven and earth..."

"He" and "I" are "lake" and "I".

The lake has a chest of ten thousand feet, belonging to the sky and the earth.

I have an inch of selfishness, and I beg for a corner of the lake.

Fan Xing read it back and forth several times, and suddenly realized that his previous superficial understanding was a big mistake.

"Lake" is vast and remarkable, while "I" is small and humble.

It's not sweet love at all.

This is something we can only look up to.

Much like me now.Fan Xing smiled self-deprecatingly, closed his eyes, settled his emotions, and continued to practice section B.

When the last verse "He made me cry", a cold wind suddenly rushed into the room, and Mu Kang opened the door and came in.

Fan Xing was taken aback: "Teacher Mu?"

Mu Kang closed the door without saying a word, leaned on the door and crossed his arms and said, "Start from the beginning."

Fan Xing: "...Okay."

He took a few deep breaths, played two bars of chords with his fingertips, and slowly sang: "I loved coming here when I was young, a corner of the barren world..."

To sing a song qualifiedly requires the singer to assume the scene in advance, and then put himself in the scene to express emotions.The so-called "empathy" is based on experience and comprehension, and is maintained by mental strength, while the scene that Fan Xing assumed before was purely based on vain imagination, which is not convincing at all.

He has to rebuild.

He is also not afraid of reconstruction, and every reconstruction is spiritual nirvana.

Although Fan Xing still doesn't understand the complicated and deep state of mind behind "The Lake and Me", relying on a melancholy mood that he couldn't ask for, and relying on his extraordinary talent, he rebuilt his own "lake".

His interpretation expresses the feeling of loss just right, without losing the unique vigor of young people.

After Fan Xing sang the last line, Mu Kang's serious expression eased a little, and he said in a rare way: "Not bad."

Fan Xing: "Thank you, Teacher Mu."

"It's different from what I thought, but it's also quite interesting." Mu Kang said directly, "Come now."

He is not interested in exploring Fan Xing's understanding, which belongs to the singer's personal privacy.

Fan Xing stood up: "Do you want to record it now?"

"Yes." Mu Kang sat down in front of the mixer, "I finished recording this song today."

"Okay." Fan Xing asked with a correct attitude, "Where's Evan?"

Mu Kang said concisely: "Let's go."

Fan Xing asked stupidly: "Where did you go?"

Mu Kang said coldly, "I'm back in Switzerland."

Fan Xing quickly shut up.

The bad problems of "not being able to observe words and colors at all" and "which pot is not opened and which pot to lift" have not improved after a year, and all fresh meat really needs to be practiced.

The award-winning senior producer Mu gave "The Lake and Me" to Fan Xing to sing on a whim, and what he said to Qiu Liming before, "I hope he will understand it by himself" is not groundless.

Fan Xing has a delicate mind, a strong expressive voice, and an amazing talent in expressing emotions.During the competition, Mu Kang saw that "New Hope" was very capable, and he was willing to give Fan Xing a chance and time, and Fan Xing did not let him down.

At 11:30 in the evening, the recording of "The Lake and Me" was successfully completed, and there was only the last part of the entire album to be re-recorded.

Mu Kang glanced at his phone. It had been six hours since Lin Yan took off, and the flight had traveled [-] kilometers.

Farther and farther away from him...

Mu Kang turned off the phone screen irritably, and said to Fan Xing: "Try to finish everything this week, I'm in a hurry."

On the day when the recording work officially ended, Chen Xue specially brought a bottle of good wine, and the three of them had a celebratory dinner together.

During the dinner, Fan Xing solemnly toasted Mu Kang, and then sincerely said, "Mr. Mu must take me to convey my thanks to Evan."

Mu Kang accepted the drink: "I will."

"I didn't expect Evan Lin to come here." Chen Xue sighed, "Because of Teacher Mu's honor."

A few people filled their stomachs, drank more than half of the wine, and gradually talked more.Fan Xing never forgot Lin Yan's brief personal guidance, and kept saying to Chen Xue, "It's amazing."

Chen Xue asked curiously: "How did you guide?"

Fan Xing: "He plays the piano, let me listen."

Chen Xue: "No more?"

Fan Xing: "It's gone."

Chen Xue: "..."

"Also, he memorized everything after listening to it once." Fan Xing chattered, "I practiced for two days, and he only listened to it once!"

Chen Xue smiled and said, "Teacher Mu? Have you heard Mr. Lin beforehand?"

Mu Kang said lightly: "For him, memorizing twenty bars of a monophonic part is as difficult as drinking water."

Fan Xing was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"For example." Mu Kang said leisurely, shaking his wine glass, "Richard Strauss's symphonic poem "A Heroic Life", the instruments needed include a piccolo, three flutes, three oboes, and an English one E flat clarinet, two ordinary clarinets, one bass clarinet, three bassoons, one bassoon..."

He recited the orchestra's arrangement thoroughly, and said to the dumbfounded Fan Xing and Chen Xue, "How many parts in total?"

Chen Xue: "..."

Fan Xing: "..."

"There are 48 parts, the total length of the whole piece is nearly 50 minutes, and the notation number reaches 109." Mu Kang is not foolish, "Ignoring the abstract content such as music depth, background, and emotion, just talking about the number of notes is better than you can't practice all the time." The section that came down was thousands of times longer."

Fan Xing hesitated, "You mean... can Evan memorize it?"

"That's right, and it's not the only one." Mu Kang lowered his eyes and looked at the wine in his glass, ""Life of Heroes" is just one of countless pieces he can memorize. Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich... as long as he has arranged and acted, he can recite them all."

Chen Xue asked rather amateurishly: "How many sounds does that have?"

"A lot of sounds." A smile appeared on the corner of Mu Kang's mouth, "Anyway, I can't do it."

Fan Xing was holding the wine glass, with an expression of being greatly frightened, he was speechless for a long time.

Chen Xue glanced at Fan Xing, and said generously to Mu Kang: "I'm ashamed to say, I have never understood what a conductor is useful for in an orchestra."

Mu Kang said indifferently: "Many people who do command work don't understand."

"I used to think it was just standing in front to beat the beat." Fan Xing came back to his senses, and said with some embarrassment, "Help the orchestra unify the rhythm."

"Not surprising." Mu Kang took a sip of his wine, "Many people think so."

Fan Xing: "But that day Evan..."

"I didn't give you the time, and I didn't ask you to count the time." Mukang said.

"Yes." Fan Xing admitted, "I probably misunderstood."

"It's not a misunderstanding, but keeping time is indeed one of the conductor's responsibilities." Mukang said, "but for a top conductor like Evan, it's much more than that."

Chen Xue immediately said, "Teacher Mu please advise."

Mu Kang: "For example, the guitar is your instrument, and the orchestra is the conductor's instrument."

Fan Xing: "The guitar is dead, but the band is alive?"

"That's what's so special about being a conductor," Mukham said. "You control the guitar, and a conductor needs to control people."

Fan Xing was puzzled and asked, "Manipulating people?"

"There is a widely circulated saying in the industry: 'There are no bad orchestras, only bad conductors'. A conductor conveys his understanding of music to the audience through the orchestra. In this process, the orchestra is an instrument and a medium." Mu Kang said in detail, "Because the performers are all human beings, the conductor has to communicate with them in depth, not only to explain the interpretation of the music, but also to tap the potential of the orchestra itself."

Fan Xing murmured, "This is...too difficult, isn't it?"

"It's very difficult." Mu Kang said seriously, "A good conductor controls the overall situation and allows the orchestra members to fully understand and trust themselves. This is the power of a conductor."

Fan Xing nodded thoughtfully.

"Evan is this kind of conductor." Mu Kang said proudly, "Many of my friends, such as Chief Qiu Liming you have met, call him Lin Zhi, and dare not call him Evan."

"Because they recognize him, rely on him, surrender to him, and are willing to become instruments in his hands."

"To put it to the extreme, in music, Evan is their master."

Chen Xue managed to interject: "It sounds abstract."

"It's not abstract." Fan Xing said solemnly, "It was like this when I recorded and sang last time. Looking at Evan, it seems like he has a backbone."

"Many times he has to lead dozens or even hundreds of people, and the music is much more difficult than yours." Mu Kang said, "it's no problem to lead you."

"I kind of understand the meaning of 'power of command'." Fan Xing said with deep feeling, "I feel that as long as I follow him, I can't make mistakes."

Mu Kang nodded and clinked glasses with Fan Xing.

Chen Xue thought that the brewing was almost done at last, and he toasted Mu Kang with a glass of wine, and said, "I think we Fanxing have a bright future, what does Teacher Mu think?"

Mu Kang drank the wine in his glass: "Very talented."

Chen Xue stood up and made a gesture to pour wine for Mu Kang: "Can I ask Mr. Mu to give you another point?"

"Miss Chen, please sit down, I'll do it myself." Mu Kang took the bottle from Chen Xue's hand, poured the wine and said to Fan Xing, "I said before that I will teach you how to write songs."

Fan Xing exchanged a happy look with Chen Xue, sat upright and said, "Yes."

Mu Kang: "What did you say then?"

Fan Xing: "The order in which I write songs is to build the harmony first, and then build the melody based on the harmony."

Mu Kang: "Is it still written like this now?"

Fan Xing: "Yes."

Mu Kang: "Is there a template for the direction of harmony?"

Fan Xing: "Yes."

Mu Kang put the bottle away, and said seriously, "Let me tell you about the feelings when Evan gave you the class."

"I don't know..." Fan Xing thought for a while, "Follow Evan, and I suddenly understand."

Mu Kang: "What were you thinking at that time?"

Fan Xing: "I didn't think about anything."

Mu Kang said simply: "Think again."

Fan Xing lowered his head, recalled quietly for a few minutes, and said hesitantly, "I want to... move."

Mu Kang: "Is there any more?"

"The feeling of being immersed in it." Fan Xing said slowly, "It seems that at that moment... I touched music."

"Evan is the conductor." Mukang said, "As I said just now, the conductor needs to tell the actors and the audience the music in his heart."

Fan Xing: "Yes."

"He's telling you the music," Mukang said, "not the rhythm."

Fan Xing asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"The reason why you can't pass that part is because you have been staring at the rhythm." Mu Kang said sharply, "You are stuck."

Fan Xing thought about it and repeated: "I was trapped by...?"

"Evan takes you out of the rhythm dilemma, and then leads you into the music." Mukang explained, "That's why you understand."

Fan Xing: "The dilemma of rhythm? Isn't rhythm music?"

"If you focus on rhythm, it's just rhythm; if you focus on harmony, it's just harmony; if you focus on melody, it's just melody." Mu Kang said proudly, "In my opinion, these are just expressions. Not music."

He said loudly: "Real music is emotion."

Fan Xing stared at Mu Kang in a daze, but didn't speak.

"The same goes for songwriting." Mukang said, "If you start with the harmony template, you will also be stuck."

Fan Xing: "So at first..."

"It's not to build harmony, not to think about the melody, but to ask yourself what you want to express." Mu Kang said seriously, "People have thousands of emotions, and when they are mixed into music, there are thousands of music. emotional."

"This is not an easy task. First of all, you must have the ability to express with music."

"And most importantly, you need to be brave enough to face your heart and give up your ego for a while to write good music that lasts forever."