Chapter 1564

Gu Chen never thought that he would have such an experience on Gao Mingyang's music creation road.

But this seems to be the only way for every original singer.

All of Gao Mingyang's original songs are based on his own life, so the lyrics have a great sense of substitution, which makes people listen to songs like stories.

Open a small refrigerator, Gao Mingyang takes out some chewed bread and takes two boxes of milk.

One of the boxes was thrown to Gu Chen. Gao Mingyang also asked casually, "have you had breakfast?"

"Yes." he took the milk from Gao Mingyang and put it to one side at will.

Gao Mingyang, on the other hand, sat at the head of the bed and ate breakfast in a daze. His mouth also read:

"In fact, that girl is the driving force for me to stay here. Otherwise, with my character, I have already held my guitar and continued to start my wandering life."

"Where is the girl now?" Gu Chen was also interested when Gao Mingyang said so.

Gao Mingyang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I've gone, quietly."

"Why?" Gu Chen asked.

Gao Mingyang shook his head: "I don't know why? Maybe it's because she wants to stay in Jiangnan with too much hope, but later she found that she is too ordinary, which makes her feel inferior."

"When hope is dashed, maybe it's when she leaves."

"Are you willing?" seeing Gao Mingyang's wet eyes, Gu Chen knew that there was a very close relationship between the southwest girl and Gao Mingyang.

Gao Mingyang rubbed his face and shook his head silently: "of course I'm not willing. She's the most special girl I've ever seen."

"In fact, when I was 16 years old, I lived in Jiangnan City with my relatives who came to work in Jiangnan City."

"At the age of 17, I started singing in the underpass of Jiangnan City with my guitar. A year later, I became a bar singer in Jiangnan City."

"But if you sing in a bar, you know, in those years, it might be 150 to 200 a night, especially few."

"And the bar owner sees me young and often lowers the price. Even if I sing better than others, I'm sorry. You're only 17 or 18 years old. People think you're too tender and can only give this price."

"But I don't like the feeling of singing in the bar."

Gu Chen nodded silently: "just like you said directly to the microphone after singing the second song yesterday... You have no thoughts, you don't understand music?"

"Ha ha." seeing Gu Chen making fun of himself again, Gao Mingyang nodded with a bitter smile and told the truth:

"You've met. In fact, I often do this. If I'm unhappy, I won't sing. It's a big deal. I don't want money."

"I face a group of customers who don't understand music all day and shout at you there. To tell you the truth, if it weren't for that little money, I wouldn't sing long ago."

"At that time, I felt that the environment of this bar was too hypocritical. I felt that many people there were too fake and their income was very unstable. These were unbearable to me."

Glancing up at the morning, Gao Mingyang said, "so what you saw last night is the real me. I did it when I was 17."

"Ha ha." looking at Gao Mingyang's self mockery, Gu Chen looked at him, and they both laughed.

Gao Mingyang also smiled and cried, "can't you think of it? I'm in my thirties, but I'm still the same."

"Have you been staying in Jiangnan?" Gu Chen asked.

Gao Mingyang shook his head: "of course not. When I was 17, I began to sing in the bar in Jiangnan City. At that time, I sang other people's songs, but I always wanted to sing my own songs."

"So I paid all the money I earned at that time, followed Jiangnan as a music teacher, and learned how to compose and sing."

"Gradually, I began to learn to write songs by myself, but later I found that as a creative singer, the lack of my own experience also made the young me eager to enrich myself."

"So, when I just turned 20, I finally made up my mind, left Jiangnan City and began my career as a wandering singer."

"So you left Jiangnan when you were 20?" Gu Chen said.

Gao Mingyang took a mouthful of bread and another mouthful of the year of the ox, nodded silently, joked and smiled:

"Of course, I left Jiangnan City at the age of 20. For four years, I carried my guitar and went to many western cities and snow areas."

"Then along the Yunnan Tibet highway, all the way to Lijiang."

"That's my happiest time. I'll take a ride without fare. If I can't stop the car, I'll go. If I can't move, I'll stay."

"When it rains, I sing in the rain. When it snows, I write poetry in the snow. It's almost pie falling from the sky. I open my mouth and go on."

"But don't you feel bitter?" I feel that Gao Mingyang has lived like an ascetic monk these years. You know, Gao Mingyang was only 20 years old at that time.

Gao Mingyang shook his head with a smile: "bitter? Is this bitter? I tell you Gu Chen, I think the most bitter thing in my business is not these things. I think whether it's wandering or singing in the underpass or in the bar."

"These times are very good for me... The only thing that makes me feel bitter is that when I have no inspiration to write, I don't know how to create, this is bitter."

"Therefore, it was after such a journey that my passion for music was almost completely released."

Holding his throat with his hand, Gao Mingyang reminded Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, you know, I have always had a clear voice, but also in the moisture of tobacco, wine and wind and snow, let me become vicissitudes and deep."

"When I finished my four-year wandering career and returned to Jiangnan City, I began to enter the high production period of creation."

"At that time, I didn't say anything else, but anyone who made music in the independent music circle in Jiangnan City didn't know Gao Mingyang."

"Gradually, I became famous in Jiangnan music district."

"But as a musician, I know that I can't always be so satisfied with the status quo. I have to stand up and start yearning for a bigger stage."

"So?" Gu Chen asked.

Gao Mingyang looked out of the window confused. The sun shone on his face and looked so pale and haggard.

Gao Mingyang grinned: "so? So I need a beautiful stage to show my own voice."

"In those years, I signed up for many singing talent shows, especially the hottest competitions in China. I signed up for Jiangnan competition area and Yangcheng competition area, and finally reached the top 30 in China."

"Unfortunately, when I entered 18 at 30, I stopped by four votes."

"At that time, I thought I was about to succeed, but the door of my dream opened a crack, but it closed to me again."

"Regret?" Gu Chen asked him.

"Don't regret." Gao Mingyang shook his head and said with a forced smile, "what do you regret? It shows that strong China has strong hands. If you don't participate in the competition, you don't know your real level at all."

"And I prefer to write some real things, including my lyrics. Every word is true."

"These are my real experiences. If the next performance is my last song, the last one, I will go back to Jiangnan City and make my own album."

"I want more people to know that China, in fact, original music is very good and sincere."

"Maybe I was born for music all my life. I'm the one who needs to continue on the road of original music."

"Pa! PA! PA! PA! PA!"

Listening to Gao Mingyang's impassioned speech in the shabby hut, Gu Chen is proud of his persistence.

Although he was so poor that he could only eat bread and live in a shabby hut, Gao Mingyang's enthusiasm for music didn't seem to fade at all.

Gu Chen couldn't help applauding him for encouragement.

A moment later, he said, "Gao Mingyang, your spirit is commendable, but you always play like this. Can you make money?"

"Take the night you sang in the bar yesterday. There should be a few hundred dollars in income. If you add the reward from the guests, it shouldn't be very bad, but if you stop playing like this, won't you cut off your own way of wealth?"

"Ha ha." listening to Gu Chen's words, Gao Mingyang nodded silently and echoed, "yes, I broke this way of wealth myself. So what?"

"At least make some money and improve your life? Don't you have to produce your own music album? It should cost a lot of money?"

Gu Chen's words seemed to poke Gao Mingyang's weakness again.

Gao Mingyang was suddenly silent for a few seconds. Then he came to open the drawer, found an old notebook with yellow pages, and looked directly in front of Gu Chen.

His mouth is also broken: "now making a music album is much better than I used to."

"At present, the copyright fees for music albums are mainly in lyrics and songs. I can handle this by myself, not to mention the sales volume. Now the sales volume of professional singers is very poor."

"Otherwise, you see, Mr. Wang, who doesn't make headlines every time, only sells 100000 albums, which should be the top of the music festival."

"The concert, now in addition to the previous generation of singers can open up, there are a few traffic. Basically, most professional singers can't open a concert."

"So, we still rely on commercial performances and variety shows to make a bad meal, but we have to be scolded by fans."

"Then you should know these very well. You can make them yourself, and the cost should be saved a lot?" Gu Chen said casually.

After all, Gao Mingyang looks like he knows music very well and is looking forward to making his own album.

Therefore, Gu Chen feels that he should belong to a promising singer.

But Gao Mingyang snorted coldly and smiled at himself: "Gu Chen, you're right. I can make my own album."

"And you can do everything by yourself. It can be said that there is no cost, but the premise is that you have to know how to arrange music, how to make it by computer, and how to publish your own works."

"Take my friend for example. He has produced three EP and two official albums this year, but they are all shoddy."

"If you are not knowledgeable, it also depends on what price you want. The higher the cost, the better the production."

"At the lowest level, if a friend is willing to help you do it for free, or he knows how to make it himself, there is really no cost, and he can do it well."

After a pause, Gao Mingyang continued to move his hands and sat down with Gu Chen to communicate face to face: "I can do these things myself."

"But for the accompaniment instruments, all MIDI and timbre library are used to record 300 to 500 an hour. I calculate that you only need to record and sing for an hour and record it for 300 yuan."

"Finally, paste and sing the mixing master tape. Find a cheap one and get it for 500 yuan. Then the cost of a song will not be very high. It may be discounted if it is done in batch."

"But again, the quality is not guaranteed."

"What if you want to make it well?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Excellent production?" Gao Mingyang hesitated and replied with a light smile: "if you want to do well, the estimated cost is about 20000. It is estimated that a song can be guaranteed to be of publishing grade."

"If you can sign a contract with the company, don't worry. The company will pay. You don't care how much the company is willing to spend on songs."

"Anyway, if it's better, you'll have to pay more."

"The first is the production cost, including lyrics and music copyright, producer, arranger, recording, mixing and master tape production."

"The second is the cost of making CDs, and this production cost is too complex. Take the copyright of lyrics and songs for example. If you write your own songs, you don't have to count this one."

"If you are looking for someone else's song, in the current market, the author with high popularity has nearly 100000 songs, and the author with little popularity has to be tens of thousands."

"For an album, it must be calculated according to ten songs. The copyright is about 100000 to millions."

After a pause, Gao Mingyang said again, "in addition to these costs, the producer's costs are always high?"

"With the copyright of lyrics and songs, the producer has to decide the final style of the song, how to arrange the music, and so on."

"Big name producers, usually tens of thousands of yuan a song, can also package the whole album, between hundreds of thousands and millions."

"If you know your own business, you can omit these."

"The second is hardware recording, including the cost of the studio, the cost of the studio and the cost of musicians. Generally speaking, a song is less than 10000."

"The reduction and mixing is probably less than 10000, and the mother belt processing should be less than 2000."

"In this way, if you want excellent production, the production cost of the whole album ranges from 400000 to more than 2 million."

"If you want to produce an Album CD next, the production part, first of all, is the cost of the ISBN version number. Generally speaking, it can be done within 2000, while the CD master looks less than 1000."

Turning over the various costs recorded in his notebook, Gao Mingyang also painfully continued to explain:

"And this, tablet pressing. This depends on the material. It varies from 1 yuan to a few yuan each. It's not a small cost according to the cheapest 1 yuan each."

"There are also packing boxes, ranging from 2 yuan to more than 10 yuan. Depending on the material, it's still cheaper, 2 yuan each."

"The cover and back cover printing also depends on the material. According to the cheap calculation, each album is 3 yuan."

"In this way, according to the cheapest calculation, if 1000 CDs are published, the cost is less than 10000 yuan."

"But this is not the most important. If you want everyone to know that you have an album, you have to spend a lot of money on publicity."

"If you want to popularize the national publicity network and save some money, it's about... 2 million."

"God." listening to Gao Mingyang's introduction, Gu Chen also took a breath: "the production cost of this music album is so high? Can you make money?"

"Hehe, making money? You think too much." I feel that Gu Chen is a layman after all. Gao Mingyang regards him as a friend and will naturally tell him something, so he explained directly:

"In fact, if all the 1000 albums are sold and calculated by 80, the sales will be 80000. Excluding the publicity fee, your album will lose at least 300000?

Gu Chen nodded silently: "if you have Li Ronghao's equipment and level, then you can spend some electricity almost?"

Asked by Gu Chen, Gao Mingyang was there for a moment.

A moment later, he nodded slightly: "if I had his master talent, it would be much better. After all, people come out of professional courses, and I'm just a grass-roots team."

With a faint sigh, Gao Mingyang was also quite helpless and said, "in fact, the audio of a finished song needs lyrics and songs, arrangement, recording, harmony, later stage, etc."

"To get a work with good quality, the production cost will be 10000 or 20000."

"The so-called penny for penny, and now pop music is very messy, and new songs emerge one after another, but there are fewer and fewer left. Most of them are commercialized. They can be popular for a while and make enough money."

"You can write your own songs and even spend some money to make a similar sample. If you can really catch fire, some companies are willing to pay for high-quality products for you, but the opportunity is very slim."

Comparing his hands, Gao Mingyang had no choice but to explain: "for an album, a single song is generally one song, EP is generally 2 to 5, and a large album is generally 6 to 12 songs."

"Simply put, if I optimize the song according to my creative level and cost, I need help to optimize the song, preliminary work, lyrics, music and arrangement. The minimum is about 2000 yuan and the distribution level is 5000 yuan."

"The next step is to go to the recording studio for recording. The recording starts at 200 yuan. After recording, there is sound repair and mixing. Sometimes it doesn't cost money. Some recordings will be given away, and then there will be an audio finished product."

"However, I can publish my good music on major music platforms. These are free."

"But if you want others to hear your music, the promotion fee ranges from hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands. For example, people spent 400000 on desert camel, which ranked first in the short video music list."

"If a singer like me wants his songs to be heard by the public, he can only upload them on major music platforms."

"You can also shoot your own MV. If you want to save money, you'd better shoot your own live performance version, such as in small activities and bars."

"Like I've recorded some before, but because I didn't spend money on publicity, the effect was very poor."

With emotion, Gao Mingyang also smiled helplessly: "I'm not afraid to tell you that the internal volume of any industry is very serious now. It's almost impossible to spend money to expose it. If you want to rank high, you have to spend money hard."

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