Chapter 379 Terrifying Control

Celine Dion herself felt more and more excited the more she sang. Although the melody was simple, it was easy to resonate with people.

She seemed to understand why Y asked him to sing this song, because this song really fits her very well.

Y should have heard her sing "The Power of Love" and "The Power of Dreams" and had some understanding of her.

After singing the score several times, she began to sing according to the lyrics.

When the lyrics and the notes were combined together, Celine Dion suddenly felt tears welling up in her eyes.

At the same time, she also found that it was not as easy to sing with the lyrics as she imagined.

This song is obviously the kind of song that is easy to listen to but difficult to sing. The difficulty lies not only in the pitch, but also in the rhythm.

This seemingly simple rhythm is unusual and has many changes.

When René Angeli heard Celine Dion singing with the lyrics, his eyes lit up a little. He thought it would sound good with the lyrics, but he didn't expect it to be so good.

This is when Celine Dion just got the lyrics. If she is given a little more time to get familiar with it and polish it, I believe she can better bring out the charm of this song.

Not to mention that this is a cappella. If it is accompanied by an arrangement, the listening experience will be raised several levels.

René Angeli has also studied some things at this time. The technique used in this song Y is very wonderful. This simple and restrained arrangement of notes can interpret deep emotions, and technology is definitely indispensable.

In the second half of the song, two groups of semitones are used as much as possible to form the backbone sound, wandering in the melody.

In the second half, the chorus enters, the emotions advance rapidly, and the melody becomes high-pitched, which is different from the long and broad at the beginning.

In an instant, a high octave comes out, immediately forming a contrast between emotions and atmosphere, which is both fluent and has a sense of frustration.

Earlier, René Angeli was still saying that this song weakened the rhythm and strength, but the second half is completely different, and the rhythm began to show a large amplitude of ups and downs.

The music changes from calm to passionate, and the flame of emotional catharsis is burning fiercely.

Accompanying the lyrics, René Angeli hears the pursuit of ideals and the yearning for freedom in the song, and there is a feeling of flying with the wind.

Perhaps to enhance the emotional rendering, Y changed the music from F to A at the end, moving it up three degrees, and it flew up all of a sudden.

The emotions that were originally surging undercurrents now surged like a tide, majestic and surging, and moving the heart.

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More than ten minutes later, while Celine Dion was taking a break, Zhou Yan asked, "Is there anything you need to ask?"

Celine Dion shook her head, "Not yet. If there is any problem with my singing, please feel free to point it out."

"Well, I will tell you if there is any problem after you go in. For now, just sing according to your own understanding."

"Okay." Celine Dion nodded, and couldn't help but praise, "This song is really well written. Although I haven't seen the movie yet, I can already imagine the scenes of the movie."

Zhou Yan smiled and praised back, "You sing very well too."

Rene Angeli also came over, "This song is very cleverly written. I just listened to Celine singing it a cappella a few times, and I already felt tears welling up in my eyes. I believe it will be even better with the addition of instruments. Mr. Y, this arrangement..."

"I have already written the arrangement. If I have time later, I will definitely record it."

Rene Angeli looked around. There was no one else here except the four of them.

This made him a little confused, because if he wanted to record the arrangement, there should be a band here.

Seeing the doubt in René Angeli's eyes, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Because it's just a demo, I will record the arrangement by myself."

"You alone--"

Reni Angeli opened his mouth wide, then nodded, "I understand."

He had heard before that Zhou Yan was good at many instruments, but he didn't expect it to be to this extent. At the same time, he also felt that he was still not very knowledgeable.

Not long after, all the instruments Zhou Yan wanted were delivered, and Zhou Yan tried them one by one.

When he tried the Irish whistle, René Angeli asked curiously, "Is this an Irish whistle?"

"Yes, this is indeed an Irish whistle."

He didn't expect that René Angeli had good eyesight and recognized the Irish whistle at a glance.

Reni Angeli nodded, thinking that he had not heard it wrong just now. This song does have the color of traditional Celtic music, otherwise Y would not use the Irish whistle.

The Irish whistle is a traditional Celtic instrument with a very long history.

Although many people cannot recognize the Irish whistle, this instrument has a very high status in Celtic music and is a very common instrument.

However, many people who do not understand Celtic music always mistake the music played by many Irish whistles for bagpipes.

The Irish whistle, like the Chinese bamboo flute, has high and low pitches, and the pitch depends on the length of the flute body, which is a bit similar to the bamboo flute.

In fact, the sound of musical instruments is a physical phenomenon, relying on vibration, and the flute, an instrument, relies on air vibration, so the principles are similar.

Zhou Yan is holding an alto Ab Irish whistle, which is a common size among Irish whistles. The length belongs to the middle range, and the songs that can be played also cover most of the popular music.

Zhou Yan is not familiar with the Irish whistle and has not had many exposures to it before.

However, this kind of whistle is very easy to play. Even ordinary people who have never learned an instrument can pick it up quickly, let alone an experienced player like Zhou Yan.

In fact, in Ireland, there are many folk flute and bagpipe players who all started with whistles. This shows that it is really easy to get started with whistles.

This flute is also known as the penny whistle because many buskers in Ireland used to play it to get a few pennies.

Zhou Yan briefly fumbled with the whistle and tried to play the prelude to "My Heart Will Go On".

Celine Dion, who was pondering the score, suddenly raised her head and looked directly at Zhou Yan, who was playing the whistle.

Reni Angeli, standing next to her, also looked at Zhou Yan with surprise in his eyes. The melody of the piece Zhou Yan was playing was also very simple, but under the high-pitched and refined tone of the Irish whistle, it became very ethereal. .

Reni Angeli knows a little more about Irish whistles than the average person because he had previously paid attention to a female musician named Joni Maiden.

This young female musician is of Irish descent and is famous for playing the six-hole whistle. She also formed a women's orchestra that specializes in Celtic music.

Reni Angeli has listened to all the albums released by this band, especially the "Irish Whistle" released this year, which he likes very much.

Hearing the whistle played by Zhou Yan also reminded Reni Angeli of Joni Mayden. Celtic traditional music always has the power to cleanse people's souls.

Reni Angeli guessed that the section played by Zhou Yan should be the prelude to "My Heart Will Go On". He couldn't help but smile on his face because this prelude fit the melody of the song so well.

Excellent musicians are always able to make fuss beyond the melody of the song, and Y-chou will certainly not disappoint.

By this point, Reni Angeli already knew that the song was solid.

There are two reasons why he would be so active in bringing Celine Dion here. One is naturally because of the talent of Zhou Yan. Celine Dion is now on the rise of her career, so she needs to cooperate with a top musician like Zhou Yan. Another reason is that Jeff Nordsa hinted that his new song may be a song from "Titanic".

"Titanic" has a budget of more than 100 million US dollars. It is a movie that has already become famous before it is even made. It will definitely be a good thing for Celine Dion if she can sing the theme song of this movie.

Previously, among the two reasons, Reni Angeli may have valued the latter more. After all, whether Zhou Yan can be popular when writing songs for others cannot be said to be 100%, but the theme song of "Titanic" will definitely be very popular.

At this time, there were some changes in Reni Angeli's thoughts.

Now he feels that even if "My Heart Will Go On" is not the theme song of "Titanic", it will still be popular with the public.

The key is that this song is so suitable for Celine, as if it was tailor-made for her.

At this time, Reni Angeli also lamented that they were so lucky to be on vacation in their hometown, and such a big gift package could fall from the sky.

After Zhou Yan finished playing the prelude, the other three people at the scene applauded, but Zhou Yan was not satisfied because the intonation of the first playing was very problematic.

The intonation of an instrument like a flute when it leaves the factory is definitely not as good as that of an instrument such as a piano, and there are deviations to some extent. And the quality of the whistle he is holding is not very good, so the problem is naturally even bigger.

It is not convenient to adjust, but you can still make some adjustments through technical means, such as adjusting the fingering and breath. When the pitch is low, you can strengthen the breath to push the sound up. When the pitch is higher, you can change the fingering. to debug.

That is to say, Zhou Yan has good ears and has good breath control after playing the flute for so many years, so he can adjust to these problems relatively quickly.

He tried a few more notes along the way, and by the second time, Zhou Yan had already adjusted the pitch.

After finishing it, Zhou Yan turned to look at Celine Dion, "You study for a while longer, and I'll come up with the arrangement."

Although there is no accompaniment, it is not impossible for Celine Dion to record, but that would be a lot of trouble. It is better for Zhou Yan to get the accompaniment first, and then let Celine Dion sing to the accompaniment.

The conditions were limited, so Zhou Yan was not too particular. He went in by himself and exposed all the instruments needed for several instruments, and then mixed them together and produced the accompaniment.

Although Zhou Yan was very efficient, it took him more than four hours to get the accompaniment out because there was no one to help him.

It wasn't that he didn't want to ask for help. The key was a confidentiality issue. It was inconvenient for them to find people they didn't know to help, so he did all the work alone.

While Zhou Yan was busy, Celine Dion was not idle either. She had been studying how to sing this song better.

Of course, she didn't dare to sing too much, for fear that she would have problems with her voice when it was time to actually record.

By the time Zhou Yan finished everything, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, but they did not choose to eat, but continued to record Celine Dion's singing.

Both parties have similar ideas and want to start recording as soon as possible.

Although there is still time tomorrow, if we don’t start recording tonight, no one knows whether something unexpected will happen tomorrow.

Maybe Celine Dion is not used to sleeping in the Dartmouth hotel tonight, and will catch a cold tomorrow and become hoarse?

Since Celine Dion's voice was in good condition today, they simply accelerated the progress and recorded a section. If they couldn't record it today, they could record it tomorrow.

When the recording started, Zhou Yan listened to Celine Dion singing once.

While Celine Dion was singing, Zhou Yan kept writing things on the notebook. When she finished singing, Zhou Yan handed the notebook to her directly.

Celine Dion took the score and took a look at it. She was dumbfounded because the problems Zhou Yan recorded were too detailed. From beginning to end, every sentence had an annotation.

Which sentence should be strong and which should be weak were clearly written in the notebook.

After recording so many songs, Celine Dion encountered this situation for the first time. It was as if Zhou Yan actually had a standard model in his mind, and the difference between her and the standard model was marked on it.

But Celine Dion also had a feeling that this standard model was quite suitable for her.

Especially after she sang it once according to the things Zhou Yan marked, this feeling became more obvious, as if Zhou Yan wrote this song for her. Zhou Yan knew her singing habits very well and understood how she could sing this song well.

René Angeli was also very surprised. He thought he knew Celine Dion best. After all, he had been leading Celine Dion for so many years, and he knew the characteristics of Celine Dion's singing.

And these changes made by Zhou Yan showed that he also had a very thorough understanding of Celine Dion.

René Angeli secretly sighed that he had been shocked by Zhou Yan again and again today.

It was also the first time that René Angeli felt that there was someone who could control everything in music.

René Angeli had seen many musical geniuses, popular, classical, traditional, and rebellious, but there had never been one like Zhou Yan, and no one had ever been able to achieve such a terrifying control as Zhou Yan.

Under Zhou Yan's guidance, Celine Dion sang "My Heart Will Go On" in just one hour.

This was the first time Celine Dion had digested a song so quickly. She even had a sense of confidence in her heart. Even if she started recording the official version now, there would be no problem at all.

And this feeling also made her feel very magical.

Y was just like a magician, using an extremely wonderful technique to create a song from scratch, and she was just one of the links in this large-scale magic. She didn't need to spend too much effort, just follow Y's instructions.

After recording for more than an hour, Zhou Yan nodded and said to Celine Dion inside, "It's done."

Celine Dion came out excitedly, "Can I listen to it?"

"Yes, but you have to wait a while, I need to make a little adjustment."

"No problem."

It's already this time, of course she doesn't mind waiting a little longer.

About half an hour later, Zhou Yan waved to Celine Dion, and when Celine Dion came over, Zhou Yan handed her the headphones.

Celine Dion took a deep breath, put on the headphones Zhou Yan handed her, and then held her breath, waiting quietly for the music to start.

Soon, as Zhou Yan pressed the play button, the ethereal Irish whistle sounded like the cry of a thrush, and Celine Dion's heart trembled.

Then when she heard her voice sounded in the accompaniment, her eyes actually had a thin layer of mist. When she was recording just now, she herself did not realize that it was so beautiful.

Perhaps many years later, Celine Dion will still be unable to help thinking of this originally ordinary night in Dartmouth. She shed tears for the first time when she listened to herself singing in the recording studio. (End of this chapter)