Chapter One of the Night

Chapter 21: Run-In Period

Chapter 21 Break-in Period

“Hello Zhenghua! I’m Xiang Zhongming from Kojima Records!”

Outside the small piano room of the teaching building of the Conservatory of Music, Xu Zhenghua was just about to go to the restaurant after practicing the piano when Guan Yulan brought someone up to greet him. The man looked to be in his early forties, with a friendly attitude.

“Hello!”

Shaking hands, he turned to look at Guan Yulan.

Only after listening to her introduction did she find out that this morning, she went to Xiaodao Records to reimburse the 10,000 yuan, and she happened to meet Xiaodao Records for a meeting. She didn’t wait until He Jianliang was almost eleven o’clock.

It is said that He Jianliang signed it on the spot, and it is estimated that after walking through the process, it will take three or five days to receive the money.

But more importantly, the demo of “Short Hair” was at the meeting today. A rough demo directly touched the senior management of Kojima Records. It is said that the general manager expressed his optimism, so according to Guan Yulan’s description, He Jianliang came back after the meeting. , with a proud look.

And in front of Guan Yulan, he called the general manager’s office on the spot.

Then, Xiang Zhongming rushed over in just one minute, and now he is over with Guan Yulan.

“Yes, I will be your assistant next, I will fully cooperate with you, and make the official version of “Short Hair” as soon as possible! Don’t worry, I can guarantee that when you made the demo before, what you encountered All problems will not recur!”

Ha, it’s really daring!

The    meeting was passed, and the real boss praised it. He Jianliang, the vice president of An Xiaojing’s manager, personally supervised the operation. This time, the action force really came, and the docking personnel had already been arranged.

“Great, then I wish you a happy cooperation!”

“It will, don’t worry.”

It is estimated that He Jianliang sued at their company’s meeting?

Otherwise, how could this person keep the promise of three words? Are you saying “don’t worry”?

I’m going to call He Jianliang when I go back to the dormitory later and say, my gun can’t be used in vain!

Get some benefits.

“Yes, I learned that the arrangement of the song “Short Hair” requires a total of five instruments, right? Don’t worry, we all have musicians who work with us all year round, and I guarantee that they can be on call according to your time requirements. So, if you don’t think it’s good enough, we can borrow people from outside, we are a subsidiary of Xipo Records, and we can use the resources from Xipo Records to a certain extent.”

“No problem in Studio 1! You set a time, I will be in charge of the application, I can even go to President Zhou and ask him for special approval. In short, the recording of “Short Hair” will never be delayed.”

“Other singers and other projects in the company must make way for this song! You come first!”

Walk and chat, the more you chat, the better.

Xu Zhenghua is very satisfied.

This is his top priority right now.

“Short Hair” can be produced one day earlier, marketed one day earlier, and one’s own reputation can be released one day earlier.

How successful this song can be, the stronger your bargaining power will be.

So, the sooner the better, the better!

All musicians, please be as good as you can, anyway, the production cost is no longer in his consideration.

This time I will record according to my own schedule!

Never stay up late!

The sound engineer can use the one you recommended, the company’s best! But when I was recording before, I thought that big Liu was not bad, so I called him to help.

Also, I have heard of a drummer who is said to be good at it. I will ask my manager to give you his name and ask him to try his skills. If he can, I will use him. Of course, if his skills are not good, I will not insist.

Why not tell you now?

Because I don’t even know what his name is!

By the way, do you pack work meals during work? Bao Ha? That’s good!

Order takeout? sure.

You know, it’s not that I can’t afford that meal, and I’m not stingy, it’s mainly to save time for the company!

I usually take my agent’s car to the company. You know, her car is terrible and she can’t drive fast. Will it waste the company’s precious time?

Oh, you can reimburse the gas money back and forth, that’s fine! Slow down then!

After talking about the key issues, it happened that he could see the school cafeteria not far away, Xu Zhenghua politely invited the other party to have dinner, but the other party declined, looked at the watch, and said that he would go back now and make preparations in advance. Do it.

So everyone shook hands happily and said goodbye, and we will meet again next Monday afternoon.

Tomorrow Saturday, even the record company will not work unless it is necessary to rush to work.

After he left, Guan Yulan whispered: “In fact, you don’t have to mention those things yourself, they don’t fit your identity, those things, I will communicate with him later. Next, you will be paid by the hour. People, in order to facilitate work and not waste time, the company will find a hotel nearby and open a suite for you. It can be discounted, these are the industry practices.”

Xu Zhenghua turned his head and glanced at her.

Is it so luxurious? In the same city, do you need to book a hotel?

But think about it again, back then, my company seemed to have reserved five suites in a hotel in the city all year round. Without him, there are indeed many business receptions and business negotiations. It is more appropriate to place them in a neutral location.

I just didn’t expect that a small record company would be so willing to spend money.

“Five star?”

“Uh, there is a high probability of being a three-star, standard suite.”

Guan Yulan smiled slightly to please, “You are after all…you have to wait for the results to come out, it’s red…”

understood.

Thinking about it from another angle, the record industry is also a part of the entertainment industry. This circle is far more extravagant than conventional companies and social media. It’s also normal.

“It’s just a break-in period. I’ll leave these things to you in the future. I won’t talk too much.”

He made a sincere statement.

does get in the way – I’m an artist now.

Look at Luo Guangming, don’t care if you take advantage of money or not, don’t care if you are taking a job, your temper is so rushing, but your boss doesn’t do anything to him. When there is a chance, you should treat him well. Give it a push.

Tsk, artist ha!

is quite exciting!

“No problem, you don’t need to worry about such trivial matters, I’ll handle them all. This is my job! You can just concentrate on practicing the piano and writing songs!”

Guan Yulan accompanies him into the restaurant. As he walks, he casually mentions it, “By the way, I was waiting for you outside the piano room just now. The tune you played is very nice. Are you writing a new song?”

of course not.

is just practicing a piano piece in this time and space.

One of the assets left by the original owner.

Of course, Xu Zhenghua understands what Guan Yulan cares about.

“It’s just a piano piece, practice, pure practice!”

“Oh, I thought you wrote a new song.”

Guan Yulan didn’t feel embarrassed.

Xu Zhenghua has no intention of breaking this topic.

Jin Xiaoqing’s last album sold 800,000 to 900,000 copies after all. If the follow-up albums don’t fall off the chain, they will drive them to sell slowly. Maybe one day they will be platinum albums, and they will be popular.

Before the official verification of the market, that is, before “Short Hair” was officially released and sold well, my side just seemed to have a good future.

Until now, the balance in her heart should still be on Jin Xiaoqing’s side.

This is normal.

And from her point of view, she hopes that her two artists can cooperate with each other, which is actually based on her trust in her “creative ability”.

is not a bad thing.

The two had a meal and sat down to eat. Xu Zhenghua held chopsticks in his hand, and after thinking about it, he decided to make a deal with Guan Yulan, “Sister Guan, of course, I will be busy with the official release of “Short Hair”. Recording, but even if it’s done, I don’t plan to write songs for anyone or talk to anyone until the song is officially released.”

Guan Yulan was stunned for a moment, looked up at him for a moment, and nodded, “Of course. I was going to suggest this to you, and you think so too, it’s the best.”

Xu Zhenghua smiled, suddenly put down his chopsticks and stretched out his hand.

“The break-in period is over?”

Guan Yulan laughed and extended her hand.

“Finish.”

(end of this chapter)