American Entertainment: Taylor Swift wrote a song for the beginning

Chapter 34 Sampling
There is no doubt that Tremor is a great piece of electronic music. Ryan has not even found a similar work in ultra music. This electronic music with a simple structure but full of energy is several years ahead of his peers in the industry.

It is true that excellent works can often gain recognition through word of mouth after a period of time, but this does not mean that they will definitely explode in the market in a short period of time.

Due to the lack of "topic points", Tremor has to rely on word of mouth, which takes a long time.

From this perspective, Tremor may not be the most suitable "debut work" for Ryan, who hopes to quickly accumulate fame from scratch.

But they are all gifts of déjà vu, and Ryan has no right to be picky.

But with the second electronic music brought by the sense of visual perception, the situation is completely different.

She can get the first wave of attention by piggybacking on her celebrity status, so why can't I?

But then again, the most urgent thing now is to produce this song. Ryan recognized that the female voice in the music was speaking Spanish.

He immediately dragged a pile of equipment back to the lounge, while others also packed up their personal belongings and prepared to leave together.

The performance was cancelled midway and everyone's expressions were a little solemn.

"So, we can go back to Nashville now, right?" Ryan's mind was now full of making Harlem Rock as soon as possible.

Dead Mouse's agent, Marvin, snorted coldly, "Are you kidding me? You can leave if you want, but pay the penalty for breach of contract. Now you two owe us money, understand?"

Ryan has just apologized on behalf of Joel. Although Joel messed up the performance and made Dead Mouse's team pay extra money, Ryan and Dead Mouse are still cooperating after all. Dead Mouse said that part of the liquidated damages will be deducted from Joel's income from the single album.

"Next, we can only ask Marvin to find a suitable nightclub for the performance. The price is negotiable." Dead Mouse said with a smile.

The next stop of the tour is in a week, and the team has already arrived in New York from Canada. The airfare, food, accommodation and wages for the past few days are all expenses. Even if this incident cannot turn the loss into profit, it would be good to recover some of the losses.

Since the show had to go on, Ryan and Joel couldn't leave.

"I don't want to see them again next week!" Marvin was completely fed up and took out his phone to try to contact some local performance agencies and middlemen in New York.

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Ryan and Joel had just returned to their double room in the hotel, and Jon, who had been crying, immediately stopped crying.

"That Marvin wanted to eat me alive. If I didn't cry my eyes out to show weakness, these black people would really kill me." Joel checked the injuries on his face in the mirror in the room.

I really don't know whether to say you are smart or stupid. Ryan shook his head, immediately opened the equipment box and took out the laptop.

"What are you doing with the computer?"

"I'm coming." Ryan said without looking up.

"You're here too?" Joel immediately walked to Ryan's side.

After a month of intensive mixing practice, Ryan was no longer the electronic music novice. Under Joel's gaze, Ryan began to operate smoothly.

The song used an 808 bass drum, with a snare drum and claps in between... and a few hi-hats, Ryan recalled, with his hands operating neatly and efficiently.

The main instrument is the Brass Synth commonly used in Trap style, which seems to be a combination of multiple sound effects. I think it should be a distortion effect, and there should also be reverb and delay.

Ryan put on his headphones and tried listening to it a few times.

No, it's still a little off. Yes, that's it. It turns out that I added a low-pass filter to the drum kit. Now it sounds right. Perfect!
After completing the main track, Ryan followed the same method to complete the FX track. At this point, a new electronic music was basically completed, taking only fifteen minutes.

Joel was completely stunned. Normally, DJs often come up with a main track first, and then expand on it, adding various sound effects and details. It's like carving a sculpture, and Taylor's creative method is no different.

But Ryan is completely different. He finishes one track directly before finishing the other tracks. It's like building a house. You lay the foundation first, then build the building, and then do the exterior and interior decoration.

In other words, a complete electronic music had formed in his mind from the very beginning. "You are such a genius!" Joel completely forgot about the pain in his body.

"It's still missing the soul of this song, the vocal part," Ryan said.

Next comes the difficulty of producing the whole song. Tremor’s vocal part is just a simple “3.2.1GO”, which is very easy to find a substitute.

But this song is different, the tone and lyrics are quite special.

Ryan imitated the memorized line from the song to Joel.

"That's Spanish." Joel scratched his head.

"Can you spell it out?"

Joel shook his head. “But the dead rat’s henchman is a Hispanic. He will definitely be able to tell.”

Ryan immediately went to call someone and finally got the Spanish spelling of "Con los teroristas (with the terrorists)".

"Maybe this line of lyrics is also a sample?" Ryan tried, and then conducted a related search on the Internet, but the results disappointed him.

Ryan's guess was actually correct, but the original song "Con Alegria" that sampled Harlem Shake was not produced until two years later.

"Then we can only record it ourselves," Ryan continued.

"That's right." Joel nodded: "So, where can we find a Spanish-speaking woman? Such a woman may be easy to find, but it is not easy to pronounce the feeling you need."

As he was talking, he found Ryan looking at him.

"You don't want me to come?" Joel was shocked.

"Why not? Your voice is naturally shrill, I can use software to change it into a female voice." Ryan spread his hands.

"As long as you don't mind the final effect, I have no problem with it." Joel laughed.

As for the recording equipment, Ryan took out the equipment that Joel brought. Although it was not a recording environment, with the addition of various effects, such small distortion flaws did not affect the listening experience, so there was no need to use any advanced equipment.

"Yes, that's it. It's like throwing the sound out, emphasizing the last syllable of ta." Ryan guided the pronunciation, and with the help of the Hispanic assistant who corrected the pronunciation, half an hour later, Ryan finally got a relatively satisfactory version.

The voice was then modified and made to sound like a woman, before being placed into the song as a vocal track.

"Almost there, there's one last line, 'do the Harlem shake'." Ryan used the search method again, and this time he found the source easily. This sentence came from the 2001 hip-hop song "Miller Time" by the Plastic Little group.

Ryan plans to try to contact the other party to obtain sampling authorization tomorrow, but at the moment, he will naturally copy down the words and complete the production first.

There was a knock at the door, Joel opened it, and there stood a dead rat.

"What are you three doing here?" The dead rat narrowed his eyes.

"Ryan is working on a new song. In fact, it's already been finished. You must listen to it. It's different this time. It's a dance song." Joel looked delighted.

"So, Marvin found a new nightclub to perform at?" Ryan turned around and asked.

"Yeah, it's still in Manhattan, but this time it's in Greenwich Village. The nightclub is very close to New York University, so at least there are fewer black people there." Dead Rat nodded.

(End of this chapter)