Li Ronghao is stronger, because Xue Zhiqian is limited to routine chord composition, while Li Ronghao is an expert arranger and music producer. The details are as follows: 1: Composition;
In terms of composition, Li Ronghao and Joker Xue are exactly two extreme examples. Xue Zhiqian's direction is very clear - there are no routine chords for musical pursuits.
The reason is that the use of routine chords is a part of music production, but Xue Zhiqian regards routine chords as the entirety of music creation. The routine chords themselves are homogeneous products and have no meaningful promotion effect on popular music. The driving significance lies in the specific chord selection of the routine chords. For example, Jay Chou.
After talking about Xue Zhiqian, let’s talk about Li Ronghao. Li Ronghao and Joker Xue are two extremes, because Li Ronghao hates routine chords. He is often annoyed by routine chords, because he himself knows that the most popular works are often the product of routine chords. But this does not make Li Ronghao reduce his dislike of routine chords. Taking Li Ronghao's latest album as an example, we will find that none of the songs is a big hit. Many people say that Li Ronghao has begun to decline, but in fact it is just the opposite.
Because Li Ronghao received professional musical instrument education, in his early days, Li Ronghao dropped out of school to study cello. Li Ronghao has not gone to ordinary school since he was 14 years old, but devoted himself to studying cello. In the process of learning the cello, Li Ronghao fell in love with the electric guitar. In the process of learning the cello, Li Ronghao began to try to compose his own music, writing electric guitar solo songs by European and American electric guitar masters. In fact, as a teenager, Li Ronghao can surpass the guitar skills of most Chinese singers. 2: Orchestration;
As for arrangement and orchestration, Li Ronghao and Joker Xue are in another opposition. Li Ronghao does not pay attention to the timbre of the orchestration itself, but pays attention to the music composition solo of the orchestration. What does this sentence mean? Li Ronghao doesn't like Jay Chou's arranger Zhong Xingmin, who collects the tones of musical instruments from all over the world. Li Ronghao likes electric guitar solo artists who write instrumental solo melodies with musical aesthetics.
Joker Xue's orchestration is even simpler - just leave it alone and leave it to Zhao Yingjun. Orchestration is actually the most important aspect of arrangement, and it is also the most expensive and most difficult aspect for a music producer to complete. But orchestration is also the most difficult area of ??music production for the public to understand. It is the final effect of all music synthesis. Because the public simply doesn’t know and isn’t willing to understand the process of music production. For Xue Zhiqian, what he wants is that he has the label of a singer-songwriter and music producer, but he doesn't want fans to know the singer-songwriter and music producer too well, so as not to expose his low level of ability. Orchestration is a subject that the general public is unwilling to understand, but there is a high level of professional demand. 3: Arrangement;
As for arrangement, Xue Zhiqian is actually blank in this field. We are just Li Ronghao. Li Ronghao's arrangement ability is the guy who eats after him. Li Ronghao first became famous in the music circle because of his assembly-line high-quality arrangements. Then it was slowly noticed.
In fact, Li Ronghao’s strongest arranger ability lies in two points: 1: classical music skills; 2: harmony understanding; in other words, for Li Ronghao, composition and arrangement actually have no essence. The difference is because Li Ronghao is not concerned with the richness of the timbre of the orchestration, but with the solo artistry and emotion of the orchestration. This tricky understanding gives the definition of pop music a bit of an electric guitar artist atmosphere. Therefore, there is not much difference between arrangement and composition in Li Ronghao. The only difference is that arranging requires harmony, while composing is just melody.
Harmony understanding is Li Ronghao’s strongest point. This is also the reason why as long as he wants to write music that the public loves to listen to, he will basically complete at least two pieces a year. In essence, Li Ronghao is a cello student with solid basic skills, but now he prefers to use electric guitar instead of the wolf-like cello. Li Ronghao and Jay Chou are from the same family. He also switched from classical cello music to pop music.
The biggest characteristic of musicians who convert classical music into pop music is that they have endless variety. They have super strong control over the expression form of music, which is also the core requirement of the best music producer. Compared to JJ Lin and Leehom Wang, Jay Chou and Li Ronghao are actually more perfect music producers.
When Li Ronghao knows the musical intention of his song, he can complete the composition melody, composition progression, composition changes, rhythm emotion, unique selection of core emotions, harmonious emotional foil, and musical solo emotion. Multi-dimensional three-dimensional music control such as expression is the reason why Li Ronghao is a strong arranger. When a chord or mode is fine-tuned, it can instantly create multi-dimensional coordination.
In general, Li Ronghao completely suppressed Xue Zhiqian. Even though his singing method due to a perforated lung caused by a car accident had some insufficient support, he was still stronger than Xue Zhiqian.