They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 283 The Road to Fame
When Zhang Wei returned to the dormitory, Ye Haotian was not there, but the vocal training plan was on his desk.

"Oh!" Zhang Wei picked up the special training plan, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

This plan is so detailed that if I don’t work hard, I would feel very sorry for Ye Haotian.

"Forget it, let's change some singing skills for the devil!" Thinking of this, Zhang Wei called out to the devil: "Devil, do you have any singing skills? The kind that can make me a singer directly after learning it."

"Singing skills? Of course I have them. Do you want ordinary singing skills, advanced singing skills, or master-level singing skills?" the devil asked.

"What's the difference?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Ordinary singing skills, after learning them, can probably reach the level of an ordinary singer; advanced singing skills, in addition to being able to sing, can also make you proficient in various singing methods; as for master-level singing skills, after learning them, you can go directly to a music college to become a professor." The devil replied.

"I'm just participating in an amateur singing competition, so ordinary singing skills are more than enough. What's the price?"

"It's still the same old rules. I'll give you three choices. The first is to lose your voice for three months."

"Don't tease me. You know I'm going to participate in a singing competition. Do you want me to be the first mute singer to participate in a singing competition?"

"The second option is to be deaf for three months!"

"Even a deaf person can't participate in a singing competition!" Zhang Wei snorted coldly.

"Then you can only exchange it for six months of your life," the devil replied.

"Why is it that becoming dumb and deaf only takes three months, but it takes six months to live? You are a black businessman!"

"Product prices are determined by supply and demand! You need singing skills now, so of course I'll take advantage of you." The devil said shamelessly.

Zhang Wei let out a long sigh. Now that the devil had said such evil things, he had no choice.

"Okay, six months of life is six months of life!" Zhang Wei agreed.

"Deal!" The devil paused and then asked, "Besides singing skills, do you want anything else? I have a lot of good things related to music."

"For example, Jay Chou's composing skills, Fang Wenshan's lyric writing skills, Zhou Shen's vocal range, Zhang Xinzhe's timbre... In short, whatever you can think of, I have it here." The devil continued to explain.

"Okay, I'll definitely find you if I need anything." Zhang Wei sent the devil away.

After a while, Ye Haotian returned to the dormitory and threw two boxes of Jinshengzi throat lozenges to Zhang Wei.

"I'm afraid you'll get tired during the special training, so I'll prepare two boxes of throat lozenges for you."

"Brother Haotian, actually, my singing is pretty good. I don't need any special training, right?" Zhang Wei said with a smile.

"How can it be okay? How dare you say that! You really don't know how badly you sing! You can't reach the high notes, you can't reach the low notes, and your middle notes are trembling. You're lucky if you're not out of tune. I'm talking about you!"

Ye Haotian looked helpless, then took out another A4 paper and threw it to Zhang Wei, then said: "There is less than a month left before the competition. It is too late to train high and low notes now. We can only train our sense of rhythm first.

Anyway, the songs you wrote don’t require high singing skills. If the singing rhythm can match the song, it can make up for many technical problems. If you want to practice your sense of rhythm, start with this song!"

Zhang Wei took the A4 paper and took a look at the lyrics, which looked quite familiar.

"Amen, there is a grape vine in front of me. The green land is just sprouting. The snail is carrying its heavy shell and climbing up step by step! This is "The Snail and the Oriole"! Did you get the wrong one? This is a nursery rhyme!"

"You're right, this is the one! Even though this is a nursery rhyme, if you want to sing it well, you need to master the rhythm of the eighth note rest. With your current level, learn this song first!" Ye Haotian said.

"It's just a nursery rhyme. Who am I looking down on? Listen carefully!" Zhang Wei was absolutely determined and started singing along with the lyrics.

"Amen, there is a vine in front of me, and the green land is just sprouting..."

After singing the first four sentences, Ye Haotian frowned slightly. Zhang Wei's singing was exactly on the beat, without any error.

"The rhythm is actually correct, and you sang it correctly! Have you practiced this song before?" Ye Haotian asked.

"Not at all! When I was a kid, all the music classes were taught by the homeroom teacher." Zhang Wei said.

"A music teacher is the class teacher? That's rare!"

"The homeroom teacher is the Chinese teacher!"

"A Chinese teacher teaches music? That's rare!"

"Of course the Chinese teacher teaches Chinese!"

"Let the head teacher teach Chinese in the music class? What does the music teacher do then?"

"The music teacher is always sick. Not only the music teacher, but also the art teacher is always sick. The most bizarre thing is that even the physical education teacher is always sick!"

Ye Haotian nodded as if he suddenly understood: "I understand. This seems to be a tragic childhood."

Zhang Wei said, "Okay, let's not talk about whether our childhood was tragic or not, let's just talk about how well I sing!"

"You're really good at singing. You've passed this song. Let's change to another one." Ye Haotian said.

"Which song should we change?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Let's play another song you know, Pu Shu's "Birch Forest". I'll play it in 6/8 time." Ye Haotian said as he picked up the guitar.

Previously, when Zhang Wei was learning guitar playing skills, he once sang and played "White Birch Forest" by himself. Ye Haotian was also present at that time. He knew that Zhang Wei's "White Birch Forest" was not sung to the beat at all.

《白桦林》这首歌，3/4拍和6/8拍都可以。不过音乐可不是数学计算，3/4和6/8可不是一个东西。

Simply put, the rhythm of 3/4 is move, move, move, move, while the rhythm of 6/8 is move, move, da, da, da. One is strong-weak-weak-strong-weak-weak, and the other is strong-weak-weak, secondary-strong-weak-weak.

Ye Haotian asked Zhang Wei to sing "Birch Forest", which was obviously much more difficult than the nursery rhyme just now.

"Okay, let's just go with the birch forest! Let's start!" Zhang Wei was not afraid at all.

As the prelude ended, Zhang Wei began to sing: "White snow is floating in the quiet village, and pigeons are flying under the gloomy sky..."

Ye Haotian's expression was shocked again: "The rhythm is just right, what's going on? When he was playing and singing before, he didn't hit the point at all!"

The next second, Ye Haotian suddenly stopped playing the guitar and asked in disbelief, "Can you sing?"

"Of course I can sing, otherwise how can I have the nerve to participate in a singing competition!"

"You can sing, but why didn't you sing well during the competition?"

"I was quite nervous during the competition." Zhang Wei said with a smile.

"Are you still nervous?" Ye Haotian looked at Zhang Wei with a scrutinizing gaze. After staring at him for a long while, he asked, "If I hadn't lived with you for four years, I would have thought you were a different person! What on earth did you do in Japan? How come you can sing all of a sudden?"

"The word 'living together' is not appropriate to be used in a university dormitory, right?" Zhang Wei grinned and continued, "As for why I can sing, I think as long as I work hard, I can learn to sing."

"As long as you work hard, you can learn it?" Ye Haotian blinked his eyes. This sounded very much in line with the style of the Great Devil!

……

The top ten competitions in each region will be broadcast live, and the program team also provides more assistance to the contestants. In addition to professional bands providing music, they also hired dancers to accompany them. In addition, the program team also provided a venue for the contestants to rehearse.

In other words, in the competition for the top ten in a region, contestants can not only sing but also dance, which is obviously more advantageous for contestants with strong stage performance.

Zhang Wei did not use the resources provided by the program team. The band composed of Tsinghua University's top students was also of good level.

The more important reason is that it is easier to keep it secret by using students from Tsinghua University as the background music.

Zhang Wei brought out all new songs, and he didn't want to leak them during the rehearsal. After all, there were still more than 20 days before the competition, and with such a long time, it was inevitable that some competitors would do something sneaky.

The entertainment industry is a murky place. Zhang Wei had experienced it himself before. Thinking about the two guys who played dumb in the 50 to 10 contest, he decided to be cautious. A certain activity room at National Tsing Hua University was now used by Zhang Wei as a rehearsal room.

Ye Haotian took a copy of the detailed rules of the competition and said, "You have seen the competition system for the next round. Only one player from the competition area will directly advance to the national finals. The second place and another player will enter the 48-hour breakout competition to compete with people from other competition areas for the remaining places.

If you want to advance directly to the national finals, you need to get first place, otherwise you have to play in the 48-hour breakout competition, where people compete for four spots!"

According to the original competition plan of "Coming Soon Boys", there will only be top 10 in the country, so there are only 48 spots to be competed for in the 4-hour breakout competition.

Only after all the competitions in all regions were over were the number of places increased to 12 nationwide. Then, because a contestant who had previously given up returned and was the first in the region, one more place was added, making a total of 13 contestants participating in the national finals.

Ye Haotian continued, "The 10 to 1 competition has three rounds. In the first round, each contestant will go on stage to sing, and the three judges will decide whether to pass or wait for the final decision. There are two direct passes, and among the remaining eight to be decided, the judges will directly eliminate the two worst ones, and then the two with the lowest SMS votes will also be eliminated.

At this time, there are six contestants left, and they have to compete in attacking and defending the ring. After the first contestant finishes singing, the others can choose to challenge, and then the thirteen-member expert jury will vote on the spot to decide whether the attacker or the defender wins.

After all six contestants have finished singing, the final champion and the person with the highest SMS votes will advance to the final PK to compete for the regional championship. At this stage, the SMS votes will be reset and recounted. The two final PK contestants will each sing a song, and the one with the highest SMS votes will be the first place.

That is to say, if you want to win the championship, you either have to become the final champion or get the first place in the off-site SMS voting, and then you have the opportunity to participate in the final PK. If you win, you will advance, and if you lose, you will go to the 48-hour breakout competition.

The other four undecided contestants will have one person selected by three judges to enter the 48-hour breakout competition, and the last spot will be awarded to the contestant with the highest SMS votes.

According to this competition system, if you advance to the final PK, you need to prepare three songs, and we also have to rehearse three songs, singing one song in the first round, one song in the ring PK, and one song in the final championship and runner-up PK."

"I have three songs ready." Zhang Wei said as he took out the music scores and lyrics of three songs.

Ye Haotian took the music score and lyrics and hummed a few lines.

"The first song is a fast song! I've never heard you sing a fast song before, and I feel the rhythm is pretty good." Ye Haotian said.

"It's a live broadcast after all, so let's sing a fast song to liven up the atmosphere." Zhang Wei said.

"The last two songs are love songs. The lyrics are more sadistic than the last. Do you want to be the little prince of love songs?"

Ye Haotian hummed the last two songs again, and then said: "It seems that only the first fast song is suitable for dancing. The rhythm of the last two love songs is not suitable for singing and dancing."

"Actually, the first song doesn't need any dancers." Zhang Wei laughed and continued, "I can learn from Zhang Wei and just dance around while singing."

"What do you mean? You learn from yourself? When did you start jumping around?"

"I'm talking about Zhang Wei from the Huaer band, the one who sings hilarious songs."

……

While Zhang Wei was rehearsing for the competition, the TV station also began broadcasting highlights from the audition phase of each competition area to build momentum for the upcoming competition.

The ratings of Xiaoxiang Satellite TV are still very good, especially some young people like to watch the programs of Xiaoxiang Satellite TV.

During the audition stage, the program team will also collect materials about many eccentric contestants, so many viewers watch the program out of curiosity.

Many of the weird contestants in later talent shows were even made into various emoticons and circulated on the Internet.

Of course, for many contestants who sing well and have a good image, including them in the program can also help them gain fans and increase their exposure. Some of them who are lucky may be noticed by record companies and offered a contract.

In a rental house, a few young men ordered some barbecue, with beer bottles piled in front of them. They were bragging while being a little tipsy.

Around them were guitars, basses, keyboards and other musical instruments. It was obvious that these people were musicians and they seemed to be in a band.

There are countless folk bands of this kind in Beijing. Every year, countless young musicians come to this city with their dreams, but every year, many young people choose to leave because their dreams are shattered.

A band like this that can't even find a resident bar late at night and can only stay in a rented house drinking beer and bragging is most likely an 18th-tier band with no reputation and mediocre skills.

On TV, the auditions of the Beijing region of "Coming Soon Boys" were being broadcast. These frustrated young musicians were drinking and commenting on the contestants.

"This person's singing is okay, but he's far worse than me. He was able to advance. It seems that if I participate, I can also advance easily!"

"Then you should also sign up for the next competition and get a good ranking, but don't forget your brothers!"

"They are all amateurs in music. If I go, I will be bullying them!"

As a few people were chatting, Zhang Wei's image appeared on TV. He was singing the song "Suddenly I Miss You So Much".

In the first few sentences, the frustrated young people didn't take it seriously and were all bragging. However, when Zhang Wei sang the climax of the song, they all stopped talking at the same time and looked at the TV.

"I miss you so much all of a sudden. Where are you? Are you living a happy or aggrieved life? I miss you so much all of a sudden. My memories are so sharp and my eyes are so blurred..."

"What song is this? I've never heard of it!"

"This song is really nice! Is it some singer's new album? Who has released a new album recently?"

"He said it was an original new song, written by the guy himself!"

"What a good song! Write it down! Write it down quickly!"

"I was just busy drinking, how could I remember it?"

"Don't worry, this TV has an instant playback function, but there is a limit. If the time is too long, it can't be played back. I'll play it back now. Who of you has a phone? Record it quickly."

One of them quickly took out his cell phone and recorded Zhang Wei's singing with its frustratingly low resolution. Several people immediately felt like they had found a treasure and listened to it over and over again.

"How about we practice this song and try it out when we go to apply for the job as a bar singer tomorrow?"

"I think it's okay. I think this song is easy to sing. Let's practice it!"

……

The next day, several people went to interview for a resident singing position in a bar, and the song they sang was "Suddenly I Miss You So Much".

"This song is good. I'll give you a chance and try it tonight!" said the bar owner.

The young musicians immediately expressed their gratitude profusely.

In the evening, as more and more people gathered in the bar, several young musicians also started singing this song.

As the song gradually unfolded, the people who were originally chatting in the bar quieted down one after another. The customers were attracted by the singing, and many people's eyes were involuntarily cast towards the few young musicians.

When the song was over, there was applause from the surrounding booths, which could be regarded as an affirmation of the song.

After a while, as another song finished, the waiter walked up to the young musician and said, "The guest at table six requested a song, and they want you to sing the one we just sang."

"There is actually a customer requesting a song!" Several young musicians showed joy on their faces.

Customers have to pay for ordering songs. At least with the money for this song, the guys can have beer and barbecue after the performance!

……

The most common thing in Beijing's bars is various kinds of music. If a good song becomes popular in one bar, the resident bands in other bars will soon copy it.

So within a few days, the song "Suddenly I Miss You" was sung in bars of all sizes in Beijing.

As the song became popular, its origin was also revealed, and many people knew that it was an original song sung by a contestant in the audition of "Hurry Up Boy".

In the second week, Xiaoxiang TV broadcast the program of 50 to 10 in the Beijing region, and Zhang Wei's song "You Are Not Really Happy" attracted more attention.

"You Are Not Really Happy" immediately became a popular song in bars across Beijing. If you couldn't sing this song, you would be embarrassed to be a backing singer in a bar!

The song gradually became popular, and Zhang Wei truly embarked on the road to fame.

(End of this chapter)