How can you ascend to heaven when you are a star?

Chapter 87: One Difficulty More Than Another
"Teacher Gu, which song do you think I should sing better?"

During the preparation period, Liu Meijun returned to Gu Chunyan. On the surface, she wanted to ask the teacher to choose a song for her, but in fact she wanted to know what level of difficulty she should choose.

Gu Chunyan naturally understood what the student meant, so she fell into deep thought for a moment.

Singing, although seemingly a simple competition, actually has profound meaning.

The two most important points are singing skills and song selection.

Singing skills can reflect the singer's comprehensive strength, including pitch, timbre, range, breath, voice, etc. These are not only technical manifestations, but also include understanding of music and control of emotions.

As for song selection, if you choose a song of average difficulty, although the singing method is simple, the score will definitely not be high. If you choose a song of greater difficulty, singing well can be a plus point, but if you make a mistake, it will become a minus point.

Gu Chunyan knew Liu Meijun quite well. Her singing skills were mature and not inferior to those of professional singers, so she had a wider range of song choices. However, the problem was that she was the first to perform.

Because there is no limit to the songs, the singers who come later can temporarily change the songs according to Liu Meijun's performance.

Under the condition of stable performance, the scores obtained by songs with higher difficulty will definitely be higher than those obtained by songs with lower difficulty.

She wanted to choose a song of medium difficulty, but considering that she couldn't pin her hopes of winning on other people's mistakes, she gritted her teeth and decided to choose a song of greater difficulty.

"Let's sing Zhang Huimei's "Listening to the Sea." Gu Chunyan said.

Liu Meijun's expression froze, and then her whole face became tense and her expression became extremely solemn.

"Teacher, is this song too difficult?"

The song "Listening to the Sea" has a wide range of tones, high treble parts, and requires extremely high skills and breath control. Even many professional singers cannot sing it.

Not to mention that she is a trainee.

"How can you win if you don't sing high?" Gu Chunyan said, "Besides, I've taught you this song in class and even demonstrated it to you. You've sung it before, haven't you? What's there to worry about?"

"..."

After hearing this, Liu Meijun didn't know what to say for a moment.

I did sing it, but the notes weren't that high.

It would be fine if I just practiced singing normally, but today I was competing on the same stage with other trainees, and there were so many professional teachers around me. If I sang wrong, the mistake would be a small matter. If I lost the competition, how would I face Teacher Gu in the future?

"Are you ready?" Xu Qingyu asked at this time: "Which song do you want to choose?"

"Zhang Huimei's "Listening to the Sea." Gu Chunyan said directly.

Xu Qingyu was slightly stunned. She didn't expect the other party to choose such a difficult song. It seemed that he came prepared.

She couldn't help but start to worry. Gu Chunyan was playing such a big game, could Xiao Zhang handle it?
Liu Meijun saw that she couldn't change Teacher Gu's decision, so she had no choice but to go ahead with it.

She came to the center of the rehearsal room and stood there, nodding to the music teacher beside her to indicate that she was ready.

A few seconds later, the prelude to "Listening to the Sea" sounded.

"Write to me and tell me what color the sea is today"

"The sea accompanies you every night, how do you feel?"

"Gray means not wanting to talk, blue means melancholy"

"..."

Gu Chunyan listened carefully. As a vocal teacher, she naturally knew the difficulty of this song.

The first part was fine, and Liu Meijun's performance was also acceptable, but she didn't dare to relax, because the most difficult part of the song was the chorus at the end, which was also the climax.

Before she knew it, her heart was in her throat.

Soon, the chorus finally arrived.

"Listen... the sound of the sea crying."

Gu Chunyan's face changed. In fact, when Liu Meijun just sang a word, her mood sank to the bottom.

It’s over, I didn’t hit the high notes!
Moreover, the breath at the back is not smooth and lacks stability.

The difficulty of the song "Listen to the Sea" mainly lies in the chorus, which can be said to be a combination of high notes and techniques.

But now, the high notes are not sung and the pronunciation skills are not demonstrated.

If it was just a casual performance at a karaoke bar, it wouldn't be a big deal, but now I'm facing professionals, and this performance can only be described as a failure. No matter how good the rest of the performance is, it's useless. Failure is failure, and now not only will I not get any extra points, I'll actually lose points.

Gu Chunyan stopped listening, turned to look at Jiang Yijing beside her, and shook her head calmly.

When Jiang Yijing saw this, she immediately understood what Teacher Gu meant: Liu Meijun is finished, it's your turn now.

She nodded slightly in response, then looked at Xu Guanchao on the other side, conveying Teacher Gu's meaning with her eyes.

Not long after, the performance ended.

As the singer, Liu Meijun naturally knew that she had made a mistake, so her face was very ugly...

In comparison, Xu Qingyu was in a good mood at the moment.

Although Liu Meijun is a trainee in the training department, she was not the one she supported in today's competition, so when she saw the other party make a mistake, she naturally felt relieved for Xiao Zhang.

"Please give your scores, judges." Xu Qingyu looked towards the judges' seats.

Liu Haiyang held up the white paper in his hand, which had "6" written on it, but there was a crossed-out 6 next to the 5, which meant that he had given 5 points before.

"The first part was good, but unfortunately the high notes were not hit, and the transition between true and false voices in the latter part was a bit confusing. I originally wanted to give it 5 points, but considering the difficulty of the song, I changed it to 6 points, which is barely passing." Liu Haiyang explained while commenting.

Next was Wang Jinghua, director of the artist management department. She turned over the white paper in her hand and saw "5" written on it.

"I really don't like the way you looked after you finished singing. A qualified artist should know how to manage facial expressions. Even if you didn't sing well, you should face it bravely instead of looking aggrieved and about to cry." Wang Jinghua said bluntly. Her comments were merciless, which made the atmosphere in the entire rehearsal room drop to freezing point.

The last judge was Yang Zhengnan, director of the record production department, who also gave a score of "5".

"Your strength and breath are clearly lacking. You should know that, right? Why did you choose this song?"

"..."

When asked, Liu Meijun lowered her head.

You can't say that it was Teacher Gu who chose it, right?
Xu Qingyu then said, "Subtracting the highest score and the lowest score, Liu Meijun's final score is 5 points."

Liu Meijun's face turned extremely pale in an instant. She bowed to the judges, then turned and walked towards Teacher Gu's team.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I disappoint you.

Liu Meijun stood in front of Gu Chunyan, keeping her head down the whole time, not daring to raise it.

Gu Chunyan was very angry and cursed the good-for-nothing in her heart, but considering that there were company executives present, she couldn't lose her temper. In the end, she could only reach out and pat the other person on the shoulder to comfort him.

Liu Meijun, who was originally standing at the front row, also consciously stood in the last row and secretly wiped her eyes with her hands.

Xu Qingyu ignored all this and continued, "The next person to come on stage is Zhao Tong. The song you chose is..."

Zhao Tong walked forward, bowed to the judges and said the name of the song.

"The song I'm going to sing is 'A Diao'."

"???"

There was silence at the scene, and everyone was shocked. Even Xu Qingyu, who had just taken a breath, opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"A Diao" is a song written and sung by singer Zhao Lei, but the most popular version at present is the cover by Angela Chang, which is also the best female version.

Zhang Huimei's "Listening to the Sea" just now was already very difficult. If Zhao Tong sang Zhang Shaohan's version of "A Diao", the difficulty would be even higher.

Because its treble is higher and there is also a bass part, the singer needs to have good pitch control ability, otherwise he will make mistakes if he is not careful and it is easy to break the voice.

Gu Chunyan, who was cursing Liu Meijun in her heart, was now full of surprise in her eyes, and her mood was like a roller coaster. It could be described by a line of poetry: Mountains and rivers are so steep that you think there is no way out, but when you look up, you see another village with willows and flowers.

Just now I felt that Liu Meijun was bound to lose, but now I suddenly feel that it is not impossible to win by 5 points.

The other teachers also had gloating expressions on their faces, and when they looked at Zhang Wen, they seemed to be mocking him as a lunatic.

The three judges sitting on the chairs had deep interest in their eyes.

Even though his opponent made mistakes, he still dared to choose such a difficult song. Either he was confident or he was overestimating his own abilities.

First it was "Listening to the Sea", then "A Diao". These trainees are young but very brave. They specially chose difficult songs. Today's competition was really interesting.

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