Entertaining Children

"Very good," the middle-aged examiner also nodded slightly, "It is very rare for young people to write such beautiful calligraphy nowadays, you can perform it live to the teachers in the talent show of the third test, it should be A lot of points will be added. But the premise is that you have to pass the second test today and enter the third test. Now, please return to the team, and we will start the second vocal test immediately."

"The first one, Lu Dechang!" Seeing Xiao Yao return to the team, the middle-aged examiner called out the first candidate again, but when he said the name, his brows frowned subconsciously. Like Xiao Yao's amazing performance in the first round of the exam, the middle-aged examiner was also impressed by the first candidate who appeared on the stage.

Fortunately, after such a period of rest, Lu Dechang has adjusted his mentality and played much more normally. A popular song I chose wasn't too good to sing, but at least it was quite satisfactory, unlike the first round of lines, which was so horrible that it was completely unreadable.

However, in the second round, Lu Dechang still did not finish his performance. After his first verse sang, the chubby female teacher who had discussed Xiao Yao's poem with Mr. Li, who was in charge of checking the lines, called out and swiped across the registration form in her hand. , she turned sideways to the middle-aged examiner and said, "Teacher He, next one."

"Okay," the middle-aged examiner called Mr. He nodded, and also took a pen to scratch the registration form in front of him, and then turned to the next one, "Next one, Zhou Meng!"

The few candidates who followed were basically unable to finish singing their own song. I feel that I sing a little better, that is, let the examiners and teachers finish listening to the first verse and the first chorus. The second one is just an opportunity to perform the main song. There were even some who didn't even finish the first verse, but were stopped by the female examiner after a few sentences. From an overall point of view, Lu Dechang, who performed terribly in the first round, was not satisfactory in the second round.

Soon, the exams for the first nine candidates in the second round ended, and the middle-aged examiner surnamed He called Xiao Yao's name again.

"Hi teachers, the song I'm going to sing is..." Xiao Yao stepped forward and bowed to the examiners again, and then began to introduce the song he was going to sing.

"Wait," the chubby female examiner interrupted Xiao Yao with a wave of her hand, and said to Xiao Yao with a smile, "I have heard the album of your nominee for the "Golden Disk" Award for Best Newcomer Singer. Aspects are your strong point. To be honest, with me, your vocal music can already pass the exam without a test."

"Wow! Can you still be exempted from the test?!" Several other candidates next to him cried out in surprise after hearing what the female examiner said. But think about it, Xiao Yao has not only released an album, but also participated in TV shows of singing competitions, and even sang publicly in squares by the side of the road. In addition to musical creative talent, singing skills have long been proven and recognized.

"Teacher Wei,

This is inappropriate, our acting department has never had a precedent of being exempted from the test, even if he is an award-winning singer, he still has to complete the live vocal test. "The middle-aged examiner surnamed He said dissatisfiedly to the fat female examiner beside him.

"That's right, Mr. Wei, this is not in line with our examination rules for applying for opera." The other two teachers also chimed in.

"Listen to what I have to say. I didn't really exempt him from the test." The chubby teacher Wei laughed.

Then, Teacher Wei turned to Xiao Yao and said, "But an exam is an exam. You have seen that even if I want you to be exempted from the exam, other teachers will not agree. Therefore, not only will I not give you an exemption from the exam, but because you are a professional People, I want to add some difficulty to you."

"Increase the difficulty?" A group of other candidates below were dumbfounded. "Why does it feel like the teachers are starting to target Xiao Yao?"

"How to increase the difficulty?" Xiao Yao calmly looked at the teacher Wei and asked.

"Other people's vocal exams are self-selected songs, but for you, I will add some restrictions to you, that is, I will give you a proposition!" Teacher Wei laughed, "Of course, mine also does not comply with the exam rules. It's not fair to you. You can completely refuse and sing the song you originally prepared. How about it? Dare you challenge it."

"Then ask the teacher to make a proposition." Xiao Yao said with a smile. Although this teacher Wei's behavior was very unreasonable, but from her slightly smiling eyes, Xiao Yao knew that even if he failed in singing, his performance in vocal music should not be a major problem. Since this teacher wants to play tricks, he might as well play with him.

This time, several teachers did not express any objection, apparently they all agreed with this teacher Wei's way of raising the difficulty of Xiao Yao. After all, he is a professional singer, so it is not unreasonable to be more demanding. The big deal is to properly consider the difficulty factor when scoring.

"I heard that every time you sing on TV, you will use your own original songs. Even when you show your affection with your girlfriend on the street, you use original new songs?" Teacher Wei didn't directly say the conditions, but asked Xiao distant way.

"Although I didn't do this deliberately, it seems that this is indeed the case." Xiao Yao thought for a while, then nodded.

"Okay, although our exam today is not a TV show, it is still a special occasion. Since you are going to sing here, please continue to maintain your characteristics." Teacher Wei said, "So my condition is that you Gotta sing an original new song that we haven't heard before."

"No problem!" Xiao Yao smiled and nodded. The song he was going to sing before was originally a new song that had never appeared in this world.

"I promised so readily, it seems that there is a lot of stock. It is worthy of being the winner of the "Golden Disc" best newcomer." Teacher Wei laughed, "But this is only my first condition, and there is a second condition. "

"Teacher, please tell me." Xiao Yao stretched out his hand.

"Wait," the teacher in charge of the lines, Mr. Li, suddenly interrupted, "Mr. Wei, you yelled to stop so fast just now, didn't you just want to save time and embarrass Xiao Yao at the last moment?"

"Is it not possible?" Teacher Wei said nonchalantly, "Although it is intentional to save some time, but with my ears, I can judge their vocal level after they sing three lines. Most of them I have to be patient." After listening to the whole paragraph, I have given these children a lot of face, and I will definitely not make judgments that do not match their actual performance."

"Okay, you are a professional in vocal music. Teacher He can't compare to you. You can continue." That teacher Li folded his hands and retreated in defeat.

"Okay, the second condition comes from your album that is so miscellaneous that there is no style at all." Teacher Wei said, "It seems that your style is that you have no style, and you can control any type of song. Then I will give You specify a genre, and you must sing the original new song that I specified for you. With these two conditions, you should still have a certain right to choose."

"Okay." Xiao Yao replied simply and crisply, "Then ask the teacher to specify the type. But in advance, the accompaniment music I prepared is limited. If it happens to be the type of song without accompaniment, then I can only sing a cappella. It might be a little worse.”

"Actually singing a cappella is better." Teacher Wei said with a smile, "But I won't force you to do so."

"Why don't you just sing folk songs," the teacher Li suggested, "His "Those Flowers" and "About the Present and About the Future" are both very good folk songs. Let him play another one, which is also suitable for him now. age and the environment of our current campus.”

"Let's play a song with a faster tempo, preferably with hip-hop rap." The slender female examiner also suggested, "The kind of "Flower Field Wrong" and "Brothers" That's pretty good."

"My favorite is opera, but it's too embarrassing to be like this." Teacher Wei said with a smile, "I actually planned to let him sing a rock song."

"Opera?" When Xiao Yao heard these two words, his head started to sweat, but fortunately, that teacher Wei denied it himself. As for singing rock and roll, that's fine.

"I like to listen to operas." The examiner, Mr. He, suddenly looked at Mr. Wei and said, "Isn't it too embarrassing to ask him to sing Peking Opera?"

"Ah? You're also here to join in the fun." Teacher Wei said slightly surprised, "However, it doesn't seem appropriate to sing Peking Opera."

"Okay, then let's play a song like "The Drunken Concubine", half Beijing opera singing, half popular singing, okay?" The examiner He looked at Xiao Yao and said.

"Who do I listen to?" Xiao Yao smiled wryly, "You won't let me sing four songs at once?"

"It's not impossible, but I'm afraid there is not enough time for the exam." Xiao Yao continued, "There are still two rounds of exams."

"Hehe, it seems that this little guy is really powerful." Teacher Li pointed at Xiao Yao.

"If it weren't for the lack of time, I really want to hear him sing four songs." Teacher Wei also said, "Since you are so good, then let's listen to Teacher He. He is the examiner, and the type of selection is also difficult. Biggest, I'll see if he actually has another song like "The Drunken Lady."

"It's true." Xiao Yao smiled, "And I've even prepared the accompaniment." Saying this, Xiao Yao took out a USB flash drive and connected it to the audio equipment on the side.

"The title of this song is "Yanjing One Night"." Xiao Yao laughed, "By the way, this song happened to be the one I planned to sing at the beginning."

"Ah? It's a waste of saliva to co-operate with the conditions and restrictions I just mentioned!" Teacher Wei rolled his eyes helplessly angrily.

The sound of prelude music came from the stereo, and everyone at the scene quieted down, looking at Xiao Yao who was standing in front of several examiners and teachers.

"OneNightIn Yanjing, I leave a lot of love..." Different from the feminine and gentle pop singing at the beginning of "The Drunken Concubine", the opening lines of Xiao Yao's song are not only more rigid, but also in the beginning It has a taste of opera in it.

Several teachers agreed that Mr. He wanted to listen to the Tsing Yi-like Peking Opera singing style. Although there was some opera in it at the beginning, they felt that it was closer to the singing style of popular songs. If the Beijing rhyme in this song is just this, the teachers will inevitably feel a little disappointed. But fortunately, after the first few lines, the Tsing Yi-like Jingyun singing voice that everyone was looking forward to appeared.

"People say that in the depths of the flowers, there lives an old lover who sews embroidered shoes..." As soon as Xiao Yao's high-pitched voice came out, the group of people at the scene unconsciously had goose bumps all over their bodies. After the song "New Drunken Concubine", Xiao Yao did not give up practicing Peking Opera singing. After such a long period of training, Xiao Yao has become more acquainted with Tsing Yi's singing in this kind of Beijing opera. It is also easier to switch between this rough rock voice and Tsing Yi's Peking opera singing.

"Damn it! It's really awesome. It's even better than his singing of "The Drunken Concubine"!" Some of the candidates beside him couldn't help sighing and discussing in a low voice.

"This song is a combination of rock and Peking opera. The gap between the two styles and sounds is even greater than that in "The Drunken Concubine" and the difficulty is also higher."

"Professional is professional! Even in the examination room, I felt like I was listening to a concert. I used to feel that I sang well, but after listening to Xiao Yao's... I suddenly thanked the teachers I put Xiao Yao in the last one, if I sing this song after listening to him, I’m afraid I won’t even be able to speak.”

"He's so good, what kind of drama school is he going to take? How about going directly to the music school! It's definitely a safe pass!"

For such a song, several examiners and teachers were sung by Xiao Yao so that they closed their eyes, while unconsciously beating the time with their hands, while shaking their heads slightly, no one would be as good as the previous nine The examinee suddenly yelled to stop.

In this regard, the examinees who were also shocked by this song also took it for granted. They looked at Xiao Yao on the field fixedly, and wanted to listen to the whole song just like the examiners and teachers.

"Oh~~~ah! I have been waiting for a thousand years, why the city gate is still not open!" Xiao Yao sang with a rough rock voice.

"Wow~~~ah, I've been waiting for a thousand years, why didn't my beloved come back~" Xiao Yao immediately changed into Tsing Yi's shrill Peking Opera accent.

Everyone felt that it was obviously a song, but Xiao Yao insisted on singing a duet between men and women.

"Thinking of your heart, thinking of your face,

I want to hold you in my chest, but I won’t let you go~”

At the end of the song, Xiao Yao ended the whole song with a very long ending sound in Tsing Yi Peking Opera accent.

The arrangement and soundtrack used by Xiao Yao are basically the version of the former Shixin Orchestra, but considering that this is an exam after all rather than a live band performance, so the repeated "OneNightIn Beijing" was omitted, making a relatively less drastic ending.

With the disappearance of Xiao Yao's last note, the accompaniment music also stopped, and the whole song ended completely.

"Papa papa!" Teacher Wei, Teacher Li, the slender female teacher on the examiner's table, the teaching assistant behind them, and the other candidates beside them couldn't help applauding.

Teacher He, the examiner, also nodded in satisfaction, and praised with a smile: "Good singing!"

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao took a long breath, and then smiled and bowed to the teachers.