Chapter 171: Desperate Situation
() Wu Lili's song "Burning Heart with Fire" was divided into two parts from this howling. The first half is a flawless and wonderful performance, while the second half is a lackluster and bland singing.
Such a good state was interrupted by a howl, and the blow to Wu Lili can be imagined. In the second half of this song, Wu Lili almost sang it in a state of confusion.
By the time Wu Lili realized that her state was not right and wanted to make adjustments again, the singing of the song "Burning Heart with Fire" had already reached the last stage.
It's too late.
However, although Wu Lili is a contestant with an arrogant personality and a bit of a blind look, the tenacity in her personality that is getting stronger and stronger deeply touched Ye Zi, who was standing backstage watching the battle, as well as all the audience and judges present.
For the second song, Wu Lili chose the song "Greatest/Love/Of/All" from Houston.
Judging from Wu Lili's singing, she has quickly come out of the howling incident just now, and her performance has also made great progress compared to the semifinals.
The voice has been controlled steadily, and it doesn't feel a little 'rushy' like in the semi-finals. The treble is her greatest strength, her performance is remarkable, the whole vocal range is transparent, and the texture of the treble is also fully reflected.
In terms of the handling of songs, it is already very good from the perspective of Chinese people, but the unique charm of English songs, Wu Lili did not fully sing it.
That's a little bit of a pity.
There is also a slight problem with the pitch. Although it is indeed much better than in the semi-finals, it is still on the tail of a few notes, and the pitch will always fall down.
This is also a very strange thing.
When Wu Lili sang the Cantonese song "Burning Heart with Fire", the pitch was excellent, and there was no tone at all. But as soon as you sing this song in English. There's always something wrong with this pitch. Although it's not strict, it's still not allowed.
I really don't know what this is all about.
Wu Lili finally got a good score of 9.73 points, temporarily ranking third. If there was no unexpected appearance of the howling that interrupted her good state, her results should be different from Liu Qi and Chen Yichen.
This is really a pity.
However, even if there was an accident such as howling, it affected Wu Lili's singing performance. The score of Professor Lei Zhen, a judge from Guangdong Province, is still as high as 9.95 points. Of course, this highest score was removed, but Professor Lei Zhen's appreciation of Wu Lili is obvious to all.
When commenting, Professor Lei Zhen's regret and anger were overflowing.
In the end, he finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and slapped the table and asked sharply.
There are some things I shouldn't say as a judge, but I can't help but ask. ‘
'What's the hell going on with the microphone whistling during a race?' Huh? What exactly does a sound engineer do? ‘
Do you know that because of such an unexpected circumstance, a player with the strength to win the championship lost the opportunity to belong to her? ‘
'This, this is a crime!' ‘
Professor Lei Zhen's emotions were very excited, and his words were also very sharp. But the judges mostly supported him.
Professor Lei is not wrong at all, Wu Lili's experience is indeed worthy of everyone's sympathy. You must know that for a young singer, not every competition can play well, and not every competition he participates in can have the scale and influence of 'Shen Yuexiang'.
Having missed such an opportunity, it is no wonder that Professor Lei Zhen was going crazy on the spot.
On the judges' seat, Sun Yun and the other two competition supervisors Huang Zhan and Cheng Shi glanced at each other, and the three of them shook their heads.
When Wu Lili's singing was still in progress, the supervision and review team had already sent someone to understand the situation. But everyone knows that howling is inevitable in live performances. It's really unreasonable to criticize the sound engineer Eddie in this way. Except for this howling. Other times, the microphone sound is very well tuned, and the howling is only this time, which shows that Eddie is doing things with his heart.
This can only be said to be Wu Lili's bad luck.
Is it really just bad luck?
Somehow, Ye Zi suddenly had such a strange thought in his heart before he went on the field.
The stage went dark again.
Ye Zi held the microphone in his hand and walked quickly to the center of the lifting stage. I took two deep breaths, gathered my spirit, and prepared to sing.
In the orchestra pit, there is a glimmer of light.
The lifting stage is slowly rising.
The gentle sound of strings and cymbals is already ringing out.
'Huh? Wrong. ‘
Ye Zi's heart suddenly froze, the tone of the strings that had just sounded was wrong!
"The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" should be a song in E flat key. Ye Zi remembered it clearly. The tonality that I wrote before the game must be E flat. But now the strings are playing in the key of G, which is a major third higher than the original tuning.
This is definitely not a mistake on the spot by the band, it must be a deliberate manipulation done by someone.
Ye Zi immediately made his own judgment.
Who is it?
This thought flashed through him, but Ye Zi didn't care about it now, Tang Nu's drum was about to sound, and the game had already begun.
Ye Zi smiled coldly in his heart.
Whoever you are, do you think that raising a major third degree will break me? Blind your dogs! Today, let me open your eyes and see how "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" in G key was sung by me!
Full of anger, Ye Zi raised the microphone in his hand.
Whew~~~
A terrible wolf howl came out of Ye Zi's mouth, but as soon as the voice came out, Ye Zi discovered the abnormality again.
This time, it's a matter of the singing microphone. To be precise, it is the dual problem of the volume and reverberation of the singing microphone.
In terms of volume, the volume of this microphone is only three-quarters of the normal singing volume.
And the reverberation, very little, very short.
The cold sweat on Ye Zi's back came out with a 'swoop'.
Afraid that he had misheard because of anger, Ye Zi howled again, and this time, Ye Zi deliberately amplified his voice.
It's still exactly the same!
And Ye Zi discovered a new situation, all the monitors on the stage were turned off. Ye Zi couldn't hear the details of his voice clearly on stage.
This time, the problem is really strict!
At this time, Tang Nu's drum kit had already sounded loudly.
After the two-bar drum solo, the orchestra is about to start the intro part, which is only 12 bars. You must know that "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" is not a slow song, in such a medium-fast song, twelve bars is just a short period of time.
For any singer who sings live, the situation that Ye Zi is encountering now: the singing tone is raised, the microphone is reduced, the reverberation is shortened, and the listening echo disappears, which is out-and-out -
Desperate!
It's almost impossible to compete with-
Damn desperate!
Ye Zi's heart sank to the bottom in an instant. But when this crisis, Ye Zi did not panic, but calmed down more and more.
Almost at the same time that Ye Zi discovered the problem, Sun Yun also frowned tightly.
The other judges listened to Ye Zi's singing during the semi-finals, and may not know much about the song "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf". But as Ye Zi's teacher, Sun Yun is too familiar with this song.
The demos were recorded in his studio.
Sun Yun knew Ye Zi's personality, and he would not change the tone of the song singing at will before the competition, there was no need for this at all.
Although with Ye Zi's current vocal range width, there is no big problem with singing "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" in G key. But why did Ye Zi do something meaningless?
At this moment, Ye Zi's first howl came from far away from the speaker.
Hey?
Sun Yun felt something abnormal again, and he immediately stood up.
'Uncle Zhan, Xiaocheng, there seems to be a little problem with the audio, I'll go to the sound control room to take a look. Sun Yun said anxiously.
Huang Zhan smiled: "It's nothing, right? It's just that the reverberation of the microphone is a little smaller, so it should still be pushed up when singing, right? ‘
Sun Yun shook his head: "That's not the case, Uncle Zhan. I'll go check it out first. With that, Sun Yun left the supervision seat and hurriedly walked quickly in the direction of the sound control room.
The sound control room is on the third floor behind the studio, and if you want to get to it, you have to go out of the studio hall first and go around from the back. Time waits for no one, and Sun Yun must speed up his pace.
At this time, Tang Nu's drums were already rumbling, and the heavy drums with a deep sound were beating hard in the hearts of all the audience.
"The Legend of the Hungry Wolf"?
What kind of song is this?
Because of this alternative song name, the audience's hearts have a certain interest in the song that the contestant is about to sing. But they didn't know that the player on the stage had fallen into the biggest crisis since the start of the competition. (To be continued......)