Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 166 Master Class in Studio 163 [Part [-]]

The studio in Rongcheng is not as big as the concert hall. The stage with a height of no more than 80cm is only about four meters away from the first row of auditorium.

On the stage, the two teachers and students can transmit their voices to the last row of the auditorium without using a microphone.

Sitting in the first three rows, you can basically see most of the details on the stage.

For example, when Otto was telling the short story "A Pole in Paris" just now, the audience in the front row could clearly see the small movements of his throat when he pinched his nose and imitated Chopin's tone of speech.

The lovely professor quoted classics and used one short story after another to restore the appearance of the literary and art circles in Paris, France, in the [-]th century.

Under Lin Youyou, a different image of Chopin appeared in everyone's minds.

Ji Yang was addicted to hearing it. It turned out that the black keys she practiced were written by such a person.

About 8 minutes into the opening, Otto made a final declarative summary of Chopin's works.

"Although he has romantic expansion and contraction and extremely romantic music, there is always a strong classical feeling in him."

As Lin Youyou's words fell, the scene fell silent for a moment.

The young teacher sitting beside Wei Sanwan applauded first, and then the applause from the scene once again spread across the stage.

This is indeed a sentence worthy of reflection.

When Li Antong heard this sentence, he immediately thought of a music review he had read in the Guardian, which said that "the performance practice of the romantic school is gradually devouring all the works of the romantic period." '

It is not difficult to understand that compared with the classical period, music in the Romantic period advocated freedom and individualism.

Especially in today's pursuit of unconventionalism, many young performers are hysterically excavating and reshaping the musical works of the Romantic period in order to step onto a broader stage.

After this vigilant sketch of Chopin's characters fell, the applause fell, and Lin Youyou walked to the far left side of the stage to communicate with Jia Mingyu.

Then the first half of the master class officially kicked off.

The first student to be on the stage today is Liu, a third-year undergraduate student from the Music Department of Rongcheng University. The piece he hopes to get advice on is Chopin's Psalm Fugitive (op10.no1).

"Hello, Mr. Otto."

"Hello, Teacher Lin."

As if walking on the stage of a master class for the first time, Liu's posture on the stage was a bit cautious, and he kept rubbing the corners of his clothes with both hands while walking.

Lin Youyou gave Liu an encouraging smile, and Ao Tuo was more direct, stretching out his hairy hand, a gesture of invitation that made people feel more valued.

Classmate Liu sat in front of the student's piano and slightly adjusted the height of the piano bench. When he sat upright again, the scene was completely silent.

Ao Tuo did not sit in the lecture seat arranged for him by the organizer, but stood one meter away from the left side of the piano.

Everyone in the audience could see his face, and all his attention was focused on the piano at the moment.

With just one breath, Liu raised his hand and started playing.

The falling finger is a majestic upward arpeggio, with the momentum to catch people's attention. It can be seen that the first measure has the player's careful preparation.

But it is this section that exposes all the problems.

Although Ang Lee is just a student sitting here today, he can't help looking at the performers on the stage from the teacher's perspective.

The performance is too rigid. From every unrelated right-hand sound, it can be known that the player's palm is just a tool for linking fingers and wrists, and it doesn't play much role.

The occasional wrong sound and stagnant rhythm indicate that the player's wrist is not familiar with the playing position of each part.

Unproficient here does not mean that the player is not familiar with the music score, but that it is not clear which area the wrist will move to with each big turn of the wrist.

Ang Lee practiced Chopin's op10.no1 for a while, and the first problem he solved for this piece was to stabilize the hand shape and position.

For this reason, he simplified the complex and dense sound groups, leaving only the key notes in the arpeggio.

After doing this at a slow speed and no more wrong sounds, fill in the corresponding texture and add it.

Thereby continue to speed up.

On the other hand, Liu, who is playing at the moment, has more than half of the sheet music, his fingers are getting more and more clumsy, and the music in the air can't take half a step forward.

It ends on a boring note.

The studio returned to silence, and it could be seen that Liu also knew that his level was limited. There was no annoyance on his expression after he stopped, and his eyes were full of expectation when he looked at Ao Tuo.

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Ao Tuo was the first to lead the applause of encouragement, and loudly said the lingua franca of the whole world, Wai Rui Goode.

Then face everyone with the palm of your hand, put your four fingers together and press down, like opening and closing the mouth of a duck.

"palm."

Lin Youyou translated.

The place quieted down.

Otto walked up to Liu and pointed to his right hand.

After chattering, Lin Youyou said, "Your palm almost disappeared."

Otto took out the score and pointed to one place, "It's very good here, I heard your palm joints."

"But most of the time I don't hear it."

"You have to use the palm joints to play this piece, or it will be like this."

With the translation of the robot Teacher Lin, Ao Tuo imitated a section of Liu who was almost identical.

"Each sound is independent, which is not good."

"Legato uses every joint in us."

Ao Tuo took out a pen from his shirt pocket, and drew small circles one after another on Liu's score.

There is only one note in each circle.

"Try it now, use every joint in your body, legato."

After speaking, Otto got up and returned to his previous position.

Classmate Liu looked at Lin Youyou with a little confusion.

"Play only the circled notes, legato."

Then Lin Youyou added, "Don't pay attention to the speed and accuracy, just boldly play legato."

Classmate Liu understood, let out a breath, raised his right hand after thinking for a moment, and boldly jumped his fingers according to the instructions of the two teachers.

The simplified melody undoubtedly greatly reduced the difficulty of the sheet music, coupled with the blessing of the atmosphere on the scene, Liu let go of himself.

Going all out, student Liu thought, since he came to Rongyuan today, he didn't intend to leave decently.

The unexpected music effect came out. The extremely exaggerated arpeggios pointed out by student Liu seemed to be connected in series, and each note was no longer isolated.

Otto applauded again.

The scene is naturally cooperative.

Finally, Liu stood up and bowed deeply to the two teachers, and walked off the stage with a lot of harvest.

Jia Mingyu pinched his watch, and it took only 10 minutes for the first student to come on stage.

In these 10 minutes, Ao said a total of less than eight sentences, four of which were still spoken to the audience.

How to take the master class depends on the character of the master and the arrangement of the organizer.

In today's master class, there is no doubt that Otto is the absolute protagonist.

The master with a gentle personality and a sense of humor is not stingy. In the process of telling the questions, he not only targets the students on the stage, but also points out to everyone in the audience the problems that ordinary people will have in the process of practicing piano.

Based on the analysis of student Liu’s palm case, his sentence “Your palm almost disappeared,” reminded everyone present-always pay attention to your palm joints.

As for whether the people in the audience can memorize this sentence, it all depends on the individual's level of cognition and understanding.

Some people are concerned about the problems of the students themselves. Just like most of the students in the first and second grades of the Weijia class, the problems they bring today have not yet risen to the music, because the basic problems of their charts may not have been fully resolved. .

Some people pay attention to every word of the master, just like Ma Yu and Deng Shiqi, their fingers are already proficient enough, so it is inevitable that they will not pay attention to the problems of the performers themselves.

They are looking forward to a certain side expression of the master, perhaps this sentence can bring them some special enlightenment.

Ang Lee is both the latter and the former.

As the former, he unconsciously brought in the perspective of one of his students, assuming that his student had related problems in the future, how would he make teaching corrections.

So now he is very curious about which circles Ao Tuo drew on classmate Liu's score, which are valuable teaching materials.

When the second student came to the stage, Li An took the time to turn his head and take a look.

"This is you."

Ji Yang, who was filming on the stage with his mobile phone, replied in a low voice: "I'm going to record it and go home and study it slowly."

Li An explained with a smile: "There will be a special video for this class, so don't worry about it. I asked you to come to video?"

Ji Yang stuck out his tongue and put down his phone, "Teacher, can I ask you a question?"

"ask."

"Is this Mr. Lin the genius protagonist you told me about who only practiced the piano for three hours a day?"

"is her."

"Your level?"

"Ah."

"Can you get me an autograph?"

".Why didn't you ask me for my autograph?"

"Master!"

"Listen to your class carefully. Didn't you hear that Professor Otto asked you to take care of your chicken feet? Have you taken care of it?"

"do not have."

"Then you still need to sign?"

Ji Yang groaned, then thought about it, it seems that the two things have nothing to do with each other.

With the appearance of the second student, the atmosphere of the master class gradually heated up.
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The second student who came to the stage was a boy from Wei's class, a runner-up player in the third year of undergraduate studies. This person entered the school with the second major in the province the year before last.

Seeing the members of Wei's class come to the stage, the applause in the audience was a bit stronger.

Ao Tuo was a little surprised holding the track list.

The next thing waiting for him to review is a Chopin work.

Third degree etude (op25.no6).

Under the expectant eyes of Ao Tuo, the second in the junior ranking sat in front of the piano, and once again moved the quiet studio with his hands.

The difficulty ranking of the complete set of Chopin etudes has always been controversial internationally, but the indisputable fact is that the third degree is a repertoire that many performers cannot study in their entire lives.

Every pianist who has experienced the baptism of Xiao Lian has more or less been abused by one of the works that is aimed at technology.

The horror of Sandu is that it is just a piece of work, but almost everyone can encounter their own technical difficulties in this piece of work.

Hearing the relatively smooth performance by his ears, he paid attention to this junior named Liu Boyang.

It plays really well.

He has been abused by this fast-moving passage for a long time, and it is fair to say that he could not play this piece to this level in the first half of his junior year.

At the end of the song, Lin Youyou looked at the boy in front of the piano and felt relieved. She thought that Master must be very happy to see this scene.

After that, Ao Tuo spent a long time explaining this extremely difficult representative work to Liu Boyang and the students in the audience.

Especially when it comes to the psychological preparation of one-to-four fingers, one-to-three fingers, and two-to-five fingers alternately pressing the technical essentials of playing, as well as the detailed rules and essentials in practice, Ao Tuanzhan has shown the absolute demeanor of a teaching master.

For example, personally perform and demonstrate, so that the audience shouted and taught.

For this party alone, Li An felt that the 500 yuan was worth the money.

The camera returns to Liu Boyang. After experiencing applause from the audience and encouragement from Otto, he finally let out the breath that was suppressed in his heart on the stage of today's master class.

No one likes being the second child.

Every year, the mid-term and final exams are overwhelmed by the first half. This feeling is really uncomfortable.

Liu Boyang has been working hard secretly, and finally today, he saw Teacher Wei's smiling face in the audience.

However, Liu Boyang is just a microcosm of everyone on stage today.

Why do you have to go on stage to play for the master? Everyone has the same goal, to become stronger.

Become stronger than before, become stronger than those around you.

Although Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second, in this environment, except for those who are willing to give up, most of the rest are unwilling to be second.

Why are you number one when you enter school, and you are still number one when you graduate soon.

Why everyone's conditions are enough, you can guarantee research but I can't.

We are classmates, brothers and sisters of the same teacher, but what is destined to be unchangeable is——

This is a group formed by the convergence of piano music, so only the best players can stand at the top with peace of mind.

Just like Senior Sister Lin Youyou, whom everyone admires so much at the moment.

Following one student after another on the stage, the master class was still the master class, and Ao Tuo tirelessly explained one technical problem after another, and one practice method after another.

But some people in the auditorium gradually developed a mentality of scrutiny.

Where is he better than me, or he is far worse than me.

Occasionally, some people think that Master Otto's evaluation of XX is really too high.

Of course, most of the students who sign up for this master class do so with humility.

But most humble people are destined not to reach the core position of a circle.

Whenever there are people, there must be something like this, even if it is a group of people with musical dreams.

At the end of the first half, Li An called Zheng Haitao, wondering why he didn't come, but he was surfing the Internet.

"Brother, I won't go, it's boring."

Seeing what the other party said, Li An didn't say anything else. In terms of his attitude towards the piano, Zheng Haitao was indeed inferior to Ma Yu.

"Teacher, I feel that these senior brothers and sisters are very powerful."

After listening to the first half, Ji Yang felt that the piano department of Rongcheng Conservatory of Music is very strong
"Anyone who dares to sign up for the stage will naturally be foolish," Li An looked at Lin Youyou surrounded by the crowd in front of the first row of audience seats, "Look at how many people are sitting below today, and then look at the form in your hand. how many people."

"Only eight."

"Count the seven tomorrow morning."

"A total of fifteen."

After a while, he changed the subject, "But don't think too much, there are still many who haven't come, and I guess there are some who are not as good as you among those who didn't come."

"what."

Ji Yang said in surprise, "No way."

Li An curled his lips: "You think that the people who are admitted don't eat or drink every day to play in the piano room. The piano is like this. If you don't practice your skills, you have to go backwards."

Ji Yang nodded foolishly and said, "I really thought that everyone would work harder after going to university."

Li An shook his head and sighed, "Only a small part."

Ji Yang asked again: "Teacher, isn't the competition between them very fierce?"

Li An smiled: "That's natural."

moment.

"Stop talking about them."

"You haven't entered school yet, don't you have a fight with someone in your heart?"

Thinking of Li Muyan, Ji Yang thought it was true, she guessed that she would not let go of this matter when she went to university, she must surpass Li Muyan professionally.

On the side, Li Anxin sighed, this is so far away.

The talents of Huaguo Academy and Haishi Academy really have a sense of competition.

Those people have competed since they were young, and since they were young, they have been facing entrance examinations for the attached primary school, then the attached high school, and then for undergraduate and graduate students. It can be said that there is not a day when they are not in the midst of fierce competition.

Thinking of this, he thought of Teacher Chen again.

Teacher Chen is a native of other provinces, and was admitted to the Huaguo Conservatory of Music.

Really awesome.

Eighty-one: You are awesome
moment.

Millet:?
"Brother, drink water."

At this time, Deng Shiqi took two bottles of water and handed them to Li An.
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As the second half of the master class was about to start, Otto took a sip of water, picked up the list of players for the second half, four Beethovens, and then his eyes fell on the last name unconsciously.

(End of this chapter)