Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 194. 191. The sound of the hindsight, the glimpse of the group of death

Li An didn't stop until 10:30 in one breath, and then looked up, the piano teacher named Xiaoyu in front of the piano had disappeared.

From the astonishment when I heard the other party's piano at the beginning to the calmness later, I can only say that Yanjing is like a cloud of masters.

Teacher Xiaoyu is called Master Boss, so what is the rank of the boss's piano quality?

Li An is not a person who loves to fantasize, but he still thinks that his boss is an outsider.

It was probably also influenced by this unscrupulous hotel, as if there were not a few strange people popping up in this kind of place, it would be unreasonable.

After returning to the room, Chen Xuan sent him two videos.

The flute and oboe duets are all excerpts from the opera Rigoletto.

Xiaomi: help us choose one

Ang Lee had heard that he chose the second one. In fact, the two videos sounded similar to him. In the second video, there was a meow like a protest of [-] people, which was very melodic.

Xiaomi: ok, wait for me for a while, go downstairs to see her-
Chen Xuan sent Sun Yuman downstairs.

It could be seen that Comrade Xiaoyu had a good time tonight, Chen Xuan didn't want to mention it, but she still opened her mouth before parting.

"Li An asked me about Liang Chunyu today."

Sun Yuman smiled: "It's strange that he doesn't ask you. It's okay, you just tell him. It will save him from thinking that you have something to hide from him."

Chen Xuan: "Do you already know?"

Sun Yuman: "His girlfriend posted on Moments earlier."

Chen Xuan: "Why do you still keep their friends?"

Sun Yuman smiled: "I'm too lazy to clean up the garbage."

There was a moment of silence, "Xiaomi, are you really planning to go there?"

Chen Xuan sighed: "Just wait and see."

The 20th is the day of the third round of competition, but on that day, the children from Yudong’s experiment will be rehearsed together. Taozi has already said in the group this afternoon that the teacher in charge of each part must be present for the first co-production.

After sending off Sun Yuman and Chen Xuan, she went home and locked the door behind her, washed up briefly, went to bed and picked up her phone.

After a 10-minute video call with Ang Lee, he urged him to sleep.

In fact, she really wanted to hear the story.

Putting down the phone, she forced herself to close her eyes, but fortunately, a fat, fluffy thing jumped around her after a while.

In the hotel room, Li An was not so polite when he put down his phone, and fell asleep after a while.

Don't look at him sleeping for most of the afternoon, he is also very tired these two days.
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The next morning Li An received a reply from Lin Youyou.

About the other party asking Ji Yang about his timbre.

He calls over.

Lin Youyou explained as follows.

Ji Yang's comprehensive skills have basically reached saturation at the current stage. From her point of view, it is difficult for the other party to improve their playing skills in less than a month before the art test.

After two hours of observation and thinking, it is possible that Ji Yang's improvement on the existing basis is to improve the timbre.

How to improve the timbre is a problem that every player has been studying all his life.

It's abstract.

Some people like warmer tones, others like clean tones.

But there is one thing that can be reached between the two main camps. Quality timbre must be played after thinking about it.

Put this point of view on the player—whether you can play a quality tone depends on whether you have seriously thought about the tone you are playing.

Taking Ji Yang as an example, although Lin Youyou didn't directly accuse Li An of his suspected negligence in teaching, the tone of his words did not save Li An's face.

"Didn't she notice, her voice is very similar to yours."

Take a closer look, Ji Yang's voice is like yours, Ji Yang still has room for improvement in his voice.

Regarding the issue of personal timbre, Ang Lee admitted that he was negligent, and he always ranked it after fingers, technique, and emotion.

So in Ji Yang's teaching, the order of his attention is also the same.

It's okay for Li An to be bluntly said that his voice is not good, he is still a person on the road.

The important thing is that Lin Youyou can see Ji Yang's current shortcomings from Lin Youyou's perspective, which allows him to see Ji Yang's room for improvement.

In fact, at this stage, he also found that Ji Yang seemed to have no room for improvement in a short period of time.

Unexpectedly, this problem that bothered him was discovered by Lin Youyou.

Regarding the problem of sound quality, he really has nothing to do. He still dangles half a bottle himself.

Lin Youyou returned to the question she asked Ji Yang, "To produce a quality sound, one should at least know what a quality sound is."

"Ji Yang said that your voice is her favorite, so I don't think she has an innate voice aesthetic."

Another stab at the heart.

Li An smiled wryly: "Then I'll leave it to you."

Lin Youyou: "Li An, you should also think carefully about what kind of voice you want. If you only rely on the sharp voice brought by the concentration of your fingertips to practice to a certain extent, it will definitely hold you back."

Lin Youyou told Li An an example of her classmate in Vienna, similar to Li An's situation, focusing on finger skills, thinking that finger skills are everything.

Later, his classmate was relying too much on fingertips, so that what he played later was like an assembly line precision product.

Of course, this kind of precision product is still not comparable to those defective products.

After Lin Youyou listened to Li An's two competition works yesterday, although the three movements of the storm were full of emotions, the most intuitive presentation of the two works to him was that she thought of his classmate.

She didn't know how to talk to Li An about some things, so she hoped that he would think about it carefully through Ji Yang's question.

After three years of graduation, Lin Youyou didn't believe that Li An didn't pursue it in his heart because of the continuous practice of writing.

Although it is somewhat inaccurate to describe it as a car behind closed doors, it is not much different in fact.

Although you have trained your fingers, but lack of continuous input of new nutrients and new horizons, it is inevitable that you will fall into self-isolation.

There was silence on the phone for a while,

"My point of view can also give counterexamples, but I think it can at least help you at this stage."

moment.

Ang Lee: "Thank you."

Lin Youyou didn't care about this thank you, the thanks that Li An University owed her for four years can be put in sacks.

Then she told Li An the training method she designed for Ji Yang to improve the sound quality in the next step, and at the same time, she was also providing him with some perspectives to think about.

She believes that Li An is willing to listen, and there should be some gains of her own.

Because in her mind, Li An's talent is always above hers, and the current gap between the two in the professional field is purely due to their different paths.

Lin Youyou: "Stop talking."

"Come on yourself, our school hasn't won a good ranking in a major domestic competition for a long time."

Speaking of this, Ang Lee asked with a smile: "Speaking of which, why didn't you come to participate?"

Lin Youyou hehe: "It's enough to send you."

"Bye-Bye."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Youyou lingered on the bed for a while before sitting up, and made a phone call with Li An, feeling much better.

Regarding the other party's timbre, she finally found an opportunity to raise it with the other party.

Then I got up and got out of bed and went to the bathroom to change a aunt's towel.

If there is a choice in the next life, she will not be a woman if she is killed.
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At 42:[-] Yanjing time, Li An walked into Da Ma's piano room.

After two hours of scales and one hour of etudes to fully open his fingers, he is ready for today's piano practice.

Turning over the score of the first movement of the farewell, he didn't point down immediately.

In fact he had been thinking about it all morning.

About timbre.

Lin Youyou can be said to bluntly point out the fact that he has not established a sense of timbre.

It's outrageous.

He did not defend himself, because the facts were indeed as the other party said.

Thanks to the other party for waking him up in time
Open memories.

It seems to have to start after getting the incomplete Samir piano teaching notes.

It just so happened that he was facing a difficult problem at that time - how to solve the problem of the original owner's habit of pressing down keys and the shape of the thumb.

It must be said that according to Samir's guidance, through 299 exercises, the problems left by the original owner were solved.

After adding the practice of transposing 299, his finger independence was further improved.

The most intuitive thing is that when playing fast running, the feeling of the wind on the fingertips is really intoxicating.

This directly led to a series of exercise plans that she then developed around how to continue to improve her fingers.

Gradually he got used to the sound brought by this playing habit.

After hanging up the phone in the morning, he listened to the recordings of himself in the phone for nearly a month.

After listening, cold sweat broke out behind his back.

It was only when he consciously discerned that he realized that in the past month, no matter whether he was playing works from the Romantic period or the Classical period, even if it was a small scale sample of modern popular music works like The Lonely Brave, all the sounds were different. are exactly the same.

After listening to Lin Youyou's words, Li An was also afraid after thinking about it.

Ang Lee is an independent person, he usually thinks first when facing different voices.

However, this time he basically didn't think about it, because the other party threw out a point of view that he had always admitted in his heart but was left in the corner——

Sound aesthetics.

If he still thinks that his current timbre is what he wants after various listening attempts, then no matter what Lin Youyou says, he will insist that his current timbre is fine.

Everyone has their own sound preferences.

The problem is that the personal sound he accepts now is only brought about by playing habits.

In this process, he passively accepted the current timbre.

How his voice will appear in the end does not seem to be important now, what is important is that he needs a journey of discovery.

Regarding what is waiting for him at the end, he guesses that no matter what it is, it must have the distinct label of "Ann Lee's voice".

Knowing and doing is easy and difficult, and actions speak louder than words.

With a new idea, Li An gently raised his left hand, listened, and pressed the three-tone motive of farewell.

'Le—be—wohl—'

With a whisper in his mouth, he started today's music practice.

The time came to [-] pm in a blink of an eye, and the second round of Group D, which was nicknamed the death group by this year's players, became more intense with the appearance of Wu Fusheng.
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Liang Chunyu, who appeared third, attracted everyone's attention when he appeared on the stage.

The winter wind opens, and the Hammer Key Sonata ends.

Liang Chunyu's majestic typhoon and open and closed performance showed the demeanor of the home players of Huayuan.

The left hand touches the keys delicately, and the right hand moves swiftly.

The end of the two songs drew applause from the audience.

Until Wu Fusheng appeared on the stage, compared to Liang Qiuyu's serious appearance, Wu Fusheng appeared in a light brown dress, and his gentle chuckle when bowing gave people the feeling of a big brother next door.

It's just that anyone who has seen Wu Fusheng playing the piano knows that he hides a sharp knife under his gentle appearance, and once he sits in front of the piano, he will burst out of the air.

The revolutionary etudes passed through his hands, with strong enthusiasm and new ideas, full of dexterous touch keys and use of colors.

The second Walstein sonata is simple and smooth, graceful and pleasant, giving people a kind of calmness from the avenue to simplicity.

The two most profound sonatas in this competition were presented by Liang and Wu.

Each has its own characteristics and strengths, and it is difficult for the contestants in the audience to distinguish the superior one from the other.

But they know that the final battle between these two is not in the second round, but in the final.

Compared with the other players in Group D, only Zeng Mengqiu from Tianjin Academy can barely match the two.

The Butterfly Etudes and the Farewell Sonata also lived up to everyone's expectations. Who said that the small and exquisite straightforward narration cannot show the charm of piano music.

Zeng Mengqiu will give you the answer.

The results of Group D are basically undisputed. You have basically announced that these three will advance to the third round together.

After two days of intense confrontation, the six groups of players finally ended the round at 8:[-] p.m.

So far, the closed second round of the No.18 Xinghai Cup National Piano Competition for the youth group has all ended.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, a video of the end of the second round of the competition from Wu Nan, chairman of the competition organizing committee, was uploaded on the competition's official Weibo, Douyin, video account, and official website at the same time.

At the same time, the official website of the competition and the official website of Xinghai Piano announced the specific time and venue of the third and fourth round finals.

The third round of competition will start at 12:20 pm on December 14th at the Cultural Concert Hall of Huaguo Conservatory of Music, and the auditorium will be open at that time.

The fourth round of finals will be held at the Chime Concert Hall of the National Center for the Performing Arts at 12:26 pm on December 18, and the ticket sales channel has been opened on the entire network.

The national treasure-level conductor Mr. Xie Ganzheng will join hands with the Yanjing Symphony Orchestra to cooperate with the six finalists to complete their concerto repertoire performance.
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One piece of news after another became the appetizer for the players tonight.

It was almost 11:30 when Li An, Lao Tang, Wu Fusheng and the other three Haiyuan players returned to the hotel after drinking.

"What about you? Whose master class are you going to listen to tomorrow afternoon?"

During this competition, the organizing committee specially opened an open master class composed of judges for the contestants, which is used for the contestants to listen, observe and learn on the rest day of the competition.

Wu Fusheng has already decided to listen to Saranki's impressionist piano lectures, and Lao Tang is going to listen to Liu Henglu, a famous domestic artist, on how to perform national works on modern pianos.

Li An is actually a little entangled. If he can be separated, he doesn't want to miss anyone.

Fortunately, there are videos of all master classes. Considering the effect of on-site listening, he finally chose a master class from a Russian judge.

The subject is the classical style of Mozart's piano, which he has always been very interested in.

The three of them sat at the bar for a while, but Wu Fusheng couldn't sit still. He drank too much tonight.

After going upstairs with Lao Tang, he said, "From now on, you can't drink with Li An."

Lao Tang smiled: "It's not your style to admit defeat so quickly."

Wu Fusheng: "No, you've seen it too, the northerners drink too wildly, one drink at a time in such a big cup."

Lao Tang was a little puzzled: "What a great opportunity tonight, you don't even ask about your goddess."

Wu Fusheng blushed and sighed: "Hey, to be honest, I can't hold back this face. I'm worried that Lin Youyou doesn't like being inquired about, and it will backfire."

Lao Tang pondered for a while and asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you want to stand up and make money?"

The two looked at each other, each seeing the playfulness in the other's eyes.

Said in the same voice: "Ask for it."

moment.

Wu Fusheng: "Do you think Li An is almost drunk?"

Old Tang: "I think he didn't seem to have enjoyed himself in the end."
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There are two lonely empty wine bottles on the lonely wine table, and the lonely Group D match is shown on the lonely big screen.

In the last half hour before the end of the second competition day of the competition, there was no one in the lobby of the Jiger Hotel except for the official front desk staff, and the quietness gave a rare sense of serenity.

130 for two bottles of wine.

Li An was convinced.

He would like to have two more bottles if it was cheaper.
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After practicing the piano the next morning, Li An hung up his earphones and went back to the hotel entrance to eat a bowl of fried noodles.

After eating, he was about to go to the Taoyuan Concert Hall to listen to the master class. When he arrived at the entrance of the concert hall, a familiar figure appeared in front of his eyes.

"What a coincidence, Teacher Xiaoyu."

He took the initiative to greet each other.

On the poster of the master class on the side, the selection of today's Mozart classicism lecture is a bit regrettable.

K271.

According to the official official statistics of the competition, among the 102 shortlisted contestants this time, a total of 95 people filled in k466 in the column of the final repertoire.
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(End of this chapter)