Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 254 249. A Day in the Life of a Piano Teacher

Teacher Li An, who started the sentence again, did not successfully explain the mistake just now.

He started three times in a row and stopped three times. He seemed to give up temporarily, picked up the teacup and blew gently.

Then he got up and turned around holding the teacup,

The audience in the audience followed the perspective of the camera to get a glimpse of the panoramic view of the classroom.

A desk, a chair, two pianos, two slightly old piano stools, and nothing else.

The most eye-catching thing is the three stacks of scores on the piano board.

Li An hummed the melody he played just now, and the camera followed him back and forth twice.

Then he went back to the piano and put down the teacup. After sitting down, he didn't reach out to touch the piano for the first time, but picked up the pencil on the music stand and began to draw on the music score.

Under the close-up, anyone who understands can see clearly that Ang Lee is re-dividing the phrases, which is fresh for those who don't understand.

After sketching, Li An hesitated for a while, then flicked his fingers.

"when--"

The phrases redrawn after thinking are refreshing. Although there is a lack of proficiency, the audience can feel from the music that Mr. Li has solved a small problem.

The audience is happy for it.

It's like they solved such a small problem by themselves.

However, within ten seconds, the music was interrupted again. This time everyone knew about it, and Ang Lee ran into a new problem.

It's different from watching Ang Lee's real performance on stage.

Looking at Ang Lee who is concentrating on practicing on the screen, the audience can truly feel that playing a piece of more than 30 minutes from beginning to end may not be as easy as they seem.

As a powerful character on stage, he raised his eyebrows and sighed from time to time during practice.

The three-hour piano practice screen was cut into a 5-minute video. The audience did not see Ang Lee's smiling face most of the time, only the occasional momentary display of his face.

Every piano student in the audience can find their own shadow at a certain moment.

But considering the effect of filming, most people think that Ang Lee's performance is better. They subconsciously think that Ang Lee has already practiced this work thoroughly.

Only a few people can tell that the second movement of No.13 Ang Lee is probably practicing during filming.

It is worth mentioning that when Ang Lee stopped to wipe his sweat and drink water, a voice-over question rang out.

"Do you practice the piano at a fixed time every morning?"

Ang Lee: "Besides meetings and classes, or something else that must be done."

Perhaps from this short conversation, we can find some answers to the questions.

Voice-over: "Besides, I practice every morning. Does the leader have any objection to this? (Laughs)"

Ang Lee: "Probably not, isn't the piano teacher practicing the piano at work? (Laughs)"

Laughing offstage.

Qin Yong also laughed, this guy really is.

Voiceover: "Is there a time when you're tired of practicing?"

Ang Lee: "Yes."

Voiceover: "How do you usually deal with this emotion."

Li Ang: "Persist for a while and it will pass."

Voiceover: "What is the meaning of persistence?"

Ang Lee: "It doesn't have any special significance. I like it. I eat meat every day and sometimes I get bored. It's just that there are many substitutes for meat."

Voiceover: "So playing the piano is something unique to you."

Ang Lee: "Playing the piano is a part of my life."

After a short break, Li An continued to practice.

The screen cuts to a new environment with the restarting piano sound.

The screen came to an office.

'Twelve noon, lunch time. '

A simple home-cooked eggplant is Ang Lee's lunch.

Ang Lee left the office after eating in a hurry, and disappeared into the camera.

"Is everyone else in your office going out for lunch?"

"In summer, people go out more at noon, and they don't like to go out in winter. These two special circumstances, they have something to do at noon."

When the figure answering this question appeared in the camera, she was clearing the table, and there was no one else in the office except her.

"You guys bring your own food every day?"

"Three or four days a week."

Everyone who knew Chen Xuan at the scene recognized her from the screen at this moment, even though it was only a back view.

What followed was some everyday conversation.

The audience could easily tell from the dialogue between the two female voices that the lady who left the country was Ang Lee's girlfriend.

From the perspective of his girlfriend, the audience learned something about Ang Lee's appearance in life.

such as.

"Then which of you usually cleans up the house more?"

"Well, I'm actually quite lazy. Sometimes I feel embarrassed to see him clean up the house so neatly, so I will take the initiative to do more when he is busy."

There is no clear information transmission about this paragraph, but the audience still feels a strong breath of life from it.

Especially for young people.

Although Ang Lee only appeared in the form of piano background music in the few minutes of the shot, listening to the sound of the piano and his girlfriend's whispering, isn't this a certain couple and friends around him.

"Gossip, which one of you is chasing whom?"

It is a pity that the answer to this question is not given in the screen, just like the camera has never given a frontal picture of this girlfriend with a tall and soft back and a sexy and three-dimensional profile.

The camera finally moves to a neat desk.

The audience naturally noticed the half photo frame exposed in the upper left corner of the table.

Li An turned his head, squatting a lunch box in his hand, bared his white teeth and his face was shining brightly.

At that time, Ang Lee was still wearing short sleeves and had very short hair.

The camera continued to move to the right, and then a moving expression of a panicked hat appeared in the photo, but it was a pity that it passed by before anyone could see clearly.

The afternoon sun outside the window was just right.

The sound of the piano gradually came from far and near.

Another different piece.

Qin Yong, Deng Shiqi, Ma Yu: Beethoven's Five Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, first movement.

Judging from the performance traces, there is no doubt that this is still played by Ang Lee.

There is a leisurely and comfortable atmosphere in the gorgeous and beautiful melody, and the simple texture counterpoint gives people a very approachable feeling.

The screen flashed to the corridor of the teaching area, and the camera recorded from a distance a group of young teachers talking and laughing, walking out of a gate, and then divided into twos and threes and walked towards their respective offices.

Then the figures of several children suddenly rushed out from the corner of the corridor, some were carrying black musical instrument cases, and some were carrying music sheets.

The sound of adults scolding, children chasing, the opening of the office door, the opening and closing of the elevator, all the sounds are mixed together, almost covering the piano sound in the background.

'The teaching and research meeting ended at 14:50 in the afternoon, and Li An was ready for class. '

The camera all came to classroom No. [-], a fixed angle to shoot the piano from obliquely above, and the door of the classroom could just be seen in the picture.

'In order not to affect the normal class of students, Mr. Li asked the staff to hide the camera, and now he is waiting for the first student to come to class today. '

Nine rows of auditoriums, the little ones were shocked when they saw this line of subtitles.

Especially Wang Xiaohu, he had a vague sense of foreboding.

The subtitles faded, and Ang Lee appeared in the camera. He walked to the piano and naturally pulled out a score from a stack of scores.

It can be seen that he is seriously preparing for class.

At this moment, the door of the classroom was knocked open.

"teacher!"

Li An, who was facing away from the classroom door, suddenly trembled with his hand holding the score at the end.

Because the camera is very close to him, the audience can clearly see his facial expression twitching.

Hahaha----

The audience in the audience was amused by this real scene.

Then his eyes were attracted by this reckless little boy.

The audience with a good memory has already discovered that this kid has just been on the stage.

Ninth Pai Wang Xiaohu's face was already blushing.

He felt that his face had been shattered. If he had known that he was filming at the time, he would have thought of a handsome way to appear if he was killed.

"Can't you learn to knock on the door?!"

"Forget, forget, hehe."

Naturally, Wang Xiaohu in the film must be scolded.

But in the face of Li Ang's scolding, he still acted like a baby with a playful smile.

"can."

Liu Fengrui stretched out a thumb to his side full of praise, "I can't do it."

When Ma Ke heard Liu Fengrui's words, he couldn't hold back a snort.

Of course, this scene once again made the audience feel the relationship between the teacher and the student on the screen.

Many adult audiences are interested in the question of how a stage performer like Ang Lee will teach in his daily work.

Although just a few minutes of screen clipping cannot introduce a class in detail, through the teaching interaction between teachers and students, dialogues, the teacher's patient demonstration and explanation, and the children's feedback on the keyboard, we can see the details.

In the next child's class, Ang Lee showed to all the audience and the piano education work the rigorous attitude and humility that a piano teacher should possess.

The next person who walked into the classroom was also the figure who appeared on the stage just now, a short-haired little girl named Che Lin.

"Teacher, can I play with three fingers?"

At a fingering mark, the child asked a question with seriousness on his face.

At that time, Ang Lee seemed to have forgotten what was being filmed. He only glanced at it and thought for a while before discovering the problem.

After he played with three fingers and four fingers respectively, he also found that the three fingers are indeed better than the four fingers.

After teaching this piece for so many years, it was the first time he encountered such a situation.

When he practiced by himself, he used the fingerings marked in the book, so he has not realized that there is any problem with this fingering.

The audience couldn't hear the difference between Ang Lee playing it twice with different fingers, and Ang Lee's expression couldn't be seen on the screen.

But they heard Li An's words.

"You can wait for this question. Don't practice this place for now. I'll go down and find out before I tell you."
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Backstage control room.

Fu Tianming, Wen Xiao, Li An, and the three main creators sat in a row facing the small screen.

Fu Tianming: "It's not because of filming."

Li An was really not sure about this place at the time, and shook his head: "It is very important to develop a child's fingering awareness, especially when they are young, sometimes it is really just a matter of what the teacher says."

When Wen Xiao heard Li An's words at this moment, she was very glad that she had cut this place in.

"Actually, I thought about this place for a long time before cutting it in."

Li An smiled, "I understand, it's pretty good."

Some people may think that this kind of editing has serious traces of showmanship. You, a person who played four famous Beethoven piano sonatas in succession on stage, can't be sure about the fingering problem raised by a child on a small score?

It doesn't matter, Li An doesn't care if someone really thinks so.

Besides, the three people in the room knew that it took only one and a half days for this short documentary, which was less than 10 minutes long, from conception to re-cutting, plus supplementary shots.

The original video was passed in the second round of rehearsal due to the length of time and scale issues.

In the subsequent rehearsal meeting, Fu Tianming still wanted to insist on making such a stage effect, so he got the opportunity to realize this idea again after promising not to cross the line and control the duration.

The final play time was also moved from halftime to the end of the second half.

Now it is being shown to the audience in the form of four encore songs accompanied by Ang Lee's daily life.

The first ray of sunshine in the morning, Piano Sonata No. [-].

Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major in daily practice.

The No.20 No. [-] Rhododendron sounded before class.

And this one, which is about to sound the last song.

'evening 19:00'

'First thing when I get home from get off work'

5 minutes ago, the moment the picture of 2501 appeared on the big screen, the sound of the chopping board was clearly heard by everyone. It was difficult for everyone to connect such a simple living environment with Ang Lee who was sitting in front of the piano tonight together.

They thought that such a pianist should at least live in a relatively comfortable environment.

The gray walls and gray space on the screen formed a stark contrast with the gorgeous stage at the moment.

When Ang Lee walked in front of the camera with a dish of cucumbers in his apron, the audience felt a strong visual impact.

The evening meal is one of the few times in the day when you can rest and relax.

In the picture, several young people from different fields of life gather around the table, having a drink and chatting, talking about life, the present and the future.

"Paying down the mortgage is always more at ease than paying the rent."

Holding a bottle of beer in his hand, Li An leaned on his chair and looked up at the ceiling. What kind of expression was in his eyes.

It turned out that our piano teacher did not have a place to stay in Rongcheng.

For a moment, the words of the host two hours ago seemed to resurface in everyone's ears.

"Ann Lee is not a young performer, let alone a master. He is just an ordinary piano teacher with his own job."

"Today, there are his students sitting in the audience, as well as his teachers from his student days, his colleagues and leaders, and his good friends."

"He has too many reasons to want to play every piece today. He was still practicing the piano the night before, and he has to go to work the next day."

"We stood on the stage this afternoon, and there was no one in the audience. He looked at the auditorium and said with emotion - I never thought that one day I could hold a concert in a concert hall with 400 people without spending a penny. A personal concert."

"I said, isn't this the era we live in?"

"He laughed after listening to it. During the days of contact with him, I have almost never seen him smile so shyly."

See two 10-minute short films from the four works.

At this moment, the audience has a feeling of hindsight.

Suddenly, a hot melody hidden under the undercurrent slowly emerged.

At this moment, at least ten audience members in the audience were excited!
When they saw the repertoire of Beethoven's concert, they felt that there was a piece missing in this set that must appear.

just now.

At the end of the concert's finale, it finally came.

(End of this chapter)