Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 29 29. "Teacher, My Hands Are Sore"

When the mentality is adjusted, the thinking of solving the problem will be clear.

Professor Yu's request for Ji Yang at this stage is to speed up, and the purpose is still confusing, so let's understand it as an art test requirement for the time being.

Ji Yang's current practice situation is already in a state of forcibly speeding up.

Severe slipping of the right hand, lack of rhythmic stamina, lack of stability in sound, and poor stamina.

The left hand has no hand frame, the big jump is blunt, the accuracy is low, the chords have no layered arms.

Occasional nervousness on the pedal.

Hand in hand what to say.
How to put it, let's just pick the advantages, at least I can play the whole song with such left and right hands.
It is also a kind of ability.

Combining Professor Yu's teaching ideas and the purpose of tonight's trip, Li An must make Ji Yang have a significant improvement before get out of class ends today.

The improvement can be small, but it must be seen by parents and children.

In the quiet piano room, the rustling sound of the pen tip across the paper is amplified.

The mother and daughter looked at Li An who was busy, thinking about things in their hearts.

About 10 seconds later, Li Anton stopped writing, raised his head and showed a satisfied smile.

Sincerely said: "It plays very well."

These four words made Hu Rong Weixuan's heart sink. She had never heard Li An play the piano, but in less than 20 minutes of contact since Li An walked into the living room, she observed Li An's words and deeds. , She had already given Ang Lee a professional label in her heart.

This has nothing to do with who Li An's student is.

Just now, when her daughter was playing the piano, she noticed that Li An's brows were frowning from time to time, which made her a little worried.

But now her heart is relieved.

Ji Yang, who was recognized, was also full of joy. She really liked this new sparring teacher, so naturally she also wanted to leave a good impression on Li An.

She did it.

"Thank you, teacher!"

As a result, the atmosphere in the piano room relaxed a lot.

Li An put the notebook aside.

"Ji Yang, just now you said that you have practiced this song for five months."

"OK."

"How long did it take you from getting the score to joining hands?"

"Two weeks?" Ji Yang raised his small face and scratched the back of his head, looking at Li An suspiciously, "Three weeks?"

Li An didn't know, but Ji Yang's answer was very clear.

Herein lies the problem.

Due to the particularity of the piece Black Key, the requirements for HS practice are particularly high.

Almost all the running of the right hand in this song is done on the black keys. It is well known that the black keys on the piano are shorter and narrower than the white keys.

The speed of the repertoire is fast and the sound clusters are dense, so the slow speed of breaking up in the early stage is particularly important for whether the repertoire can be played well in the later stage.

He practiced this song for five weeks before the teacher let him get it right, and the original owner even practiced it for nearly seven weeks under the pressure of Teacher Wei.

The background between him and the original owner at that time was much higher than that of Ji Yang now.

So it's no wonder that Ji Yang started to play well with his hands in three or two weeks.

But if you look at it from another angle-

"Recognition is very fast, not bad."

Ang Lee praised again, then pointed to the electronic metronome on the piano beside him and asked, "Can I use it?"

Ji Yang Xiaoji nodded one by one, "Yes, yes."

Ang Lee picked up the metronome and adjusted it to a tempo of 60 beats, and the room sounded "D-D-D-D--"

"Practice slowly." Ji Yang asked.

Li An affirmed: "Not only must you be slow, but Professor Yu must have emphasized the issue of breaking up with you, right?"

Ji Yang: "Ah."

She didn't have much impression, as if she had said it several times before.

Li An continued: "Let's look at the first eight bars of the right hand, and pay attention to keeping the fingertips as close to the black keys as possible to play. You can use the front of the finger pads more. The speed of pressing the keys should be even, and the feeling of touching the keys should be light, like this."

Speaking of which, Li An made a demonstration on the teacher's piano.

Sounds good!
Ji Yang only thought that Li An's voice was very clean, well-proportioned, and full of graininess, and he didn't remember anything else, he just remembered that it sounded good.

After listening to it once, it's like not listening.

Ang Lee demonstrated again, and said while doing it: "Slow parting practice can effectively help you improve the two problems of wrong sound in the right hand and lack of rhythm in six notes per beat."

These two questions have troubled Ji Yang for a long time. Every time he asked Teacher Yu in class, Teacher Yu also told her to go down and practice slowly.

Specifically, Professor Yu also gave her a method, which is to practice at three speeds each time, practice several times at 80 beats, several times at 85 beats, and several times at 90 beats.

After practicing in this way, she can feel the progress herself, but she still doesn't play well.

Ji Yang recalled Li An's words just now and raised his right hand, and just about to drop his finger, Li An interrupted her.

"Don't play with your wrist so high," Dunton Li An added, "At least you should relax a little during the practice stage. Come on, you just put the stand on the piano, adjust your breathing and keep the beat. "

Ji Yang did as he did, and then stuck to the rhythm and dropped 351 fingers in a row.

Ang Lee corrected, "Put your little finger down and point out the high note, can you hear the high note?"

Ji Yang strengthened his little finger.

The volume effect is reflected immediately.

[Ji Yang's teacher-student index has risen to 7]

however.

"Don't smash it, so that you won't be able to care about it after the speed is increased."

"When you drop the key, you should feel a kick back when you drop it for a moment, and then relax for a moment. The meaning of our split-up and slow practice is to deepen the muscle memory of the key points of each step of a note at a slow speed."

Ji Yang corrected it immediately.

"That's right, that's what it means."

【Teaching point +3】

however.

"Wait, you can't just focus on the treble, you have to pay attention to the strength of each finger."

Ji Yang: "Oh oh oh."

"Yes, that's what it means. That's right. Repeatedly start from the first bar and continue. Hey, where's the treble point, where's the point?"

"Stretch, stretch, and play boldly. Yes, pay attention to the support of strength every time you drop your fingers on the black keys. Why do you keep wandering and landing on the white keys?"

"repeatedly."

"continue."

"repeatedly."

"continue."

"repeatedly."

Repeatedly

Ji Yang: "Teacher, my hands are sore, can I change one?"

Li Ang: "No, hold on for a while."

2 minute later.

Ji Yang: "Mr. Li, I really can't do it."

Li An didn't stop, but stretched out his right hand to play with Ji Yang on his piano.

"Repeat it twice, think about what Professor Yu told you"

Ji Yang thought about it for a while and Professor Yu didn't say anything, let alone treat himself like this, and these eight sections are full of Li An's words.

With the end of the last set of octave triplets, Ji Yang frantically rubbed his wrists.

Ang Lee didn't stop, and stuck to his ear at a speed of 60 beats.

He changed the original 6 notes per beat into 12 notes per beat.

In an instant, a gorgeous melody suddenly appeared from the world constructed in black and white.

(End of this chapter)