Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 363 64. Paganini's selection of music ideas
After the meal, the three chatted for a while, and Li An went to throw away the leftovers.

I just got out of the security pass after throwing it away, and met two lesbians who had just finished eating rice noodles and got out of the elevator.

When Li An met, he asked, "Are you two really counting food?"

A meal of rice noodles can last for an hour and a half. He didn't expect that he planned to wait for Chen Xuan to finish eating quickly and then use the noon time to join Mozart.

Wang Panpan laughed, "Sister Xuan and I have finished eating long ago, and went to visit the eighth floor."

"How's the dormitory?" Li An saw a group of workers carrying a large box to the eighth floor yesterday. Later, someone in the group said it was a part of a modular bed.

"I can't see anything," Chen Xuan answered, "There are garbage piles everywhere, but the stage looks pretty good."

"That's not necessary." Li An knew how much Qin Yong had put into the stage design, "We will have a serious rehearsal venue in the future."

Wang Panpan thought about that day: "I'm looking forward to it."

Li An persuaded Wang Panpan: "I will give you a suggestion to your cousin, we don't ask for Steinway, just a Japanese triangle with pure Taiwanese blood."

Wang Panpan spread his hands: "It's useless for me to say that, you have to talk to my brother, boss."

The three of them talked and laughed and went back to the office.

After going back to rest for a while, Li An took a cup of tea and came to the classroom. At two o'clock sharp, the car appeared at the door of the classroom on time.

"Hello teacher."

"Come in, who brought you here.

He finally met Che Lin's father last week, and Che Lin's father also took the initiative to ask him about the competition. Although his attitude was polite, he only asked him how to sign up.

It's okay, at least Che Lin's father said that Che Lin can participate in as many games as she wants, and he supports it.

"Auntie sent me to the door and left."

Li An nodded, "Your second aunt will pick you up later?"

Che Lin shook her head, picked up the bus card on her chest and shook it, the two keys hanging on the rope jingled.

Suddenly remembered something, Xiao Che hurriedly unloaded his schoolbag, bent down and quickly took out the score from the bag, then ignored the schoolbag on the ground, got up and opened the score, pointed to the circled place and asked, "Teacher, where is my score?" It still doesn't play well."

Li An thought what was going on, looked at the circle and paused for a few seconds, "Did you go back and practice with a metronome?"

"Teacher, my metronome was dropped, it seems to be broken." Che Lin said angrily.

Li An was very happy with her small face, it was not easy to see some emotion on Che Lin's face, he smiled, "A pendulum metronome?"

"I don't know either," the little car thought for a while, "it's just that there is a vertical stick in the middle, which needs to be wound back, and then it swings back and forth."

As if afraid of not being able to explain clearly, she also raised her hand, and then swung her forearm back and forth, like a little robot.

"Now the beat is uneven."

"Let's keep it as a souvenir," Li An asked Che Lin to play the piano, and then said, "The mechanical metronome is afraid of falling, and the rhythm will not be stable if it is dropped. Come on, warm up first, and I will come back and start the song from the beginning. Let me listen."

After speaking, he turned and walked out of the classroom, and walked through the corridor to the administrative office.
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"Teacher Li."

Xiao Zhao, who was sitting at the door of the office, greeted Li An when he saw Li An coming.

Li An nodded, "Mr. Zhao, help me get an electronic metronome."

Hold on. "Xiao Zhao got up and took out an unopened metronome from the musical instrument showcase, turned around and asked, "Is this model okay? "

Li An remembered that there was a big package, "What other models are there?"

Then Xiao Zhao took out another box.

"Yes, that's it. Li An remembered the last time a student of Chen Xuan bought a metronome in this kind of packaging, "I want a pink one. "

Xiao Zhao rummaged through the cabinet for a while, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, the pink ones are gone, and now only the black and blue ones are left."

Li Ang thought for a while, "I want a blue one."

"Okay." Xiao Zhao took it out and handed it to Li An, "Is the student's parents coming to pay later?"

Li An really doesn't know the process of Xuesheng's purchase of teaching aids, "Well, I'll take it for class first, and I'll come over after class."

On the way back to the classroom, Li An had already unpacked and installed the included batteries.

Che Lin was playing the scales, when she heard footsteps behind her accompanied by the rhythm of Didi, she closed her hands and turned her head, and saw that the teacher was holding a blue metronome in her hand.

"Okay?" Li An put the metronome on the piano, "Okay, let's start. I won't give you the speed this time, you do it yourself."

Che Lin hung her arms and sides, and took two long breaths.

Li An turned around in satisfaction and closed the classroom door. Back in front of the piano, the car had already raised his hands.

"when!"

As the car pressed the keys with both left and right hands, the melody theme came out.

Lin Pengfei next door heard the same melody at the same time this week, and secretly hated himself for not making up his mind to choose this song for his students!

Before Li An came to Yudong, she knew that this little girl, Che Lin, was very talented.

After Li An took over Che Lin, he almost heard that Che Lin was growing rapidly, and saw that his level was almost surpassing that of the number one seed player under him.

It was the child sitting in front of him right now, his favorite student, Liu Yalu.

Liu Yalu is also talented and willing to practice the piano. Lin Pengfei has also worked hard on this child. He just passed the eighth grade last summer.

After knowing about this competition, he was helping Liu Yalu choose the song.

It is really troublesome for the teacher to choose the competition music for the students, especially for those children who are given high expectations.

Let's just talk about the competition itself. If children want to win prizes, not only must they play well, but the selection of songs is more important.

Two children with the same drum level, one chose the popular repertoire, and the other chose the niche repertoire, and with the same performance, the latter can basically get a higher score.

The judges are human too, listening to so many popular songs all day long, their ears are almost worn out, so they will naturally have a good impression of the few songs they listen to.

Is it ok to choose niche songs?
No, the reason why niche repertoires are niche repertoires is because most of them do not have the characteristics that make people shine at the beginning.

But not all.

For example, Ang Lee chose Che Lin's repertoire for the preliminary round.

far away.

Let’s go back to the rematch piece that Che Lin is playing at the moment, the Variations on a Theme of Paganini arranged by Berkovich.

First of all, this track is definitely a big popular track.

When it comes to Paganini, what do people immediately think of?
The devil's leading voice, the Liszt of the violin, the greatest violinist, many people are not even willing to add one of them.

To say that Paganini's most respected work by the world is undoubtedly the No.20 four minor tunes.

Pa 24 has been arranged by almost all instruments, including the piano version of Bai Ran.

Among the many piano version adaptors, there are many musical greats such as Liszt, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff.

Although Belikovich can't compete with the above-mentioned people, the work he adapted is also a highly sung one.

It was on a certain grade examination textbook, and after being simplified, it was stuffed into the fifth grade repertoire list.

Lin Pengfei also considered choosing this track for Liu Yalu at the time, but after thinking about it, he felt that Liu Yalu could definitely hit a more difficult song.

He wants to win with difficulty.

So I gave up this Paganini by Belikovich, but I didn't expect Ang Lee to use it on Che Lin.

What's more, Ang Lee chose to let Che Lin play the original version of this work, not the simplified version of the five-level version in the grade-examination textbook.

It's not easy for him to define the difficulty of the original version, but at least seven extremes start.

The left hand changes from intervals to chords, the complexity of the coordination of both hands, and various chart requirements make this track out of its original fangs.

After listening to Che Lin playing for a while, Lin Pengfei sighed softly, well he admitted that Che Lin had already surpassed Liu Yalu.

She felt that the little girl was lucky. When she was with Lao Tian, ​​Lao Tian put in a lot of effort. Now that she is here with Li An, she has a better learning opportunity.

At this time, Liu Yalu, who was playing, played two wrong notes, and then the melody was interrupted.

Lin Pengfei looked away, looked at the piano and smiled slightly, you are also great.

Bending down, he demonstrated on the piano, "Here, open your palms and play boldly. The more you are afraid of making mistakes, the more mistakes you will make."
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Four classrooms.

With the car's finger falling on the ending chord, the whole song ends,

"Hey, Che Lin, how many lessons have we learned about this song?"

"Today is the third quarter."

"That is to say, two weeks, right, to practice like this in two weeks, um, barely."

Hearing what the teacher said, Xiao Che complained in her heart that the school has assigned more and more homework recently, leaving her with little time to practice the piano.

Immediately, a trace of displeasure appeared on his face, the teacher did not praise himself this week.

But she also knew that she had stumbled and stumbled in the process of training this week.

Okay, the child counts half of what he says, and the teacher counts half of what he says.

Ang Lee is already very content. According to the backstage, Che Lin has only practiced piano for 10 hours in the past two weeks.

After 15 hours of practicing this original song to this level, what else can he say, except that he is very satisfied.

But he felt that he could no longer praise Che Lin all the time, just like what the other party said when Lin Guoguo finished class last week and he exchanged lessons with Teacher Wei.

"Some children are very good at the beginning, just like your junior brother, Ma Yu, you all know that he was handed over by me when he was young. He was fast at the beginning, so smart, but he praised too much at the beginning. Afterwards, I couldn't stand the blow anymore. If I said something to him, he felt that he couldn't do it. It was quite serious for a while, so I didn't dare to say more. It was delayed for half a year.

"So you have to pay attention in the future, the child is not boasting."

Probably because of his personality, Ang Lee is patient and gentle. Although he doesn't advocate encouraging teaching in his heart, he often encourages teaching.

On several children.

Later, he gradually discovered that according to the different personalities of children, he should adopt more diversified guidance methods.

Teach students in accordance with their aptitude and adapt measures to local conditions.

He didn't fully agree with Mr. Wei's point of view. After all, Jing is an old teacher, and it's hard to change his firm mind regardless of his age.

Take Xiaobei as an example, Xiaobei has been making progress under his excessive encouragement. According to the feedback received from Xiaobei’s mother, Xiaobei has been praised in this class, and he will be very motivated to go home and practice piano. If you don't get compliments, you will be less motivated to go home and practice the piano.

Then Teacher Wei's theory doesn't apply to Xiao Bei.

But when he arrived at Che Lin's place, Li An felt repentant.

He praised Che Lin too much before.

"Let's talk about your problem."

Li An sat in front of the teacher's piano, "Come and see."

"Let you intuitively feel how you play first."

Demonstrating mistakes has almost become Li An's famous teaching skill. Sometimes Chen Xuan admires how Li An does it.

Why can he restore some of Qin Tong's stupid mistakes to life, and give you the feeling that he is making this stupid mistake.

Che Lin stared at her hands on the keyboard and listened to the sound of the piano in her ears. The teacher's question was exactly the same as her own.

"What's the problem?" Li An asked.

Che Lin replied, "The right hand is fast."

Li Ang: "That's right, the left and right hands are very close to each other in this passage. I emphasized to you in the last class that the premise of maintaining a sense of coherence in the sentence is that the rhythm is accurate."

"You are coherent, but as for the rhythm, you press the keys too fast with your right hand, you know—" Li An paused, he wanted to say that he knew that your right hand is strong now, "Do you know why you press the keys too fast?"

Che Lin: "I want to connect them together."

Li Ang: "So there is something wrong with your rhythm, your hands are faster than your brain, why do you slow down your practice with a metronome, just to let your hands return to the speed of your brain, right, a very low-level mistake, Wang Xiaohu will not have this kind of problem now."

Hearing the teacher compare Wang Xiaohu with herself and praise him for being better than herself, Che Lin inexplicably felt a kind of...

And if Wang Xiaohu played so well, would he keep asking himself questions?
"Teacher, he still asks me questions."

Li An was taken aback for a moment, then the corners of his mouth raised imperceptibly, he held back his gossip thoughts, and didn't answer.

He picked up the blue metronome and set it to quarter note sixty.

"Drip, drip, drip, drip."

"Come on, follow the metronome and listen to how we should practice this section."

After speaking, he stuck his finger on the beat of the metronome.
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Go ahead and follow a class.

Xiao Che wiped her forehead, she thought that all she needed was a new metronome.

After class is over, Li An can finally gossip a little, "What question did he ask you?
Che Lin didn't react immediately, showing a confused expression.

"Didn't you say that Wang Xiaohu asked you a question?"

Che Linao said, "Several times, last week he left a QQ message asking me how to play the staccato."

Ang Lee:? ?

What the hell, Li An was speechless to Wang Xiaohu.

Let’s not talk about this kind of behavior. People who have entered puberty are human, and he can’t control it even if he doesn’t understand it. At most, he finds something wrong and tells his parents.

Just talking about Wang Xiaohu's approach angle, at least you can change the question to a similar one.

How to play staccato?Can this kind of question expand the topic?
So simple.

"Have you taught him?" Li An asked again.

"No," Che Lin shook her head, "I won't talk about it."

"Then how did you reply to him?" Li An continued to ask.

"I said you should ask the teacher." Che Lin said truthfully.

"Pretty." Li An stretched out his thumb, "The next time he asks you something, you can let him ask me, don't tell me what I said, just pretend that I don't know about it, remember?"

Che Lin silently recited this sentence several times in her heart, and then said, "Teacher, I will remember it."

Ang Li: "Okay, I'm here today, I know the quiz, you yourself, according to the situation, this time the two competitions, whether it's our school or the Rongcheng Cup, our goal is only one, to go on stage and play two pieces of music Well, ranking is not important to us."

Che Lin: "Teacher, you haven't given me the preliminary piece yet."

Li Ang: "Don't worry, you can just practice first."

Che Lin nodded, she put away her schoolbag and was about to leave, "Wait a minute," Li An almost forgot, picked up the blue metronome on the piano and handed it to Che Lin, "Take it back and use it, wait for your dad to give it to me." You buy a new one and give it back to me."

"Thank you, teacher."

Che Lin carefully put it into her schoolbag, "Goodbye, teacher."

"Goodbye, little car."

Looking at Che Lin's leaving back, Li Anxin said that with Che Lin's father's level of care, he didn't know how long he would have to wait to buy it.

Let the children take it back and use it first, don't delay practicing the piano, time is already tight.

Maybe when Che Lin came home and said that the teacher lent me a metronome, Che Lin's father realized that he had obviously lacked attention in learning the piano.

Turning around, his eyes fell on the score on the left corner of the desk, Che Lin's preliminary repertoire.

He dared to guarantee that when the time came to the arena, not to mention this song, even the author of this song, more than half of the judges might not have heard of it.

In order to choose these two competition tracks for Che Lin, he burned countless brain cells.

(End of this chapter)