Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 374 75. The joy of being ignored, tick tick tick tick

If the child signs up for the competition, the organizer is happy, the parents are happy, the teacher is happy, and the child is happy?
Maybe even the children themselves don't care about this issue, listen to the words of parents and teachers, and participate.

During this process, the child's own emotions are often ignored.

In the eyes of adults, it seems that as long as a child comes on stage, performs a piece of music, and then steps off the stage, then the child will gain something.

If adults think that there is nothing wrong with their thinking, then there must be something wrong with the competition.

It is true that there may be problems of one kind or another in the current competition, but in Li Ang's view, the more serious problem than these two is that today, as the young players involved, no one cares too much about whether they are in the process. happy.

Now learning piano has been included in the child's schedule, such as Wang Xiaohu's schedule, Saturday morning, 8 o'clock, piano class.

In this way, the competition turned into a test.

Can you be happy studying for an exam, can you be happy?
Maybe the adults know it well, so most parents don't care about the emotional problems of their children participating in the competition, they just want yes.

Ang Lee also thinks he can't, but when it comes to the piano, he always thinks that playing the piano is a happy thing.

He hopes to share this joy with his students, and has been trying to use some teaching methods to make them feel that joy during the boring practice.

If the child really can't feel happy on the piano, as he said in the phone call with Chi Yu's mother on Tuesday night, "There is no need to force it."

Fortunately, there is only one mathematics subject in the college entrance examination, but there are countless types of musical instruments, and there are many substitutes for piano lessons.

So for those children who can and are willing to persist in learning piano, Ang Lee feels that he has no reason to think of ways to bring them more happiness.

Numerous facts show that doing things happily is more efficient.

From another perspective, it is actually a good deal for the teachers to make the children more happy in the hard journey of learning the piano.

How to make the children happy to participate in the competition, Li An learned some experience of putting old wine in new bottles from the last time the three children participated in the Xinhai Cup in Rongcheng Division.

Looking back at the last competition, the three children all performed well, such as Wang Xiaohu's SUMMER, Xiaobei's Kurau Sonata, and Che Lin's waltz.

Looking at the three pieces individually, there is nothing special about them, but Li An knows that Wang Xiaohu likes Summer, Xiaobei likes Kulau Xiao Sonata, and Che Lin all have obvious biases in their preferences for the competition pieces.

It should be known that in the two competition works arranged by Ang Lee for her, the time for her to practice the waltz was much shorter than that of the other Mozart sonata.

So he decided to prepare their favorite tunes for each participating child this time, hoping to make the children happy during the cup competition and practice more at home by the way.

Yes, there is no need to write too much about the old-fashioned trick of playing to one's liking, but don't forget that this is a song selection for a competition, and he also hopes that the children will get good grades.

However, the good songs that children like may not get high scores, and the judges of good songs with moderate difficulty are almost rotten, so there is a new problem here-it is necessary for children to like it and give the judges a sense of freshness. The most important thing is The child must still be able to take it.

Therefore, Ang Lee must weigh each child's technical level, combine the nature of the competition, consider the effect of stage performances, abandon popular repertoires, and tailor them for them.

There is one thing to say, the piano teacher does it for his sake, so he should be praised here.

Because he doesn't have an encyclopedia of piano repertoire in his head, and of course it can be said that he is inexperienced.

"bring it on."

After Wang Xiaohu warmed up, Li An turned on the metronome and adjusted it to a tempo of [-], letting the other party start.

After speaking, he put down the metronome and walked to the window, pricking up his ears expectantly.

In front of the piano, Wang Xiaohu spat lightly, raised his arms, and gently landed his right index finger on a black key.

"Dang", the words are not rippling at all.

Berg's ballet, a danceable piano piece of indefinable difficulty.

Basic skills determine the lower limit, and music comprehension determines the upper limit.
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Xu Li, who left Classroom [-], was sitting in the rest area holding her mobile phone, looking at her expression as if she was thinking about something.

Two minutes ago, she received a reply from Bai Zijun.

About going to the bookstore to listen to the lecture, it seems that she misunderstood the other party.

Zi said: My suggestion is, if it ends early, you might as well let the eldest brother bring the children, and you go and listen together. By the way, first of all, I apologize. This time I have no chance to watch Xiaohu participate in the competition. The company called, and I will go to Shenzhen in the next half a month.

In addition to dispelling the misunderstanding in her mind, this message also reminded her of another thing.

With Bai Zijun's position in the company, she basically didn't need to run in person, unless something important happened, which easily reminded her that the work that the other party dealt with all night the night before might be just the beginning.

As for whether the other party can go to watch his son's piano competition, it doesn't matter now.

Xu Li: Is it serious?
Zi said: Don't worry, don't worry, it's not serious, even if you don't want to bother your colleagues, don't worry if you come to watch me personally, just take this opportunity to relax for a while to avoid socializing.

After hearing this, Xu Li understood. Seeing that the other party was unwilling to open up, she felt that there was no need for her to ask any more questions: When are you leaving?

Bai Zijun: Why, you don't want to see me off, do you?
Then a smile came.

Seeing this expression, Xu Li really had some thoughts, probably because she felt a little guilty because she misunderstood the other party. The other party kindly recommended her the parent-child family lecture that she needed now, but she mistakenly thought that the other party wanted to take this opportunity to do something. What, when they were chatting last night, they talked about when Xiaohu and Bai Zijun would meet. Bai Zijun did say that he wanted to see Xiaohu sooner, but Xu Li said to wait. Bai Zijun respected her idea and agreed. It came out in the morning.

Xu Li didn't pay much attention at the entrance of the supermarket. She just thought that the other party really wanted to see her son as soon as possible.

I didn't think about it, but in the end I thought too much.

It's okay for Xu Li not to see each other for half a month, after all, she's not a girl in love, but if she says she doesn't feel anything, it's self-deception.

It wouldn't take long for her to go to the airport to see someone off. The key is that she doesn't know what time the other person's plane is leaving. If she asks again, she doesn't feel very good. It seems that she is very reluctant for the other person to leave.

And what if there is a conflict between time and my son if I ask.

At this moment, the screen of the phone turned on again.

Bai Zijun: Don't worry about it. Spend time with your son. I have a plane at [-]:[-]pm. I'll pack up and go to the company and then go straight to the airport.

Xu Li was struggling, and didn't pay much attention to whether the other party's words were appropriate. She glanced away, and then quickly edited and replied: OK, be careful on the road.

After replying to this message, she looked at the other party's message just now, "stay with your son well", the five words gave her a sense of substitution, as if the other party was standing in front of her and explaining the family to her Work like.

She hasn't felt this way for a long, long time.

Bai Zijun: Don't worry, let's get in touch.

Xu Li didn't reply to the other party. She picked up her mobile phone and got up and turned around in the corridor on the ninth floor. She was very relieved at the moment and just wanted to walk back and forth.
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west office.

Wang Panpan is carefully browsing the exercises in the lecture notes in front of him.

After the recording was over, Wang Panpan put all his energy into the music theory lesson preparation of the art test class, and one of the major items was to find mistakes.

After discovering mistakes in the supporting exercises of the lecture notes last time, after Chen Xuan's words, she decided to go through this set of questions over and over again.

Huang Tian pays off, she has found four problems.

Half an hour later, she discovered another problem and made a note of it. She put down her pen and looked up, and saw Xu Hongxin leisurely watering the words by the window.

"Brother Xin, I don't think you're nervous at all."

Xu Hongxin turned his head: "What are you nervous about?"

Wang Panpan: "Today is NO.12."

Xu Hongxin smiled: "Isn't there still 20 days left?"

Wang Panpan shook her head, she admired Xu Hongxin a lot, let's go to the board game last week, the other party's state is not like a groom who is about to get married, it is very relaxed, and Bao Yichen is also, the two of them gave her It feels like an old married couple, getting married just for a formality.

"Panpan, do you still want to play?"

"Think about it!" Wang Panpan felt that he had fallen in love with the game Werewolf Killing.

Xu Hongxin: "Okay, at noon, ask Brother An if they have time tomorrow night."

Although Wang Panpan was looking forward to the joining of the boss and sister Xuan, she guessed that the two must have no time, "Forget it, Brother An has been very busy recently, and besides videotaping, he also has to prepare for the competition for the students."

Xu Hongxin thinks about it too. Brother An not only has to prepare for the competition for the students, but also prepares for the work of the judges.

The short conversation ended, and the two went on to do their own things.
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"Knock on the door to dismiss get out of class."

"teacher!"

"Ok?"

"Since I'm doing so well, can I have potato chips?"

"Go wash your hands first."

So Xu Li saw her son who rushed out first when the door opened, "Mom, the teacher praised me!"

Before she could ask, Wang Xiaohu had already run away.

Then Li An walked out of the classroom, "Xiaohu performed very well today, and he practiced well at home this week."

Xu Li smiled: "Thank you, Teacher Li."

The two chatted briefly about the content of this class, and after a few words, Wang Xiaohu had already washed his hands and returned.

Xu Li asked her son to come out to eat, "I'll talk to the teacher, you wait outside."

"As ordered."

Wang Xiaohu swaggered out of the classroom with potato chips in his hand, forgetting to clean up the scores on the piano.

Seeing this, Li An helped the other party put away the scores, "Sit down."

"Thank you, Mr. Li, no need."

Needless to say Xu Li's long story, she was sure that Li An and Li An didn't see her the night before, so the remaining question was about the time adjustment of Xiaohu's piano class.

In the end, she decided to let Xiaohu go to the remedial class on Saturday morning.

Li An nodded after listening, "No problem, is Saturday afternoon convenient?"

Xu Li was overjoyed, "It's fine from [-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m. on Saturdays. Teacher Li can see you."

Li Anxin said that was just right, and Wang Xiaohu made up the time Chi Yu had freed up: "It's three to four o'clock."

Xu Li: "Okay, thank you, Mr. Li, then shall we start next week?"

"Starting next week," said Li An, helping Wang Xiaohu's score into the other's music bag, he lifted his hand, and realized why it was so heavy, subconsciously looked down, and saw a black mobile phone in the bag, didn't think about it for a while Just as Xu Li stretched out her hand, he handed it over.

Xu Li took it, "Goodbye, Teacher Li."

"Wait a minute," Li An turned around and picked up another bag of potato chips from the table.

Xu Li was surprised at first, and then refused, "Thank you Teacher Li, I won't give it to him."

Li An smiled: "I promised him before class."

Seeing this, Xu Li had no choice but to accept it, and thanked her again, "See you, Teacher Li, next week."

"See you next week. There are three weeks left before the competition. Let him practice as much as possible."

After waving Xu Li away, Li An simply cleaned up.

After a while, Xiaobei came in. When Xiaobei entered the door, he saw several packets of potato chips on the table and said, "A lot of potato chips, teacher."

"With your bag, go to class first."

"Wow! Thank you teacher!"

Without saying a word, Xiaobei took off his jacket and sat down in front of the piano to warm up, his energetic appearance was still as cute as in the spring.

Li An was recalling, a line of small characters floated in front of his eyes.

[Wang Xiaohu's teacher-student index has risen to 96]

This little guy, hehe.
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Among the several participating children, Xiao Bei's repertoire is relatively the simplest.

By the end of this month, Li An has formally led the three of Xiaobei for a year.

He remembers very clearly that on May 5 last year, that was a Sunday morning, he met the three children of Xiaobei Xiaohu and Xiaoliu for the first time.

After studying with him for a year, Wang Xiaohu was much worse than Xiao Bei at first, but now he has surpassed Xiao Bei in terms of rhythm and key touch.

After all, children who respond quickly learn quickly.

Of course, Xiaobei is also great.

"It's almost there, let's listen to your song first."

Ang Lee prepared two repertoires for Xiao Bei. After listening to them, Xiao Bei chose this one, which is also called the Sonata. Chena's composer's hand.

This German composer who was active in the [-]th century has now retreated to the [-]th line, but some of the piano works he left behind are still worth learning.

For example, the minor sonata in F major selected by Xiaobei has a sweet melody, a lively personality, and is easy to learn.

"Send—yes."

"Take it back—send it again, very good, pay attention to the strength of your left hand."

"stop."

Li An bent down to demonstrate, and sang while playing: "Tick tock, tick tock, these sounds must be played very firmly, poke in, you have to go down, understand?"

"Uh-huh."

Xiao Bei nodded, stretched out his hand and tried again, "Tick-tock-tick-tick-tick!"

Li Anle: "Haha, yes, that's how it feels."
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Nine out of ten of the morning was spent in laughter, but every child including Liu Fengrui could feel that today's class is different from the past.

The teacher usually doesn't interrupt them very often, but today, he will stop in almost three or five bars.

Like a judge.

"Stop, stop."

Seeing that get out of class was about to end, Xiao Liu was interrupted again.

(End of this chapter)