Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 441 141. In-depth dialogue about piano

"Just practice?"

Of course Wu Fusheng knew that this handwriting practice contained a lot of content.

It's like opening a bibliography, each subject unit is clearly displayed in front of him, but there are so many methods on how to practice, what he wants to know is Ang Lee's specific practice methods.

"The specific method." Li An replied after thinking for a moment, "Practice in a targeted manner. The goal must be clear. At first, I wanted to solve the problem of the habit of the thumb."

Wu Fusheng asked: "What about after that?"

Ang Lee answered truthfully: "The next part is to solve some parts where the fingers alternate. In addition, I relied too much on the support of my thumb at that time, so I wanted to free my thumb through this exercise."

Wu Fusheng: "It sounds like this, then your problem is solved very effectively."

Li Ang: "Indeed, but the method may not be suitable for everyone, and I just refer to some materials and figure it out by myself, so I can only provide some references."

Wu Fusheng was surprised: "Didn't Teacher Wei teach you?"

Ang Lee: "Yes."

Wu Fusheng's eyes turned from surprise to surprise, and he looked at Li An again, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "You are too courageous."

Li An smiled: "One is also teaching, and the other two are also teaching, teach yourself, move your chopsticks, move your chopsticks."

The two of them ate.

In the part about the practice, the two had disagreements in the subsequent communication.

Wu Fusheng advocated accumulation, while Li An put more emphasis on summarization.

Compared with the argument in the previous half period, it feels a bit reversed now.

Wu Fusheng previously advised Ang Lee to avoid a lot of repetitive practice, but now he emphasizes the importance of this repetitive practice.

Ang Lee seems to have been practicing a lot of content repeatedly, and now he is talking about various techniques.

In fact, there is no contradiction between the two.

The essence of Wu Fusheng's suggestion still revolves around a certain degree, and what he hopes is that Li An can find a balance point.

Li An understood what Wu Fusheng meant, and he selectively withheld some words.

It is not a private collection, but it has not been tested by itself, and some content has yet to be verified.

Regarding his thoughts on music and technical practice, he finally shared with Wu Fusheng from the perspective of a piano teacher, "I have always held the view that there are as many technical problems as there are music, but on the other hand, in many Among the complicated problems, we can actually find some common ground between them.”

"Take, for example, wrist relaxation and finger staccato, two seemingly separate techniques."

Wu Fusheng didn't want to interrupt Li An very much, "But aren't these two technologies closely linked?"

Li An picked up his wine glass and smiled, "That's right, so what do you think if I add a wheel finger technique to the basics?"

Wu Fusheng buzzed and felt that his vision was opened. He picked up the wine glass and touched Li An, and praised, "Respect for the natural piano teacher."

Li An laughed loudly: "Master Wu praised you absurdly."

Wu Fusheng drank it down in one gulp, put down his glass and waved his hands, it really wasn't.

As Ang Lee said, the light-weight wheel fingers itself needs to relax the wrist, and there is no way to perform efficient wheel fingers with a stiff wrist, and practicing the wheel fingers in a relaxed state also exercises the rotation of the wrist at the same time.

"Practice three techniques at the same time in one exercise." Wu Fusheng gave a thumbs up, "It is indeed a good idea."

Li Anle: "Is there a fourth technology possible?"

Wu Fusheng was taken aback, and saw that Li An's right hand, which had put down the wine glass, was in the shape of an eagle's claw in mid-air, four or five fingers were slightly gathered, and the other three fingers were empty wheels. Looking at Wu Fusheng, he couldn't help grinning.

moment.

"There are still contacts." He sighed.

At this moment, Ang Lee put down his hands, "So I always think that all the techniques in piano performance are complex. If you practice a certain technique in isolation, the effect will be greatly reduced."

Wu Fusheng followed suit and nodded: "Going astray."

Regarding the use of the four words "going astray" here, Li An shook his head after thinking about it, "After all, not all piano learners have high talents. Partial technical practice is a better way to improve."

Wu Fusheng toasted after hearing the words: "Teach students in accordance with their aptitude, thank you Teacher Li for your advice."

Li Anhan: "Slow down, drink so fast for a while and lie there again, I have a glass and you can take a sip."

Wu Fusheng: "Why, look down on people, I just can't drink fast wine."

Li An: "Just take it easy."

Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is a truth that every teacher understands, but it is another matter when it comes to teaching.

Wu Fusheng has always wanted to ask Li An what he thinks about Qin Tong practicing the sonata.

"On the first day of the preliminary competition, I counted. About one-third of the children chose the Sonata. What did Teacher Li say, are there any ones that you think must be played?"

Ang Lee also reflected on this issue.

"I feel that today, there is not a single sonata that must be played."

"I didn't know it when you were young, but in my piano learning environment, I will tell you that I didn't have the concept of movement when I was young, and the teacher never talked about it. It was only in middle school that I realized that sonatas are a musical form."

Wu Fusheng: "At that time, the piano music education in your place was relatively backward."

Li Ang: "You are too polite. You are far behind. You don't know how Xiaotang finished my practice. You don't believe me. After the teacher arranges, emphasize the hand shape again and listen to it next week. There is no rhythm problem. That’s right, it’s over.”

Wu Fusheng: "Except for rhythm and wrong pronunciation?"

Li Ang: "Yes, it's gone, so when I was young, I didn't have any contact with gratitude. Unlike the children now, as far as my students are concerned, I tell them what a sonata is at this stage, and let them know that it is called a theme. , this is the subtopic, what kind of relationship do they have, where does it develop, and where does it end, let them know how the things they play are divided into paragraphs."

"They will at least have a little impression of children who are doing nothing."

"For children who are eager to learn and are willing to practice, they can implant the form of the sonata into their minds through the study of a small sonata, and understand what the overall outline of a sonata looks like. In my opinion, this will be important for them in the future. It is very important in the study of learning, knowing what it is and why it is.”

"For the gifted children, they can feel more deeply about the disconnection and sentence processing described by the teacher by understanding the layout. Oh, this place is the end of the theme, so we need to make a small sense of termination by weakening it, like For a child like Che Lin, you don’t need to tell her, she will naturally have such a consciousness, but the premise is that she knows the layout and has a reference.”

"This reference needs to be crushed by the teacher little by little during the teaching process."

"In saying so much, I just want to express that the average level of piano teachers is generally much higher than that of 15 years ago. Because the level of teachers is high, they will involuntarily mention some concepts in the process of teaching children. Nouns, these contents will be absorbed and digested by students unconsciously and turned into nutrients, laying a good foundation for students' future piano learning."

"So today, I think that there is no one of the sonatas that must be practiced. It is enough to find a few representative sonatas and let the children understand the sonatas."

"In other words, as the content of the elementary teaching stage, the function of the sonata is not simply to let the children practice a work with two movements, but a concept, a symbol, which is better than playing a piece. Sonata, I pay more attention to let children understand what a sonata is."

"In addition, for teachers, the Sonata is also a classification of students."

Wu Fusheng: "It makes sense."

Li Ang: "It is said that the children who can usually play the sonata have basically been studying for a period of time, and they have more or less mastered certain performance techniques. To play the sonata requires the integration of various techniques. Connecting connections, how to run evenly in speed, how to deal with strength and weakness, here we can make a preliminary division of the child's degree of completion."

Wu Fusheng: "If you can play a complete sonata on the premise of understanding, the upper limit of this type of child is high. For example, your child named Liu Fengrui, who listened to so many sonatas in the Blue Sky Cup in those two days, I just I think he plays well."

Li Ang raised his glass: "I will drink this cup myself, and thank Teacher Wu on behalf of Xiao Liu."

Wu Fusheng smiled: "Did he not come last night?"

"I'm about to enter junior high school, and I've been busy studying recently." Li An put down his glass, "Xiao Liu is not bad, his performance that day is basically the same as the one below. In terms of how much he plays, in fact, every teacher has his own teaching skills. Focus, I pay more attention to the phrase processing of his performance of this work, and he has done it, and the Lantian competition is just like that, let’s wait for the Rongcheng Cup.”

Wu Fusheng: "Are you nervous?"

Li An laughed and said, "It's really a bit."

Wu Fusheng: "Che Lin is nervous."

Li An admitted frankly: "Yes, this kid is usually very stable."

Wu Fusheng: "It's too stable, so you are worried."

Li Ang: "That's what I'm talking about. This is the first time she has participated in this kind of professional competition."

Wu Fusheng: "You give her an estimate."

Li An: "It's really hard to say. In her age group, I know that there are two very good children. One has already won the ticket for next year's Little Admiralty, and the other just won the Xinhai Cup Rongcheng Division Youth Professional Group last year. No.1 is a student of the piano teacher of Rongyuan Academy, and I don't know the rest yet."

After a pause, "Although I said so, I think there should be no problem for Che Lin to be in the top six."

Wu Fusheng: "Tsk tsk, are you so unconfident?"

Li Anle: "Come, come, Mr. Wu will give us the forecast of the car."

Wu Fusheng: "I can't finish the top three."

Li Ang: "You are really daring, the Rongcheng Cup is our biggest competition."

Wu Fusheng: "I know, so I say at least the top two."

Li An asked, "How should I say it?"

Wu Fusheng: "In terms of experience in playing games, you are not as good as me, and you won't accept it."

Li Ang: "Submit it, there's nothing to say about it."

Wu Fusheng laughed triumphantly: "According to my experience in competitions, popular players generally don't get the best results, and the more formal the competition, the more this is the case."

Ang Lee: "Don't say it seems like this is the case in the past few international piano competitions."

Wu Fusheng: "Actually, there is a reason for this. Let's talk about the recent one. Do you have high expectations for the kid who will participate in the Little Golden Bell next year?"

Ang Li: "Of course it's high, there are only three places in Rongcheng."

Wu Fusheng: "That's right, the competition hasn't started yet, you may not even know what song your child will play in the final, you have already set him above the average, how much do you think he is better than Che Lin in the final? Think he's tall."

Li Ang: "I understand what you mean."

Wu Fusheng: "Really?"

Ang Lee: "Yes."

Wu Fusheng sighed: "In the past few years, I have participated in domestic competitions. Really, Liang Chunyu and I have suffered too many losses. It is said that we are fighting for the first place. Really, everyone is almost the same, but The judges have strict requirements on both of us."

"Not only are the judges harsh, but I was injured in the Asian Youth Championship. Look at the music critics in the circle, and they all want to trample me in the mud."

"Many times fame is a double-edged sword in competitions. On the contrary, those who are not famous are more easily tolerated. As long as they have strength, they can easily stand out."

"Just like little Che Lin this time, everyone doesn't know much about it, and you and Teacher Wei are there to escort her, so I think that as long as this child performs normally, it will be no problem to enter the top three."

Li Ang raised his glass: "Then you can borrow your good words, and don't worry about those unscrupulous media that grab attention."

Wu Fusheng also raised his glass: "What do I care, isn't that as stupid as them?"

cheers.

Li An: "Old Wu, I have to ask you something. Is it true that the judges in domestic competitions are as black as the rumors? I don't know much about this matter."

Wu Fusheng: "How should I put it? First of all, you have to have a teacher-student relationship, and secondly, your level has to pass the line, otherwise you will be so black that you can't imagine. It is the same when you go abroad. Sometimes foreigners will talk to you about humanity. In 04, Ma Heng was in Italy. Wasn't it because the Frenchman who competed with him for No. 1 had a loan shark and wanted to pay back the money with bonuses, so the organizing committee asked him to coordinate, and in the end the first place was given to the Frenchman."

Ang Lee: "."

Wu Fusheng: "There are some things that can't be said. Sometimes it's about who is lucky in the end of the competition. Besides, winning the prize is just an extra ticket. There are many ways to get tickets, which are packaged by capital in the past few years. The international masters come one after another, ah, that's a long way to go."

"I know what you want to ask, and I know what you're worried about, so I said that with you and Mr. Wei as escorts, at least Che Lin didn't have any worries about this in the Rongcheng Cup. In addition, I don't think you need to be soft when you score. You The hands are soft, the people next to them are hard, and the difference will come out every time, don't underestimate the 0.1 point."

"How far is Liang Chunyu from me in the end?"

Li An nodded and took a long breath: "Yes."

Wu Fusheng: "It can be seen that you have high expectations for Che Lin, so you might as well think about it from the child's perspective. Sometimes we may not need the child to get certain grades at this stage."

"But does the child need it?"

"Did you wish you were the first in the class when you were young?"

(End of this chapter)