Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 661 360. Journey Note 46: “Symphony of Palms!”

Those who should be silent and those who should not be silent were silent.

In this situation, this is considered a game. If placed in a classroom, this is also a kind of sight-singing training.

Sight-singing, as the name suggests, is to perform with your mouth while looking at the music score.

Usually children at this stage are exposed to single-part sight-singing, which means there is only one line of music.

Now it's nothing more than adding another part that needs to be played by hand.

So how exactly does it work? It’s very simple, just play one part and sing another part, all at the same time.

For example, the part that needs to be sung is doermifaso, and the part that needs to be played is sofamiredol. Then the part to be sung and played is to be played at the same time. Naturally, the requirement is that the rhythms of singing and playing must be aligned and the notes must be sung accurately.

This exercise is very helpful for children's rhythm training, and it can also exercise children's hand-brain coordination.

More importantly, it allows children to understand the subtle relationship between voices from a deep level.

In fact, for some children present, this game, or this exercise, is not unfamiliar.

For example, the students of Boss X and Sun Liwen specially let the children perform such exercises during their piano teaching.

Although other teachers have not conducted steering training for their children, they have taught them to some extent.

For example, when Xiao Ji practiced the black keys etude, he also did corresponding exercises.

Although Huang Chuxian did not do this kind of training for Ma Hao alone, she often let Ma Hao do the singing and playing rhythm training.

In other words, any child in the audience who has learned piano for more than two and a half years can handle similar simple exercises at a slower speed.

But the problem now is that the questions on the big screen are a little troublesome.

The monophonic melody Song Kang showed everyone at the beginning was an excerpt from the famous Italian song "My Sun". Everyone knew which piece of music it was as soon as they sang the melody.

The other part that appears now is the accompaniment part. It would be easy to say it was a forebeat counterpoint accompaniment, but there are little dots in the accompaniment pattern of My Sun.

What do you mean? It’s an inaccurate analogy.

We now regard the left leg as the piano part that needs to be played by hand, and the right leg as the part that needs to be sung with the mouth.

Then walk.

Under normal circumstances when walking, the frequency of the left and right legs is basically the same.

But what if the left foot is twisted?

This is the case with my sun.

Now you need to complete this question in this state.

In piano playing, the asymmetric rhythm of the left and right hands has always been a difficulty.

It's still the classic old example. You might as well try to beat the time with your left and right hands at the same time. Two beats with the left hand and three beats with the right hand. It is required to start and end at the same time, and then taste it carefully.
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The little fat boy Ma Hao felt unhappy when he saw the teacher "cheating" him, but he couldn't lose the face of the Schubert team after everyone came up.

He thought it was just a little accompaniment, come on!

Although he thought so in his heart, Ma Hao did not rush to do anything when he sat in front of the piano. Instead, he made gestures with his hands and sang in his heart.

If you don’t sing, you don’t know. Once you sing, it’s a little troublesome.

Ma Hao was not the only one in trouble at the scene.

The children tried it one after another, simulating the keyboard with one hand on their lap or on the table, and singing silently.

Gradually, commotions broke out in the classroom, and at the same time, various scenes began to play out——

A Bach squad:
"No, no." Xiaobei quickly retracted his hand, whispered to himself, shook his head, and tried again.

Miao Hengrui reminded in a low voice: "Don't sing along with the dots, those are three eighth notes."

Xiaobei's heart: I know! !I can't control it! ! !

Hearing that Xiaobei sang wrong again, Miao Hengrui shook his head and whispered: "Listen."

As he said this, Miao Hengrui decided to show Xiaobei a demonstration. He raised his hand to play on the table and started humming the piano in his mouth——

As a result, "Phew!" Lu Hanwen couldn't hold it back!
Miao Hengrui's face suddenly burned up, and he was also speechless. He was turned into a rhythm by the finger movements! !
Xiaobei: "Tsk, tsk."

Miao Hengrui: ".Mistake!"

The second Mozart team:
Marco was convinced, he couldn't handle it.

Doudou sang it twice and got it wrong.

Upon seeing this, Liu Ziqian whispered: "Try not to think about two voices at the same time. First stabilize one voice, and then surround it with the other voice."

After Liu Ziqian's prompting, everyone in the second group gradually started to feel a little dry.

Three Schubert teams:
Liu Fengrui: "If I had known, I wouldn't have let him go up."

Glasses: "Captain, do you mean to do it yourself?"

Liu Fengrui: "Ahem, that's not what I meant."

Four groups of Haydn teams:

After finishing the car in one go, she found this kind of practice very interesting. At this moment, she was singing the melody of Chopin's C-sharp minor Waltz and playing the accompaniment with her left hand.

Fu Yu is also teaching his teammates how to do this kind of exercise.

Five groups of Beethoven squads:
Wang Xiaohu felt that he was facing a major challenge. He thought it was very simple at first, but after singing and playing, he felt that the difficulty was getting higher.

But he was the one who inspired him to become a conductor. How could he be stumped by a rhythm?

Just after he failed again, Liu Zihan gave a friendly reminder: "It's less likely to make mistakes if you focus on one part."

Wang Xiaohu turned around: "Can you do it?"

Liu Zihan sang correctly once and for all.

Wang Xiaohu: "If you need to send one person from each group to sing at that moment, you can go."

Liu Zihan: "okok."

The Handel Squad is a sure bet:
The teachers also gave it a try. Except for Wu Zening, the rest of the teachers got it done in one go.

Must be a teacher.

The senior students sitting behind the teacher also tried it individually, and they also found it a little troublesome.

However, for senior sister Ji Yang who has received this training, this question is almost like playing. She is looking forward to some more difficult questions later.

Thirty seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and Song Kang's eyes returned to Ma Hao in front of the piano, "Try?"

The classroom fell silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on the piano.

Ma Hao's fleshy cheeks spat out slightly, then he raised his hands and lowered his fingers, and started singing along with his mouth.

It was a bit regretful the first time because he sang the last verse in a dotted rhythm.

But no one in the audience laughed at Ma Hao, because Ma Hao had surpassed most people in the audience this time.

Don't be discouraged!The little fat man managed it successfully the second time and won applause from the audience.

"Wow——"

Song Kang fulfilled his promise and gave a musical note sticker as a reward.

Ma Hao happily returned to the third group with the note stickers. The child was younger and more innocent after all, so he directly handed the reward to Liu Fengrui.

Song Kang: "I saw everyone trying it just now. Is it difficult?"

The children shouted in unison: "Difficult!"

Song Kang laughed: "Is it that difficult? I saw someone just sang it right in the first try."

Everyone looked around, as if they were trying to find someone powerful.

"Okay." Song Kang drew the children's attention back, "No matter how difficult it is, sight-singing and rhythm are two required courses in the process of learning music. Today we will study how to use the piano to complete double voices. Department sight-singing.”

"At the end of the course, each of our groups needs to choose a piece of their own to complete a rhythm sight-singing for seven people."

When the children heard this, they subconsciously thought that there was going to be another competition, and they all immediately cheered up!

"Look at the big screen."

With the click of Song Kang's mouse, pictures summarizing various rhythm patterns appeared in front of every child. "Let's review the rhythm pattern first."
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Rhythm not only refers to the perception of rhythm in music, it exists in everything with laws of movement and change.

From natural phenomena such as the alternation of the four seasons, the alternation of the sun and the moon, to biological rhythms such as breathing and pulse, there are regular rhythm changes.

Therefore, people's perception of rhythm often has their own subjective perception.

Therefore, different subjects have completely different psychological perceptions of the same rhythm.

Rhythm can be said to be the part most closely related to people's physiological and psychological perception activities among the elements of music.

In music, pitch and time are two important dimensions.

All melody progressions and connotative expressions must be woven and shaped through both pitch and time.

A musical work may not have a pitch dimension, but the time dimension is indispensable.

In the time dimension, there are three elements: duration, rhythm, and beat.

These three elements work together to form the flow of notes in time. The length, strength, and movement of the sound become a carrier for expressing emotions.

For music in a general sense, time is a platform that allows sound to be connected horizontally and continuously. To study music, we must study the situation of sound occurring in time.

For people, the most intuitive rhythm is the heartbeat and innate natural movements such as clapping and stamping feet.

Four ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past 10 minutes, Song Kang completely dismembered the various rhythms that children know.

From the perspective of a composer, he combined the rhythm application taught to the children in the music modification course the day before yesterday, allowing the children to deeply feel the mystery of rhythm again.

"Now tell me, what is rhythm?" he asked.

The children shouted in unison: "Heartbeat! High-five! Stomp!"

Song Kang smiled: "Very good."

Different from ordinary sight-singing classes, after Song Kang led the children to dismember the rhythm patterns, he did not ask the children to sing the music examples.

"Now let's play a little warm-up game."

small game? !

The atmosphere in the classroom suddenly changed!

When it comes to games, children are a little scared.

"This time it's really a game." Song Kang added.

After a pause, he motioned to the staff to turn on the metronome, and a mechanical beeping sound rang out.

"This is the speed of sixty. Now let's do this first and start the beat with the left hand."

As he spoke, Song Kang took the lead and slapped the table with his hands, "Let's all join together."

After a while, one child after another joined in, and in an instant, there was a "dang-dang-dang" sound in the classroom.

"It's not clapping, it's clapping the table, right."

After adjusting the children, Song Kang also extended an invitation to the teachers, "Teacher Sun, Teacher Li, come together and dance."

The children looked at it with laughter, and Sun Liwen and Li An also joined in with a smile.

"Use your left hand!"

For the last time, Song Kang mobilized the left hands of everyone present.

The voices are all in harmony, and there is a pleasant feeling.

"Does it sound good!"

The children clapped their hands and answered loudly: "Okay! Listen!"

Song Kang: "What fraction of a note are we playing with our left hand?!"

Children: "Four! Cent! Sound! Talisman!"

Song Kang: "Okay! Pay attention, now we take out our right hand and play eighth notes."

Not even a second after Song Kang finished speaking, the rhythm in the classroom became chaotic, but it only lasted less than five seconds.

To play eighth notes with the right hand, you clap once with the left hand and twice with the right hand. It is a basic rhythmic hit. Children can basically find the right one if they make a mistake.

Listening to it now, the rhythm in the classroom shows two levels.

After the children got used to it, Song Kang assigned a new task again: "Attention, Bach group students!"

A group of children immediately pricked up their ears!

"Stop with your left hand! Keep your right hand the same! Make an accent every other beat!"

One group of children puts away their left hands and claps the strength with their right hands. Isn't this a four-two clap!
"Attention, students in the Mozart group!"

The second group of children pricked up their ears!

"You stop your right hand, keep your left hand unchanged, and make an accent every other beat!"

The children in the second group put away their right hands and started to make a simple [-] rhythm pattern with the quarter notes stuck in one group.
"Attention Team Schubert!"

Three groups of children pricked up their ears!

"Stop with your left hand and do the rhythm pattern of front sixteen and back eight with your right hand!"

The first sixteen and last eight are also very simple. The three groups of children did not need to be reminded by Song Kang, and they made an accent every other beat.

Listening to it now, an interesting scene appears. The rhythm pattern composed of the second and third groups makes it sound like a "reverse, please pay attention" rhythm.

"Very good! The accent effect is great, everyone! Are your arms sore?!"

Children: "It's not sour!"

Song Kang: "Then let's continue, four groups!"

Four groups of children are ready!
"Right hand stop, left hand triplet!"

The rhythm patterns of the other three groups can all be divisible by '1', while the triplet of the four groups needs to be played three times evenly within one beat, which is a little more difficult.

Especially with left and right interference.

But can this stump the Haydn team?
Obviously not!

Under the leadership of Fu Yuhe Xiaoche, the four groups of children plunged into the ocean of applause like a countercurrent.

After four groups, the rhythm in the whole classroom felt like a dance music!

"Five groups!"

Five groups of children are ready to go!
"Stop with your left hand, and dot it with your right hand!"

Another little add-on!
But this time I only played with one hand. I, Wang Xiaohu, was not afraid of any rhythm with one hand!

Under the leadership of the Tiger Team, the Beethoven Team, which had a smaller number of boys, was like a tiger descending the mountain, hitting the Haydn Team Triplets with its ferocious little points.

At this point, five teams, five rhythms, one after another at the same time, created a very exciting audio-visual experience for every child!
It turns out that rhythm without pitch can also give people an adrenaline rush!
However, this is not the end.

"Teachers and senior students, move sixteen with your left hand and attach a big dot to your right hand."

Instantly, with the changes in the rhythm of the teachers and senior students, this time, the classroom seemed to be playing a rhythmic symphony brought by applause!

So cool!

So shocking!
The children screamed in their hearts.

Only by immersing yourself in the scene can you feel this most primitive magnificence!
But it's not over yet!
"Now! Which group should I call! Which group should increase their strength?"

"Two groups and four groups!"

Instantly, groups two and four increased the volume of the rhythm, while other groups naturally lowered their volume.

A surprising scene appears again!
The rhythmic sound waves of applause are like a column, dividing the classroom space into two parts with two postures.

One is a bolt from the blue, the other is the clouds calming down after the rain.

(End of this chapter)