Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 669 368. Journey Note 54: "True and False"

"Relax."

Li An whispered and stood up to greet the two at the door.

Xiaoche didn't know why the teacher asked her to relax again. She wasn't nervous at all, so she stood up and followed the teacher.

"Is this a small stove?" Boss X joked.

Li An smiled: "Daily entertainment."

Boss X translated Ang Lee’s words to Old Charlie, who gave a thumbs up when he heard it.

"Hello, Teacher Chen, hello, Teacher Charlie."

The car came forward and said hello openly. Old Charlie understood and smiled back at the car.

Boss X also looked at the car and nodded, "Come on, kid, I'll take your lunch break for a while today."

During the conversation, the children, one and four, came to the piano.

Old Charlie took off his hat and sat in front of the piano. Ang Lee whispered a few words into the car's ear, and then stepped aside.

The next part has nothing to do with him.

Old Charlie prepared three sessions for this test. The first session was a listening test on the piano.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing. The old man must first make sure that this child really has unusual hearing and discerning abilities.

"Mono."

Boss X conveyed the old man's words, Xiao Che nodded and turned his back on his own initiative.

When old Charlie saw it, he quickly nonono.

Boss X: "Che Lin, turn around."

So the car turned around again.

Seeing the car turn around, old Charlie raised his hand and pointed first to his ears, and then to his mouth.

Xiao Che pursed his lips and nodded.

Old Charlie smiled, raised his hand and dropped his fingers, and a "dang" sound pierced the air.

Car: "sol."

Two seconds later, old Charlie pressed a note again.

Car: "Shengre."

After another two seconds, old Charlie pressed the third tone.

This sound sounds much higher.

Car: "dol."

Old Charlie then pressed the fourth note, and this time it sounded incredibly deep.

Car: "la."

The moment Xiao Che answered, Boss

The first thing Boss X heard was si, and he secretly admired it. As Wu Zening said, the child's reaction was really fast and accurate.

After playing four single notes, old Charlie gave a thumbs up to the car.

Then he looked at Boss

Xiaoche scratched his head and looked at the teacher in confusion.

Ang Lee: "It's just a group of characters. Isn't the first sound a small group of g's? You can rap with your own group later."

Xiaoche understood and looked back at Boss X again.

In the system of musical sounds, doremifasollasi circulates upward repeatedly, thus producing many sounds with the same name but different pitches.

A common example is the octave. Both sounds are dol, but the latter is one cycle higher than the former.

In order to distinguish these sounds with the same sound name but different pitches, there are sound groupings, that is, sound groups.

Pitch marks after dividing sound groups vary around the world, but no matter how they are marked, a certain sound is still a certain sound.

Taking the domestic piano as an example, the 88 tones are divided into nine groups.

Starting from the second group of large characters in the bass area on the far left, going to the right are one group of large characters, a group of large characters, a group of small characters, a group of small characters, a group of two small characters, a group of three small characters, a group of four small characters, and a group of five small characters.

The first note that old Charlie played was sol in a group of small characters. The car said sol, which is correct, but it lacked a range.

Now old Charlie needs the cart to say a definite register.

Boss X approached the piano, and old Charlie pressed a note again.

Car: "The small characters are two groups of mi."

Boss X nodded, and old Charlie X played again.

Car: "The big character group drops si."

Boss X looked back from when Old Charlie pressed the finger on the big character "si" and nodded again.

Old X Charlie stopped and pressed again.

"when--"

"The small characters are raised to fa."

"when--"

"Three groups of small characters sol."

"when--"

"A group of big characters re"

"when--"

"Small characters rise to dol."

Old Charlie played faster and faster, and the car answered faster and faster.

On the side, Li An couldn't keep up with old Charlie's speed.

Boss

Suddenly, old Charlie pressed two notes at the same time.

The old man originally planned to give the child some time to rest after listening to the single tone, but he felt that it was not necessary.

Only by listening to the single tone of the piano to identify the absolute, this child is very likely to have an absolute sense of pitch, but he cannot draw a conclusion yet.

Because he doesn't know whether the child reports the pitch based on experience or just based on feeling. There is an essential difference between the two.

However, this round has shown that children have unique ears.

"when--"

The test goes directly to the second item, the listening and identification of intervals and chords.

In order to test the car's subconscious reaction, Old Charlie deliberately played the simplest octave.

He did not ask Boss X to tell the child in advance whether it was about the nature or the specific pitch. He just wanted to see what the child would say immediately.

The child's answer will be an important argument for his or her next conclusion.

People with absolute pitch perception and people with relative pitch perception will have different reactions in their brain neural activity when hearing sounds.

When people with absolute pitch sense listen to music, they will directly associate specific audio frequencies with specific roll calls, forming a conditioned reflex. The organ that completes this conditioned reflex is the left brain.

When people who do not have an absolute sense of pitch hear sounds, they will use their right brain to temporarily store these sounds, and then find the same structural sounds from the long-term accumulated music memory bank and compare them, and finally get the result. The results.

These structures are names artificially added to facilitate memory storage, such as minor thirds, triad chords, etc.

The difference between the two lies in the brain organs used.

If the car doesn't answer that this is an octave, but answers that it is a group of small characters dol and a group of small characters dol, then old Charlie can directly draw the conclusion from the car's reaction that the child has the characteristics of a truly absolute sense of pitch.

Because children use their left brain organs instead of their right brain organs in emergencies.

In other words, it doesn't matter whether Xiao Che has a lot of "sound" reserves in her mind, she doesn't use them anyway.

Ang Lee and Boss X naturally didn't know this. As old Charlie played the intervals, the first thing that popped into their minds was pure octave.

The car that was taking the test was listening to a single tone, and suddenly heard the single tone turning into two tones, and two answers popped into his mind.

On one side is the dol in small characters and the dol in a group of small characters, and on the other is pure octave.

"Pure octave." The car thought it was time for a musical interval test.

There was no need for Boss

He originally thought that the car would sing two dols.

The car gave him a subconscious reaction by first reporting the nature of the musical interval.

Judging from this reaction, the absolute sound characteristics of the car were discounted in his mind.

When Li An saw old Charlie stopped, he didn't know what happened, and thought that Xiaoche was right. Boss X asked, and old Charlie shook his head, and then played two intervals and a chord in succession.

The car quickly reported their nature.

When Old Charlie saw this, he was about to come to a conclusion, and finally played a dominant ninth chord.

"when--"

The car was confused, and the teacher didn't seem to have taught her this chord.

The car that had been answering questions suddenly stopped, attracting the attention of the three teachers.

Old Charlie thinks it's almost the same. The child can only respond quickly to single notes and chords with fewer notes. He can't hear five notes. The subsequent tests are not needed. The child should not have absolute pitch sense, but he is already quite good. .

Boss X didn’t expect the car to stop here. Can’t you hear such an obvious attribute?

To the ears of Boss

It shouldn't be. The next second, Boss X seemed to react.

Li An was the first to react and hurriedly said to the car: "Just say the pitch."

After receiving the teacher's prompt, Xiaoche continued: "The second group of small characters is dol, mi, sol, and flat si, and the three groups of small characters are re."

When old Charlie heard the sound, his expression became strange immediately, and his smile was full of confusion. Why could the child report the pitch accurately?

why?
Li An hurriedly explained to Boss X: "She didn't know it was a dominant ninth chord."

It turns out that this is the dominant ninth chord. There are many dominant ninth chords in Beethoven's sonatas. The car has already begun to think about it.

Boss

Then Boss

Old Charlie laughed out loud after hearing this. Needless to say, the child's cuteness was needless to say. More importantly, he made it clear that the child still reported the correct pitch without knowing the chord structure.

In other words, the child used her left brain this time because there was no storage in her right brain.

Old Charlie asked a question to Boss X: "Che Lin, when you heard the first set of intervals, did you first think of a pure octave or two dols?"

Xiaoche thought for a while and looked at the teacher in embarrassment.

Li An: "Don't look at me and answer Teacher Chen's question."

Xiaoche whispered: "Teacher, I seem to have two voices coming out at the same time, one is a pure octave, and the other is two dols. I don't know which one is in front and which one is behind."

Boss X translated what Xiao Che said to Old Charlie. After hearing this, Old Charlie looked at Xiao Che with something else in his eyes.

The balance in the old man's heart once again tipped towards Che Lin's truly high-end absolute pitch, and this time the feeling was even stronger.

The test continues.

The second round of testing is the vocal test.

Just like the piano test, old Charlie spoke in various tones and asked the car to report the pitch.

The accuracy rate of the car is less than 40.00%.

Then Old Charlie asked Boss X to speak in the same way and continued to ask the car to report the pitch.

This time the car's accuracy rate reached 60.00%.

Ang Lee thought that this result was not ideal, but he did not expect that old Charlie gave a very good evaluation.

Old Charlie explained that the human voice is a very complex sound production system. It has multiple pitches combined together. The language systems and pronunciation systems of different regions are also different. Some languages ​​have their own tones, such as Chinese. After listening to it for a long time, you will naturally Formation of auditory memory and inventory of word pitch.

Therefore, reflected in music listening, the accuracy of the pitch obtained by listening to Chinese is much higher than that of listening to German. This is the reason.

Old Charlie said that according to his observation, many Chinese students studying abroad have pretty good ears. Compared with their native Germans, there are very few children with this kind of hearing ability. This is due to the difference between the pronunciation systems of the two languages. Surprised.

Charlie Sr. suggested that Ang Lee could play more vocal accompaniments on the car in the future and listen to more art songs from outside Asian languages.

Boss X: "Indeed, when I was in school in St. Petersburg, my professor also suggested that we practice listening to vocal singing. This is very helpful in cultivating comprehensive listening and musical literacy."

Li An nodded: "Definitely."

In the past, Li An didn't have the ability to create such conditions for Xiaoqi to play accompaniment for, just a child. But now he has more channels, and he has remembered the suggestions of the two teachers.

Seeing what old Charlie had said, Li An had already determined that the car had a true sense of absolute sound.

Ang Lee's guess was correct. Old Charlie did think so at the moment.

But there were still 5 minutes left, and the old man still wanted to finish the last test.

As expected, this child not only has an absolute sense of pitch, but also has a unique sense of relative pitch.

The third test is to listen to the transposition.

Absolute pitch is a double-edged sword. People with absolute pitch will find it difficult to adapt when listening to transposed performances.

Because every note in the original song has been deeply imprinted in their minds, suddenly changing the key will cause the received information to conflict with their existing understanding.

Old Charlie performed five unconventional transpositions on a piece of Schubert music on the piano.

After the performance, he asked Che Lin if she felt any discomfort.

Not only did the car not feel any discomfort, it also sounded very good.

Seeing the child say this, the three adults all laughed.

Ang Lee didn't even think this was a test, because Xiao Che had heard him play back and forth so many times in the past year.

Perhaps it was his subtle influence over the past year?
"Cherin?"

"teacher?"

"Did you feel awkward the first time you heard me transpose Czerny?"

Xiaoche thought about it for a while, it wasn't awkward.

She didn’t understand why the teacher and Grandpa Charlie asked her if she would feel uncomfortable listening to a piano concert. It was the first time she played on the piano and she felt it sounded very good.

It was as if the sound of the piano had an innate attraction to her.

"Work hard, you two."

After the test, Li An didn't know how to thank him. It had been bothering him, and I couldn't say it was bothering him. In short, through the test just now, he had now obtained the results.
"Thank you."

Li An held old Charlie with both hands and bowed again, and the car nearby also bowed.

Through being alone this morning and noon, old Charlie also gained a deeper understanding of the master and apprentice in front of him. Simply put, he liked this rare pair of master and apprentice very much.

He wanted to have more exchanges with the master and apprentice, such as listening to this child play Beethoven, such as listening to Ang Lee play a complete work of the Romantic period, such as communicating with Ang Lee about teaching, and asking about the closing ceremony. Septet.

It’s just that the time is not right today. After patting Li An on the shoulder, old Charlie smiled at the car again.

"Looking forward to your performance tonight." Boss X finally conveyed Old Charlie's words to the car, "Come on."

Then he looked at Li An and said, "That's it. Take your children back and have a rest. You get up so early in the morning."

The four of them said goodbye.

After seeing off the two teachers, the classroom became quiet again.

"Let's pack up and leave. You can go back and sleep for a while."

"Teacher, I'm not sleepy."

"No."

"Well."

"Go and set up the piano bench."

The car is getting ready to fasten the piano cover.

Pulling down the piano cover, she pushed the piano bench inward.

"tear--"

The legs of the piano stool rubbed against the floor, and a harsh sound sounded.

Li An asked casually, "What is this sound?"

Xiaoche frowned and thought for a moment, then answered truthfully: "Teacher, I can't tell."

Can't hear it
Li An seemed to be shaken by Xiao Che's answer, and the scene in front of him seemed to become blurry again. He could tell that it was F!
Could it be that the absolute pitch of the car can only be triggered on the piano?
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Che didn't seem to care whether he could hear the sound just now, and ran to his side in two steps, with a little pleading tone, "Teacher, when can I listen to you play Mozart's version of Early Morning Class?"

Early morning class?

Li An's expression changed several times, and finally he felt relieved and raised the corner of his mouth: "Let's wait until we go home, but the old rules are just a composition."

Xiaoche doesn't know when this rule has become an old rule, but it doesn't matter.

The rules the teacher said are the old rules

"Roar!"

The master and apprentice left together laughing.

It really doesn't matter.

Outside the building door, the afternoon sun is shining brightly.

(End of this chapter)