Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 670 369. Journey Notes 55: "Peeling the silk and pulling out the cocoon is a gentle confession."

"Good afternoon, teacher."

"good afternoon."

At the entrance of the corridor on the second floor of the hotel, the master and the apprentice parted ways.

The first time he returned to the room, Li An took off his T-shirt. The stickiness on his back had already made him feel uncomfortable.

The sunshine is nice today, but it's too hot.

After taking a nice warm shower, Li An washed the clothes he had changed over the past few days.

"call--"

Much more comfortable.

He took out a set of dry clothes and pants from the closet and changed into them. He went to bed, picked up his phone, opened the list of five groups and looked at it again.

Finally, I set an alarm for 13:55, lay down and closed my eyes.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and as the alarm clock on his mobile phone rang in his ear, Li An sat up in a daze and pressed the alarm clock to death.

He just sat there with half-closed eyes for a while. When soft music sounded in the corridor, he found the slippers on the floor by the bed and walked into the bathroom again.

After washing his face, he looked much more energetic.

Turning off the air conditioner, Li An left the room.

The music in the corridor continues. Compared with the wake-up music at noon yesterday, Bach's flute scherzo seems to be more likely to arouse people's pleasant emotions today.

To the brisk music, the children walked out of the room one after another.

Some children were still yawning and rubbing their eyes, but after a while, their energy appeared on their faces, in their voices greeting each other, in their laughter, and then connected together and spread throughout the whole world. corridor.

At 14:10, all members gather in the comprehensive classroom.

Boss X walked up to the podium and looked around, "You seem to be in good spirits. Are you all ready?"

Children: "Ready!"

Boss

"The teachers are leading the teams to carry out the first task now. One group is teacher Wu Zening, the second group is teacher Sun Liwen, the third group is teacher Huang Chuxian, the fourth group is teacher Wang Han, and the fifth group is teacher Li An."

yeah!Wang Xiaohu’s Xindao teacher really didn’t lie to him!

"Gather at the church in two and a half hours for action."

For a moment, the classroom was in turmoil.
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Three-in-one challenge, which three-in-one?

Children already know the length, pitch, and strength of sounds.

After practicing with length (rhythm) and high and low (singing score) in the morning, everyone has to practice the strength and weakness of music in the afternoon.

Five teachers led each team of children to each team's small stronghold.

"Teacher Li, please come in!"

The children of Beethoven Team, led by captain Wang Xiaohu, enthusiastically surrounded Li An and entered the piano room of Group [-].

"Let's be together, together." As soon as they entered the room, the sweltering heat hit them. Li An motioned for everyone to sit down first, and then ordered Wang Xiaohu to turn on the air conditioner first.

"Good teacher!"

Wang Xiaohu picked up the air conditioner remote control on the window sill and directly pressed the air conditioner temperature to the lowest [-] degrees Celsius.

Li An: "Twenty degrees is enough, don't catch a cold."

Wang Xiaohu explained seriously: "Teacher, the air conditioner in this room is not good at cooling."

Li An nodded when he saw this, thinking that if he would raise the temperature if it got cold later, he would give the Tigers some face first.

Wang Xiaohu felt very comfortable when the teacher agreed directly. He was ready to continue explaining.

When Wang Xiaohu returned to the wall and sat down, the classroom became quiet.

Looking at Teacher Li An curiously, the other six children seemed to still have the scene of the piano duel in the morning lingering in front of their eyes. No one, including Tang Xiaoxing, expected that Teacher Li An would win in the end.

At the beginning, everyone thought that Teacher Chen, as the "instructor", must be superior in piano skills, but in the end, Li Anlao defeated Teacher Chen with his spectacular transposition.

"Let me introduce myself again," Li An walked up to the children just like he did when teaching the second group in the morning: "My name is Li An, Muzi Li, safe An, our professional teacher for this class."

Of course, everyone knew that this was teacher "Li An", so Li An's introduction gave all the children a very formal feeling, and they couldn't help but straighten their backs.

"Wang Xiaohu."

Wang Xiaohu, whose name was called, understood clearly, "Here we come!"

"Liu Zihan."

Liu Zihan: "Arrived!"

"Meng Yanxi."

Meng Yanxi: "Arrived!"

"Wang Ruoyu."

Wang Ruoyu: "Arrived!"

"Yan Yihan."

Yan Yihan: "Arrived!"

"Xu Jiaxing."

Xu Jiaxing: "Arrived!"

Every child responded to Teacher Li An's kind eyes with a loud voice.

Li An's eyes finally fell on Tang Xiaoxing, "Tang Caiyun."

Tang Xiaoxing felt the classroom atmosphere that she had never experienced before at this moment, and couldn't help but force her voice slightly: "Here we come!"

Li An smiled and said, "It seems that I recited everyone's names correctly."

ha?Teacher Li actually memorized their names? !

Wow. Suddenly, the sense of formality in the hearts of the children escalated again.
Like the children in Group [-], the children in Group [-] also felt a sense of special importance.

The person in front of me is Teacher Li An!
Just like before classes started in the morning, a series of rising teacher-student indexes flashed before Li An's eyes.

"If you want to drink water or go to the toilet, just raise your hand. Try not to leave your seat at will. We have a tight schedule this afternoon. I hope everyone can maintain classroom discipline. We will try to finish the content as quickly as possible and leave more time. It’s time for everyone to rehearse and report on the performance, okay?”

Children: "Okay!"

Ang Lee: "Okay."

After a pause, "Before the class officially starts, I will give you one minute to think. Let's think about a question together. How is the strength and weakness in music reflected?"

"The 1 minute countdown begins."

How is it reflected?
There are already children who can't help but ask in their hearts. This question is very simple. To be strong is to have a loud volume, to be weak is to have a low volume. To be strong is to use strong force, and to be weak is to use small force.

Before ten seconds had passed, a child looked at Li An eagerly to answer the question.

Li An smiled back, then raised his arm and pointed at the watch on his wrist.

Only then did some people dispel their impulse.

In the blink of an eye, 30 seconds passed. Some children were still thinking seriously, while others had already begun to look around.

Wang Xiaohu was thinking. Knowing the teacher's "routines" in class, he knew that the answer to the question must be different from what he first thought of.

Strength and weakness, strength and weakness, how is strength and weakness reflected?Isn't it reflected by the volume?

Suddenly, no, the teacher's question was about the strength and weakness in music. When the teacher told them about speed, he remembered that the teacher said that the speed of music in progress is relative.

Following this line of thinking, Wang Xiaohu seemed to have grasped something.

Tang Xiaoxing was also thinking.

Her great-grandfather once told her that the strength of music is the ups and downs of music. Her uncle told her that the strength control in a symphony is the most direct way to test the ability of a band. Her mother told her that in opera singing, Strength and weakness are the inner joys and sorrows of a character. Teacher Chen once told her that the changes in strength and weakness in the piano are one of the important features of the era style of the work.

Regarding the strength of music, Tang Xiaoxing understands many macro-level sentiments. She has always been able to achieve changes in strength and weakness in her performances that are often praised by teachers.

But how exactly did she do it?How is strength and weakness reflected in music?

For a while, she really couldn't find a definite answer to this question. "time up."

Li An turned his watch to stop, and Wang Xiaohu's number one, Meng Yanxi, was the first to raise his hand.

"Tell me."

Meng Yanxi stood up: "Teacher Li, using strong force is strong, and using small force is weak."

Ang Lee: "Very good, do you have any more?"

Meng Yanxi: "Uh, no more."

Ang Lee: "Please sit down."

After a pause, "Classmate Meng Yanxi believes that strength in music is reflected in the force exerted. For example, when we play the piano, pressing the keys harder will make the volume louder, and pressing the keys lightly will make the volume smaller. Is that what it means?"

Meng Yanxi sat down and nodded.

Ang Lee: "This is indeed true in the process of our piano playing. Adjusting the volume by controlling the force is the most direct method. Do you agree?"

Originally, everyone wanted to agree, but when Teacher Li An asked me this question, they felt a little uncertain for a while.

Seeing everyone's hesitation, Li An signaled everyone to relax: "It doesn't matter, we are discussing issues, you can say whatever you think."

"Approved." Yan Yihan was the first to express that she thought so.

Later, Xu Jiaxing, Liu Zihan, Tang Xiaoxing and several other children expressed their approval, but Wang Xiaohu was the only one who remained silent.

"Wang Xiaohu, what do you think?" Li An asked.

Wang Xiaohu stood up: "Teacher, I don't know what to say, but you said that music is always dynamic, so I think its changes in intensity should not just be reflected simply by the intensity of certain notes."

Ouch?Li An couldn't help but his eyes lit up. The little boy could actually give such an interpretation.

Li An was sure that he had not told Wang Xiaohu this yet. Yes, Wang Xiaohu had touched on the right direction of this issue.

"Any more?"

Wang Xiaohu: "I still have to sort it out."

Ang Lee: "Please sit down."

Following Wang Xiaohu's words, Li An guided everyone: "Wang Xiaohu mentioned a word, dynamic."

The children nodded. They all felt something when they heard the word dynamic just now.

"Music is dynamic. Where is its dynamics reflected? It can be in pitch, length, or strength."

"Is there any reason?"

Children: "Yes!"

Ang Lee: "Okay, have you noticed that this series of elements that can reflect the dynamics of music come from the progression of the music itself?"

Children: "Yes!"

Ang Lee: "Okay, can we draw a conclusion from this? Music comes first, and then there are dynamic changes."

Children: "Yes!"

Tang Xiaoxing grasped the key to this problem in an instant, she thought of it!

Teacher Li’s question is how to specifically reflect the strength and weakness of the music as it progresses.

If we think about this problem from another element, how the pitch and length are reflected during the music progress, then this problem has no value in thinking, because the height and length on the score are fixed.

On the treble clef score, the third note is dol, and its pitch will not change no matter how you play it.

There are quarter notes marked on the 4/4 score, that is, one beat, no matter the overall speed is fast or slow, it is one beat.

Only strength or weakness, no matter whether it is marked strong or weak on the score, needs to be controlled manually. Unlike high, low, long and short, there is an absolute standard reference.

weak (p) strong (f).

In other words, the progression in music and the expression of strength and weakness are reflected in relative terms.

Before a sentence marked with two p's, the sentence marked with one p can be understood as strong. On the contrary, after a sentence marked with one f, a sentence marked with two f's is encountered, then the sentence marked with one f is weak.

In an instant, the concepts of strength and weakness in Tang Xiaoxing's mind were combined with the interpretations of his family and teachers, and they were completely connected!
She got it.

'Teaching points from Tang Xiaoxing +12'

Shall I go at 12 o'clock? !

As a line of small green characters suddenly floated in front of his eyes, Li An couldn't help but smile. Judging from the numerical values, Tang Xiaoxing completely understood what he meant.

But other children don't have the ability to react so quickly.

"Come on, classmates, listen up."

Li An said and sat down in front of the piano, "Listen to a note first."

"when."

Li An lowered his fingers with a lighter force, and a soft sound sounded in front of the piano.

"Is this strong or weak?"

Children: "Weak!"

Tang Xiaoxing did not answer, because there was no specific reference in the music, and she could not determine whether it was strong or weak.

Ang Lee then played the sound three times at the same volume, "Please remember the feeling of this sound first."

After that, he played a melody with one hand from the movie "The Godfather" episode "Tender Confession".

As soon as the soft sound of the piano came out, Wang Xiaohu's whole body felt numb. What kind of melody was this? It felt so good.

Not just Wang Xiaohu, every child was infected by this melody filled with Sicilian style. It is so beautiful, so gentle, and so calm, like a feather passing through the heart, making people dare not breathe for fear of losing it. The music blows away.

As the music came to an end, Ang Lee's index finger landed firmly on the final tonic.

"when."

"when."

"when."

The familiar three consecutive tones returned to the children's ears again.

"So is this sound strong or weak?"

Li An asked again, as a series of green teaching points rose, coming from Wang Xiaohu +3.

Children: "Strong."

This time, the overall volume of the children's answers to questions was weaker because Wang Xiaohu chose to remain silent.

Wang Xiaohu also completely understood that there was no such thing as strength or weakness.

Strength and weakness are relative, and he should have thought of this a long time ago, or if the teacher had given him a little more time to think, he thought he would have thought of it.

Just as Wang Xiaohu thought, Ang Lee played a gentle confession, allowing the children to feel a weaker musical line at the beginning than the one he played before.

When the children are involved in the music and finally hear the note he repeated three times at the beginning, he believes that the children will understand it.

At this moment, the children overturned their previous answers and changed "weak" to "strong".

"In the process of music, strength and weakness are always relative. There is no standard reference for high, low, long or short."

As he spoke, Li An stood up from the piano and came to the children.

Across the teaching points and teacher-student indexes that floated up like a barrage, he looked around to make sure that every child's attention was on him.

Then he emphasized softly like the music just now: "Strength and weakness can only occur in the moment of music. They are interdependent and rely on each other."

"Remember, no isolated sound can exist in music, and no isolated sound can occur in music."

As he spoke, Li An raised his hands and spread them out, then smiled and said, "Rely on our hands."

The girls only had five words in their hearts at this moment: Teacher Li is so handsome! ! !

At this moment, Tang Caiyun's name suddenly appeared on the list of potential students, and the number after the name was 13.

(End of this chapter)