Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 688 387. Journey Note 73: Cunning guy, what is Xiao Sai?

A new day came again under the ringing of church bells, and Norton Manor, bathed in the morning light, was peaceful.

When the alarm clock next to the pillow rang again, the two villains living in Teacher Li's heart quarreled again.

One yelled: Get up quickly and practice piano, it’s already half an hour late today.

The other person also said plausibly: It's already half an hour late, let's forget it for today, it will be nice to sleep for another hour.

The quarrel escalated and finally woke up Teacher Li completely.
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After shaving, washing, and changing clothes, Li An left the room at [-]:[-] and prepared to go to the church. Before leaving, he received a reply from Chen Xuan.

'I'll sleep a little longer'

Go to sleep, go to sleep. Without replying to Chen Xuan, Li Chang picked up his cell phone and set off.

After the exchange and discussion with Boss

Like the previous three days, the church door was open, but today he was not the first person to come to the church.

When he entered the door, he saw Professor Charlie sitting in the second to last row looking towards the door. He guessed that his footsteps had disturbed him.

Li An slowed down and smiled apologetically.

When old Charlie heard the movement behind him, he immediately thought of Li An. Seeing that it was indeed Li An, the old man wanted to say humorously that you were late.

As if there was a tacit understanding, the two smiled and passed by. Ang Lee walked towards the stage, and old Charlie turned back and sat up straight, continuing to pray.

Ang Lee sat down in front of the piano and warmed his hands for a while, playing scales and arpeggios for about 5 minutes.

After the warm-up, he directly played the introduction of the first movement of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto. In the next few days, he would always ask Mr. Cha for advice. He and Boss X had already agreed, and Boss X also He promised to arrange a time for him to let the old man listen to him.

I simply let the old man listen to the introduction that I have half-practiced, so that the old man can have some ideas first, so as to avoid "embarrassment" when the time comes.

Anyway, he can only play to this extent at present.

There is no psychological burden. Ang Lee is just like he usually does in 802 or in the study. If he feels something is not good, he will stop and play again, or he will practice certain measures repeatedly in order to consolidate the fingering cycle.

Mr. Cha in the audience also heard something new. In the past few days, he listened to Li An perform complete works, and today he listened to Li An practice the piano.

After listening for about 10 minutes, he found that Li An was very "cunning" in practicing the piano.

For example, the octave around the seventeenth bar was obviously unfamiliar to Ang Lee. The other party only emphasized the high-pitched parts and moved forward with the low-pitched parts. He first played the performance framework and then practiced it repeatedly. After several times, when I became proficient, I finally brought it into the lower part, and the whole music aspect was highlighted with both hands.

This method of practicing piano can save a lot of time and improve the efficiency of practicing music.

However, Ang Lee also encountered some problems that were not easy to solve, such as this sentence with unclear harmony. Brahms liked to use this secret way to arrange harmony, so compared to Beethoven and others, A composer with obvious personality traits, most of Brahms' music is difficult to explain clearly afterwards.

Old Charlie's teacher told him in a precise tone at that time that Brahms intentionally did not write his true intentions directly on the score. He was a sensitive person and he would not say anything directly.

So old Charlie’s teacher told old Charlie that playing Brahms requires bold assumptions and not to be fooled by the content presented on the surface of the score.

It sounded to old Charlie that Ang Lee had now fallen into Brahms' trap.

As old Charlie expected, this was not the first time that Ang Lee was stuck here. He had been stuck here as early as the night he got the score from Fang Yongbo.

No matter how you play this place, it feels awkward. You can master it as soon as you listen to the recordings of the masters, but when it comes to playing it yourself, you will be blinded.

"bass!"

There was a sound from the audience, and Li An hurriedly looked around and saw old Charlie taking off his hat and waving to him, then turned around and left on crutches.

bass bass?

The bass murmured. Li An stopped and thought carefully. Suddenly he seemed to have caught something.

Playing his fingers again, he focused on the three inconspicuous left-hand basses, and the harmonic structure immediately became extremely clear.

do it again!
After repeating it again, carefully experiencing the changes in the harmony after emphasizing the bass, Ang Lee gradually found some sense of continuing downwards.

Outside the church door, old Charlie smiled as he listened to the music coming from behind.

Smart guy.
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The time flew by and it was almost 08:30. Li An was reluctant to end the practice. He had just gotten a feel for it.

Unfortunately, the morning activities were about to start in half an hour, and he had to go to the cafeteria to join the children.

On the way to the canteen, he heard the laughter of children in the distance. Passing by the castle, he met Yuan Xiaoyu and a group of staff.

"Teacher Yuan."

"Teacher Li."

Yuan Xiaoyu is going to check the sound equipment and props. Today's event is open-air.

The two chatted briefly. Li An only smiled when he saw the other party but was unwilling to reveal more information and stopped asking, "See you later."

"See you later."

Li An continued walking towards the canteen.
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The children came to the canteen one after another in small groups, and those who came early had already eaten.

Several children in piano classroom No. [-] have almost finished eating, and only Xiaobei and Liu Fengrui are still drinking porridge.

"I will definitely not participate if you wear aerobics clothing." Wang Xiaohu felt like scratching his toes when he thought about that scene.

It's too shameful.

"What's the point?" Liu Fengrui put down the porridge bowl nonchalantly, picked up a tissue and wiped it on his mouth, "If you're not embarrassed, the only thing that's embarrassing is that you're more embarrassed than others."

Marco: "That makes sense, so can I choose to watch it? I'm not the captain anyway."

Wang Xiaohu: "."

Xiaobei looked very expectant, "Didn't you wear bodysuits when you were young?"

Liu Fengrui: "I wore it when I was doing cheerleading in kindergarten."

As if to make his expression more vivid, Liu Fengrui also made several movements of stretching and raising his arms, and the rapid movements of his wrists were indescribably enchanting.

“Hahaha——” Xiaobei laughed wildly, “We also skipped this when we were kids.”

Turning around, "Did Linlin skip it when she went to kindergarten?"

Xiaoche had only been in kindergarten for a few days and shook his head: "I just remember that the kindergarten gives out fruits and jelly every day."

Senior Sister Ji Yang suddenly interrupted everyone: "The teacher is here."

The children looked around suddenly and saw the teacher passing by the dining area, picking up a dinner plate and walking towards them.

"Teacher." "Teacher." "Teacher." "Teacher."

Wang Xiaohu got out of the way and said, "Teacher, I've finished eating and you sit here with me."

Li An sat down and said, "I had a lot of fun last night."

The children smiled and nodded, Xiaobei said: "Teacher, can we watch Teacher Chen's game together in the afternoon?"

Li An was stunned and looked at Xiao Ji. Xiao Ji spread his hands and said, "It's none of my business."

"Okay," Li An smiled, "If you don't have any plans, just come together."

Marco: “I haven’t seen the flute competition.”

Liu Fengrui: "Teacher, is Teacher Chen competing with foreigners?"

Ang Lee: "There are people from all over the world, and the Fallen Bell Flute Competition is an international competition."

Xiaobei: "Wow, Teacher Chen is so awesome."

"Xiao Bei is also very good," Li Ang was about to reach for the bun, then stood up and pushed away the stool to leave.

The children are confused, why is the teacher going?
Xiaoche: "The teacher didn't wash his hands."

The kids get it in seconds.Li An came back after washing his hands, took the napkin handed by Xiao Ji and wiped his hands. As soon as he sat down, Ma Ke asked him: "Teacher, do we have any powerful international piano competitions?"

"That's quite a lot." Ang Lee picked up the bun, "Chopin Competition, Cliburn Piano Competition, Leeds International Piano Competition, Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition, including the Tchaikovsky Competition, which is a comprehensive music competition. There are a lot of base games.”

After a meal, "There are also some competitions named after great musicians. If you are interested, you can check online."

Liu Fengrui: "Oh my god, it sounds so awesome."

Marco: "What is the most powerful piano competition?"

Ang Lee: "To say that the competition with the most international influence is the Chopin Competition, which is held every five years, but not every No.1 will be produced. When the contestants fail to meet the requirements of the judges, the No.1 will be awarded. .[-] will be available."

Wang Xiaohu: "So strict? The highest score is not No. 1?"

Ang Lee: "Yes, the Chopin Competition is famously strict. The player who gets No. 1 will be directly regarded as a world-class performer."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, why don't you go and participate? If you go, you will definitely get No. 1."

"Keep your voice down." Li An was convinced by Wang Xiaohu's words. He really dared to say anything. After a pause, he sighed, "Your teacher will never have a chance in this life. Come on, you still have a chance."

All the children's eyes couldn't help but fall on the car's face.

The car was confused and didn't know who to look at, and the atmosphere at the scene was once funny.

Thinking of Tang Xiaoxing who was about to go to Russia to prepare for the war, Li An smiled inexplicably and said in a joking tone: "Che Lin, how about you go and have fun then."

"Huh?" Xiao Che didn't even understand what was going on. Seeing that the teacher said this, he nodded stupidly: "Yeah."

All of a sudden, the children were all talking.

Li An was amused again by the cute and helpless look of the car, "Okay, okay, let's get down to business. Although today is a rest day, we still have to take the morning activities seriously."

"Dancing in different periods is also closely related to our piano playing. If you recall, have we played minuets, vodka dances, and ballets, right?"

When Liu Fengrui thought about it, he really said: "Teacher, if you didn't tell me, I really wouldn't have realized it. There are a lot of dance music in the piano."

Ang Lee: "Yes, dance music is an important part of the piano genre, especially for our understanding of folk music of various ethnic groups. Dance music is very important, including the mazurka played by Professor Anna last night, that is Polish National Music.”

"There is a link in the Chopin Competition where the mazurka must be played. You can imagine the importance of dance music."

Dance music is required to be played in the most powerful piano competitions, and the children immediately felt the importance of dance music more intuitively.

"So, listen to today's class carefully, study hard, and dance along well. It will be helpful to you."

Wang Xiaohu said coquettishly: "Teacher, do you want to wear bodybuilding clothes or something?"

Li Anle: "I don't know the details, but it is said that there are costumes and props."

After a pause, "Conducting also requires proficiency in boring things. Do you have any questions?"

Wang Xiaohu has no problem anymore, he can bear it.

Ang Lee: "I guess there shouldn't be any aerobics clothes. Anyway, you'll know in a while. Don't worry. Besides,"

Xiao Ji interrupted: "Teacher, please eat first."

Li An: "Ah, eat, eat, you say it, you say it."

The children laughed.

While everyone was joking, Xiao Cha was a little distracted. She only remembered one thing: the mazurka was to be played in the Chopin Competition.
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After the meal, each group of children gathered in the open-air classroom in front of the castle. There was a brown Hailun piano standing next to the lecture hall.

The lecturer of this morning's course is Arthur Dume, and Boss X is the translator.

The children listened to the lecture first.

During the lecture, Professor Du Mei introduced the different dance types, different costumes, and body language produced by different social environments in the Baroque period through a video display on an open-air large screen, and conducted a simple analysis and appreciation of them. .

Inductive listening may seem complicated, but the actual content is concise and concise, and children can understand it as soon as they listen.

After listening, everyone had only one feeling: it turns out it’s not difficult at all.

In particular, Boss

After having a preliminary understanding of the dance of the Baroque period, we then moved on to the practical part - learning Baroque court dance.

How to learn? Follow Professor Du Mei.

Although Professor Du Mei looks like Voldemort, he was a professional ballet dancer when he was young, but he "went astray" and ended up on the path of piano performance.

According to Professor Du Mei's requirements, the five groups of children must first form two circles.

Then let's circle, but because there are not enough children, the outer circle cannot be closed. Professor Du Mei said no, what should I do if it doesn't work? Then ask the teacher.

I thought there would be nothing wrong with the teachers today, but in the end, I still didn’t escape.

If you go to the teacher, go to the teacher. When several teachers are combined, it is still the old rule, one person leads a team.

At this time, Boss X directly proposed that he would also participate this time. In the team leadership activities a few days ago, Boss X had no involvement at all.

Li An knew what Boss X was thinking and took the lead in applauding: "Welcome Teacher Chen!"

"Wow————————"

The four children, Tang Xiaoxing, Liu Zihan, never expected that their teacher would actually ask to participate.

Especially Tang Xiaoxing, the teacher had not yet informed her about her unauthorized performance last night. The teacher was about to learn dance with them, which made her feel both excited and nervous.

What she was nervous about was how to explain when the teacher looked at her. What she was looking forward to was that she wanted the teacher to participate in the morning activities with them.

Due to the addition of Boss X, there is now one more teacher.

"Lee An, please stop dancing. You can play the piano for us later." This was originally Boss X's job.

"Okay." The piano happened to be under the shade of the tree, and Li An was happy to do this job.

Although the children in piano classroom No. [-] were not happy, they did not dare to say anything. Xiaobei pouted.

The remaining five teachers quickly divided the work, and finally, under Tang Xiaoxing's incredible eyes, Boss X chose five groups.

The teachers took their positions and entered the circle. Boss X came to Tang Xiaoxing's side and whispered: "I played very thoughtfully last night."

For a moment, Tang Xiaoxing's heart skipped a beat. She never thought that this would be the first thing the teacher said to her after coming off the stage.

"Focus on it, let's get started."

Tang Xiaoxing was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously.

Professor Du Mei in the circle had already raised a hand and said ": one."

As if in a dream, Tang Xiaoxing imitated Professor Du Mei's movements and raised a hand, and at the same time reminded in a low voice: "Teacher, it's the left hand."

Boss X quickly changed hands!

Not far away, in front of the piano under the shade of a tree, Li An looked at this scene and laughed.

The mobile phone on the music stand is playing video. In the video, teacher Chen Xiaomi is already warming up for the second round of the afternoon competition.

"Two!"

"three"

"no! no! no!"

"Ha ha ha ha--------"

I have to say that some boys dance too ecstatically.

(End of this chapter)