Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 700 399. Journey Notes 85: get out of class is over! stand up! Thank you, teacher!

After confirming that most children can understand the key point that the melody is independent of the harmonic rhythm, Ang Lee then became much more relaxed.

In the following hour, he then introduced the children to the second method of melody expression, focusing on the direction of the melody.

Different from the melody expression technique with the central note as the core, the overall melody trend is more vivid for children than interpreting a certain note in the musical phrase.

The direction of the melody may be forward, backward, parallel, interrupted or uninterrupted, and it has clear music marks.

As long as you pick up the music score, you will inevitably see these line-notation graphics with clear guidance.

Ang Lee’s opinion on the direction of the melody is to pay unconditional attention to the processing of the bass.

As the lowest note in the low melody structure, bass can be understood as the feet of athletes. For athletes, strength starts from the ground. For music, bass is the cornerstone of musical power.

During the explanation of this link, Ang Lee used the familiar Czerny etude as an example. When the same downward bass appeared twice in a sentence, he played it with the same emphasis, compared to only emphasizing it once. , children can clearly hear that the sentences that are emphasized twice are more solid, and the lines are more elastic and layered.

Just emphasize the bass and the melody seems to have wings?

In order to let the children experience for themselves that this is not magic, Ang Lee immediately invited a few children to come on stage to experience it for themselves.

Although the children who came on stage were called for raising their hands, they were a little uneasy at the beginning. They didn't know whether they could produce any specific effects.

But under the guidance of Teacher Li, after they finished, the exclamations from the audience gave them the best feedback.

It's just a matter of time. Ang Lee still has content to talk about later, so there's no way for every child to experience it in this session.

"When lunch is over, interested students can come back with your music scores and we will continue the actual practice."

When the children's cheers subsided, Li An continued the following lessons.

The use of bass in melody performance is far more than just one kind of emphasis. However, in view of the current stage of the children, Ang Lee did not go into too much detail on bass processing later. He only reminded that when there is a continuous bass in a sentence, it is Use bell-like touch keys to stabilize the structure of the entire sentence.

“A lot of times the life force of music comes from here.”

After talking about bass processing, Ang Lee talked about how to deal with long melody lines.

Children always have a tendency to scratch their beards and eyebrows when processing long sentences. This was discovered by Ang Lee whether he was giving daily lessons to the children in Piano Classroom No. [-] or performing at other children's concerts. .

Even children like Liu Zihan, who are not outstanding but can be considered above average, will have this problem.

Of course, Li An didn't think this was Boss X's neglect in teaching. Children need a learning process, but he just wanted to talk a few more words through the topic.

I discussed teaching with teachers before. Every teacher has such teaching experience.

If a long sentence appears and the speed is very fast, serious children will have this situation - they must play every sound extremely clearly.

Take Xiaobei for example. When Xiaobei came to learn the sonata, he wanted to use a magnifying glass to illuminate each note, but the final result was not satisfactory. Instead of making the melody line closer, it gave people a sense of melody. A feeling of evacuation.

Ang Lee took the simplest scale as an example. He played the same scale twice at the same speed.

The first time he tried to make the children hear every sound clearly, the second time he only emphasized individual sounds.

He then asked the children to decide which scale sounded faster and clearer, and they decisively chose the latter.

He emphasized that the lines of the melody are more of a sense of continuity and should not be interrupted by fixed sound rhythms and completely solid physical acoustic appearances.

"When we practice long sentences, we can occasionally try to simplify them, but the prerequisite is that you must be able to play the sentence solidly and with the correct rhythm and fingering."

Li An's words were unanimously recognized by the teachers.

Finally, Ang Lee saw the highlight of the day, which was what Xiao Che mentioned the day before yesterday. When the melody changes up and down, it should naturally have a crescendo or crescendo.

In fact, behind this question lies the subconscious reaction of human body functions.

First of all, all musical instruments are developed based on vocal music. There is no dispute about this. In other words, the sound production of instrumental music has most of the characteristics of vocal music.

However, in this process, one thing is often overlooked. Although the throat is the direct organ for vocal music production, it is mostly used to communicate with people in daily life.

Many people think that treble needs to be louder and bass needs to be weaker.

This is due to the fact that the human language system will unconsciously use a louder volume when raising its tone, such as when emphasizing a point or to attract the attention of others. When expressing in a low voice, it will often unconsciously use a louder volume. A weak volume, such as apologizing or talking about something that is on your mind.

This also explains very well why many people unconsciously perform a crescendo in the upward direction and a diminution in the downward direction when playing. This is a kind of physiological and psychological substitution.

Some phrases do require ascending crescendos and descending decrescendos, but this does not represent all cases.

Many times the composer does the opposite. He will do a crescendo when going down and a diminuendo when going up. In order to enhance the tension of the music and make the conflict of the music more intense, the composer will also mark a mark on the highest note. Sudden weakness.

A performer will face a variety of works and various situations, so if you deal with music blindly based on physiological judgment, the consequences will undoubtedly be terrible.

"I'll give you a suggestion, just for your reference."

As he spoke, Li An glanced at the children in the piano classroom No. [-]. Except for Xiao Ji, he had not told the other children yet. He would tell a few children in the open class today. He would explain it in detail later.

"When we encounter long sentences that go up and down again, like those son-shaped sentences, do you have a picture in your mind?"

Children: "Yes!"

Ang Lee: "We can simply think of them as two directions that happen to meet together, instead of reaching a high point so we have to go down, or reaching a low point so we have to go up."

offstage.

Boss X whispered, "Remove the causal relationship between them, and you may find a more interesting feeling when you play again."

Old Charlie nodded and gave very meaningful guidance. He regarded the connection of up and down lines as a coincidence rather than a rule. This largely prevented children from using a formulaic impression to process the up and down melody.

In old Charlie's memory, following the ascending and descending scales to create a crescendo and decrescendo was already the slogan of Kulak's time.

Kulak, an important German pianist, educator and composer in the [-]th century, and a disciple of Czerny.

But today, many teachers still use this advice to guide students in their performance. This is undoubtedly a terrible thing.

For playing on a modern piano, this method will not produce the correct sound.

Serkin emphasized his opposition to this method of playing with old Charles more than once.

A better approach would be to use a simple staccato to emphasize the upstroke, and play the downstroke like a slow scrape.

The core focus here is to avoid the bad habit of placing an accent on the first sound of every sentence.

Many times students are not aware that they are doing this because the presence of the accent has conditioned them to throw their hands haphazardly to the keys at the beginning of each phrase.

It’s no wonder why Ang Lee’s students all know post-touch control. Through Ang Lee’s explanation of the subject of melody expression, old Charlie can definitely say that Ang Lee has a fairly complete set of touch theory and has already Very mature.

I'm afraid Ang Lee should talk about post-touch control if he goes on to talk about it, but old Charlie knows that it's a new subject direction.

"The last sentence is for everyone. The direction of the melody is actually very simple. It is like our life, which begins with the sound of the first sound and ends with the dissipation of the last sound."

Li An stepped off the podium and looked around.

"As for the expression techniques of melody, we have discussed it here. I hope everyone will practice more piano. Only practicing piano is the only shortcut to the palace of performance."

"Wow——————"

Amid enthusiastic applause, Ang Lee returned to the piano and played Schubert's Serenade again.

The graceful melody is refreshing, adding a touch of coolness to the hot summer.

It started with a serenade and ended with a serenade. When Ang Lee saw that Tang Xiaoxing's teacher-student index returned to 85, he was not surprised. No matter how outstanding he is, he is just a child.

To his surprise, by the end of the entire project, most of his 200-point teaching plan had been completed.

However, he promised that he would insist on finishing the children's classes.

There were still 10 minutes left before get out of class ended. Seeing that the children were still in high spirits, Li An asked everyone to ask questions about playing the piano.

The children had a variety of questions, and Ang Lee's answers were witty. "Ha ha ha ha--"

As if he has an innate ability, Teacher Li can use examples that everyone is accustomed to in life to explain problems in playing the piano.

"I'll leave the last question to the second group."

Children in every other group have asked questions, but only the children in group [-] have no questions yet.

The children in the second group decided to let Doudou ask questions.

Doudou stood up: "Teacher Li, I would like to ask you what is a good way to practice octave."

Doudou's question was a good one and brought out the thoughts of many children. Li An nodded and motioned for Doudou to sit down.

"I don't have any good ideas about Badu. Really, you just have to practice. My suggestion is to follow the teacher's requirements, practice patiently, practice with heart, and you will definitely gain something in the end."

Regarding the answer to the last question, the children cannot say that they are disappointed. Indeed, Octave is too difficult.

"However."

As soon as Li An changed the topic, more than 40 pairs of eyes were focused on his face without blinking.

"I have a trick that can help you find the feel of your wrists."

children:! ! !

Can the children say that they just like Teacher Li’s crooked tricks! ?
"Ahem, you have all eaten dumplings, right?"

"Eat it!"

"Have you ever seen your parents, grandparents, and grandparents chop stuffing?"

"I've seen it!"

"Oh yes, it feels like chopping stuffing."

For a moment, the children imitated the scene in their minds of adults standing in front of the chopping board, chopping stuffing, waving their hands up and down casually.

Needless to say, after just a few actions, some children already had expressions of surprise! That's what it feels like!

Not only the children, but also several teachers also followed the action of chopping stuffing. After giving it a try, tsk tsk
This Li An, boss X doesn't know how Li An came up with these "mess" things.

After listening to Mr. X's description of chopping stuffing, Old Charlie's eyes lit up, and he borrowed this method.

Don't think that old Charlie doesn't understand Chinese culture. Ever since he had a meal of Chinese dumplings, he has fallen in love with them. Chinese dumplings are completely incomparable to their dumplings.

The old man always thought that Polish dumplings were the most delicious.

"Wow------"

"Teacher Li! What kind of dumplings do you like to eat?" Meng Yanxi was bold.

Ang Lee: "It must be cabbage meat."

"I love eating too!"

"Teacher Li, I also love cabbage!"

"I love eating eggs and leeks!"

"I love eating pure meat!"

"I love eating carrots and mutton!"

"I love shrimp!"

"Mom Huang, I want to eat dumplings!"

Suddenly, the whole classroom was filled with a sense of hunger, and the children were booing one after another.

Li An grimaced: "It's useless to tell me, I want to eat it too."

The children all turned to look at the back row. Boss !”

"it is good!!!"

The classroom is boiling.

Ang Lee: "get out of class is over!"

Xiao Liu: "Stand up!"

All the children stood up: "Thank you, Teacher Li!"

Li An waved his hand: "Let's do it!"
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The slogans were shouted fiercely, but Ang Lee really didn’t have time to do anything.

"Teacher, aren't you going to the cafeteria?"

"I'll be there in a minute, you take them first."

The first time after class, Li An asked Ji Yang to take the children in piano classroom No. [-] to the classroom first.

First, I called Chen. Chen Xuan said that she and Teacher Gangban got along well this morning.

"That's good. You can take your uncle and aunt to have a quick snack at noon, and I'll rush there as soon as possible in the afternoon."

"It's okay. They told you not to worry. It just so happened that my mother wanted to go to the Forbidden City. Let's eat later. You can go about your business in peace."

"Thank you."

"Did the class go well?"

"Very smooth."

"Go and eat quickly. If there is any news over there, Sister Xu, please let me know as soon as possible."

"Uh-huh."

After hanging up Chen Xuan's phone, Li An opened the teacher resumes sent by Qi Guojuan and Liu Zhaocheng. He looked at them carefully and found that they were pretty good. They had performance experience and teaching experience, and they also looked clean in appearance.

To be on the safe side, Li An called the two of them one after another. After a brief communication, he sent the resumes of the two teachers to Xu Li.

Eighty-one: Sister Xu, clarinet teacher and percussion teacher.

When Xu Li replied to the message, Li An had already almost reached the restaurant. The two made an appointment to meet at the bistro. Li An went to the restaurant and ordered two box lunches.

Last night, Xu Li received Ang Lee's course and was busy until five in the morning. After a while, she got up and continued working on the planning document, and she was busy until just now.

"Sister Xu, please take a good rest in the afternoon."

As soon as they met, Li An knew that Xu Li had not had a good rest last night and looked very bad.

Xu Li said it didn't matter, walked over and put the laptop directly on the table, "I have sorted out the cooperation plan, you can take a look."

Li An read it carefully from beginning to end. Professional matters should be left to professionals. After Xu Li's packaging, Li An felt that the quality of their courses had improved by more than one level.

Moreover, Xu Li has compiled regulations on the cooperation content. The contents are clear and comprehensive, and basically include the contents of their conversation yesterday.

Looking at this cooperation plan, Li An became more confident and couldn't help but smile on his face, "That's great, Sister Xu, thank you for your hard work."

"I plan to go back today, thank you," Xu Li said as she took the lunch box handed over by Li An. Li An was stunned, and Xu Li continued: "I have already booked the air ticket."

(End of this chapter)