Please, come home and practice the piano

Coming out of the old man's house, Li An was filled with pride.

As if he had not finished talking at the wine table, on the way home, he talked nonstop and held Chen Xuan's hand.

As he spoke, the online ride-hailing driver also listened, making the online ride-hailing driver shake his head.

Looks like the young man is still young, that's not how you brag about being awesome, bro.

As it happens, a relative of the online ride-hailing driver opened a small music store at the end of last year. He started selling the business at the end of May this year, but no one is interested yet.

Since the double reduction at the beginning of the year, the streets are full of training institutions that have closed down and are still daring to jump into the fire pit!

But the driver didn't dare to say anything.

Why are you messing with a drunk person?

It is true that Li An drank a lot tonight and was in a state of looking for a drink. Chen Xuan had never seen him before.

After arriving home, the two of them took a shower and went to bed, falling asleep one after another without saying a few words.

Tiredness has really exhausted both of us. Can we not be tired?

As soon as I got off the plane, I rushed back to school to attend classes, and I have been struggling until now.

The two of them basically didn't sleep last night. That's not the key. The key is that they didn't sleep much. They had to catch a flight with several children early in the morning. How worried they were.

Just after Li An and the two fell asleep for a while, Xiao Che also lay down on the bed on the other side of Rongcheng.

Xiaoche was so happy.

The teacher celebrated her birthday at night, and after practicing piano in the afternoon, her family celebrated her birthday again.

Moreover, she received a birthday blessing from Tang Xiaoxing in the evening. Tang Xiaoxing also blamed her on WeChat for not saying it yesterday.

Tang Xiaoxing only learned that today was Che Lin's birthday when she was in class with Teacher Chen. She sent a message to Che Lin after class in the evening.

The two girls chatted for twenty minutes, and Tang Xiaoxing also told Xiaoche that she had found a piece she liked.

It's Mozart's piano concerto, k491. Tang Xiaoxing said this is the piece that Teacher Chen assigned to her tonight.

Xiaoche replied to Tang Xiaoxing, "Come on," saying that she was happy for Tang Xiaoxing.

Whether it's a classical work, a popular work, or something like that, from Xiaoche's point of view, as long as Tang Xiaoxing likes it, she will be happy for Tang Xiaoxing.

Tang Xiaoxing finally asked Xiaoche what piece of music he would practice next. Xiaoche said that the teacher hadn't assigned it yet, which meant that he was still practicing the previous content.

Scales and etudes, the teacher emphasized the importance of scales and etudes to her when she gave her the first lesson.

She remembered it at the time, so when the teacher didn't give specific instructions, she would focus on practicing these two things, maybe leaving herself twenty minutes to play some music in the end.

There were still several days until registration, so she could practice the piano with peace of mind for a few days.

She was happy, but the only thing that made her a little unhappy today was that her father said that he wanted to rent a house near Shipo, saying that they would have two homes in the future.

But she didn't want to. She knew that her father wanted to make it easier for her to go to school and practice piano.

But renting a house costs a lot of money, and she doesn't want her father to spend this money. She just wants to live in her aunt's house. Living in her aunt's house will definitely not cost money, but her serious proposal gives her a family. of silence.

At that time, she had a vague feeling that it might be inconvenient to live in her aunt's house.

Then she didn't say anything else. In fact, the most real thought in her heart was that it was good to live at home. Although she had to take the bus every day, couldn't she just make full use of her time on the bus?

After yawning, Xiaoche casually turned off the bedside lamp.

Before going to bed, she took another look at the two penguins on the piano. The one wearing the red scarf was given to her by the teacher, and the one wearing the blue scarf was given to her by Wang Xiaohu.

Looking at the penguin with a blue scarf, she still didn't understand why Wang Xiaohu insisted on stuffing the penguin into the gift box.

The gift box was originally very beautiful, but Wang Xiaohu broke it.

it's a pity.

As for the other birthday gift Wang Xiaohu gave her, she felt it was a bit inappropriate because it looked very expensive, although it was very beautiful.

She also likes it very much, it is a small silver long chain pendant with a silver dolphin hanging on it.
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Early the next morning, Li An started making breakfast as soon as the alarm clock rang.

While steaming eggs, he threw the clothes in the suitcase into the washing machine.

"Can you still eat the eggs in the refrigerator?"

"It's edible. The shelf life of eggs is quite long. Chen Xiaomi, you have to accumulate more common sense in life from now on. When you go to France, you will really have to rely on yourself for some things."

"Why, you don't plan to take care of me before I leave. I won't. I'll call you for everything."

"Okay, okay, beat, beat, eat, eat."

During the meal, Li An sent a voice message to Xiaoche, asking Xiaoche to practice with Bugmuse in the next two days.

Chen Xuan remembered that Li An got angry at 802 yesterday afternoon, and she didn't ask any questions on the way to Teacher Wei's house yesterday.

When I asked today, I found out exactly what was going on.

"It's time to talk about them."

"No, you can't just relax when I'm not around. These kids still need a beating. Were Yu Xiaolu and the others okay yesterday?"

"They can do it," Chen Xuan said with a sigh, "Who do you think I will hand over these children to when I leave?"

Li An: "Don't worry, I will definitely have to gather all the substitute teachers together for a meeting when I meet with the leader of Shuren. I will ask then. Teachers are easy to find, so don't worry."

Chen Xuan: "Then you meet Sister Xu first at noon."

Li An: "You can join us at noon."

Chen Xuan: "I won't go. I want to watch Xiaolu and the others practice more while I still have time, and try to finish all their art exam repertoire before I leave."

"That's right." Li An put a pickle into Chen Xuan's bowl. At this time, Bawan saw this scene from somewhere, ran over and grabbed it on Li An's lap.

"Meow-"

Li Anle: "There is nothing you won't eat."

After smelling the delicacies fed by his master, Bawan showed a horrified expression, turned around and disappeared into the living room in an instant.
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The new day started with morning exercises, and I went to 802 to make a cup of tea. Li An continued with yesterday's transposition 740, No. 14.

According to what Wu Fusheng said before, Li An was doing useless work. Although Wu Fusheng was not persuaded by Li An later, Wu Fusheng also admitted that this training method had its subtleties.

The biggest gain from this Li An summer camp was the in-depth exchanges with several foreign professors and colleagues from all walks of life.

About teaching methods, about teaching materials, about performance itself.

The experience he summed up is that no matter how far or horizontal it is, it will never go beyond the square circle, and it will never deviate from its origins.

In the past, he had always maintained an instinctive resistance to such remarks that could seem sensible in any context.

Because there is no grasp of the essence, it would be too metaphysical to apply these "great ways" in daily life based on a rough understanding of the literal meaning.

But based on his deep cultivation and summary of teaching over the past year, combined with his own stage experience and the experience of many teachers at home and abroad, he believes that he can look at this sentence from a practical perspective.

The conclusion drawn again is that today’s piano teaching methods should be subtracted.

Faced with the various trendy piano teaching materials and dazzling courses that have emerged in China in the past ten years, not to mention parents, as a teacher himself, he has a headache. Sometimes he has to question himself, is piano so complicated? ?

Although he also knew that some teachers were very experienced and just did some gimmicks to sell classes and teaching materials, he knew very well about the class and the class could not be held like this.

If a teacher is telling students something in a roundabout way every day in an inscrutable tone, at first the teacher's purpose may simply be to attract students, but as time goes by, some teachers will subtly incorporate these things into it. Integrate it into your original teaching ideas.

The gain outweighs the loss. There is no need to make simple things so complicated, and there is no necessary order of practice. Everything can be changed without departing from the sect, but the prerequisite is to understand what sect is.

When Li An communicated with Professor Anna, she realized again that Professor Anna never advocated letting students practice a large number of etudes. She asked students to practice many techniques from music.

This should not be drowned in saliva in China, but Ang Lee understands it very well, and he has always thought so.

This was also confirmed when he communicated with Professor Du Mei. Professor Du Mei was just the opposite of Professor Anna. Du Mei required students to experience the emotions of music from different periods in etudes.

So it’s all music. Why can’t you practice skills in music? Why can’t you find emotions in etudes? Why do so many teachers in China stick to one teaching process?

Putting aside those things that he himself couldn't understand, let's talk about those teachers who are relatively professional. In fact, he can also understand that the content of one lesson is divided into five lessons. Making money is not shabby, and everyone has their own profession. This is true for all industries.

It's not like Ang Lee has never done something like this before, it's just not this extreme.

He did not look down upon these teachers. Before being a teacher, you must first live.

But times and stages are different. If a teacher keeps teaching like this just to earn more tuition fees, he is doing himself a disservice.

For such a teacher, there is a high probability that the teaching level will not improve substantially.

Then it will be a matter of time before you are eliminated.

After Li An recognized this matter, he also had a clear requirement for the piano teacher his future school would hire. Just like what he said to Teacher Wei last night, if you want to work with me, it doesn't matter if you are an ordinary person in China. If you graduated from the music department of the school or from the piano major of a famous foreign school, if you want to work here, you must first participate in my on-the-job training, and after you officially join the job, you will also have to undergo regular professional ability assessments in the future.

At that time, Lao Wei smiled and asked him how much he planned to charge for one class per child. He said that it would start at three hundred. Lao Wei hesitated for a while and then nodded slowly.

Li An also struggled with whether the unit price of the course was a bit expensive.

Is it expensive?

The unit price is indeed difficult for most parents to accept.

But from his heart, if parents have the idea of ​​​​letting their children learn something real, then it must be profitable to send their children to him.

Just make a horizontal comparison between Lantian and Yale, two industry leaders in Chengdu, and compare the current piano teaching staff of these two companies.

It doesn't matter if his parents don't understand. Anyway, he now has some celebrity status in Chengdu.

After completely giving up the plan of making a hodgepodge, his thinking became clearer and clearer. Building the number one piano education brand in Chengdu was his goal within ten years.

It doesn’t matter how good it looks, but you will be able to see the difference in three years.

He is anxious, but not in a hurry. With his current funds, he will start from the smallest store. It doesn't matter, he will continue to work after losing money. Strategically, he is not in a hurry to get married and buy a house.

Chen Xuan also expressed her full support at the dinner table last night and said she would invest in her own flute.

Li Anxin laughed and said, "That's okay. We can't take away someone else's dowry before the wife has married."

There's nothing to worry about, come on, the book writer will do it with one vote, and you won't have anything left.

"when!"

The arrogant Teacher Li pointed like a musical instrument and hit two scales on the keyboard in succession, then his hands landed on the last set of chords with a coaxing sound.

The bright C major chord suddenly illuminates the entire 802.

Today's morning practice was over, Li An put his hands down, got up and left the piano room.

As the monthly exams were approaching, the entire corridor was filled with the sounds of vocals and instruments. Li An specifically searched for the piano scales and visited several art candidates.

Yes, it's already ten o'clock, and they are still practicing scales, isn't that right?

Passing by the front desk and grabbing an apple from Wang Meili, Li An happily walked up to the ninth floor.

As soon as he entered the ninth floor, he heard the sound of the saxophone. Li Zheng seemed to be playing well. He couldn't play, but he could listen.

After greeting several old colleagues along the way, he arrived at the old director's office.

Lao Dong has been waiting for Li An since he arrived at the office early in the morning. Tea and cigarettes have been prepared on the table.

As Li An expected, the old director thought he was just doing it for Victory Street. Looking back now, Li An felt relieved. From the bottom of his heart, he also hoped that Yudong could lead the school well after taking over Victory Street.

After the two communicated in detail about the details of the connection, Li An said that he would contact Principal Qi today, "Look, I will pop over to ask you to meet him in two days, but you also know that Principal Qi is not necessarily willing." Eat this meal.”

"It's okay, it's a long time to come." As long as Yudong can start the class smoothly, whether to eat or not is a trivial matter. The rest will come step by step. Old Dong knows it well, "Teacher Li."

Old Dong took out two boxes of tea from the cabinet and put them on the table. "What happened on Victory Street was indeed my negligence in my work."

"Hey," Li An interrupted with a wave of his hand. This matter had nothing to do with Lao Dong or Lan Tian. "Director Dong, I really don't treat you as an outsider."

There is one thing to say, Lao Dong was kind to him in the past.

When Lao Dong heard this, he felt a little embarrassed, "Oh, it just happened to be a gift from a relative. I don't like tea either, so just forget about it and smoke."

The two of them each lit one, "Hey, Director Dong, it's not easy to take photos for art training now."

Li An seemed to ask casually, but Lao Dong couldn't take it as casual. He had already heard Qin Yong mention it during dinner last week that Li An would work by himself near Meizhuang in the second half of the year.

Win-win cooperation was Lao Dong’s first thought at the time.

"Indeed, the Education Bureau seems to have stopped issuing them now, even since June this year, but I'm not sure. You also know that in the past few months after the double reduction, no one is thinking about opening an institution anymore. I will help you with the details. Ask around.”

Li An: "No need, Director Dong. It doesn't matter if you can't do it. Just buy it."

Old Director: "Yes, I was just about to say, especially in the past few months, the price is very suitable. If you don't want it to be troublesome, just choose a good location and rent a good house, contact the agency directly, and you can basically come down with 40,000 to 50,000 yuan for the fire department. , you just need to provide information, and those people will do everything quickly."

Li Anxin laughed at how sincere and cute the old Dong was. He really no longer regarded himself as an outsider.

It seemed that Qin Yong had talked a lot with the old director. Li An was thinking that he would not mind the trouble. If he could run on his own, he would never let the intermediary make the difference.

Old Dong: "If you need it, just tell me directly. I know a few intermediaries. If you have your own way, you can do it yourself. It's just more troublesome, but it saves money."

"Okay, thank you, Director Dong," Li An squeezed the cigarette butt in the ashtray, stood up and said, "I'll ask you if I need anything. You're busy. Over there on Victory Street, wait for my news. I'll let Teacher Deng take charge then. .”

"It goes without saying." Old Dong winked and smiled, and kindly sent Li An to the door of the office.

When he saw Lao Dong, he had to take himself to the elevator, "Farewell, Director Dong, hurry up and get busy. I'm still watching a student on the ninth floor."

With that said, Li An walked towards the piano room area to the east. When Lao Dong saw this, he walked around and came to the entrance of the administrative office.

"Xiao Zhao, come here."

Xiao Zhao followed Old Dong to Old Dong's office, "Principal Dong."

"Send this to piano room 802 downstairs."

After Xiao Zhao left, the two boxes of tea on the table disappeared, and Old Dong felt at ease.

But the question that arises is whether the piano subject should be moved back a little bit in the next stage of Yudong's development, taking into account the distance between Yudong and Meizhuang.

There is another question, does Ang Lee become a wind musician?

The news about Shuren was released a few days ago, like a depth bomb being dropped on the entire children's music training industry in Chengdu.

No one thought that after Liu Daguang stepped down, the next person to take over as bookkeeper would be Ang Lee.

Qin Yong didn't expect it, nor did the old director. The old director guessed that Hu Mingzhi definitely didn't expect it either.

Who would have thought! ?

What is the concept of a book person!

Lao Dong's idea is very simple. If Ang Lee also plays wind instruments, then he has nothing to say. After all, with such a huge resource, who will not do it?

But if An Li doesn't become a wind musician, then what will An Li do with the students of the Shuren Wind Ensemble Club?

Is there any possibility of cooperation between them?

He asked Qin Yong that day, and Qin Yong's advice was to let him wait quietly.