The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 104 Nirvana
Su Yue glanced at the people around her, then at Chen Qiu, and spoke softly.

"The orchestra...only the first violin and the bass are listenable. The second violin and cello are a bit average. Many of them are bastards. Although they hold bows, there is no sound at all. It's a bit...bad, but even though So, compared to the wind section, the string section is, well... maybe a little better, just a little bit?"

She looked at the awkward-looking wind musicians around her and ignored their emotions. She just spoke to Chen Qiu naturally.

"The wind section is not very good. Only a few of them can keep up with you. Unless you play as boringly as you did at the beginning, I don't think they can continue in this orchestra."

Su Yue took apart the clarinet in her hand, put it into her clarinet bag bit by bit, and stood up without any hesitation.

She walked to Chen Qiu under the eyes of everyone.

Although she is not as tall as Chen Qiu and can only look up at Chen Qiu, her eyes are still the same as before, looking down at everyone equally.

She whispered to Chen Qiu.

"Your music is very interesting, so I will come to your New Year's concert. When you are free, send me the concert repertoire and I will practice. However, you have to train your wind instrument well. .”

After that, she moved her eyes away from Chen Qiu's without any hesitation and walked towards the entrance of the concert hall.

She is like clouds or dreams, dissipating in the air.

Unpredictable.

Everyone in the orchestra was immersed in the performance just now and Su Yue's words, unable to extricate themselves.

The people on the viola and cello side were fine.

That is to say, it is not as good as Qin Xian. As the concertmaster of the orchestra, Qin Xian is not as good as the first violinist under the leadership of Qin Xian. It is normal.

Although it is also rated not as good as the bass part.

But you have to know that the bass part itself is a pure bass, and there is nothing particularly difficult about it. It would be worse than that. There is nothing good to say about it.

Therefore, even if they were scolded by Su Yue, they would not feel embarrassed or unhappy.

But the group of people in the wind section sitting in the middle and back of the orchestra felt a little uncomfortable.

Su Yue bluntly said that the orchestra was not good and that the wind instruments were dragging down the entire orchestra.

If an ordinary person said this, they would actually have the nerve to refute it.

I have a national championship, what kind of championship are you? Do you have the nerve to say that I can’t do it? Do you want to win a national championship?
But now the person talking about them is Su Yue!

The clarinet goddess from Haiyin!

It doesn't matter if you are a goddess. Normally, if you are just a little bit beautiful, you will easily be called a goddess.

But Su Yue is not only beautiful, she also won the most difficult world championship.

You have to know that her championship is not ranked according to ranking.

In the Geneva International Music Competition, if this year's level is not good, then the first or second place can be directly withheld, or even a single ranking can be withheld.

Under such circumstances, Su Yue can still win the championship, which is enough to prove that her strength is indeed the best in the world.

Such a top clarinet player said that the people on their wind section were not as good as the string players, and they were dragging down the entire orchestra.

What do they use to refute?

There’s no way to refute it!

Therefore, they can only scratch their heads and scratch their heads in embarrassment, wishing they could bury themselves in the soil.

Chen Qiu turned around and watched the door of the concert hall slowly closing under the influence of machinery, and could only shake his head helplessly.

Although Su Yue just told him that she would come to the show later.

But it was obvious that Su Yue would not come to the rehearsal.

But it is true.

For her, such rehearsals were simply a waste of her time.

Chen Qiu didn't choose particularly difficult pieces for everyone to practice, so the pieces he gave everyone were basically relatively simple and easy-to-learn pieces.

After all, it is just a small New Year's concert. Everyone can rehearse for just over a month. After practicing, they will start preparing for the final exam.

If the content of the final exam is reduced for the sake of the orchestra, then the gain outweighs the loss.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Qiu chooses simple works.

These simple works are simple, but if you want to perform them very well, you need to look not only at the conductor's own strength, but also at the individual strength of the orchestra players.

For example, in the first rehearsal just now, Su Yue, Qin Xian, and some instruments were able to keep up with Chen Qiu's pace to perform, but most of the people in the orchestra were unable to keep up, and it was easy to fall behind.

Just like what Wang Hai said to Chen Qiu when Chen Qiu and Wang Hai met for the first time.

Your conductor can be strong and invincible, but you must adapt to your orchestra.

The orchestra has its limits. The closer your understanding of music is to this limit, the better the performance of your orchestra will be.

The better your conductor is and the more parts you surpass the orchestra, the worse the orchestra will perform until it finally collapses completely.

And your commanding level is not as good as that of the orchestra. Although the effect may be worse, the orchestra may directly operate on autopilot.

but!

At least the band won't collapse.

Therefore, it is better to perform less so that the orchestra can keep up than to perform too much so that the orchestra cannot keep up.

So, what should you do?

Chen Qiu looked at Su Yue's leaving figure and began to think.

Everyone in the orchestra just looked at Chen Qiu, waiting for Chen Qiu to speak.

Under such silence, Qin Xian remained as usual.

He was thinking about the mistakes he made in his previous performance, and decided to strengthen his professional level as much as possible for Chen Qiu, at least to be able to lead the strings to compete with Su Yue's wind instruments next.

Ruijia started to be in a daze. She was a little surprised when Su Yue said that she and the chief's bass were good.

As for Aigu.

He felt the silent atmosphere of everyone and scratched his head a little.

He thought for a while and said to Chen Qiu.

"Ahem, Chen Qiu, command? Boss Su Yue has left. Just stop looking. She won't come back if you look at her again."

"Who are you looking at?"

Chen Qiu was awakened from his thoughts by Ai Gu's words, turned his head to look at Ai Gu, and said angrily.

"I want to see what Su Yue is doing. I'm thinking about the future development of the orchestra now. I asked the school for reinforcements for the wind band, but the reinforcements from the school haven't come yet, so Su Yue came..."

"Eh? Su Yue is not sent by the school?" Ai Gu was stunned.

Chen Qiu immediately rolled his eyes at him and complained.

"How could it be that the school sent someone here? I just told the school that I need a wind player to strengthen our band, but the school sent someone here. Are they so fast? ?”

"That's true..." Ai Gu nodded.

Chen Qiu thought of something, looked at Ai Gu, and suddenly asked.

"Wait a minute, Ai Gu, I have something to ask you. Why did you hide behind Su Yue when she came over just now?"

"Uh……"

Ai Gu looked embarrassed.

The other band members around him also came out of their embarrassment and turned to look at Ai Gu curiously.

They prefer to watch others be embarrassed than to be embarrassed themselves.

Eat melon, how delicious it is!

Facing the gaze of everyone eating melon, Ai Gu scratched his head helplessly and whispered.

"She, she was my boss before..."

"Boss?" The person next to him was stunned, his eyes gleaming, as if he saw a melon field, "What's going on? What do you mean, boss?" "Even when we were young, she and I were both from Haiyin, and we were in the same place. I grew up in a college. When we were young, we learned to play musical instruments, and several adults gathered us together to form a primary school orchestra, and she was the leader of the orchestra."

Speaking of this, Ai Gu's expression became a little uncomfortable. He reached out and hugged his head and said in pain.

"Do you know that she is very serious and likes to find mistakes? Even though our teachers and parents said it was fine, she still felt that she was not good enough. Then she practiced over and over again. If we didn't practice, she would do it by herself. Practice, and when we were young, everyone knew about it, right? When she saw that we were not practicing and she was the only one practicing, she would beat her when she got home!"

As Ai Gu spoke, he touched his butt, smacked his lips, and sighed, as if he felt the same thing.

"Anyway, I was beaten by my parents a lot because of her when I was a child. But she is quite loyal. Every time we were beaten or criticized, she would squat outside with us to make us stand. Well...she would sit down with the food. Across the way, watch us while you eat.”

"Are you sure she wasn't sent here by her parents to supervise the work?" Someone nearby complained immediately.

Ai Gu just twitched the corners of his mouth, covered his face, and spoke with a slight pain.

"No, I'm just trying to embellish my own memory, so you have to expose me, right?"

"But your beautification is too outrageous. How can there be such beautification? Is this called loyalty?"

"Hey! You kid"

Ai Gu made a gesture of pointing his head at someone, which made him angry.

"Shouldn't a normal bad friend laugh at you from the side while watching you being punished? Isn't it loyal enough that she doesn't laugh but just eats by the side?"

"Perhaps you think it's hard to eat when you're made to stand?"

Seeing that Ai Gu and the man next to him were almost fighting, Chen Qiu asked them to stop with a slight headache. He reached out and picked up the pen in his hand, knocked on his music stand, and said to everyone.

"Okay, okay, let's not discuss Su Yue now. After all, she just said that she might join us later, which is just a possibility, so don't think too much. The most important thing now is you wind musicians! Hurry up and send you Make your own content well, if you want Su Yue to think highly of you, don't be lazy!"

"Oh……"

The wind instrument said weakly.

It was obvious that they didn't have much idea about how they could win Su Yue's respect.

Global champion, student of the clarinet goddess.

They were not surprised that Su Yue was directly admitted to the world's three major orchestras to play clarinet the next day.

Let such people recognize themselves...

It's a bit difficult.

Facing the dejected attitude of the band members, Chen Qiu was helpless.

So he turned his gaze to the group of string instruments who were snickering beside him, and spoke to them angrily.

"No, I said the wind instruments should work harder. What are you string musicians laughing at? Chief Erti, you made more than 40 mistakes in more than 80 measures such as the fifth, seventh, tenth, and twelfth measures. Yin, are you laughing?"

"The second person in the third row behind the second chief, you completely fell behind after the 30th measure. Your bow didn't even touch the strings. Do you think I can't hear you?"

"Those three behind Qin Xian, you are more awesome. You fell behind at the beginning of the fifth section? Didn't you laugh happily at the Wucheng Education Bureau student group over there before? Do you think you can play better than them? ?”

The violinists who were smiling happily at first, immediately disappeared after Chen Qiu mentioned them, and appeared on the wind instrument not far away.

Su Yong said that they played the violin and double bass very well. They thought they had fished in troubled waters, but they didn't expect Chen Qiu's ears to be so good.

For the first time, they felt that Chen Qiu's ears were so uncomfortable.

What the hell, there's no room for escape at all.

I really can’t do it even if I want to.

The people sitting behind those people were even more nervous.

I rely on?

I didn't even notice the mistakes of the people in front of me when I was sitting in the back, so if it wasn't my mistake, Chen Qiu could also notice it?
Therefore, many people couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

Nervousness and fear welled up in their hearts.

It's like finding out before an exam that all the test subjects are content that you haven't studied before.

Chen Qiu's eyes came into contact with the group of people. After watching their heads lower one by one, he couldn't help but take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

He spoke seriously to everyone.

"Remember what I told you before? The national championship is just the beginning, a very simple and ordinary beginning. Our future is to be the champion of all music school orchestras in China, and then in the future, we may be the strongest in Asia. student orchestra, the strongest student orchestra in Europe, and even the strongest student orchestra in the world.”

Speaking of this, Chen Qiu couldn't help but laugh.

He actually has some confidence to be the strongest in Asia.

As for being the strongest in the world, it is actually a bit of a dream. Even being the strongest in Europe is difficult.

It's not that he's not strong enough, it's that the band isn't strong enough.

If the school brings back all the students who compete all over the world and follows them to compete around the world, then maybe they can really try to compete with those in Europe.

But obviously, the school will not do this.

Compared with the orchestra, the solo group is obviously more likely to achieve results in the solo.

How could the school allow those soloists to be distracted and come back to start a band?
But in Europe, no matter how strong you are as a soloist, you still have to learn chamber music and orchestral performance.

These are all basic skills.

It often happens that there are several world champions in student orchestras.

Chen Qiu is very familiar with this. For example, at the Berlin Philharmonic where he stayed before, the solo champions there were basically calculated based on scores, which was not too scary.

When he was studying conducting at the Berlin University of the Arts, the school would often have solo champion students come to the orchestra to practice.

Therefore, Chen Qiu did not have particularly high expectations for Haiyin 2nd Group to be able to conquer Europe.

But even so, Chen Qiu still said to everyone.

"Our future is unlimited. I am in charge of a five-year program and am a senior this year. Many of you are in a four-year program and are juniors this year. We still have a little time. This little time is enough to make our results run in a higher direction. , instead of spending it here.

The national competition is just the beginning, a very simple beginning. The vast majority of our opponents are amateurs. Ninety-nine percent of them will not choose to pursue the path of music in the future. At most, it is just a hobby. study.

Therefore, defeating them is only a necessary path for us, not our end point.

We can be proud that we are national champions, but we cannot be arrogant that we are national champions.

When I played the Radetzky March, many of you were laughing at the Student Symphony Orchestra of the Education Bureau, saying that it was poor.

It's okay to laugh, but this ridicule should be based on the fact that all of you have a shorter time than them and the performance is better, to prove that your level is good enough, so you can laugh at their poor performance, but That’s all!
This arrogance must not be based on the fact that you are a national champion, you have achieved perfect scores, you are a professional player, and other empty names.

so……"

Chen Qiu paused, looked at the bowed heads of everyone in the orchestra, and smiled at them.

"So, let's do it again! Let's rehearse again. This time I will still give you ten minutes. If any of you haven't figured it out in these ten minutes, you can tell me and I will explain it and give it to you. Spend more time practicing and try to pass this piece of music today!"

After saying that, Chen Qiu stretched out his hands to everyone and patted them twice.

"Okay, let's practice. Remember, throw away your arrogance and pride and put yourself above the music. Only in this way will you have unlimited room for improvement."

After Chen Qiu finished speaking, everyone looked at each other and immediately started the next round of practice.

The fanaticism in their eyes has dissipated a lot, and they are more calm.

They are thinking about their previous mistakes and making amends for them.

Just like Chen Qiu said.

They were just an ordinary crane tail before.

Now that we have won a national championship, many of the people we fight are amateurs.

Why are you proud?
Now is just the beginning, a fairly solid foundation
Their future must be more than this.

Even if it is a very simple work, they must go all out to make the music good!
Facing the crowd's growing enthusiasm, Chen Qiu nodded silently, stepped down from the conductor's seat, and patrolled the orchestra to help everyone solve their technical problems.

With the help of Chen Qiu.

Everyone is like Nirvana.

(End of this chapter)