The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 129 Real command!
It's amazing.

After Chen Qiu said these words, the atmosphere present became a little solemn.

Some of the performers who were originally indifferent to the chief conductor controlling the orchestra and were a little concerned about their own affairs couldn't help but raise their heads and look at Chen Qiu when Chen Qiu said those words, with a hint of coldness in their eyes.

You can question our personal behavior, and you can also question our professionalism.

But you must not question our expertise!

Is there anyone here who has not been selected from music conservatories in various places? Which person hasn’t gone through a lot of scrutiny to get to where he is today?
As a result, as soon as you came here, you questioned our professionalism and said that we were not a professional orchestra?
One sentence denies our achievements in the first half of our lives?
Regardless of whether they are on the side of the chief or the centrists, there is no way for them to condone this incident at this moment.

Therefore, many of them looked at Chen Qiu with cold expressions.

But before they could speak, Chen Qiu laughed and said directly.

"You're not convinced, are you? Then I'll tell you what kind of problems you had during the performance just now."

Chen Qiu walked up to the concertmaster, walked directly past the concertmaster, walked to a younger-looking violinist next to him, and extended his hand to him.

"Sorry, can you lend me your violin?"

"My violin?"

The violinist was just about to say something to Chen Qiu, but he didn't expect that Chen Qiu came over and wanted to borrow the violin from him. He was a little at a loss for a while.

Although he was not on the chief's side, at this moment, he could not help but look at the chief and gave him a questioning look.

He didn't know if he should borrow it.

But he didn't expect that before he could receive the chief's gaze, Chen Qiu stood between him and the chief's eyes, intentionally or unintentionally, isolating their sight.

Chen Qiu was like a big mountain, blocking all the lights coming from above his head. With a smile on his face, he asked him again calmly.

"Excuse me, can you lend me your violin?"

"Forehead……"

The violinist felt the oppression conveyed by Chen Qiu and the isolation and helplessness around him, and he was a little panicked.

Before the distant chief could speak, he spoke timidly.

"Yes, yes, but please don't damage my violin. I spent a lot of money on this violin, hundreds of thousands..."

"Hundreds of thousands?"

Chen Qiu reached out to take the man's violin, touched the body of the instrument with a slight surprise, then plucked the strings, feeling the vibration of the sound, and then shook his head.

"It's expensive. This violin costs less than 10 yuan at most. Compared with violins that cost more than yuan, this violin is obviously not a famous violin. The sound is not clear enough and the workmanship is a bit rough. Although it is made from Italian violins that have been dried for more than years. It is made of Bachmann spruce, but the treatment of the wood is still a bit conservative. It should be made by a top professional luthier in the country. It is very good, but it is far from the level of a famous teacher with hundreds of thousands of people."

"Forehead……"

The violinist couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what Chen Qiu said, and then hesitantly said.

"To be precise, this was a donation from an art lover. He told me it was hundreds of thousands. I don't know the exact amount... Is there something wrong with this piano?"

"There's no problem. It's done pretty well. It's just that some details are not in place and it still lacks a little bit of skill."

Chen Qiu shook his head, put the piano in his hand on his shoulder, then took the bow from the violinist and pulled the strings slightly.

hum...

The sound of the violin came out immediately.

Chen Qiu glanced at the violinist briefly, and then began to tune.

"There is some deviation in the sound. Previously, your orchestra played 440hz, but here you only have 438-439, which is about 2hz off."

"what?"

It wasn't just the violinist who was blushing now. The concertmaster sitting at the front also couldn't help but blush a little when he heard Chen Qiu's words.

Their tunings were all rehearsed after his confirmation.

As a result, Chen Qiu just came over and said that the tune he brought with the orchestra was not accurate.

Isn't this a slap in the face?
His first reaction was to ask Chen Qiu for an argument, but he soon suppressed his emotions and continued to watch indifferently.

He wanted to see what Chen Qiu wanted to do.

Chen Qiu didn't care about the chief's mood, nor did he care what the chief thought.

He just stood there quietly and adjusted the violin strings. After confirming that the adjustment was completed, he nodded slightly, walked to the conductor's podium, looked at the people in the string section, and said to them.

"Sorry, it took me a little time to borrow a violin just now, but I think this time is very valuable. After all, if I didn't borrow a violin, you wouldn't know how bad you were at playing it just now."

Chen Qiu reached out and turned the score that had been turned to the end back to the home page, then looked at the notes on it and said to them.

"Because the language is not accurate enough, I will give you a demonstration. After all, there were too many mistakes in your performance just now."

Chen Qiu flipped his wrist slightly, adjusted it to the correct position, and then pushed the strings.

hum!
The sound of the Spring Festival Overture immediately emerged from the violin in Chen Qiu's hand.

And it’s not very easy to play.

Almost as long as you have ears, you can hear the difference between Chen Qiu's performance and the previous orchestra's performance.

The people on the other side of the string looked at Chen Qiu and their eyes almost went straight.

Holy shit? what happened? This conductor actually knows how to play the violin?

But the chief didn't have any expression.

He could hear Chen Qiu's violin skills.

Chen Qiu also knows his violin skills.

His violin skills are not at a professional level.

That is, the kind that can play some works such as Paganini etudes, as well as sight-read many difficult works.

It sounds like he is very powerful, but his control of the violin is actually in a relatively amateurish state.

In many places, such as the expression of vibrato and the roar of tremolo, although he knew how beautiful he needed to do, his limited strength made it difficult for him to do it.

Not just the violin, but the viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, oboe, flute, piccolo, bassoon.

As long as there are instruments in the orchestra, Chen Qiu can play them.

However, the level of strength varies from good to bad.

This is a compulsory course for conductors - the understanding of orchestra instruments.

He must know how to play this instrument and what effect it can achieve in order to conduct it better.

As the saying goes, only if you know yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.

Compared with many conductors who pay more attention to theory, Chen Qiu pays attention to some practice.

He started practicing when Wang Hai told him that he wanted to learn string music, and now it finally comes in handy.

Chen Qiu slowly pulled the strings.

The sound of the violin became extremely soft, but this softness was filled with power.

While he was playing, he was talking to the string section.

"During the performance just now, you mentioned the first and second notes, a total of 30 people, and made more than 500 notes wrong. I really don't know how you did it. A group of professional orchestra, actually There is still such a thing as mispronouncement. Are you really a professional orchestra and not an ordinary student orchestra?
The first is the beginning. The crescendo at the beginning is uneven. The crescendo here should give a feeling of going from far to near. When it is far away, the sound should be more hazy, not just a simple whisper. .

Secondly, it is the processing of music. Although I know that this piece is simple and not a particularly difficult piece, I think you shouldn’t stop processing it just because it is simple, right? I'm very curious, how do you think? "

When Chen Qiu's eyes saw the chief's mouth slightly raised, as if he wanted to refute, he said directly.

"I can tell that you want to make the changes between the music smaller and use details to increase the expressive tension of the music. But I'm sorry, your music does not show such characteristics at all. What you have done is only to make the gap between the strength and weakness of the music smaller, but it does not reflect the tension of the music. What do you... think?"

Chen Qiu loosened his bow and looked at the chief.

The chief's originally raised corners of his mouth tightened into a straight line again.

He just looked at Chen Qiu with squinted eyes, seeming to sense the dissatisfaction of the other musicians around him, so he snorted coldly and sneered.

"Huh... Are you sure you can hear the details in our music? Is it possible that you are too young and your understanding of music is biased?"

"Maybe, but I can hear all your mistakes. I guess I can't even hear the tension in your music, probably."

Chen Qiu did not directly deny the chief's words, but gave him a soft nail and continued.

"The string section's interpretation of the music was too restrained, and the presentation of the music was too poor. This is not celebrating the New Year at all, but avoiding disaster. Maybe you want to express the feeling of avoiding the Nian beast, but I am very curious. Before you Presented in this way, why didn’t you drive away the Nian Beast until the end? Could it be that what you wanted to play was the Nian Beast Overture?”

"Pfft..." A wind musician not far away who was watching the fun couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

But he noticed the coldness in the chief's eyes, so he immediately covered his mouth, lowered his head as if nothing happened, and did not dare to speak.

Chen Qiu also didn't target the wind instrument. He just played a certain part again and then continued.

"Listen to this place, your interpretation of this place is completely wrong. In the music score, this place should have a ff intensity. In terms of musical expression, this place is also a fifth-level chord. It feels like it needs to be solved urgently. You guys I haven’t even done it yet! I think this should be something that music school students need to learn when they first enter school, right?”

Everyone in the string section of the orchestra didn't speak, they just lowered their heads.

The person who lent Chen Qiu the violin before wanted to crawl directly into the cracks in the ground.

He was very embarrassed to find that the violin playing in Chen Qiu's hands was actually better than that of its original owner.

What is this?
Are pearls covered in dust?
For the first time, he felt ashamed as a band that could be admitted into the top 100 in the country and the top five in Haicheng.

He even began to wonder how he got into the band.

As a professional performer, his skills are not as good as conducting this non-professional performer?

Are you kidding me?
He couldn't help but look at the chief, expecting the chief to retaliate against Chen Qiu.

After all, he is the chief, and his musical understanding should not be inferior to that of a layman like Chen Qiu... right?

It's a pity that he didn't see such a scene.

The chief still looked at Chen Qiu coldly and said nothing.

The chief really wanted to refute Chen Qiu directly, refuting that there was something wrong with his performance and that his understanding of music was not adequate enough.

but……

He couldn't tell.

Unless he was talking nonsense with his eyes closed and no face left, just to refute Chen Qiu.

Otherwise, he really has nothing to say.

Because he did something wrong somewhere just now.

And Chen Qiu's demonstration was indeed much better than what they had just performed.

but!

He didn't feel like this place was his fault.

What he originally wanted was to give a little more timbre, making the orchestra's timbre grander, and creating more intense sparks when they collided with each other.

Is there something wrong with his thinking?
No!

It’s just that the band didn’t do it.

It's a pity that Chen Qiu actually put the blame for the orchestra on his head.

Therefore, the chief could only look at Chen Qiu coldly, but could not say a word to refute.

Chen Qiu didn't care what the concertmaster thought. He just returned the violin in his hand to the person who just lent it to him, patted his shoulder, smiled at him, and whispered encouragement.

"Come on, you did a good job, you made a lot less mistakes than others."

"Thanks?"

The violinist looked at Chen Qiu with an inexplicable fluctuation in his eyes.

It was just a simple cheer, but it gave the violinist a boost of strength.

Chen Qiu was encouraging him, but his orchestra leader was oppressing him.

Although he didn't dare to resist the chief, but to be honest, he was actually a little inclined to Chen Qiu in his heart.

It's a pity that Chen Qiu only came here as an agent, and probably led the orchestra through a formality and then nothing else.

He would still have to live under the chief's feet in the future. He couldn't just go to Chen Qiu and embarrass the chief.

His expression was well hidden and not seen by the rest of the band.

However, he completely ignored the manager who had been standing aside, wiping sweat with a towel.

The manager looked at everything presented in front of him and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then showed a smile.

Sure enough, it was just as he thought.

The appearance of Chen Qiu broke the balance of the orchestra.

He had discovered this before when he brought Li Tian to Haicheng for broadcast.

There are many factions in a small band.

First of all, there is the most powerful chief faction. He controls the string section with the largest number of people in the orchestra by virtue of the fact that he started with the orchestra, has the oldest qualifications and is the strongest.

The string section also has a violin section and a cello section that absolutely support the concertmaster.

The people on the viola and double bass sides don't matter. After all, they are an inconspicuous part of the orchestra, so no matter who is in charge of the orchestra, they have a no-nonsense attitude.

But since they also have string instruments, they also support the principal of string instruments.

The wind band group had a small number of people, so it split into many factions.

Basically everyone has their own ideas.

Every time he played, Li Tian was very anxious from above, but he could see it clearly from below.

As for Chen Qiu, he originally just wanted Chen Qiu to come over to save the day, but he didn't expect that Chen Qiu would be able to figure out the factions of the orchestra clearly the first time he came over.

First, attack the most powerful string section, especially the violin section of the string section, try to win the support of wind instruments, and then get the support of some young people from the violin section.

Although the technique is still a bit rough, the overall performance seems too strong, without the smoothness of the old conductor, who divides the orchestra and controls it calmly.

but……

There are not many such experienced commanders in China.

Unless you go abroad to invite those famous masters to come over.

But when famous masters come over, their leader may be the first to kneel down, and when the master leaves, everything will return to the way it was before.

So to a certain extent, Chen Qiu is indeed the best choice?

The manager wiped the sweat from his forehead again, hiding his emotions.

He also didn't know what would happen after Chen Qiu came. This method of dividing the orchestra would cause the orchestra to further die out, or whether it would make the orchestra get better again.

But now he has no other option.

You can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

If he doesn't do something, he may need to find a new job.

And a manager who brought Haicheng's top five bands to collapse is out looking for a job?

No matter how he thought about it, he felt that his future was gloomy.

There was an undercurrent in a small concert hall, and everyone had their own ideas.

The lead singer seemed to feel that things were beyond his control at this time. He couldn't help but clenched his teeth and suddenly spoke to Chen Qiu and everyone in the orchestra.

"Yes, that's right. Little conductor, although I don't know what school you are from, but since you don't know, can you let us see your commanding ability? After all, it's just talk, right? Who can say that? I don’t know how to talk, the point is to do it, you..."

"can!"

Chen Qiu interrupted the chief's tirade and smiled at him.

For some reason, the chief couldn't help but break out in cold sweat when he looked at Chen Qiu's smile. He always felt like he had fallen into Chen Qiu's trap.

Chen Qiu smiled at the chief.

"Just like you said, it's useless to talk too much. Everything must be revealed through music, so..."

Chen Qiu raised the baton in his hand, pinched it, made eye contact with everyone in the orchestra, and said slowly.

"Everyone, look at me!"

"Ready to play!"

(End of this chapter)