The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 16 Autonomous Driving
However, this is only the most basic step.

Let the band members not be too isolated from each other.

If you want the band to become a relatively good band, just having no barriers is not enough.

Chen Qiu didn't speak, just watched everyone chatting with each other and let them play freely.

Everyone seemed to have come out of the previously stiff atmosphere, and began to smile and joke.

Listening to their chat, Chen Qiu finally understood what Professor Li meant when he told him not to have particularly high expectations for the orchestra.

This group of people are basically the weakest in the school. Although they are ranked in the top one percent or even one thousandth of all art students, in a place like Haicheng Conservatory of Music where there are so many masters, Their talents are somewhat insufficient.

The conducting department wants to establish a relatively complete conductor training system. It is difficult for conductors under the current conductor training system to provide talents to various orchestras.

But the orchestra department feels that there is no need. They have already transferred the most suitable people to one group, and the rest are either middle-level students or a group with strong professional standards, traveling around the world. Competition professional soloist.

So these students with lower rankings were packaged and sent over.

Anyway, we have hit rock bottom, and we are always climbing up no matter how we go.

If that's the case, then let's break the rules and follow the leadership team's ideas and build an orchestra with them.

If we can turn this group of people into a big orchestra, it would be best to increase the employment rate.

It doesn't matter if you can't do it. Anyway, this group of people will basically go out to become teachers in the future, or change careers. A small number of them will take the postgraduate entrance examination, which will be an additional path.

But this is more difficult for me.

Chen Qiu smiled slightly.

I feel like it will take a long time to establish this band...

certainly! This will definitely improve your professional level and will also help you build a new orchestra from scratch.

After all, if I were not in this orchestra, it would be impossible for me to find a job as a conductor outside just because I am a junior at Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

The conductor of a small band is basically the boss, and you are just a part-timer when you join.

Many major orchestra conductors need to look at resumes, and at the same time they also need recommendations. What can I, an ordinary junior, do to recommend myself?

Therefore, although the current configuration of the student orchestra is a bit low at the beginning, relatively speaking, its control is stronger than ever.

And among this group of people, Chen Qiu noticed that several people were not weak at all.

Chen Qiu shook his head, dismissed the thoughts in his mind, stood up again, and knocked on the music stand in front of him.

Two ding-ding sounds shattered everyone's discussion, allowing their attention to focus on Chen Qiu again.

"Okay, I know you are more excited, but the time is limited. The chatting time is over. We still have about... forty-five minutes to conduct our first rehearsal."

Chen Qiu glanced at his watch and spoke to everyone.

He picked up a pencil from the music stand and raised it. He glanced around the crowd and finally stopped at Qin Xian next to him and said to him.

"Because I don't know you very well, so for our first rehearsal, the first violinist is tentatively named You. Do you have any questions?"

"No."

Qin Xian shook his head in a low voice. He wanted to say something, but after mumbling a few times, he said nothing.

He just put the violin in his hand on his neck and said to Chen Qiu: "I can do it."

"Okay, if it doesn't work later, we'll replace it."

Chen Qiu didn't pay attention to Qin Xian's words, but looked at the others and asked them.

"After you receive the notification, you should know what our first song selection is, right?"

"Got it! Beethoven's Fifth Symphony!" Someone not far away immediately raised their hands and said, "We have all heard it."

"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all. I guess no one hasn't heard it, right?"

"If you haven't heard of it, get out of here!"

"..." everyone started laughing and laughing.

Chen Qiu also smiled.

"Well, that's right, Bei Wu. It's a very familiar piece. Since you are all familiar with it, there shouldn't be any need for me to explain it. Let's start directly and follow my conductor through the first movement."

After Chen Qiu finished speaking, he raised his hand.

"Attention, look at me!"

He was not holding a baton, but a pencil with only half of it left, pointing slightly upward.

Just such a simple action directly attracted the attention of everyone in the orchestra.

Their eyes were all focused on the tip of Chen Qiu's pencil, waiting for Chen Qiu's movements.

At the same time, the musical instrument with the phrase at the beginning also picked up the instrument in advance and looked ready to perform.

There was still a trace of a smile on his face.

Although they are the last ones, there is still nothing wrong with Beethoven's Symphony of Destiny.

Even the score was given to them a few days in advance, and they were not asked to start sight-reading directly.

If you sight-read directly, you can actually play it, but the effect will definitely not be particularly good.

Now that the preparatory repertoire has been announced in advance, if it doesn’t play well again, there will be a problem.

So everyone is actually pretty confident.

Chen Qiu's mood didn't change much. He just nodded. After everyone noticed him, he raised his hand slightly and then slammed it down hard.

boom!
The sound of the orchestra suddenly rang out.

The most classic "Dang Dang Dang Dang" from the Symphony of Destiny gives infinite power at this moment.

The sounds of the string section and clarinet sounded at the same time, and the emotions in the music exploded instantly.

Even if this is just their first rehearsal, even if they have never played together before.

But in this first practice, they still showed their basic musical literacy.

Very beautiful sound!

but……

Chen Qiu nodded silently, without saying anything. He raised his hand again and slammed it down.

Dangdangdang!

There was another loud noise.

The roar of the music at the beginning aroused everyone's desire to play.

Chen Qiu didn't even raise his hand, but at the second tip over there, he had already started playing.

The bassist followed closely behind without any hesitation.

Their emotions gradually aroused in the music.

They followed the music in their memory and started playing vigorously.

He didn't notice at all that the strength in Chen Qiu's hand, who was standing at the front, was much reduced.

From going all out at the beginning, to returning to normal, to the final beat.

Chen Qiu's face became calmer and calmer.

The thing he least expected to see happened.

"Autopilot."

(End of this chapter)