The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 59 Battle between two regiments
The mood of everyone in the orchestra was obviously much higher, but after nearly two or three hours of rehearsal, they couldn't help but feel tired.

After the first rehearsal, everyone dispersed and left, and Chen Qiu followed them back to school.

It's like nothing happened.

But privately, the struggle between the first group and the second group continued.

The piano room is full every day, and you can hardly find any empty space to practice.

Some people really don’t have a place to practice, so they find a small corner to practice by themselves.

Although Haiyin itself is a very involved place, everyone's daily practice time basically starts at four hours.

But the people in the first and second regiments are basically not human beings at all now.

They practiced like crazy. Apart from sleeping and eating in class, they were practicing their own parts and correcting some of the bad things that Chen Qiu told them before.

To cope with the competition between one group and two groups coming later.

Such nervousness is gradually rising, and everyone in the school is becoming more and more curious.

In such an atmosphere, Chen Qiu and the commander of the regiment jointly released a new poster and posted it in the school. For a moment, the atmosphere in the school exploded.

Almost everyone is talking about the first group and the second group.

【ah? What the hell? Why did the first and second regiments start fighting? I thought something was wrong with the people in the first and second regiments before, but when I asked them, they refused to tell me, but I didn't expect that they started fighting directly? 】

【Awesome! Training, right? Before the national competition started against people from other teams, he took the lead and started to compete against people from his own family. What a show! 】

[The music played by the first group is Beiwu, and the music played by the second group is Bosi, hiss... I really want to listen to them both. 】

[Although Bei Wu has been played countless times, it seems that Yi Tuan has never played Bei Wu before. Compared with Bo Si of Second Team, I am actually looking forward to Yi Tuan's Bei Wu more! 】

[If I remember correctly, Yituan seems to have played Bo Si before? Even Bosi is still part of Yituan’s repertoire? 】

[If the repertoire of the First Troupe is Bosi and the repertoire of the Second Troupe was Beiwu, then the two companies are now completely in confrontation? Each side plays their own repertoire? 】

[Interesting, really interesting, come and place your bets! I am the first to support the second group! The second group represents us ordinary students. The people in the first group are too far away and feel like they are not from the same world! 】

[Why is it not a world anymore? I support the first group. The first group represents the highest strength of the school. Does anyone really think that the people from the second group can beat the first group? 】

At this moment, the contradiction between the second band and the first band has been fully demonstrated.

The school gradually divided into two groups.

One faction supports the first regiment, and the other faction supports the second regiment.

However, it soon became apparent that the second group had fewer supporters.

[One thing to say is that the second team has performed very well recently and was able to take first place in the Haicheng competition before. I think the second team actually has a chance to beat the first team! 】

[No, no, no, the second team just won a championship within Haicheng Dabin, and that’s it. Doesn’t anyone really think that the second team is strong enough to defeat the first team? 】

[To put it bluntly, only those who fail the Haiyin test will choose to study music in other schools. Just put it this way, can any of you name another school that can catch up with ours? 】

[The Haiyin Second Troupe in our school is not bad, right? Isn’t Qin Xian the chief of the Second Troupe now? I remember someone said a few days ago that Qin Xian was recovering and his musical expression was very strong? 】

[I don’t know, but if Qin Xian is the only one, I feel like they won’t be able to defeat Yituan, because Zhao Xi is also in Yituan? Zhao Xi is really my male god! You play the violin well and your skills are high! 】

[Come on, the second team. Although I feel that the second team will lose, the second team is not that bad. It is still somewhat manageable.]

[No, does the group have any special achievements now? Is this the current group of people? To put it bluntly, what kind of champion are you? 】

[That is, the second group is at least the champion in the Haicheng competition. The first group has been practicing every day and occasionally performing a few times. It has not won any awards. In the last nine-school competition, it lost to the Central Government. China Conservatory of Music, how dare you say that you are the best in Haicheng? 】

[The first group is still strong, the second group is just as good, so stop arguing...]

[Second Group: I'm sorry, Mr. First Group, I didn't let you have enough fun! 】

【…】

Intense discussions filled Haiyin's forum and group chat.

Everyone is discussing the confrontation between one group and two groups.

As a new band, the second band won the Haicheng championship in their first performance. Their performance was particularly strong, and there were many well-known characters in the band.

For example, Chen Qiu, the boss of the command department, single-handedly defeated the chosen ones from all grades in the school and became the only beneficiary of the talent training strategy in the command department. He can basically be regarded as the strongest among the students. .

And their chief, Qin Xian, is a well-known figure.

I heard that he entered the exam with the first rank. Although I don’t know why he became depressed later and his grades plummeted, but recently I heard that his condition has recovered a lot and he has returned to the professional level of the year.

And during the Haicheng competition, he single-handedly raised the level and strength of the Haiyin Second Regiment by several levels.

Although there are many students in other departments with poor grades, there are also some who are at the middle level of the school, or players with their own characteristics.

For example, Ai Gu, who is a percussionist, although his grades are relatively average, he is a strong player in the rock band and jazz band formed by the students. Many people even come to learn rock, jazz, and pop drums from him. style of play.

Well, only rock, jazz, pop, those themes that interest him.

If he encounters a work that he is not interested in, then he will probably become ordinary and mediocre like everyone else, with nothing worth boasting about in music.

There are other people who are almost similar to Ai Gu.

Although they are all weak, it can be said that they all have their own talents.

Even if the overall level is not as good as that of the First Group, the Second Group is really not the kind that is completely powerless to fight back.

Therefore, even if they are not particularly optimistic about the second regiment, everyone is still willing to give the second regiment some hope to see if they can give the first regiment a little threat.

There was no deliberate attempt to hide the atmosphere in the school.

Therefore, everyone in the second group obviously felt the discrimination against them by many people in the school, and the expectations of a small number of people.

They really want to tell everyone that their strength is not weak.

But after thinking about it, I finally gave up.

Because Chen Qiu said it.

The strength of both sides is not expressed, but compared.

There is no point in talking so much. If you really want to convince everyone, it is better to go directly and give a small shock to the people in the first group.

Therefore, everyone in the orchestra calmed down and continued to hone the details of the music with Chen Qiu, waiting for the subsequent performances to give the group a little color.

Naturally, the first group would not jump out and ridicule the second group at this time.

They were just practicing their content as before, focusing on the one they were particularly familiar with, Beiwu, Destiny.

Since the people of the second group can use this to win the Haicheng championship, and start to make people in the school feel that they are stronger than the first group.

Then use their works as a gift in return!
The atmosphere between the two groups became more and more anxious after the poster was posted.

And this anxiety also spread to other schools in Haicheng.

Haiyin itself is the largest music school in Haicheng, and is even the target of students from music departments in other universities, art schools, and even specialized music schools.

Whenever there is nothing to do, many people will come to Haiyin to listen to the lectures, and even attend the classes.

Coupled with the recent announcement of alt accounts from various schools, Haiyin's side won the first place in Haicheng Dabinei.

Therefore, the movements of Haiyin's second team have become a concern for several other schools that have also entered the national competition.

After all, as the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

Now Haiyin's first group is going to hold a concert with the second group, so it's time to see what the level and strength of the second group are.

They will then enter the national competition to see what kind of strategy they will adopt.

Suddenly, various schools began to contact Haiyin overtly and covertly to see what kind of plan they would adopt, and to see if they could be invited to come and listen to the level of their school's student orchestra.

Haiyin was not afraid of this.

They don't care what others come over to learn from, after all, no matter how many little tricks they have against their absolute strength, it's just a sideshow that makes people laugh.

Therefore, Haiyin also discussed with Chen Qiu to see where to place the performances of the two orchestras. Should it be placed in the school's concert hall or in Chen Qiu's home concert hall.

The two are actually about the same size, both being medium-sized concert halls with a capacity of six to seven hundred people.

However, the school concert hall is the practice place for Haiyin Group, and they are more familiar with the school concert hall.

The Chen Qiujia Concert Hall is the practice place for the second group.

If Chen Qiu needs it, the school can give him some convenience so that his second team can perform better.

Chen Qiu struggled with this for a long time, and finally decided to hold the concert in the school.

After all, the gap on the field is actually not that big for the conductor.

These are all things a conductor can do on the spot.

Soon, the school approved Chen Qiuhe's application as a group conductor, and specific news about this performance was released on the school's official website and WeChat official account.

In order to control the flow of people, this collaborative performance will be the same as regular master classes and forum lectures. Everyone will not be admitted directly, but a reservation system will be adopted.

Tickets need to be reserved in advance and are first come, first served.

Each school was allocated a little bit, but not many, probably about a dozen.

Although it seems to be for these schools, in fact, a large part of these tickets are for the orchestra conductors behind the schools.

For example, Wang Hai and Zhao Yi's group.

That group of people brought some people from the school band they had recently taken over to communicate with each other and improve each other's level and strength.

For Haiyin, they are not too afraid. On the contrary, they are very welcoming.

After all, this is also part of how they show their strength.

This group of people may be mercenaries from other schools now, but later on, these commanders will be bosses who come to recruit new members!
How could you not serve me well?
Because of this, Haiyin not only sent invitation letters to various schools, but even individually marked several of the tickets for the best seats, wrote the names of each conductor on them, and invited them to come and visit.

The first confrontation between the first and second regiments was particularly eye-catching under such a storm.

And time, under such expectations, came to the day of the confrontation between the first and second regiments of Haiyin.

Haicheng urban area.

Family building near Haicheng Symphony Orchestra.

Zhao Yi sat upright at the square table, holding the rice in one hand, listening to the music playing in his ears very carefully, picking up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks, placing it on the rice, and then loosened it.

Let the chopsticks hold the steaming rice underneath, holding a small piece of yellow croaker meat on top. Wait until the juice overflowing from the fish meat soaks the rice, and then put it into your mouth.

The movements are meticulous and extremely standard, without any unnecessary movements.

Just like a veteran cadre, profound and steady.

This is his lunch, a simple bowl of braised small yellow croaker.

With such a dish, he can finish two bowls of rice in one go.

If the practice music from the band in his ears satisfies him, he can even mix it with the remaining sauce and finish off an extra bowl of rice.

But today, when he heard the sound coming from his ears, his hand that was about to pick up another chopstick of fish couldn't help but stopped. He sighed slowly and looked at Zhao Zitong who was carrying his bag and was about to go out. Suddenly, He spoke.

"Are you going to band rehearsal today?"

Zhao Zitong stopped, and she was obviously a little surprised.

She never expected that her father, who had always been opposed to her studying conducting, would actually ask her about the school orchestra today.

Since the last time she suddenly appeared at the Haicheng Competition, representing the Eastern Normal University, she and her father had not spoken for a long time.

Of course, there may be a lot of guilt on her part, and it also has a lot to do with the fact that she doesn't dare to speak when she sees her father's serious face.

After all, the two had discussed this matter before, and her father still insisted that she had no talent and that continuing to study would be a waste of time and that it would be difficult to find a job in the future.

Although the orchestra as a whole is like a company and is divided into various departments, the orchestra is not a company after all.

Zhao Yi did not have the ability to arrange her as a conductor into a professional orchestra unless the orchestra did not want to continue to develop.

The most that can be done is for her to enter a certain school and become a teacher in the command department, and that's all.

Or she could find someone to help her develop in other industries.

But the problem now is that Zhao Zitong insists on learning command, and he just wants to develop in the direction of command.

In this situation, Zhao Yi's connections and abilities couldn't help at all. He could only watch her go down a dead end, but there was nothing he could do.

Therefore, Zhao Yi has always been very opposed to her learning to conduct and kept saying that.

"For those who are unable to reach the top without talent, continuing to study will only be useless. It is better to find a good major. It will be easier to find a job in the future and you can support yourself."

However, Zhao Zitong never agreed, which also caused the two to fall into a brief cold war.

It lasted all summer until now.

But she didn't expect that it was her father who started the topic first.

She turned to look at her father behind her, frowned, and spoke with a hint of defensiveness.

"What's wrong? I remember I said it many times before, right? I just want to learn command. You said I have no talent and it's useless. I won't stop learning!"

"..."

Zhao Yi didn't know what to say. He looked at the rice in the bowl and then at the small yellow croaker, and suddenly lost his appetite.

I've only eaten half a bowl of rice and haven't finished the whole bowl. What a pity...

He couldn't help but put down the rice bowl in his hand, glanced at his slightly defensive daughter, shook his head, got up and walked to the cabinet at the door of the house, turned out an envelope, then looked at her and asked her.

"Do you know that there has been a lot of commotion here in Haicheng recently about the concert of the Haiyin First and Second Troupes?"

"Yes, I know. Haiyin has also given us an invitation letter. I plan to go over and have a listen. What's wrong?" Zhao Zitong asked in confusion, "What does this have to do with me going to the orchestra?"

"I'm just giving you my vote."

Zhao Yi shook his head, handed the envelope in his hand to Zhao Zitong, and said to her calmly:

"Sit in the front row and listen carefully, and you will know how huge the gap is between you and genius."

Zhao Zitong suddenly felt a little stressed and immediately said: "So what if it's huge? I just want to learn! I just like conducting, okay? If you don't teach me, of course I will find another teacher!"

"I don't want to argue with you." Zhao Yi raised his hand to stop Zhao Zitong's subsequent remarks.

He looked into Zhao Zitong's eyes and said calmly.

"There is a difference between love and career. If you only have love but no talent, if you treat it as your career, you will only feel pain. Believe me, I know this better than you!"

"But you are the number one conductor in Haicheng and the top three conductors in the country! How do you know..."

"Because I've seen and taught people like this."

Zhao Yi shook his head and put the ticket in Zhao Zitong's hand.

He wanted to reach out and rub her head, but found that she was no longer as tall as she was when she was a child. She couldn't help but put down her raised hand, turned around and returned to her seat, picked up the rice again, and said coldly.

"I've given you the ticket. You can do whatever you want. I won't watch this one. I'll go to the national competition to listen."

After saying that, he stretched out his chopsticks again to pick up the fish on the plate. He picked it up two or three times before picking it up.

Zhao Zitong looked at Zhao Yi and couldn't help but pursed his lips. He didn't say anything. He just stuffed the tickets in his hand into his schoolbag and turned around to leave without looking back.

Along with the sound of the door closing, there was an inaudible sound.

Zhao Yi sighed.

　Tonight, probably, there will be another chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)