pianist from the sea

Chapter 199
Fu Tiao turned his head, looked at He Shen who had just handed out the admission ticket, and...then who was standing beside him, and couldn't help being taken aback.

He didn't expect that He Shen would come at all, and he didn't expect that He Shen would not come alone, but brought a very familiar person with him, so familiar that he couldn't say her name.

He Shen also did not expect that Fu Diao would be in this place.

He does know that Fu Tiao plays jazz very well, and he will come to Paris for vacation this week to prepare for his concert. He also thought that he might run into Fu Tiao on the streets of Paris, but he never thought that it would be Came across this place.

He Shen didn't think too much, and immediately took Zhao Zitong to take two steps forward, walked to Fu Diao's side and sat down, raised his hand to ask for two glasses of beer, and couldn't help asking.

"No, Fu Tiao, why did you come here? I came here to play with a one-time admission pass that my friend asked for, how about you? If I remember correctly, you probably don't have any friends?"

Speaking of this, He Shen felt something was wrong, and immediately explained: "I don't mean that you have a bad personality, dull and weird, and it is difficult to make friends. Don't get me wrong, I just said that you are in Europe recently. On tour, it's hard to meet someone who can communicate all the time...forget it."

He Shen always felt something was wrong while talking, so he immediately stopped talking and looked expectantly at Zhao Zitong beside him.

He felt that he might not be able to speak a little.

Zhao Zitong sighed at this time, scratched He Shen's back, and said to Fu Tiao.

"He Shen, what he means is, why are you here, and what channels did you learn about this place?"

"It's nothing, it's just that when I was on tour before, the principal of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels gave me an invitation letter, inviting me to become a member of their club."

Fu Tiao smiled and took a sip of the mineral water on the table, and said to He Shen, "I also didn't expect you two to come."

"Wait, the principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels?" He Shen couldn't help but become weird when he heard this: "How many days have we been separated? It seems to be more than a month? Why can you already talk to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels?" What about the principal of the college who is on friendship? Why do I feel that we are separated not for a month but for a year?"

"When I was in the encore encore, I used the students of their school to help and gave them a stage, and then the principal of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels gave me this card as a thank you, as if I was a member of some kind Card."

"Is that so..."

He Shen scratched his head.

My head hurts, I feel like I'm going to grow my brain.

He Shen, whose student won the Chopin International Piano Competition, actually feels only proud. After all, you can say that Fu Tiao learned from him.

But now, I have asked my friend for a pass for a long time, and Fu Tiao has become a member and can send it directly. This is not pride, but sadness.

My own students surpassed my heartache in a strange social status when I didn't know it.

And... why did I have to ask my friends to ask for it?It seems that he still owes that person five drinks!
He Shen had mixed feelings in his heart. After hesitating for a long time, he finally sighed and shook his head.

"Made, obviously I am the teacher, why am I somehow worse than my students..."

"Relax, this is just the beginning, there are still things you envy in the future."

Zhao Zitong touched He Shen's back with a smile, and then verbally gave He Shen another blow: "Fu Tiao is 20 years younger than you now, and he has a bright future."

"Don't say it, don't say it, please don't say it, it's already embarrassing enough to compare yourself with your own students, so don't make me up again."

He Shen's expression became more painful after hearing this, and he immediately begged Zhao Zitong for mercy.

Fu Tiao sat on the side and laughed watching the two of them fight, sipping the mineral water in his mouth, staring at the piano on the stage in a daze.

Unexpectedly, his teacher He Shen came to this place to participate in this small gathering.

And according to what Mr. He Shen said, it was not easy for him to get this ticket. It seemed that he had to rely on a lot of relationships to get this ticket.

So from this point of view, that Hiromi Ishihara may be very famous, otherwise it would be impossible to attract so many people to listen.

Fu Tiao looked at the two people who were playing the piano to express their love, and couldn't help asking.

"Mr. He, is Hiromi Ishihara's jazz really that strong? Can it attract so many people to listen?"

"Ishihara Hiromi?"

He Shen couldn't help but stop what he was doing when he heard Fu Tiao's doubts. After looking at Fu Tiao for a while, he replied: "Her jazz is really strong, and she may be the strongest jazz pianist among the younger generation. Right? Her status is even a bit like Lang Liangyue of our country, but because jazz is less popular than classical, she has never given a concert in such a huge place."

Speaking of this, He Shen paused and added: "Although I don't know why you mentioned her, but with so many people here today, her attraction is actually only about 40%, and the rest is Came for Kapustin."

"Capsteen?"

Fu Diao didn't expect to hear a new name.

He Shen explained: "Kapustin is similar to Ishihara Hiromi. Both of them never think of themselves as jazz pianists. They think of themselves as ordinary classical musicians. Kapustin's jazz The status is higher, and the works he created, no matter which ones, are almost the pinnacle of this combination of jazz and classical music."

"Jazz, the combination of classical?"

Fu Tiao's eyes lit up when he heard this.

What he has been doing recently is actually a work similar to the combination of classical jazz. Although it is relatively simple, it is basically based on showing off skills, combined with his own understanding of jazz, and Chopin's main theme, to create a half-jazz and half-classical music. music playing.

This kind of work is very good for encores and show offs, but it seems a bit frivolous when used as a concert piece.

Therefore, Fu Tiao was really curious about what kind of situation is going on today.

People were still coming in, and when it was around seven o'clock in the evening, the workers went to put away the sign at the door, and even closed the door.

Although acquaintances can still push the door and enter, passers-by outside have no way of finding out that this place is a small bar.

Everyone in the bar was already sitting in their seats, laughing and chatting.

The house is a bit noisy.

And just under the noise, an Asian woman wearing a red dress and silver-white high-heeled shoes pulled her skirt, jumped two steps forward, walked to the center of the stage, waved vigorously at the crowd, and laughed shouted.

"Hello everyone! Why are you all sitting there? Didn't you say it was a jazz exchange? I came here for this exchange. What are you guys doing sitting there?"

"Hiromi!"

The people off the stage immediately cheered loudly.

Fu Diao looked at He Shen beside him, and He Shen immediately pointed to her and introduced, "Hiromi Ishihara, she was the one you asked me before."

Hiromi Ishihara stood on the stage, looked at the people sitting there, thought for a while, stretched out a finger across the crowd, and finally stopped somewhere in the distance and nodded.

"Caramel, Burke! I see you both! Come up!"

"No... Hiromi, why did so many people order just the two of us?"

"Stop talking nonsense, come on stage and have fun, we haven't played together in a long time, let me see if you two are getting stronger, don't be like last time, especially you, Burke, your bass last time It's really soft, it's completely different from your skin, I'll give you another chance this time."

"Hey! Hiromi, you are a girl, can you stop being so disgusting!"

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!"

Fu Tiao's gaze immediately turned to the position pointed by Hiromi Ishihara, where two people from unknown countries stood up, one white and one black.

Black is Burke, white is Caramel
The two glanced at each other, shrugged helplessly at the same time, took a few steps forward, and walked onto the stage.

Burke picked up the double bass placed on the ground, plucked a few strings casually, and after a slight adjustment, a very dynamic bass line came out of his violin.

On the other side, Caramel walked directly to the drum set, took out his drumsticks from his pocket, and after playing a drumstick, it was an extremely gorgeous show.

As Fu Diao said at the beginning, those present were either regular members of the jazz club, and their performance of jazz has almost reached the point of proficiency.

Or, just like He Shen, who watched the excitement, even if he was not a member, he knew something about jazz.

The three people on the stage showed off their skills crazily. The coolest one at the beginning was Caramel, who played the drum kit. The beat in his hands was extremely steady.

His left hand might be on seven, his right might be on twenty-three, his left foot on two, and his right foot on five.

It sounds chaotic, but if you listen carefully, you can find that his chaos is extremely orderly, and every beat is on the spot, which is extremely showy.

"This drummer is a bit powerful!"

He Shen also heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said: "The drummer's solo part can be played so steadily, no matter what tempo or technique is, there is no trace of confusion at all, technique, speed, and strength are all perfect. Combined, this person is awesome."

"really……"

Although Fu Diao had played jazz in this type of orchestra before, he had met many drummers.

But those people are obviously not one-tenth of the level of this person now.

And the person next to him playing the bass was even more so.

Under the tormented compound rhythm of the drummer, he can actually touch the bass in his hand in accordance with the drummer's playing habits, bringing a different rhythm, and the two are perfectly combined.

It may sound like nothing, but if you really imitate his operations, you can find out how strong his level is.

Hiromi Ishihara, who was standing on the stage, was visibly excited. She rushed to the piano quickly, fixed her eyes on the two people around her, her eyes gradually brightened, and she couldn't help laughing.

"That's right! Burke! I'm tickled by your bass playing. It's been a long time since I've heard you tease me like this..."

"Fuck off you Hiromi! Play your piano quickly, we have already done this, if you don't show some new tricks, you won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Ha ha ha, ok, see if I can't sleep or you two can't sleep, I just recently thought of a new music, let me think let me think, Caramel you give me space, your drum It's too hard, I have no room to play, give me a seven-beat melody."

After all, she smashed down an octave with force.

boom!
A huge sound sounded, and at the same time, just like the tail flame of a meteor passing by, the right hand above started the main theme she had just thought of.

There are no jazz chords, no special inflections, just a very simple seven-beat theme, a beat rarely seen in classical music.

And this melody caught everyone's ears the moment it came out.

It sounds good, it sounds good.

This melody is a melody that repeats all the time, and the bass of the left hand keeps hitting, changing the inversion of the chords, giving it a richer color.

Fu Tiao's eyes lit up involuntarily, and he turned to look at He Shen beside him, and asked involuntarily, "Is this modern jazz?"

"No, this should be... Sir Hiromi Ishihara!"

He Shen also looked at Hiromi Ishihara in front of him with a little excitement.

Hiromi Ishihara was not limited to the same melody and did not move. She soon came to a vibrato, and suddenly stopped the music, and then a more ear-catching melody flowed out of her hands.

Still seven beats.

It's just that her performance is extremely weird.

She was like a primary school student who had just learned the piano, using only the simplest finger in both hands to poke frantically on the piano.

A melody expanded from the main melody instantly stirred up waves from the piano.

As for Fu Diao, goosebumps arose.

At this moment, he felt something was wrong, because the music played by Hiromi Ishihara felt very strange.

The music she played is no longer like music played by the piano, but what is it like...

Fu Tiao thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a suitable adjective.

And at this moment, He Shen added from the sidelines.

"This place feels like an electric piano, or a game console? How did she manage to make the piano sound like this? What did she add?"

"I don't know, it seems to be a simulation form?"

Fu Diao pondered, but did not come up with a definite answer, but Hiromi Ishihara on the stage was completely excited.

No one knows what is going on in her head now, but her eyes are completely lit up, and you can even feel her body shaking, as if using a small electric toy.

Her body also left the piano bench, leaned forward, stepped on the pedal with her feet hard, and smashed the piano hard.

Every child who played the piano must have been beaten and cried by his parents, and every piano played by Hiromi Ishihara must have secretly cried behind his back.

At this moment, Hiromi Ishihara is completely different from the gentle and elegant pianist in everyone's mind. She is like a crazy woman, smashing the piano in her hand.

But if it's just smashing, it's completely impossible that so many people don't care about her, and no one will go to Paris to listen to her concert just for her alone.

Fu Tiao could clearly hear the restraint she maintained while she was excited.

Her left hand was pressing the keyboard, and it was still the same theme and lines as before, without any slight change, and the rhythm was not even messed up.

And the kind of smashing the keyboard with her right hand is not random smashing, what she smashed out with her fist is actually a chord?
Is this a show?

Looking at Hiromi Ishihara, Fu Tiao couldn't help but think so, but soon, he vetoed this idea.

Obviously, this is definitely not a show!This is the performance where she releases her inner excitement.

Like the chord she just played that she just dropped, it might sound weird.

Four consecutive notes together, no matter how you think, it can't be a chord!

But in fact, in some places, this can really be used as a chord.

For example, the transposition of the seventh chord to the fifth note and the ninth note is a perfect four-note chord.

Take the D minor seventh chord as an example, the first and third tones are d and f, the seventh is c, and the ninth is e. After inversion, it is a very normal cdef chord.

It sounds a bit weird, but formally such chords allow jazz to completely release all the possibilities of music and make the music wider.

When she was smashing the piano like a lunatic, she actually restrained her brain and calmed down her brain to perfectly press the chords and their directions.

Fu Tiao groped his arm, for some reason, he always felt like his skin was going to get goosebumps.

Calmness and madness are perfectly blended in the same person.

Just like that sentence in classical music.

The most difficult thing for a pianist is to keep the audience absolutely calm while exciting the audience.

Now this Hiromi Ishihara did it perfectly, and not only that, but she also excited herself at the same time.

While he was excited and crazy, he remained calm.

This kind of person, and the music she plays, is really scary.

Fu Tiao looked at Hiromi Ishihara and didn't know what to say, so he could only quietly enjoy her performance until the performance of her work of a few minutes was over.

Her arms flicked violently, her body trembling unceasingly, panting heavily.

Her hair has also changed from neat to messy, and you can still see her sweat at the ends of her hair.

Even though it only took a few minutes to play, it was like running an 800-meter race.

There was a loud applause.

She watched her performance and the applauding people around her, and couldn't help grinning. After wiping the sweat off her forehead with her arms, she said to the two people behind her.

"You two are really too soft. You don't have fun at all. It's boring. Go home and practice more, and try to make me more comfortable next time."

After that, she turned her head to look at the crowd, glanced at them, and licked her lips.

"But I heard that a very powerful newcomer came this time, named Fu Diao, do you know... where is he?"

　I don't know if writing like this will get blocked...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)