pianist from the sea

Chapter 43 The Big Brother Appears
In the past few days, Fu Tiao has made rapid progress in music, and he put all his attention on the synthesis of musical feelings.

He wakes up at about six o'clock every morning, carefully gets out of bed and runs directly to the library, puts on earphones and a pile of draft paper, and starts listening and writing non-stop, and then goes to the piano room to play Some impromptu things, without going back to touch any Chopin content, so as to allow myself to have a deeper understanding of music.

It is worth mentioning that, before Fu Tiao, Chopin’s polonaises, which were still a little incomplete, that is, those works written by Chopin when he was a child, have basically been thoroughly understood by Fu Tiao, even to the point of knowing them like the palm of his hand.

How well understood?

That is, if you just say a chord progression, Fu Tiao can play all the places with the same chord progression in that piece of work.

And if you directly say the number of measures, for example, if you directly tell Fu Tiao, start from the fourth beat of the third measure of Chopin's Polonaise No. 20 in b minor.

Fu Tiao doesn’t even need to watch, he can play the music for you after a preview in his mind.

You don't even need to hum, just say it.

It would be even better if you can hum for a while. Fu Tiao can directly follow where you hum, and continue to play at the rhythm and speed you give.

It's fine if it's just familiarity, the point is... Among the works of Fu Tiao, Chopin has a strong feeling!

The feeling of a little genius.

That is, you can really hear the existence of Chopin from Fu Tiao's music.

If you look at Fu Tiao playing on the piano, you might even mistake him for Chopin, even though Fu Tiao and Chopin look almost completely different.

……

The music ends.

Fu Tiao put all his understanding of Chopin in front of He Shen, and He Shen looked at Fu Tiao with a slightly strange expression.

"These...are you practicing these two days?" He Shen's tone was a little uncertain.

Fu Tiao didn't hesitate: "Yes, I have been listening to other people's performances, and then paired them with some records in the literature to completely combine the two, barely forming the feeling that I can play at present. Sample?"

"This feeling……"

He Shen pondered for a moment, then nodded slowly: "It's interesting, but it's not enough. What you're playing now is Chopin's earlier content. Among them, Chopin's things are not many. He is still at the stage of genius. He Most of his works imitate other composers' writing, rather than his own stuff... But you can play Chopin's childhood works so well, it is indeed a little bit beyond my expectation In addition, I never thought that you could practice such a powerful work in such a short period of time."

"but……"

Just when Fu Tiao was about to accept He Shen's compliment, He Shen suddenly had a turning point, and he asked Fu Tiao.

"However, I have a question now. The early works of Chopin you practiced before, and the early, middle, middle and late works of Chopin that you heard later, there is a big difference between the feeling of listening to these works and the feeling of practicing these works. ?"

The smile on Fu Tiao's face gradually disappeared, and his brows could not help but frown. He was lost in thought, and then slowly shook his head: "It's very big, it feels like a work of two worlds, even if I completely construct one of Chopin's early works. image, but I still lack a lot of feelings about Chopin’s early and mid-period, and I feel that there is a very big leap in this early and mid-period works, which is completely different from what I thought.”

"Huh? Let's talk about it later." He Shen nodded and guided, "Is there anything unclear."

Fu Tiao said while thinking: "It's just that I feel that when I play some works that are close to the middle stage, I always feel that it is difficult to understand everything in the music. I feel that I seem to be missing something in it."

"For example, when I just started, I played Chopin's first work, which is the Polonaise in G minor. It took me about a day to read this work, from reading to analyzing to interpreting it. It took me a day, and I played this piece of work to an almost perfect state, just like what you just heard, teacher, but..."

"However, Chopin's second works began to be a little fuzzy, and I didn't feel so thorough. I didn't gradually understand the performance of these works until the teacher took me and asked me to listen to other people's performances. method to reach the current state.”

"But later... no, to be precise, the more difficult it is for me to understand some things in Chopin's music, and the time it takes me to complete a piece of work is no longer a few hours, but half a day, or even a day. The speed of progress..."

"The speed is getting slower and slower, and there are more and more details in the music. It is becoming more and more difficult for me to establish the feeling of Chopin's music. I always feel that the music has become particularly scattered..."

Fu Tiao raised his head and looked at He Shen, who seemed to have a smile in the corner of his eyes, and asked, "So... how should I improve? Or should I continue to practice according to my current method and spend time honing it? "

"Do not……"

He Shen looked at Fu Tiao with great interest. The more he looked at Fu Tiao, the more he felt incredible. He smiled and said:

"I really didn't expect you to be able to think so much in two days. Chopin's early works are indeed relatively simple. It is really interesting that you can practice well and build your own practice method. Although this practice method There are still a little bit of flaws, but this practice method is already a bit mature, just a little short of the last point."

"What's the difference?"

"A stone from another mountain!"

He Shen got up, walked to the window next to the piano room, looked up at the dense crowd below him, and asked.

"I told you before that we need to attend the Haicheng International Piano Teaching Conference, remember? At the end of the last class, I told you."

"Well, remember."

"So have you been to any classes lately?"

"not yet……"

"If you have time, you can listen to it. After all, those who can give lectures are basically famous professors in China, so this conference is good for you. Listen to what others think. And how those teachers taught it."

After finishing speaking, He Shen shook his head, walked to Fu Tiao's side, reached out to pat him on the shoulder, and opened the door.

"Come on, let's go, there just happened to be a speech tonight, it was by Teacher Shan Yi, and it was about the interpretation of the teaching of modern Chopin's works. I made an appointment with the school for two places before, you can go with me, go Listen to what Teacher Shan Yi said."

"His explanation should be able to have a further effect on you, after all...he really taught Chopin International Piano Competition champion!"

(End of this chapter)