Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 401 102. Please interact, Little Sonata Battle

Applause greeted the first young player.

The little player was wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and a red bow tie around his neck.

Everyone always pays special attention to the first contestant.

Under everyone's gaze, Ma Xiangyu walked towards the piano in the center of the field.

The child's steps are short, the moving speed is visible and stable to the naked eye, and the hands are slightly swaying on both sides of the body, looking relaxed and natural.

Not bad, all the judges nodded.

Usually children of this age are performing on the public stage, and the process of going on stage will be more or less restrained.

Although this kid Ma Xiangyu can't talk about retracting and releasing freely, at least his body is still loose.

Ang Lee wanted to give this kid three more points at this stage, because the opponent was the first player to appear on the stage, and it was really good to be able to show such a state.

Subconsciously glanced at the column of the child's instructor.

Sun Hao.

He doesn't know.

Listen to it.

Listen first, Li An reminded himself to lower his expectations.

If he also arranges Mozart's works this time, there is no doubt that he will still only arrange for Che Lin.

Young contestant Ma Xiangyu had already sat down on the stage, set up a small model on the piano platform after debugging, and then began to play.

"when--"

"when-"

The two voices of the left and right hands sounded on the piano almost simultaneously, and Li An put down the pen in his hand.

To be a little stricter, at the beginning of this piece, the child has already failed.

Don’t talk about timbre, Mozart’s left-hand ligature, just talk about the basic requirements of the sheet music, just talk about the first note of the whole piece. Can't wait to fall down.

This way of playing makes people sound uncomfortable.

To make an inappropriate analogy, it's like there should be a 1 between 3 and 2, but this child wants to fill in a 1.5.

The first problem is that the left and right accompaniments are not aligned with the right-hand forehand. The second problem is still regardless of the style. Because it is an A major work, there will inevitably be black keys in the work. There is a noticeable decrease in the dynamics of the key up and the down key, with a feeling of stiffness, which leads to music blockage.

This sound requires the thumb of the left hand to cooperate with the wrist movement to complete. Considering the span of the left hand accompaniment in the last section is slightly larger, the key down here really needs to be given a certain degree of attention, but the child seems to be reluctant to reach this sound with his thumb. Then press it.

In the second question, two basic problems of the child are exposed.
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Wu Fusheng blinked.

First, the vertical position of the left thumb is not well grasped.
Second, the movement technique of the left wrist during performance is seriously substandard.

Wrist problems are even bigger than finger problems.

After listening to the complete song, Wu Fusheng then closed the scoring book in his hand.

Lao Tang with his left hand scored 70 points behind Ma Xiangyu's name, and Jin Jiaqi with his right hand scored 35 points for Ma Xiangyu.

Under the applause, Lao Tang asked Wu Fusheng in a low voice: "How did you get together?"

While applauding, Wu Fusheng glanced sideways at the grading booklet in Lao Tang's hand, and said with a smile, "How dare you give it."

Lao Tang haha: "I think the back is not bad, and there are a few small connections that play pretty well."
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The applause fell, and the No.2 young player was preparing to appear on the stage during the broadcast.

Li An didn't rush to pick up the pen, neither did Huang Juan and Wu Bin in his left hand, but the old man on his right side turned to ask him jokingly: "What does Consultant Li think of this kid?"

The old man from the art association came here to make up the numbers and earn some extra money. Qin Yong specially arranged the seating order, and he also greeted Li An in advance. Last year, the old man helped a little when Blue Sky selected advanced art units.

Li An smiled, "Your old man is here to test me again."

Old man Xia grinned, "Listen again."

From the morning meal to the meeting, this old man Xia sat with Li An all the time.
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The second young contestant came on stage, a little girl in a red skirt, 11 years old, chubby and cute.

From stepping on stage to taking a seat, he behaved cautiously, with a little tightness, obviously not as relaxed as Ma Xiangyu.

The repertoire is also a very famous work in the classicism period, Clementi's C major minor sonata.

op36-1.

Almost 70.00% of the piano boys have played this work, which can be described as a classic among classics.

Even those who have never played the piano, can dig out a trace of impression from the depths of memory when they hear the opening melody.

Similarly, this is also a work that was played badly in the competition, and the appearance rate is no lower than that of Mozart k545.

Although the difficulty of the two songs is not at the same level, the former is around level 3, and the latter is around level 6, but with Ang Lee's teaching and performance experience, children who can play Clementi 36-1 well at the third level have great potential in the future. The probability can play Mozart k6 decently at around level 545.

On the other hand, if a child who can't play k545 well even after passing the eighth grade is asked to play the third grade Clementi 3-36, Ang Lee can guarantee that he will not be able to play well.

There is a very important keyword in it, the small sonatas, including the small sonatas written by a series of important composers in the classical period such as Kurauhaydn Beethoven, are really more than just as simple as they appear on the scoreboard.

You must know that their father is the sonata. With the development of piano music to this day, the sonata is the second among all the musical themes, and no other form dares to claim the number one.

Expanding the sonata form is no less than a stereotyped essay.

Then the little sonata, at least take a look around.

Li An looked at the child's playing posture on the stage and his expressionless face, and he thought that the child must be unhappy in his heart.

At least that's what the piano sound told him.

After listening to the second movement Adagio, the girl in the red dress in front of the piano stood up, Ang Lee was taken aback, and the third movement was not played?
"Wow——"

The child bowed and stepped down.

Huang Juan started to score and gave a score of 75.

Then one by one the judges began to write.

Li An saw that old man Xia gave the girl a score of 82, and then gave Ma Xiangyu above him a score of 85.

He intends to wait.

Wait for the first five children to finish.

His eyes fell on the instructor of the third child, and he was quite looking forward to it. Of course, another reason was that the child's name was mentioned in the message Jia Mingyu gave him.

"Group A No. 003, Li Tong, performing repertoire, Czerny 139 etude, 54."

Li An took the lead in applauding, and Old Man Xia followed suit.

Li Tong didn't look much older than the last girl in a red skirt. She wore glasses and walked with her arms swaying naturally.

Bow down, adjust the bench, and take a few extra breaths before getting ready to play.

Li An noticed this detail and gave him a good review in his heart.

He didn't know how the senior sister chose such a song, it was biased enough, and to a certain extent, it was difficult enough for children of this age.

Quietly, even I have never practiced this etude.

With a soft breath, Li Tong pressed the keys with both hands in front of the piano at the same time.

Music followed.

The combination of the completely asymmetrical melody and accompaniment actually gives people a sense of harmony.

Li An gave the child a thumbs up when he heard this.
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Hearing the fourth verse, Lao Tang was also relieved, it was okay, when he saw this piece, he was really worried that the child could not play it well.

As a contestant who has performed all of Czerny's works, if he is asked to choose a work that he thinks is representative in this set of 139, he will first think of No. 54.

作为一本从599到849过渡的教材，139从编排上远不如599和849那么集中系统，但它最大的特点——主打一个双手不对称节奏的训练。

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What is asymmetry training for both hands, this time I will give a proper example.

Make a little game.

You now hold out your left and right hands.

Place the backs of the hands up on the legs.

Then lift it up and keep it still.

Take a deep breath and count 1, 2, 3, 4 in your mind.

Then put your hands down at the same time, touch your legs and lift them up again.

Move from up to down, and then rise back to the original position, that is, up and down, which is called a beat.

Now fall down and lift up again, the speed of lifting up and down does not matter, as long as it is even, cycle several times.

Hey, this is called rhythm training.

The rhythm training we just did is a symmetrical exercise with both hands in the same direction.

A clap with the left hand and a clap with the right hand at the same time.

Simple.

OK, now for the request.

Take three beats with the left hand and two beats with the right hand, and it is required to complete them at the same time, that is, when the left hand completes the third beat, the right hand needs to complete the second beat at the same time.

Try it guys.

This is called three-on-two (two-on-three), asymmetric rhythm training with both hands.

If you finish it the first time and think it is too simple, then I have to say sorry for you, you might as well call out 1, 2, 3, 4 and try again on this basis.

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139 is such a textbook, and asymmetric technical training is its biggest highlight.

The 54th piece is one of the quite difficult ones. It focuses on the asymmetrical training of the left and right hands of three to two and four to three. It is a very difficult piece in the same Chengdu.

Wu Fusheng had to say that this kid named Li Tong was pretty good, and that a kid of this level wanted to play the asymmetrical rhythm of the series so evenly and maintain the speed, not only needed some talent, but also a considerable amount of practice.

In terms of melodiousness, this Czerny etude is definitely not as good as the two sonatas just now, but in terms of completeness, Li An believes that Li Tong is the best among the three children.

Is there no music in the etude?
Even for Czerny, who has been appraised by some as a "highly productive composer on the assembly line", his etudes are not all musical.

The key is to find the music in it.

Ang Lee has never played this piece, but he has ears. When the melody of Li Tong's subordinates is transferred from the right hand to the left hand, the right hand becomes the accompaniment, and three-on-two becomes two-on-three. Double-voiced chords, here Li Tong not only did not change the rhythm of the asymmetrical rhythm, but at the same time his right hand instantly weakened, giving up the volume to the left-hand melody.

Music flows slowly from the bass register.

All the conversions were done in one breath, and Li Tong completed all of them with high quality.

"Wow——"

After Li Tong played the piano, he got up and played the piano, turned around and bowed to step off the stage, a series of movements flowed smoothly.

Li Anxin laughed at Senior Sister, it's true, what's the point of saying hello at this level, she's a solid rematch player.

Pick up the pen and hit three scores from top to bottom, 83, 80, 92.

Seeing the three points scored by Li An, Old Man Xia followed Li Tong's name with an 88. He originally wanted to give Li Tong a 90, but after one more person, he would be Li An's student.

This is what Old Man Xia was thinking about.

"Group A No. 004, Zhang Wuhaohan, the repertoire, Kurau Sonata in D major."

Another little sonata.

Many parents in the audience have discovered this problem, why are they all sonatas.

"Wow——"

Applause greeted the fourth contestant.

This contestant is also the first Lantian student to appear on the stage, a student of Mr. Song in Linyin Campus.

The little player No. [-] may be a little nervous. He started to play after bowing and sitting down. He was not ready to play, and the speed was too fast, which caused the left and right hands to be out of alignment in the second measure.

It can be said that the rhythm is a mess.

This kid started off with a good tempo, but he also had problems later on, and the song was brought on stage before he had practiced it well.

Among the three sonatas, this student Hao Han had the most problems playing. According to the grading standards set at the meeting in the morning, Li An didn't even know how to rate this child.

Hey, Li An sighed, and scanned the column of the child's instructor again, Song Lina.

He remembered the name of this colleague.

Seeing that little contestant No. [-] was about to finish playing, Li An couldn't help but glance at the backstage entrance.

I don't know what Xiao Liu is doing now.

Yesterday he vowed not to worry, but now that he was sitting in this position, and thinking that his children were about to take the stage, he became a little nervous instead.

"Wow——"

Applause sent off the fourth contestant, and greeted the fifth contestant.

"Group A No. 005, Liu Fengrui, performance, Black, Goblin Dance."

Hearing it was this song, Wu Fusheng nodded, finally something new.

Seeing Wu Fusheng's appearance, Old Tang couldn't help but smile. He and Jin Jiaqi looked at each other tacitly, and they decided not to remind Wu Fusheng that he was Li An's student.

After the voice broadcast came down, all the judges looked around the room.

On the grading forms in everyone's hands, Li An's name was capitalized in the column of Liu Fengrun's instructor.

Li An didn't know that someone was looking at him. At this moment, all his attention was on Xiao Liu who appeared on the stage.

It was the first time that I sat under the stage as a judge and watched my students walk on the stage. It turned out to be this feeling.

It was a bit complicated, and he said cheers to Xiao Liu in his heart.

On the other hand, on the stage, Xiao Liu, who was dressed in black clothes and trousers, looked very thin, and his whole body felt unbelievably relaxed. He walked to the piano, bowed and sat down, adjusted the piano bench, then shrugged and raised his hands.

Li An stared at the stage without blinking, but he reminded himself to relax and reminded himself that he was just a judge teacher now.

The timing of his hands was exactly the same as he expected. The moment Xiao Liu dropped the key, his entire upper body tilted towards the keyboard visibly, and his hands seemed to be pushed onto the keyboard by his body through his arms.

"when--"

A bright dominant seventh chord slammed heavily from the castanets raised from the piano to the sky above the stage.

Wu Fusheng sat up in the audience. He didn't sit up because the child's first set of chords was perfect.

It was he who heard a very beautiful major chord force, and he was sure that there must be a teacher who is very proficient in arm force behind this movement.

With just one chord, he could feel the difference in the child's fingers.

Resisting the urge to flip through the grade book, he focused on the oncoming fast run.

After listening to it for a while, he smiled lightly, the familiar feeling of loose keys.

If Li An regards him as an opponent, he dare not say that he is the opponent who knows Li Ang best, but he also knows that level quite well.

He has carefully studied many videos of Ang Lee's performance, and Ang Lee pointed out that there is a very, very obvious feature.

(End of this chapter)