Please, come home and practice the piano

The melodious flute sound is as gorgeous as the sunset, and finally falls lightly.

The studio was filled with children's applause and cheers.

Like Teacher Li, Teacher Xiaomi also went through it again and again.

At this point all personal track recordings have been completed.

Next comes the real tough battle.

Ensemble Vivaldi Piano Septet.

After a brief cheer, Ang Lee asked the children to go out and get ready.

The boss ordered the staff to roll out three more pianos from the backstage, and at the same time removed the small sound mask used for personal recording.

With the sound mask removed, the stage is fully exposed, solemn and solemn, deeper and broader.

Four huge grand pianos are placed on the stage in pairs. They look quite majestic from a close perspective, but from a distance they only occupy the center area of ​​the stage.

This is what it’s like to record an ensemble recording.

Without the sound mask to assist the collection, children are bound to overcome a more difficult playing environment.

In view of the various situations that occurred in the previous recording, no one is completely sure that the direct recording of this scene will be successful.

But there is a way to minimize the difficulty of recording.

Laobian recommends equipping everyone with in-ear monitors.

This allows children to hear what they are playing clearly during the performance, and also allows children to hear other parts clearly.

This is indeed a solution to the problem, but Ang Lee still wanted to try direct recording first when time was limited.

There are still real differences in details between the live effects transmitted by ear return and the live effects heard by actual listening. This detail difference will also affect children's auditory judgment, causing children to encounter new obstacles in their performance.

If all of them are recorded back with ears, it is better to directly record separately and then synthesize them later, which is more efficient.

"Then let's get started." Since Ang Lee pursues absolutely real live effects, the old man said no more.

"Thank you, Brother Bian." After speaking, Li An left the recording studio, tidied up his appearance in the bathroom, and then came to the stage.

On the stage, Xiao Che and Ji Yang were rubbing the keys of a piano. Li An glanced over and saw that Liu Fengrui and Marco were reading music scores.

Not far away from the two of them, Xiaobei was also holding a sheet of music, but he had his head raised and his eyes closed, with his arms hanging down on his legs.

Fell asleep.

"Where's Wang Xiaohu?"

"He went to the bathroom." Ji Yang wiped his hands and looked over, laughing, "Xiao Bei fell asleep."

Li An nodded. After struggling all day, he could understand, "Are you two sleepy?"

"Not sleepy." Che Lin and Ji Yang shook their heads at the same time.

Ji Yangzheng yawned as he spoke, "Haha."

Li An knew that everyone was tired: "Keep on holding on, it will be over soon."

Ji Yang: "Teacher, shall I wake up Xiaobei?"

Li An: "I'll go."

Li An stepped off the stage and walked to Xiao Bei's side. He bent down to pick up the glasses on the ground and shouted softly: "Xiao Bei, Xiao Bei."

Xiaobei didn't move.

Li Anxin knew that the child was asleep, and raised his hand to push it gently, "Xiaobei, Xiaobei."

This time Xiaobei seemed to hear the teacher's voice, and opened her eyes in a daze, only to find the teacher's face right in front of her eyes.

"Teacher, why did I fall asleep?" Xiao Bei muttered and sat up. She looked around and found that her glasses were missing. Then she saw the teacher hand a pair of silver-rimmed glasses to her.

"Thank you, teacher." Xiaobei took the belt with a smile, and the world became clear again, "Teacher, are we going to record the ensemble?"

Li An: "Yes, are you still sleepy?"

"I'm not sleepy anymore!" Xiaobei felt much better now. She didn't know how she fell asleep just now.

"Okay, get up and walk around twice to wake up."

Li An patted Xiaobei on the shoulder, and then came to Liu Fengrui and Ma Kelai.

"teacher."

"teacher."

Li An: "Stop looking, get up and move around, we're ready to start."

The two put down their music and got up to move.

At this time, Wang Xiaohu came back from afar, ran to Li An, pulled Li An aside, and asked quietly: "Teacher, the toilets on the first floor are not divided into men and women?"

"What?" Li An frowned when he heard the sound.

When Wang Xiaohu saw the teacher's expression, he suddenly felt bad. He felt that he might have entered the women's restroom just now.

Li An then asked: "Did you enter the wrong toilet?"

Wang Xiaohu showed an embarrassed expression, raised his face and hesitated: "Probably, maybe, maybe, maybe."

Li An couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "You!"

"I don't even know what to say about you, your eyes are so big and you're just trying to express your anger!"

"Teacher, please keep your voice down." Wang Xiaohu quickly looked back and found that no one was paying attention. He turned around and cried sadly, "Teacher, I couldn't hold it in anymore. I came out and found that there was surveillance in the corridor. Are you okay?"

Li Anxin sighed: "Has anyone seen you?"

Wang Xiaohu: "When I came out, there was only an old foreign man in the corridor."

Li An: "How can you be the only one to encounter such a thing? I'm convinced. Next time, you can see clearly before going in. I'm speechless."

Wang Xiaohu laughed dryly: "Next time I will definitely do it."

Li An: "Are you sleepy?"

Wang Xiaohu: "I was a little sleepy just now, but I'm not sleepy now."

Ang Lee raised his hand and patted Wang Xiaohu on the head: "Okay, let's get ready. It's time to record the ensemble."

Several children were active in the audience for a while, and Marco also performed a cartwheel for everyone.

The movements were deft and elegant, causing Xiaobei to exclaim "Wow."

When the children gathered around and asked, they found out that Marco had actually studied martial arts for a while.

The whole process took less than 3 minutes, and Li An was watching on the stage. Seeing that the mental state of several children had returned, he clapped his hands.

"gather."
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Before the recording started, Ang Lee pulled the six children in front of him and warned him again, "After a while, no matter what you hear, don't pay attention to it. How to practice next will be played in a while. Do you remember?"

Children: "Remember!"

Li Ang: "Let me talk about the appearance and exit. After a while, our order of appearance will be according to the voice part. Ji Yang, you will appear first, then Liu Fengrui, Xiaobei, Ma Ke, Wang Xiaohu, Che Lin, and I will follow at the end."

"Ji Yang, when you get up there, go directly to Qin and sit down. You don't have to move when you sit down."

"You guys too, please be alert and find a seat to sit down."

"After I sit down, you will watch Senior Sister Ji Yang."

"Ji Yang, I'll leave the rest to you, and start as soon as you think the time is right."

Ji Yang: "Good teacher."

Ang Lee: "After the final play, we all walked to the front of the stage, lined up in a row, and bowed together. Do you remember?"

Children: "Remember."

"Okay." Li An stretched out his fist, and then a circle of children stretched out their fists, and the seven fists touched together, "Don't shout."

After a pause, "Come on."

The children understood, and their hearts became fierce: "Come on."
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Seven teachers and students came to the backstage entrance to prepare to enter. Behind the cameraman, Chen Xuan had already taken out her mobile phone and was ready.

moment.

"Is Ji Yang ready?"

"Alright teacher."

Li An vomited and raised his hand to sign OK to the cameraman.

The cameraman returned the gesture with the same gesture.Two seconds later, Xiao Ji took the lead on the stage.

Two seconds later, Liu Fengrui followed.

Mark.

Xiaobei.

Wang Xiaohu.

Che Lin.

Ang Lee walked last, walked onto the stage and sat directly in front of the first piano on the right.

In the video screen at this moment, the seven teachers and students have all been seated.

Ji Yang shook his head slightly and looked around for half a circle, then nodded.

The next second, seven people and fourteen hands were raised at the same time, with uniform movements, and then dropped instantly!

"when--!"

Lao Bian was shocked by the magnificent piano sound in the headphones. The sound was solid and even sounded like a horn for someone unfamiliar with wind instruments.

Of course, after many years of working in the industry, this is the first time he has recorded audio for seven pianos at the same time, and it is also the first time he has experienced the charm of a piano ensemble up close.

Raise your hand and slightly move the low-frequency knob, and the sound transmitted to the headphones will become much more balanced.

But at this moment, there suddenly seemed to be a voice falling behind in his ear?
what's the situation?He's still trying to figure out whether it's the music itself or whether there's something wrong with someone.

Then another voice fell behind.

Sure enough, this situation still happened. An ensemble is no better than a single recording. Right now, this is a one-track recording, and he has no way to do post-production.

"Everyone, please pause." Ang Lee's voice came from the earphones.

On the video screen, Ang Lee had stood up from the piano.
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Five seconds ago.

The chaotic music cast a deep gloom on the stage.

Every child had a puzzled expression on their face, and they didn't even know who was wrong.

They all have a feeling that they are not wrong, but they are wrong.

This is a very scary thing.

"Everyone pause."

Ang Lee had to forcefully interrupt the recording. If he played like this, the recorded images might not be usable.

The children stopped and looked at the teacher at a loss. At this moment, the teacher was the only support in their hearts.

"The beginning is very good." Ang Lee affirmed first, "Well, let's try it again and re-enter."

After receiving the teacher's affirmation, the children felt a little more relaxed and returned to the backstage entrance one by one with ease.

However, they didn't know that their teacher was already at his wits' end.

Li An tried to comfort everyone, but the actual situation was much worse than he expected. He didn't know where to start to solve the problem for a while.

It sounds like Marco was the first one to have problems, but strictly speaking, it was actually the car that had problems first.

As the foundation part, the sound of the car is too small.

The small car's voice is so small that Wang Xiaohu, who is farthest away from him, can't hear clearly, but Wang Xiaohu's voice is very dependent on listening to the small car's voice.

This resulted in Wang Xiaohu having no auditory support from other voices.

Ang Lee often emphasizes during rehearsals: listen, listen to other people's voices, and blend them with each other.

After the music entered the seventeenth bar, Wang Xiaohu's voice complemented Marco's in tone pattern and rhythm.

Wang Xiaohu was in chaos, how could Marco not be in chaos?

In an ensemble of seven people, if two people are messed up, how can the whole music not be messed up.

But he couldn't blame the car.

If he is given a chance to choose again now, he will definitely stick to his original idea and play the seventh part by himself.

It had only been rehearsing for less than three days, and facing such a venue environment, how could he blame a child with no ensemble experience for not noticing that he should play louder.

This sense of ensemble has little to do with talent, it needs to be accumulated.

Besides, he just emphasized to his children: Don’t listen to others, just play well yourself.

That sounds at odds with the dos and don'ts he's telling the kids to do during rehearsals.

In fact, there is no contradiction. The former is to let the children better understand the ensemble, so that the children can better integrate the music, and the latter is to prevent everyone from being disturbed by environmental factors in today's venue.

From this point of view, he is not wrong.

If I am really wrong, I can only say that the temporary proposal to include this ensemble piece in the recording was a mistake in itself.

But faced with such an excellent work and such a meaningful recording activity, Ang Lee really couldn't bear to miss this opportunity.

But the facts hit him hard in the face. Looking at it now, he is just a layman when it comes to live recording of piano ensembles.

Hey.

Try it again.

"Okay, cheer up, let's do it again."
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The second recording begins.

The same process was repeated again, and the children entered the room in high spirits.

Ang Lee’s idea was that if this time it was still the same as the first time, then he would not struggle and just record in separate tracks to fill in the picture.

Even if he was wrong, it was still there, even if it passed the post-production stage, he still had to record the complete ensemble.

At the beginning of the music, Li Ang, who had given up on the idea of ​​direct recording, cheered up again when he heard the movement from the car.

At this moment, the volume of the seven parts is particularly eye-catching in the music, injecting a completely different vitality into the music than the previous time.

Li An heard it, Ji Yang heard it, everyone heard it.

Wang Xiaohu also heard it.

Like a shot of chicken blood being injected into the body, Wang Xiaohu felt the clear rhythm of the bass part, then let go of his hands and feet and started playing boldly.

Even if he couldn't hear his own performance clearly, he just had to listen to Che Lin's voice and he wouldn't be wrong.

Wang Xiaohu's firmness propped up the other pillar of the middle and low voice, and the music entered the first theme. Under Wang Xiaohu's impetus, Ma Ke found his position and let go of his hands and feet.

In a steady progression, each player seemed to level off.

In the recording studio, Lao Bian concentrated on monitoring every movement coming from the headphones. The more he listened, the more confident he became.
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Chen Xuan watched this scene from a distance and listened to the music in her ears. As an experienced chamber music collaborator and impartial, she had to praise a few children: You are great.

Although it sounded to her that this time could not be compared with the last time in the morning, but compared to the first recording, it was already a world of difference.

The kids have found their groove.

She had a premonition the moment Xiaoche took the initiative to strengthen the volume of the seven parts in the fourth section of Strong Again.

Sure enough, Wang Xiaohu caught Che Lin's driving force, and then Marco followed Wang Xiaohu.

You must know that Ang Lee didn't say anything before his second entrance.

This child Che Lin still wants to bring many surprises to others.

Chen Xuan lamented that in addition to solo talent, he also has a very keen sense of ensemble.

Good ears, good awareness.

Chen Xuan sighed lightly, but when he returned to the scene, the ensemble ultimately relied on the strength of seven people.

Just because the little car can realize what to do does not mean that other children can realize it.

Realize that you may not be able to do it completely.
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The music seemed to reach the third bar of No. 30 steadily, and Ji Yang's ears were already a little numb.

As the first voice, her slightest negligence will cause problems in the music.

But before her, Marco was in another '1, 2, 3, empty da' position, played as '1, 2, 3, da. '

Without that key resting symbol, the tight strings in everyone's hearts suddenly broke without tension.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I'm sorry everyone."

The stage became quiet again, and Marco's voice was not loud, but it sounded strangely heavy.