Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 6 6. On the Importance of Teaching Ideas

Notes are not words after all, and do not have literal meaning.

So if you want to play two notes with a sound effect with a logical relationship, you have to start with the player's hands.

Before playing, the pianist must first make clear how to match the timbre and intensity of these two tones, that is, how to smoothly transition from the word "you" to the word "good".

This process requires the player to control the strength of the fingertips and the speed of pressing the keys.

Only when we have done both can we make this clear.

In order to let Xiaobei understand more concretely, Li An gave an example on the piano.

"When we first learn about the piano, most of us do one thing."

As he spoke, he used the back of his hand to wipe the keyboard from the low-pitched range to the high-pitched range, bringing out a fast and even ascending sound column.

"Wiping the piano, have you ever played?"

Xiaobei shook his head.

Li Ang: "Hehe, it's okay, you can try it now."

"Pay attention to keeping the shoulders and arms relaxed throughout the process, so that the back of the hand slides horizontally at a uniform speed without hindrance, without stagnation at any point in the middle."

After Xiaobei finished it, he found that the sound from the piano was the same as that of the teacher, and his face was full of excitement for a while.

Ang Lee asked, "Does it feel like a complete sentence?"

Xiaobei: "Yes!"

Ang Lee explained: "Because of the action of wiping the piano, the weight of our arms on the keys and the speed of the keys falling are average and smooth, and the center of the hand is also shifted evenly."

As he spoke, his speech speed became slower and slower.

This is very important, if Xiaobei can digest this piece, then he can continue,
What follows is the core content.

Suddenly, a line of small blue characters floated in front of Li An's eyes [from Xiaobei's teaching point +1]

Xiaobei: "Teacher, can I think of two connected notes as a piano key rubbing between the two notes?"

Bingo!

Li An snapped his fingers crisply, "Correct."

Unexpectedly relaxed, Li An struck while the iron was hot and continued.

"So when we play a two-tone small connection, the lifting action also requires the wrist and arm to move laterally in a relaxed state."

"The horizontal movement of the center of gravity is required, which can largely compensate for the unbalanced feeling of our pressing the keys, and better achieve the feeling of even transition between the two notes."

"When you can play evenly from one note to the next, you speak clearly."

Paused.

"Xiaobei, do you understand?"

Yu Xiaobei nodded vigorously and said, "Understood."

well.

"Now, let's go back to how to use the drop technique in actual performance."

"Take the group of sounds from #dol to si as an example."

Li Ang said that his right arm fell, his middle finger fell on #dol, and there was a full "dang—" from the piano box

"The right arm falls, and the middle finger stands firm."

"The power of this movement comes from the natural drop of the arm. You cannot deliberately apply downward force to the arm. The middle finger must stand firmly as a supporting finger."

"Then the wrist arm moves the center of gravity laterally, from #Dol to si."

"It must be natural here, and you can't press hard deliberately, just like the two legs when we walk. When the center of gravity of the left foot changes to the right foot, will we stamp hard?"

"We only need to stretch out the right foot, and the center of gravity will naturally fall on the right foot"

Li An took advantage of the situation and landed his thumb on si, and gave another "Dang—" which was shorter than the previous one.

The two piano sounds were as smooth as breathing. Li An raised his hand, and the ending of si ended mellowly.

"The core of lifting is to place the center of gravity of the hand in front, and move forward with the fingertips as the center of gravity. At the same time, lift the wrist to drive the fingertips away from the keys."

"The fingertips are the last to leave the keys."

"The fingertips are the last to leave the keys."

"The fingertips are the last to leave the keys."

"Xiaobei, remember this sentence, otherwise Luoti will only become an external performance, and it will not help our smooth playing."

'The teaching point from Xiaobei +2'

Li An paused, "Come on, Xiao Bei."

Li An felt that it was almost the same, although the content about Luoti was more than that.

He didn't expect Xiao Bei to fully understand this technique through this class, even if Xiao Bei understood it, he couldn't master it immediately.

He knows that what he said today will be repeated to Xiaobei countless times in the future, this is the job of a piano teacher.

Besides, learning the piano is also a long process. The theory needs to be combined with practice to understand a little bit, and kung fu needs to be accumulated a little bit.

This is a chasm that no one can cross.

Xiaobei's journey has just begun.

In the blink of an eye, most of the class time passed, and Xiaobei was practicing her new understanding of the lifting technique in front of the piano.

Li An was not in a hurry to turn on the system, so he just sat aside with a teacup and stared at it.

In front of you, add 1 teaching point every now and then.

When the class was about to end, he reckoned that this class had gained around 6 or 7 teaching points.

Comparing with Wang Xiaohu, Li An felt that Xiao Bei was his lucky star.

He just couldn't figure out why Xiaohu's mastery in class yesterday was no worse than Xiaobei's today, but why he didn't see any teaching points.

Wait and see what will happen to Liu Fengrui's class later.

"Xiao Bei, what day of the week did you finish the exam?"

"Teacher, we finished the exam on Thursday afternoon."

"Come on, I wish you a good grade in the exam, there are still 5 minutes to finish the get out of class, let's practice again, I guess you won't have time to play the piano again before the exam."

Li An said and got up to leave.

"Old rules, knock on the door to dismiss get out of class."

When they came outside the classroom, Li An talked with Xiaobei's mother about the learning content of this class.

Just when he was talking about "this class taught Xiaobei about wrist lifting again", a trace of dissatisfaction flashed across Xiaobei's mother's face.

Xiaobei's mother is very concerned about her child's learning in all subjects. Regardless of in-class culture or extra-curricular literacy, she follows up the progress of each class in real time.

Every class, Li An will explain to her in detail what the child has learned in this class, to what extent he has mastered it, how to practice at home, and what to learn next.

That's why she was more satisfied with Li An leading Xiao Bei from the beginning.

But recently, Xiaobei's piano lessons have been stuck on this "loose mention" issue. The previous teacher never mentioned it, but it has become a big taboo when it comes to Li An.

For this reason, she also checked the information on the Internet.

There are different opinions about this "Luoti". Some people say it is the most critical technique in piano performance, some say it's a show, and some say that if you don't master it well, you can't learn it.

Others say that the drop is important but not necessary, and cite some world-class pianists who do not use the drop technique.

According to her plan, Xiaobei had to take the third-level exam in the summer vacation, which is why she didn't ask Xiaobei for leave before the end of the semester.

She didn't want to slow down the progress of the grading exam by delaying her child's piano lessons.

But there is still a month before the grade test, and Xiaobei has not started learning the music for the third grade, which makes her a little anxious.

Also some dissatisfaction.

But in the end she refrained from asking anything, because Li An finally talked about the issues she cared about.

"For the time being, let Xiaobei pass this piece first, and we will start learning music in the next class."

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(End of this chapter)