Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 863 123. Advice from the two old men
"Thank you, no need."

Li An declined the gas card recommended by the staff and drove away with two car wash coupons.

There's nothing to feel bad about. It's natural to refuel when driving.

But maybe trams are really more cost-effective.

Ha ha.

Driving alone was much more relaxing. Ang Lee hummed Twinkle Twinkle Little Star all the way and soon arrived at the Yudong office building.

After all, driving is fast.

What's faster than driving is the blink of an eye, and a day has passed.

In the morning, he taught several art exam candidates. At noon, Liu Ziyi came to him and he taught Liu Ziyi again.

Liu Ziyi is the shy brother in Xiaoche Xin’s story.

Liu Ziyi's review of the class today was pretty good. He solved two small problems left over from the previous class. Li An was quite satisfied with this. After class, he asked Liu Ziyi to stay in the rest corner and have lunch with everyone.

In the morning, he solved students' problems, and in the afternoon, Li Ang solved his own problems.

Before leaving, he asked Fang Zheng to record a video for him. In the video, he played the first movement in its entirety, and he adopted a new performance idea for the cadenza.

There was still half an hour before Xiaoche was due to finish school, so Li An went to the study to find the summer camp handbook he brought back from the camp.

After opening the title page and seeing Old Charlie's email address, he felt relieved and went to cook.

The first step in cooking is to take out the meat marinated the day before from the refrigerator.

"I'm back!"

"Eat now."

"Teacher, I may not be able to practice the piano today because I have a lot of homework."

"It's not easy. I don't see you say you have too much homework once a month."

"Hahaha!"

Xiaoche did have an unusually large amount of homework today, and he didn't finish it until ten o'clock.

What surprised her was that she didn't hear any sound from the study room all night. What was the teacher doing in the study room all night?

The answer to the question was finally revealed after she finished her homework.

"Ah? Teacher, are you chatting with Grandpa Charlie!?"

Li An was very satisfied with Xiao Che's surprised expression. "Yes, we had a pleasant exchange about 19th century piano music."

"Wow!" Xiaoche was shocked, "Grandpa Charlie is so awesome!"

Li An was immediately puzzled. Why did Xiao Che's tone sound strange? He immediately knew what the problem was.

Xiaoche continued, "Grandpa Charlie can actually communicate with you in Chinese!"

Ang Lee: "."

Xiaoche had a good reason: "Summer camp was in August. At that time, Grandpa Charlie could only say hello, thank you, and goodbye. Now it's only been four months, and he can communicate with you. He must have worked very hard to learn Chinese in these four months!"

Li An couldn't listen any more: "Wait, wait, wait."

The car stopped and the big eyes fluttered.

Li An: "Ahem, is it possible that I, your teacher, have been working hard secretly for the past four months?"

Xiao Che was stunned. The next second she suddenly asked, "Teacher, you are not going to tell me that you and Grandpa Charlie are communicating in German, are you?"

Xiao Che's calm tone made the air in the living room seem to freeze, which made Li An feel a little embarrassed. This was clearly what Xiao Che said, but why did he feel like a fool?

He originally thought that Xiao Che would be very shocked when he found out, and then shout out: Teacher is awesome! !

"Why isn't this possible?" he asked casually.

Xiao Che didn't understand why the teacher asked him this question, but then he realized that the teacher was teasing him.

"Because you didn't speak German before. If you knew, you would definitely communicate with Grandpa Charlie in German during the summer camp and then serve as an interpreter for us."

Li An: “That makes sense.”

Xiaoche: "And I haven't seen you learning German in the past four months, so I guess you and Grandpa Charlie can't communicate in German. Since you can't communicate in German, then you should use Chinese."

Li An gave a thumbs up and said, "Great, great! I can hide anything from you. But you didn't completely guess it. We are communicating using a translation software."

Xiaoche: "Ah? There is such software."

Li An: "Yes, but I guess you won't need it in the future. You should study English well now and practice speaking more. Then learn German and French in the future. When you go abroad, you will definitely not need this kind of software."

Xiaoche was puzzled: "Teacher, why should I go abroad?"

Li An: "You will know when that day comes."

Xiaoche: "Teacher, I don't want to go abroad."

Li An smiled and said, "Okay, then we won't go abroad."

Xiaoche: "Hey, teacher, what did you talk about with Grandpa Charlie?"

Ang Lee: "The internal structure of music, the Viennese Classical school, and the gravity of harmony."

The gravity of harmony? So interesting to be described!
"Teacher, what is the gravity of harmony?"

Li An: "It's a little early for you. I'll tell you after you finish this competition."

Xiaoche: “Yeah!”

"Okay, go to bed, good night."

Li An stood up and ended the bedtime conversation.

"good night, teacher."

After the car returned to the room, Li An refilled his cup of tea and went back to the study.

He talked a lot with Old Charlie tonight. Old Charlie listened to the video he recorded in the afternoon and gave him positive affirmation, saying that his performance was very personalized. At the same time, Old Charlie also made some suggestions in other aspects.

Old Charlie believed that the tension of his performance of the entire cadenza was ahead of the mood of the music.

Just with this point, the things that have been bothering Ang Lee like a fog in recent days suddenly became extremely clear.

The changes he tried to make today were also intended to dispel this fog. He needed to make the cadenza more consistent with the orchestra and the score. To this end, his attempt today was to continue to intensify the emotions.

Strengthening emotions is just a means to enhance musical expression. For a highly skilled performer, the greatest difficulty is how to make the audience feel sincere, rather than making the audience feel that he is just showing off his physical functions.

Ang Lee was emotional, but he was not trying to show off. He could even feel the passion surging from the bottom of his heart during the recording of the video. He was deeply intoxicated by the fiery energy.

But when he put on headphones and listened, that passion could not be aroused at all.

The new performance design does bring a denser emotional output, which is worthy of recognition, and he is not deliberately fabricating anything, but it is always just that little bit short.

Every time it's just that little bit off.

It’s like in the process of something, at the critical point it is disturbed by the sound of footsteps outside the door, then there is another wave of accumulation of energy, then it is disturbed again, then accumulated energy again, and the cycle repeats over and over again.

In the end, no one was interested anymore.

He didn't even want to listen to it a second time. After taking off his headphones, he didn't want to click on the immersive performance that moved him to the point of almost crying half an hour ago.

Then Ang Lee thought of old Charlie and his teacher, Master Selkin.

Maybe it was time to trouble the old man, no, to ask for advice. So when he got home, he immediately looked up old Charlie's mailbox and asked Qin Yong how to send this email after dinner.

Not long after sending the email, he received a reply from Old Charlie.

Old Charlie pointed out his problem, which was simply that his emotions were ahead of the emotions of the music, which was a mismatch in another dimension.

Based on this, Old Charlie's advice to Ang Lee was to take a short break.

Ang Lee understood what old Charlie meant, and he also planned to let it go for the time being. Maybe one day when he woke up, everything would be in sync.

One week, Li An planned not to touch Erectile Dysfunction for a week.

After turning off the computer and walking around the study room twice, he came to the desk and sat down.

The next issue is recruiting teachers.

The four-part plan has two core points.

The first point is his teaching system, which is ready-made.

The second point is the teacher. The teacher must have the ability to perform and considerable teaching experience, and more importantly, be stable.

The first two points are relatively easy to meet, but the third point requires some luck.

Put out the ad first and see what happens, then take it one step at a time.

Having made up his mind, Li An washed up, went to bed and talked to Chen Xuan about his ideas. Chen Xuan then added a little requirement for him, which was to be enthusiastic.

Li An feels there is nothing to say about what makes teachers passionate about teaching.

If he is a teacher, his enthusiasm will come naturally if the other party gives him a satisfactory tuition fee.

For the vast majority of piano teachers, teaching is a job to support their families.

Since this is work, let's do something practical.

Chen Xuan let Li Ang make his own decision and she just gave some of her own ideas.

Finally, Ang Lee took the initiative to talk to Chen Xuan about the choice of the topic of each other's thesis. Today he also consulted old Charlie, who suggested that they could move towards the integration of the performance techniques of Eastern and Western modernist flute works.

Chen Xuan had never thought about this before. "Go to bed quickly. I'll call Teacher Xiao tomorrow."

Li An: "If you think you can try this direction, don't ask the teacher first, think about it yourself first."

Chen Xuan: "Okay."

Li An: "Good night, Mr. Xiaomi."

Chen Xuan: "Good night, Teacher Li~"
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The next morning, Li An led a group of students from the Art Examination Department to Rongyuan to familiarize themselves with the examination room in advance.

Afterwards, Wang Panpan and several teachers led the team back to the Art Examination Department, and he went to Teacher Wei's house.

As for the issue of recruiting teachers for the institution, he had to ask the old man first if he had any ideas.

"How many teachers do you need?" asked Lao Wei.

Li An: "If Haitao is not counted, we still need three more."

Lao Wei smiled: "Can he do it?"

Li An followed with a smile and said, "You are the one who brought him up, but you still don't have confidence."

Old Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Don't you want to consider Shi Qi? Shi Qi is down-to-earth and a good helper."

Li An answered truthfully: "At first, the first person I thought of was Shi Qi, but after I left, the Blue Sky Art Examination Department was short of a piano teacher. The salary at Blue Sky is actually quite good. I wanted Shi Qi to take my place, and his partner is also there. I guess if he were to choose, he would still want to choose Blue Sky."

After a pause, he said, "Let him stay there. Considering the child he is taking care of now, I estimate that when he arrives at the art examination department, the combined teaching hours of both places will earn him more than one million a month. You know his situation."

"Just ask him to give up that place and come to me. I'm afraid the price won't be that high at the beginning."

Lao Wei nodded: "Well, then let's do as you wish. You don't have to worry about the master's side. Now that your career has just started, just take care of your own side. We can talk about it later when you have made it."

Li An: "Thank you, teacher. Don't worry."

Lao Wei: "I have nothing to worry about. I just want to let you know in advance to show my attitude. So, if it were you, I would stop advertising. Just post something on your Moments. There are plenty of people who will help you promote it. You have a much bigger circle of friends now than I do."

Li An curled his lips: "You are scolding me."

Old Wei Le: "Okay, it's nothing, you can do whatever you want, but there is one thing, just treat me as an old man who is nosy, no matter what time, you can't do anything to cheat or deceive others."

Ang Lee pouts 2.0.

Lao Wei: "Will you stay home for lunch?"

Li An: "I made an appointment with Ji Yang to have lunch in the cafeteria."

Lao Wei: "Ask her to come along. Call her now."

"Goodbye, goodbye. Please give the young man some space." Li An stood up and shouted to the inner room, "Master's Wife, I'm leaving first."

Liang Huilan came out when she heard the voice and said, "Aren't you staying for lunch? I've already taken out the meat."

Li An: "Master's wife, I have something else to do. Please keep the meat. I have to run back and forth every day for students' exams these days. I will let you know in advance when I will be there."

Liang Huilan: "Okay, okay, then go ahead and do your work. Wait, grab an apple to eat on the way."

"Thank you, Master. Please take a rest. I will come back in a couple of days when I am busy with my exams. Master, please go, go, go."

After Ang Lee left, Liang Huilan asked Lao Wei what was going on.

Old Wei smiled and said, "You bastard, come and give me some eye drops."
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After leaving his teacher's house, Li An had no more worries.

After having lunch with Ji Yang, the teacher and student came out of the cafeteria. Li An asked Ji Yang to go back to the dormitory and rest for a while, "Don't send me off."

Xiao Ji: "Teacher, I just need to go out and buy some fruit. The fruit in the school supermarket is expensive and tastes bad."

Ang Lee: "Let's go."

When Xiao Ji first saw the car keys that Li Ang took out, he thought that his teacher had bought a car. However, before he could get excited, he realized that the car looked very familiar.

"Aunt Xu Li's car?"

"Borrow it to drive for two days, where to go."

"Teacher, just put me in the commercial street."

After driving past two intersections, Li An put Xiao Ji down and then reminded him, "I have to come over tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Just do your own thing. I won't contact you. Let's do it as usual on Saturday. Hurry up and speed up this piece in the next two days. The New Year's Day performance will be here soon, and you won't have many days to practice the piano in peace."

"Yeah!" Xiao Ji waved, "See you on Saturday, teacher!"

The first time Xiao Ji rode in a car driven by his teacher, his thoughts were different from Xiao Che’s. He felt that the teacher was already like an experienced driver.

Thinking about the fact that she still hasn't got her driver's license, Xiao Ji couldn't help but sigh. If she hadn't joined the band, she probably could have driven directly to her teacher's house for classes on weekends.

Alas, alas! -
I drove all the way to the north gate of Shu Ren, stopped the car and opened the window. When the guard saw who was in the driver's seat, he happily opened the door and let me pass.

"Thank you, Master."

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

After the campus cultural display week, everyone in the school knew Ang Lee.

It is said that after watching the performance of the wind band, the senior leader directly allocated a considerable sum of funds to the band.

Does a popular person in front of the big boss need to show his entry and exit certificate to enter the school?

Of course, there were also some in Xu Li’s car.