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Chapter 911 171 Reproduction vs. Improvisation? The two sides in silence

Chapter 911 171. Reproduction vs. Improvisation? The two sides that left people speechless
'A flat'

'Weak start on beat 44'

'Small cleavage, anti-dot'

'Fm-bE-bD-'

While Wang Xiaohu was still immersed in the enchanting guitar prelude, Xiaoche's mind had already begun to dismember every detail captured by his auditory nerves.

Senior Sister Xiao Ji on the side frowned. If it was just the prelude, she would have no problem, but how should she play the singing part of the song?

"The cloud has copyright?"

Lao Tang was just asking Ang Lee in a low voice when he heard the vocal part. He immediately frowned. It turned out to be a cover, so he said that.

'A group of bloodthirsty ants—'

What the hell? Captain Dragonfly was stunned when he heard it. Is this rap? There is no melody at all. How can this be improvisation?

Lao Tang: "It's a bit difficult for the two children."

Li An: "It's okay, actually."

Lao Tang: "How about changing to another song?"

Li An: "Let's go with this one. It's a good chance to see if Ji Yang can learn to adapt."

Lao Tang: "Linlin, no problem."

Lee Ang: "She actually doesn't know what improvisation is."

Lao Tang: "Ah? Then Mu Xin asked her and she said she knew a little."

Li An: "She called it stripping."

Lao Tang: "Well, improvisation is actually a science. Lao Wu said that you have a strong ability to improvise on the spot."

Li An: "I can only say that I beat him, but I can't say I'm strong."

Lao Tang: "Have you learned it specifically?"

Li An: "When you were preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, I went out to work. I had to play more than ten pieces a night, and I couldn't play the same piece twice. I was forced to do it."

Lao Tang: “~”

As they were talking, the phone that was playing music suddenly rang.

Wang Xiaohu immediately ran to hand the phone to Mu Xin, "Sorry, it's my home number."

Mu Xin went downstairs to answer the phone, and the scene was interrupted by this sudden call.

Wang Xiaohu didn't know what to do for a moment, and looked at the teacher for help, "Teacher, can you please continue playing the game with your phone?"

"I think we should just leave it like this," Haitao looked at Lao Tang, "just one prelude and one verse."

Lao Tang nodded: "It's an open-ended ending. It's up to you how you want to end it. Just improvise according to the topic. No problem."

Wang Xiaohu: "Okay, then let's wait for Teacher Mu to come back for the game."

As he spoke, Wang Xiaohu looked at Xiaoche and his senior sister again. In order not to interrupt them, he didn't say anything else.

Two minutes later, Mu Xin returned to the second floor and asked, "Do it again?"

Li An: "No need, just go to where we left off and start."

Mu Xin nodded and looked at Xiao Che and Ji Yang with interest. Although she had never heard the two girls play the piano, after hearing Si Gang's story, she was really curious about how Ji Yang would improvise a nocturne. Even though Ji Yang was Li Ang's senior disciple and had been admitted to the piano department of Rongyuan, this was still a very difficult challenge.

As for Xiao Linlin, it can only be said that she had bad luck. She was assigned this piece when competing against her senior sister, whose original intention was just to let the child go on stage and have some fun.

"Let's play rock, paper, scissors." Wang Xiaohu said.

The two sisters threw punches, the younger sister threw paper, and the older sister threw scissors.

"Come on, Linlin."

"Yes, Senior Sister."

Under everyone's gaze, Xiaoche walked towards the piano, taking off the sleeves on her arms as she walked.

Wang Xiaohu: So handsome!

Haitao: It can be said that they are exactly the same.

Lao Tang: Looking forward to it.

Xiaoche stopped in front of the piano and wiped his hands vigorously with the sleeves he took off, then folded the sleeves side by side and put them in his trouser pocket.

Looking at this scene, Mu Xin felt an indescribable feeling in her heart: what a serious little girl.

Fuqin turned around and bowed, then sat down and began to adjust the piano stool.

The scene waited for her quietly, and after adjusting to the appropriate height, the car scanned the piano keys from right to left.

While silently reciting the melody in her heart, she raised her hand, recalling the melody in her mind.

“Ding ding.”

A pause and a fall, the fingers fall and the piano sounds, and two sixteenth notes on the backbeat bring out a classic melody that adults are very familiar with.

What? Fa-sol? Mu Xin's first reaction after hearing the first two notes was that she might have heard it wrong, but the melody that followed gave her a heavy blow!
Che Lin actually played the song in its original key! Playing it directly with four flats! ?

Moreover, the chords are linked smoothly and fluently, and the original accompaniment is accurately restored. Has this child practiced according to the score? ?

Mu Xin had no choice but to believe it or not, because all this was happening right before her eyes!

My God, if this kid has never practiced, it would be too scary. He is only 13 years old.

Listening to the strength of the octave and the smoothness of the melody, Mu Xin was really shocked, shocked in all aspects.

As the high-energy prelude was about to end, Mu Xin unconsciously followed the figure in front of the piano and took a breath.

Lao Tang and Li An also called out for help.

Li Ang's heart was far from being as calm as his appearance. He was not at all surprised that the car bounced like this.

All the major and minor arpeggios and chords that have ever appeared on the piano have been played out by Xiaoche, and coupled with Xiaoche's good hearing and a brain that can remember the melody after hearing it, this is really nothing.

However, the following main song part does not have an obvious main melody line. In fact, according to Ang Lee, there are still many ways to deal with it. So how will Xiao Che choose to deal with it?
At this moment, not only Li An was asking the question in his heart, but also Old Master Tang Haitao, Mu Xin, and even Senior Sister Ji were all waiting.

"Ding ding ding."

With a breath, the car gave everyone the answer.

The lyrics are counterpointed in the rhythm, and Xiaoche simplifies the melody of his right hand into a fast single-note progression with fa as the core. The pitch fluctuation is always kept within thirds. When advancing the emotion, the core note is raised by four degrees. Occasionally, he uses octaves to emphasize the tone and adds a few chord tones in the left-hand accompaniment to embellish the subtle changes in the vocals.

After hearing this, the question that had been bothering Senior Sister Xiao Ji was answered. Compared to the performance of the main song she had prepared, Linlin's was more reasonable and pleasant to the ear.

Xiao Ji still didn't see the key problem. Yes, Xiao Che's right-hand processing did highly restore the singing style of the original song, but this effect could not be achieved without the left-hand leap to strengthen each change in accompaniment and harmony.

Just like a rap, it sounds one way with accompaniment and another way when sung a cappella.

Only with the support of drum beats and harmony can the tune show its charm.

Every time the left hand of Xiaoche jumps, the bass landing point is the drum beat, and the breathing of the right hand is hidden between the dotted and syncopated lines. The left hand is merged, the finger ability is enhanced, and a silky emphasis feeling appears.

Lao Tang: "Has she practiced?"

Lee An: "I doubt she has heard of it."

Lao Tang sighed: "What's the use of hearing it? Did you hear those sustained notes of the right hand?"

Lee Ang: "Hmm, it should be the sound of the bass pad."

Lao Tang: "My ears are amazing."

Li An hesitated for a moment: "Her ears are different from ours."

Lao Tang: "Absolute pitch?"

Li An: "Maybe it needs to be a little more advanced."

Lao Tang was surprised: "What's above?!"

Lee Ang: “She has a wide hearing range.”

Lao Tang: “High and low frequency?”

Li An: "Yeah, but there are some things she can't hear, and there are some sounds in life she can't hear."

Lao Tang: “You shouldn’t.”

Li An smiled: "Really, but it doesn't matter, it's not important, it's over."

"when!"

The sound of returning to the main chord and Ang Lee's words fell together. The car in front of the piano raised his hand, and the small stage instantly became quiet, and stood up and bowed.

"Wow—"

Everyone applauded, and Lao Tang followed Mu Xin to take the car off the stage.

Lao Tang: "Perfect Linlin."

"You're so awesome, baby! You're so awesome!" Mu Xin couldn't help herself, especially when the car finished playing, she glanced at Li An and found that Li An's expression was unusually calm, which made her feel that the car was unfathomable.

This child is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely extraordinary, even though Mu Xin has never heard Xiaoche play any classical music.

Faced with the praise and affirmation from the two teachers, Xiao Che smiled, but she felt a little embarrassed. It was not until the end of the performance that she realized a problem.

"Linlin, have you heard this song before? People of your age probably haven't heard it much, right?" Lao Tang asked casually.

"It's the first time I hear it." Xiao Che nodded, and Lao Tang and Mu Xin raised their eyebrows at the same time.

The Victory Team has completed the third round of performances. The Adagio Team will take the stage next and the piano competition will continue. Everyone's eyes are on Senior Sister Ji who is sitting in front of the piano.

Thanks to Xiao Che's outstanding performance, how this competition with a huge age gap will turn out will all depend on Senior Sister Xiao Ji.

"Come on, Ji Yang!" Hai Tao raised his hand

Senior Sister Xiao Ji chuckled, bowed and took a seat.

When everything behind her became quiet, Sister Xiao Ji did not rush to play, but gently closed her eyes.

After a moment, she opened her eyes and placed her hands on the middle range of the keyboard.

“Ding—”

A soft piano sound like a feather falling on the piano keys slowly floated up, and the artistic conception of the stage was instantly filled.

Then a gorgeous modulated melody was gently outlined, one wave after another, like ripples, like a nocturne but not a nocturne, the music was as beautiful as a classical painting.

Wang Xiaohu: (o_O)!
Car: So beautiful.
Li An raised the corner of his mouth.

As the prelude continues forward, after a dominant chord, the piano sound moves towards the prelude of the original song.

On the side, "Has Ji Yang ever studied fashion?" Mu Xin asked Lao Tang in a low voice.

Lao Tang whispered, "She is the keyboardist of the band."

Mu Xin nodded: "It's very interesting."

The completely unexpected opening made Mu Xin ignore the tonality chosen by Ji Yang.

The music at this moment is in the key of G, and only one sharp sign needs to be noted when playing.

Compared with the original song, which is the A flat key chosen by Xiaoche, the difficulty of playing G key is greatly reduced.

The reason why Ji Yang chose the key of G, which was a semitone lowered, was indeed to make it easier to develop her ideas.

If she played A flat, she would have to focus all her attention on getting the right note. Even if she concentrated 120% of her attention, she still couldn't guarantee a good note, so she chose G.

The convenience of playing with G allowed her to get through the opening prelude perfectly, but when it came to the main part, she gave up her original idea and switched to playing with the car.

While using the same playing method, her extensive use of seven-ninth chords adds a different color to the music than the original.

In addition, in order to avoid the boredom caused by the repetitive chorus, she replaced part of the texture with her own melody.

With a gorgeous harmonic background and colorful melody filling, the entire performance is highly pianized while still retaining the style of the original song.

"when!"

At this moment, a diminished seventh chord inserted in the third beat after the main chord pulls the nocturne at this moment into a nocturne in another time and space!

Mu Xin: Chopin.

The music that followed gave Haitao goose bumps on the back of his neck, it was so beautiful!
Diminished seventh chords are a must-have for classical composers, especially when used to create tension. At this moment, Sister Xiao Ji’s use of it not only intensified the musical emotions, but also integrated two unrelated pieces of music into one.

The cleverness of the idea even made Ang Lee's eyes light up. It seems that the band rehearsals this semester were very effective. At least the idea of ​​improvisation has been opened up.

Not bad.

Lao Tang had listened to Ji Yang's band's live performance, so it wasn't surprising at all. After all, one could only say that Ji Yang personally had a talent in this area.

Not bad.

When the prelude's modulation quietly returned to this time and space again, everyone knew that Ji Yang's performance was about to end.

A series of ascending arpeggios were like a dragonfly skimming the water, and finally Sister Xiao Ji lightly tapped the bass area of ​​her left hand, bringing the third round of competition to an end.

"Wow——"

"Senior Sister is so awesome!" Xiao Che couldn't help himself!
"Senior sister is so awesome!" Xiaohu was not willing to be outdone!
"Hehe!" Senior Sister Ji looked quite happy when she stood up from the piano.

The senior sister was indeed great and powerful, but the difficult problems were left to the teachers.

How do you score the two children’s performances?
Lao Tang, Haitao and Mu Xin found it very difficult.

The car highly restored the tracks from every angle, which they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears.

Sister Xiao Ji’s second creation, which turned the piece into a piano performance, is also remarkable.

If we follow the rules of this round, it should be Senior Sister Ji who is more on topic. After all, improvisation and transcription are two different things. But the age gap between the two children is there, and the car was restored too well.

No, we need to discuss this carefully.

The two teams sat in a circle and began to discuss.

Adagio Team.

"What do you mean?" Haitao directly threw the question to Li An.

Before Li An could speak, Senior Sister Ji spoke first: "Linlin plays better than me."

"You can't compete so dryly," Haitao heard that Xiaoji wanted to let Xiaoche play, "You two both play well."

As he spoke, Haitao looked at Li An again.

After a moment, "Ji Yang, give yourself a score," Li An looked at Ji Yang, "Be more objective."

"7.5 points," Senior Sister Xiao Ji thought for a moment and said with a smile, "I'm quite satisfied with it."

Li An showed a warm expression and echoed softly, "Very good."

Haitao followed suit: "It's really great, better than me."

"Hehe~" Senior Sister Xiao Ji was happy but did not forget to look to the other side. In her heart, Linlin did play better than her, or in other words, she could never reach Linlin's performance.

Linlin is really great!

The winning team.

Facing the affirmative gazes of the two teachers, Xiao Che shook his head accusingly, "I didn't play well. I didn't have any improvisational parts."

This was the problem that Xiao Che realized belatedly. She couldn't add more music later because she only heard the music there and it stopped. She didn't know what came after that, so she could only stop there.

Although she was competing with her senior sister, Xiao Che was also responsible for the winning team's points. She wanted to try her best, and she did try her best.

Lao Tang sighed. He understood Xiaoche and was worried that Xiaoche would think the same way. What should he do?
"What are you talking about?" Mu Xin reaffirmed, "You improvised in it. Don't you have any personal emotions in it when you play it?"

Lao Tang was stunned, and Xiao Che also blinked.

Mu Xin raised his head slightly and said, "Please leave this round of scoring to me."

Facing Teacher Mu's warm smile, Xiao Che was unconsciously infected and nodded with a smile.

"Ah."

Lao Tang, who was standing by, also laughed as he watched this scene.
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A minute later, the two teams submitted their scores for the third round.

Something went wrong in the fourth round, and the three children thought they would see two wonderful four-hand piano pieces.

As a result, teachers on both sides failed one after another.

No one expected this result. When the Victory Team teacher duo stepped down from the stage, they kept taking the blame.

Lao Tang: "Oh my, I didn't control the speed well."

Mu Xin: "How can I blame you? It's my fault for not giving it to you in advance."

Li An: "Alright, alright, stop criticizing each other. We are not as good as you."

Haitao felt wronged: "You can't blame me for that!"

Li An: "I don't blame you!"

Third Child: Hahahaha!
Lao Tang: "Let's just call it a tie this round. The four hands need to get used to each other."

Haitao: "Yeah, then don't grade this round, let's just start the last round."

Mu Xin: “The last round.”

Lao Tang: “The last round.”

Li An looked at Lao Tang and bared his fangs: "Come on, Master."

Lao Tang was startled: "You?"

At this moment, Notary Xu announced the two opponents for the final round with a suppressed smile.

The two pieces of paper in her hand clearly indicated the opponents for the final round.

"In the fifth round, Mr. Li An from the slow-tempo team will face the Victory team," he paused, "Student Che Lin."

The audience fell into a brief silence
next second.

Lao Tang tried to suppress his laughter: "Are you human?"

Let the kids play the last round!
Li An lamented in his heart: "Are you human?"

Let the children play in the last round?
The “angry” Captain Dragonfly shouted in his heart: You are not human!!!
Looking down at the music score in his hand, Captain Dragonfly felt like he was not a human either.

After the third round, he thought the crisis was over, but who would have thought that the car that had participated in the third round could continue to participate in the last round!
He prepared this score for teachers!

Hey.

Under the gazes of all kinds, Li Ang stepped out of the line, looked at the teacher and smiled: "Teacher, I will do my best."

Li An smiled helplessly: "If you lose, don't cry under the covers when you get home at night."

In an instant, another smell of gunpowder emerged.


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