Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 991 251. A unique piano theme day [Part ]

"The wages for the four of you selling things are 150 yuan, so my wages can't be lower than 150 yuan, right?"

"I'm working hard too." Wang Xiaohu reasoned, "It's not reasonable for my mother to not give me money just because she's the one giving me money."

So the kids calculated the wages that Wang Xiaohu could get, minus the seventy coins that Xiaobei used to buy Coke, and they estimated that they should be able to collect eight hundred and forty coins after receiving their wages.

"enough."
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One point can be exchanged for one piano coin, and one piano coin can be exchanged for one point.

In fact, when the teachers were planning this session at the beginning, their main consideration was to enhance the children’s gaming experience, so they prepared a large bag of game coins that could be used for barter.

It's actually about earning points.

For children who have signed up for classes, these points are “money”.

Today, children earn points by playing games, and in the future they can continue to earn points through activities such as piano practice check-ins and lesson review ratings.

Compared with the traditional student point system, Piano Classroom No. 4 has expanded the point system to include parents.

Parents earn points by renewing courses and bringing in new students, and the points are accumulated in their children’s student accounts.

For children, points can be used to redeem their favorite little things in the display cabinet.

For parents, the points can be used as vouchers for subsequent classes.

Not long after lunch, the information of the first batch of students who had signed up for the course had been entered into the backend, and the one with the highest score had reached 913 points.

This parent from Guangyuan not only enrolled his child in Lao Tang's full-year class, but also enrolled him in the winter vacation intensive training class and the winter vacation music literacy improvement class, and also picked a piano.

The total price after discount was 46,000 yuan. I scanned the code and left with my child.

The parents also wanted to bring their children to continue playing here, but something urgent happened.

After sending the parents back, Lao Tang sat down directly on the big sofa in the rest area. In preparation for today's opening, he had been sleeping less than four hours a day on average recently.

But compared to this moment, all the hard work is worth it.

"Have you arranged a class?" Xu Li came over and asked.

Lao Tang nodded: "It's an appointment, the day after tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning."

Xu Li: "You've worked hard. Take a rest."

Lao Tang: "No rest, I have to sort out the music theory class schedule first, the class will start soon."

Xu Li: "You don't have to worry about the schedule of the literacy class. Let Xiaoyun do it."

Lao Tang: "Sister Yun hasn't finished her work yet."

Xu Li: "Go and have a rest first, and we can talk about other things after the information is recorded."

Lao Tang thought so too and said, "Then I'll find a place to take a nap."

After telling several teachers to take a rest, Xu Li went to the second floor and saw several children sitting side by side by the stage, discussing something with great interest.

"Won't you take a break?"

"Auntie, we are not tired!"
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Lao Tang didn’t know whether the children were tired or not, but he was indeed a little tired. As a result, when he pushed open the door of the lounge on the second floor, he saw Liang Yudan, Wang Wenyang and others playing games after lunch.

"Brother Tang, come together."

"You guys play, you guys play."

Lao Tang had no choice but to look for another place, but he couldn't find a suitable one after searching around.

"Don't you want to take a break?" Mu Xin came towards him holding a stack of growth files.

"I'm not tired," Lao Tang continued, "You should go and have a rest."

Mu Xin: "Well, An Ge asked me to go upstairs to sleep for a while. Why don't you go upstairs and sleep for a while? There is still an hour and a half left."

Lao Tang: "You go up first and sleep well. I'll call you in advance when the time comes."

Mu Xin: "Just take care of yourself. I slept for eight hours last night."

Lao Tang: "I will definitely have a good rest after these busy days."

Mu Xin: "I won't believe you. I'm leaving."

After chatting with Mu Xin for a while, Lao Tang seemed to have relieved a lot of the sleepiness he had just felt.

I wanted to find Haitao to light a cigarette, but I ran into Li An who was talking on the phone at the corner of the shop building.

Lao Tang took the cigarette handed to him by Li An and answered the phone call while smoking a cigarette.

Lao Tang didn't know how many calls Li An received this morning. Anyway, when he saw Li Ang in a gap, he always had headphones on his ears.

There was no room left in the store, so Haitao, Fangzheng and Xu Hongxin all went to sleep in the car. Li An knew that Lao Tang was the most tired this morning, so after hanging up the phone, he urged Lao Tang to go back to the community and take a nap.

"You have to get up after lying down. It's troublesome."

Lao Tang took out his own cigarette and passed it to Li An. They both lit up. "Why don't you go to my place and take a nap? I'll be here to watch over you at noon."

Li An: "I can't sleep well. If I stay up a little longer, someone will come. Oh, by the way, Chen Xuan and I will take the afternoon class."

Lao Tang: "I'll do it, you still have to entertain."

Li An: "Almost all those who were supposed to come in the morning have come. In the afternoon, only my teacher came. He said that no one should bother him, so let's just ignore him and do our own things."

Lao Tang: "Okay, I roughly calculated the music theory classes at the moment. If everything goes well this afternoon and tomorrow, we should be able to open three classes."

Li An: "Well, Jiang Zhigang told me today that he has set up a spot for us. Our students can take the exam here in the future."

Lao Tang: "The last parent today, whose son is Duduwuwu, asked where we took the exam. I told her the Arts Association, and she said it was pretty simple, judging by the tone of her voice."

Li An: "Don't bother with this kind of parent. You say she doesn't understand, but she does understand a little bit. You say she understands, but she still asks questions like that. Isn't that disgusting? I've explained it so clearly to her, but she said she would go back and discuss it with her child. Don't call her anymore."

Lao Tang: "I think we can still fight for it."

Li An: "No need to fight for it, come if you want, forget it if you don't want."

Lao Tang: "So we will only follow the Arts Association from now on?"

Li An: "Let's wait and see what Lin Youyou says when she comes back this time. When she came back the year before last, she wanted to promote the EPTA exam in Chengdu. She also discussed it with Lan Tian at that time, but they couldn't come to an agreement in the end. Lan Tian felt that the rebate was too little."

Lao Tang: "Who has Blue Sky been cooperating with?"

Li An smiled: "It must be the one with the highest rebate."

Lao Tang was curious: "Wait a minute, I really don't know how much I can get back."

Li An: “Eighty percent.”

Lao Tang: “How much!”

Li An: "So when you do the math, it doesn't matter who you test. If Blue Sky switches to EPTA, how much money will the four campuses lose each year?"

Lao Tang: "Hey, don't you think this thing is rotten?"

Li An: "When the exam is no longer popular, there may be hope. But there is another problem. If the exam is no longer popular, it means the market is shrinking."

"Didn't we discuss the exam for half a day the day before yesterday? Chen Xuan and I started talking about it again yesterday morning."

"In fact, think about it from another angle. We are also the beneficiaries of the relaxed examination policy. According to the difficulty of the examination 20 years ago, how many children can pass the sixth grade if they study piano like this now? If they fail the sixth grade for two consecutive years, how can parents let their children continue to study? How much motivation do the children have?"

Lao Tang: "Tsk, that's true, oh my god, it's true!" Li An: "Haitao was just joking at the time, but you guys kept making trouble. If we really don't offer the exam, let alone the difficulty of the children's subsequent classes, let's talk about you."

"Mr. Tang, we really don't want to take the exam. How can you teach a child from the third grade to the first grade?"

a long time.

Lao Tang: "One or two is fine."

Li An: "So now I have figured it out. It is not the music exam system that has changed, but the entire education environment. As practitioners, we also have to adjust our mindset accordingly."

Lao Tang: “Yes.”

Li An: "There are really few factors that can maintain the balanced development of our industry, but it is undeniable that the examination has led to more and more children learning music. It has also promoted the development of music-related subjects and supported you and me."

Lao Tang: "I remember a joke that Third Master once told. There are many very poor-quality violins made in China, but many people still buy those broken ones. But if parents don't buy them, China's violin-making industry will become even more depressed. With fewer people willing to make violins, the violins will only become worse."

Ang Lee: "This is not a joke, this is reality."

"Even if a child does not do well in the exam, it can allow him to practice the piano a little more in the period before the exam, which is better than holding a mobile phone."

Lao Tang nodded: "I was wondering if I told the parents too much today."

Li An: "No, I think the parents like you very much."

Old Tang curled his lips and said, "Let Mu Xin host tomorrow. I'm almost growing hair from all the questions."

Li An waved his hands hurriedly: "Mu Xin is too tough. I'm really worried that she will confront her parents. No one else can do this job. You have to do it."

Lao Tang: "Do you have anything else to do tomorrow morning?"

Li An: "Let's try to fill up the classes for the three of you first."

Lao Tang nodded and didn't say anything else. He understood Li Ang's kindness.

After a moment, "Then let's study EPTA later."

Li An: "Well, let's see what Sister Lin says when she comes back. If we are qualified enough to apply for a test site, we will arrange it this year."

Lao Tang: "That's definitely no problem."

Li Anle: "You don't know this person. Ding is Ding and Mao is Mao."

Lao Tang laughed and sighed in his heart, wondering who exactly didn't understand.

Lao Tang dares to say that as long as Ang Lee wants to do it, there is no chance that it will fail.

"Let's go. We can talk about this after she comes back. The afternoon will be mostly with Shu Ren's parents. Don't focus on class registration. Push for music theory exams. The music theory of Shu Ren's kids is too poor. They need to improve during the holidays."

"clear."
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An hour and a half later, everyone returned to their posts.

Soon after, the second wave of parents who had made appointments arrived with their children.

In the morning the process starts over again.

Chen Xuan started the third part, the Forest Lecture Session, with the first group of parents of children in the morning.

Learning music naturally cannot avoid the most basic music theory.

Whether for children with or without a foundation, the enlightenment literacy course that Li Ang created for Jinhua Experimental School is a music theory course that can be used as a model.

Chen Xuan was responsible for giving lectures, while Li An was responsible for demonstrating on the piano.

With the illustrations in the accompanying courses, from the musical notation to the basic notes, many parents feel they have gotten the hang of it in a short time.

It’s time for the on-site evaluation.

Ang Lee asked each child to come to the stage and play different notes of different lengths, heights and sizes, and asked the children to answer what they heard.

“First pitch!”

"The second note is long!"

Based on the children’s answers, Li An also introduced to parents some daily methods to cultivate children’s sense of music.

Having finally "caught" Li Ang, the parents naturally didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Li An also patiently answered questions raised by every parent, even if the question was repeated many times.

He was speaking when there was a commotion at the stairs.

It turned out that it was Mr. Wei who came.

Ang Lee didn't give any further introduction. Lao Wei went straight to the piano and started playing piano games with the children.

It was not until the end that the parents realized that this person was the famous Professor Wei.

So Lao Wei was surrounded again, which gave Li Ang a temporary relief.

Afterwards, Ang Lee walked around the building, and it could be said that the afternoon was much more popular than the morning.

Not long after the second round of games began, shortages of various supplies began to appear.

Fortunately, Xu Li arranged for various personnel to go out for procurement in time so as not to delay subsequent activities.

The lights outside the window came on and the concert finally arrived.

At exactly 7:30, all the game scenes on the second floor had been dismantled, revealing the original appearance of the stage.

It was obvious that the reserved seats were not enough for every audience member to sit down and listen, so all the seats were given to parents and children.

Wei Fangyuan and his wife, Ji Chengguang and his wife, as well as Sun Yuman and Zhou Song, and other friends and relatives who came to show their support could only stand around the seats.

However, this did not affect the orderly start of the entire concert.

As soon as the five children led by Li An and senior sister Xiao Ji came on stage, they won warm applause from the audience.

There is no need to say much about Ang Lee. Without Ang Lee, there would be no Piano Classroom No. 4. It can be said that in the beginning, most parents came for Ang Lee's fame.

But after arriving, through the whole day's experience, they found that the phenomena here were different from before they came.

Just like many parents, they felt Lee Ang’s uniqueness only after having close communication with him in the afternoon.

They are even more familiar with the rest of the children. Looking at these lovely faces, the parents think of the filled growth files and the wonderful music in the videos.

At this moment, Ang Lee is about to perform with these children, how can this not make the parents excited.

After an absence of nearly half a year, seven teachers and students gathered on the stage again.

The children were also very excited, especially at such a moment, on a stage that belonged to them.

The seven teachers and students bowed and took their seats, and the applause finally stopped.

"when!"

As Senior Sister Xiao Ji played the first theme, the gorgeous Baroque style instantly brought everyone into another space.

The clear music seems to carry infinite power, maintaining the greatest forward momentum.

At this moment, three more piano sounds joined in!
Old Tang Muxin and others were all surprised when they heard the voice. They had seen the video and live rehearsal of the septet.

But compared with the official stage at this moment, the feeling it gives is completely different!
As Ang Lee raised his hand and pointed, the color of the music changed again.

(End of this chapter)