The world's number one pianist

Because of Ji Mengting's disturbance, this small exam was a bit messy. Many people didn't know which teacher they should choose. Reading

He Shen thought about it for a while and went on stage to briefly introduce his admission standards.

His standards are not difficult. Simply put, if you don't have a direction to move forward, or if you want to move towards Chopin, it is recommended to study with him.

Because he can help you find the direction of your personal efforts and improve your piano level of Chopin.

Then some other students, if they have no interest in Chopin, or are very clear about what they need to play next and what kind of works they need to play, it is actually better not to learn from him.

After all, he doesn't know enough other things. If he really teaches, he may not be able to teach well or what kind of performer he can become. .

But if you are developing in the direction of Chopin, then he has a way to teach you to be a slightly better performer.

Seeing He Shen's guarantee, some people who don't like Chopin so much began to retreat and crossed out He Shen's name on their intention forms.

Seeing He Shen like this, other teachers thought for a while and followed suit to introduce their main directions.

After all, He Shen had done it, so others might as well do it as well. It wouldn't take much time and it would also give these students a clearer choice.

At least they know what kind of works they are good at, or what kind of students they are good at teaching.

In this way, these students will have a clearer direction when choosing, and they will also know what they should show to the teacher.

As for the teacher, they can also save a little more time and don't have to pay attention to some people who don't want to learn from him at first glance.

After all the teachers' overviews, the scene returned to calm again. All the teachers returned to their seats, and the students also went on stage to perform one by one.

After He Shen listened to the speeches of these piano teachers, he suddenly found that several teachers in the piano department of the entire school's music college were very powerful, and they really learned everything.

For example, among the several associate professors, the oldest one was good at Schoenberg's works. It is said that his teacher was Schoenberg's disciple. Strictly speaking, he should be Schoenberg's grandson?

I don't know if it should be called like this...

The other few are also good at some composers in the middle and late romantic period, basically Rachmaninov, Debussy, Stryabin, etc.

There are very few people like He Shen who are good at Chopin.

No, maybe it can't be called very few, it should be called absolutely none!

In simple terms, it is because everyone can play Chopin and can play it well. If this is the case, then it is obvious that everyone is good at Chopin.

But there are not many musicians like He Shen who are good at Chopin in the country. These teachers have all heard He Shen's performance, so they know very well how high He Shen's Chopin level is!

Let's not talk about whether they think that the composers in the early romantic period can reach He Shen's level. As far as Chopin is concerned, He Shen is definitely better than all of them!

And now He Shen is only focusing on Chopin, and has not studied other works in particular. Those works are basically just passing by.

This is just now, so what about later? What will happen later?

Who can guarantee that He Shen will not focus on other works in the future?

So... in order to avoid being slapped in the face by He Shen later, they temporarily selected some relatively late composers, hoping that He Shen would focus less on these musicians.

Compared with the cautiousness of these professors, Qu Shi was more open-minded. She went on stage and announced with others.

"I am good at playing theory in the score. If you want to learn from the score, you can come to me and follow me. If you just want to learn piano skills from me, I suggest you find other teachers."

This sentence directly discouraged a lot of people, and they didn't dare to choose Qu Shi at all.

After all, when it comes to practicing the piano and learning theory, many people's first reaction is always to practice the piano. Practicing the piano is so good. Many times you don't have to use your brain, just let your hands run by themselves. Who wants to use their brain when playing the piano? As for learning theory?

Who wants to learn this brain-burning and hair-losing rubbish? Anyway, I definitely don't want to learn it.

Therefore, after hearing that Qu Shi's main direction was theory, some students who originally thought Qu Shi was pretty and wanted to learn from a beautiful teacher had the idea of ​​retreating.

Beauty? Sorry, I just want to be a lazy person!

Qu Shi didn't care. If she didn't have enough students, some of the selected ones would naturally be assigned to her side.

As for whether these selected ones were willing to come to study...

It had nothing to do with her money. If they didn't want to come to study, then they didn't come to study. If they came to study, they wouldn't get any more money.

So... Qu Shi treated this matter quite Buddhist.

He Shen was the same. His strict rules directly discouraged many freshmen.

Many students who originally planned to follow He Shen looked at each other, hesitated a little, silently changed their intentions, and filled in other teachers.

Although He Shen was very good, they felt that the chances of being eliminated were too high. This person was willing to eliminate even the first place, so it was impossible for them to get in!

The speed of the performers behind gradually increased, and the judges shortened the playing time of each person to one or two minutes. Basically, they just listened to the beginning and then picked a certain section in the middle.

For example, the third section of the ABA three-section work, or the development section of the sonata, just follow these students and let them skip the previous content and start the climax directly.

Due to the acceleration of the speed, all teachers evaluated students faster and faster, and no longer gave a basic score. Basically, if they were a little interested, they would draw a circle, and if they were not interested, they would ignore it.

Finally, at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the exam finally came to an end. All the students ran out of the concert hall as if they were liberated, leaving the concert hall to all their teachers.

"What's wrong? Why are you so silent? Are the students this year not good?"

Zhou San pulled himself out of the stool with a force on his waist, walked to the front of everyone, propped himself up with his hands, sat on the stage, and waved to the counselor standing on the side.

"Come on, let's classify the intention forms together and see if there are any that match!"

"Okay!"

The counselor nodded immediately, took all the intention forms collected before, and distributed the intention forms in his hand one by one according to the names of all the teachers written by the students.

The associate professors received the most, followed by lecturers, and then teaching assistants.

After the teaching assistants came Qu Shi, and after Qu Shi, He Shen...

He Shen looked at the four extremely scarce pieces of paper in front of him, shook his head helplessly, and glanced at Qu Shi next to him. She had seven pieces, which made him even more depressed.

Even if these people would rather learn theory, they would not follow me to learn Chopin?

But it's actually okay. He Shen doesn't really care about this, so he doesn't feel bad. After all, he had guessed it long ago. He was the one who could reject even the first place.

So, those people must be afraid that they will be rejected by him, so they don't dare to write their names on the application form, which leads to basically not many application forms in front of him.

He looked through the names on it boringly. They were all names he had never heard of. He looked at them in the order of admission and they were all the last ones.

Those people probably didn't dare to choose others, thinking that they would be eliminated if they chose others, so why not choose themselves?

He Shen almost laughed out loud. He just wanted to accept them all and let them fend for themselves, but after thinking about these people's performances carefully, he finally shook his head.

These people's performances had no impression at all, and their strength should not be very good.

So, let them go directly.

He Shen kept the application form that Ji Mengting left for him before, and returned all the other application forms to the counselor.

Zhou San saw that He Shen only had a piece of paper in his hand, so he immediately walked up to him, touched his chin, and asked with a smile.

"What's wrong? No one you like?"

"It's all about luck, not very good."

"Tsk tsk, then you may be miserable in the future. Basically, people who are not wanted by everyone will be assigned to you. Do you want me to help you get a few good seedlings? I saw several good seedlings this year."

"No, I plan to slack off." He Shen shook his head and rejected Zhou San's kindness.

Hearing what He Shen said, Zhou San almost laughed and pointed at He Shen.

"Hey, hey, hey, you treat me as the principal. At least I am the head of the piano department, the vice president of the music college, etc. You said directly in front of me that you want to slack off. Is this really okay?"

"Then someone has to choose me?"

"..."

Zhou San was speechless and immediately raised his hands in surrender.

"Okay, okay, you are right. I was not thoughtful enough. I'll take my leave! You can go and fish slowly."

"But..."

Zhou San looked at the others who were still sorting out the information in their hands, smiled at He Shen, and whispered in his ear.

"There is a job to make extra money, do you want to go?"

"Make extra money?"

He Shen was stunned. He didn't expect Zhou San to say this.

Zhou San nodded and said, "Yes, in a few months, the school exchange competition will be held. This can be regarded as an outpost between music colleges in my country."

"The point..."

"Hiss, don't be in a hurry." Zhou San patted He Shen and pretended to be angry and said, "He Shen, it is very impolite to interrupt others' speeches. Listen to me first."

After that, without waiting for He Shen's consent, he continued to speak.

"Of course, the point is not to let you participate in the competition. You are over the age limit. Those who want to participate in the competition are basically students from various music colleges. They are not necessarily undergraduates. Many are middle school and high school students."

"In addition to exchanges between students, this exchange competition also includes exchanges between teachers from various music colleges. It is a bit like a small musician summit. The difference from the musician summit is that there are no big names participating in this summit."

"The main purpose of this competition is to promote the relationship between various music colleges. Of course, this is bullshit. Everyone can hear it. Ignore this point. There is another purpose of this competition, which is to compete for quotas."

"The competition is about to begin. The first round of selection will begin at this time next year. Music academies and art academies around the world will submit the students they want to select to the competition organizing committee and let them select the first round. Players who can enter Xiaosai.”

"This exchange competition is all about getting a quota and getting a quota to be recommended in China..."

He Shen suddenly interrupted and asked.

"Um... doesn't our school have one?"

After hearing He Shen's words, Zhou San said coyly.

"Well, after all, you have to know that our school is still Jiangzhou Normal University, not Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music, so...of course we don't have a quota..."

Speaking of this place, Zhou San immediately added.

"Of course, Jiangzhou University of the Arts also does not have this quota. We in Jiangzhou can be regarded as the only place in China that does not have any quota."

"so……"

He Shen suddenly thought of what Zhou San had said to him before, and the veins on his forehead began to twitch.

"Is this a waste of money?"

Zhou San told himself before that he was the last piece of territory in his big ship. He also said that as long as he was there, he would have a chance to win the Chopin International Piano Competition?

Is it possible that he is allowed to play for the quota and then play the game himself?

this……

He Shen didn't know what to say for a while.

Zhou San also scratched his head in embarrassment, pretending not to hear anything, and continued.

"Well, just go there first, and then you can communicate with the teachers from other schools and conquer them. It shouldn't be difficult, hahaha..."

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you about the extra money. The champion school will award 500,000 yuan. After it is transferred to our music school's account, if you divide it a little or less, you can basically get tens of thousands. This should be considered extra money. Bar?"

"..."

He Shen sighed, feeling like he was on a pirate ship.

But that’s it, so be it.

He Shen asked Zhou San.

"when?"

"During the students' winter vacation, that is, before the Spring Festival, I will organize special training for the students, and then drive them over to participate in competitions during the winter vacation."

"OK."

He Shen nodded, stuffed Ji Mengting's intention form into Zhou San's arms, waved his hand, and left first.

Zhou San didn't care that He Shen was angry. After all, he was in the wrong, so he happily touched his Mediterranean, walked to other teachers with Ji Mengting's expression of interest, and urged them to quickly pack up the students they wanted and bring them to the school. The unsuccessful students were handed over to him.