Chapter 17: Telephoning the piano(1/2)
Yang Jingxing did not attend class all afternoon. During self-study in the evening, Tao Meng explained to him the tasks assigned by the teacher and generously shared his notes.
Yang Jingxing thanked him and asked, "Have you changed your perfume?"
Tao Meng frowned: "No...I'm useless!"
Yang Jingxing didn't believe it: "Don't lie to me, this smells good, fresh and natural, I like it."
Tao Meng's eyebrows knitted together and she turned away to ignore Yang Jingxing. The cap of her pen screeched on the table. This conflict lasted for more than ten minutes and ended with Tao Meng discussing the topic with Yang Jingxing.
In this way, Yang Jingxing lived a fulfilling life every day, and on Saturday morning he went to the city to attend class again. He also brought dessert cakes to all the teachers. Of course Hu Yiqing and Zhang Chujia liked them, but Li Yingzhen did not flatter them.
Zhang Chujia was eating cakes and listening to Yang Jingxing playing a ditty, and said happily: "If you are like this, it will be no problem for you to participate in the talent show."
Yang Jingxing asked: "Then I have passed the inspection period?"
Zhang Chujia smiled: "Not even close!"
Hu Yiqing asked Zhang Chujia: "Will Professor Li come today?"
"Yes." Zhang Chujia nodded and hit Yang Jingxing: "Don't worry, I'm more than enough to teach you now!"
The three of them had lunch together, and Yang Jingxing treated him to a treat. On weekends, he would be busy with his mobile phone for a while, texting with Liu Miao and Xiaxue. The two girls had been very excited since they found out that he was learning piano, but they were too anxious to observe and participate.
Today Liu Miao came up with a way to ask Yang Jingxing to play to them over the phone, and even went to meet Xia Xue specifically for this matter.
Later, Liu Miao's phone calls came, and Yang Jingxing had to explain: "I'm eating now. Listen, it's so noisy... Yes, it's nearby... How can I have time to see beautiful women... I'm going to attend a class in the afternoon, and I can't play."
, I said that I am still learning from the children... Hehe, I heard it, what are you eating... OK, OK, I will call you when I get back to school in the evening."
Seeing that Yang Jingxing was still smiling after hanging up the phone, Zhang Chujia asked: "Girlfriend?"
"No." Yang Jingxing shook his head, "Good friend."
Zhang Chujia laughed like a sneer: "Want to hear you play the piano?"
Hu Yiqing also asked: "Are they family friends?"
Zhang Chujia also encouraged Yang Jingxing: "Don't be afraid, you should be able to do it."
In the afternoon, he went to the attached primary school to attend class. Yang Jingxing still listened in and sent several text messages. During the break, Zhang Chujia asked Yang Jingxing to call his good friend to play the piano now, and he fulfilled his wish.
Yang Jingxing was still embarrassed and wanted to wait until he returned to Shangpu in the evening. Zhang Chujia became unhappy and said to Hu Yiqing: "Here!"
Hu Yiqing haha, no opinion.
Zhang Chujia threatened Yang Jingxing: "You haven't passed the inspection period yet, don't offend me!"
Yang Jingxing had no choice but to compromise and call Xia Xue to make the two girls happy.
Yang Jingxing said: "Is there a speakerphone? You press speakerphone... I don't have it... I put it on the piano... I don't have headphones on, so I'll turn up the volume!"
The two girls worked on it for a while and finally got the speakerphone ready. Yang Jingxing heard Liu Miao shout loudly: "Can you hear us?"
"I heard it, I started playing..."Für Elise", I know how to do it." I have practiced a lot these days.
Hu Yiqing saw Yang Jingxing put his cell phone on the piano, so he went over to hold it for him, thinking it would help him receive the sound. Zhang Chujia also walked closer to see if he could hear the voice on the other end of the phone, and said to Yang Jingxing: "I want you to start!"
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Yang Jingxing rubbed his hands and pondered for a few seconds before starting. He looked at the keyboard and played very seriously, but also seemed to be relaxing and having fun. Although his face was expressionless, it was different from the previous practice.
Before the first paragraph of A minor ended, Zhang Chujia and Hu Yiqing exchanged glances. After switching to C major, Zhang Chujia tilted her head and stared at Yang Jingxing. When it came to F major, Zhang Chujia frowned and Zhang Chujia frowned.
He spoke for a moment, but didn't say anything. Hu Yiqing held her cell phone and made irregular circles up and down, left and right, as if to accompany the music.
When the song was about to end, Li Yingzhen walked into the classroom quietly, but did not disturb Yang Jingxing. The three piano students did not say hello to the teacher, and were all listening to the performance of Yang Jingxing, a senior transfer student.
After the song ended, Yang Jingxing gave an embarrassed chuckle, took the phone from Hu Yiqing's hand, and asked: "Can you hear me clearly...Thank you...Of course I played it...When did I lie to you...Thank you Xuexue...
...Haha... The professor is here, I will die first..."
Yang Jingxing greeted Li Yingzhen: "Professor Li, thank you for your hard work."
Li Yingzhen looked at Yang Jingxing and asked, "Who did you call?"
"friend."
Zhang Chujia added: "Girl friend!" Why was his tone full of sarcasm?
Li Yingzhen nodded, looked at Yang Jingxing and said: "You played the theme well just now, it has that kind of friendly feeling. You see, you need to pay attention to the contrast when decomposing the chords alternately, and you need to have the feeling of communication between the left and right hands. The C major key should be clearer, and it can be faster.
, you played too lingeringly, especially in F major... But the subsequent chords should be more stable, more serious, and not so impetuous, otherwise the whole will lack contrast and emotional fluctuations." Li Yingzhen did not consider these requirements for Yang Jingxing.
Tell me if it's too high.
Zhang Chujia laughed at Yang Jingxing: "Oh, you have to bring your good friends with you during the exam."
Hu Yiqing reminded Yang Jingxing: "I played much better just now."
Li Yingzhen sat down and called Yang Jingxing: "Just keep the mood just now and play it again."
Zhang Chujia asked Yang Jingxing: "Do you still want to call?"
Of course not Yang Jingxing.
Li Yingzhen seemed to have changed her strategy today. When Yang Jing played this time, she often nodded and praised: "Yes, that's it... gentle, you must be gentle... Okay, don't be too slow... Pay attention to the relationship, okay...
...It needs to be a little faster here, like Lado Miradomi, crescendo, right...The triplet should be warm, a little bit worse...You should pay attention to this descending chromatic scale, many people are not good at overdoing it...Tenderness, very gentleness
, yes, it should be very beautiful."
After Yang Jingxing finished playing, Li Yingzhen clapped her hands hard and said loudly with a smile: "Isn't that right? It's great to have feelings!"
Yang Jingxing was very embarrassed.
Zhang Chujia pointed at Yang Jingxing and said, "I asked you to call, right? You can treat me to dinner." Then she conspired with Hu Yiqing and said, "I'm going to Doulaofang." Then he complained to Li Yingzhen, saying that Yang Jingxing's playing was average in the morning, but after one
His behavior changed when he called a girl. As he spoke, Zhang Chujia became angry and exclaimed: "How curious!"
However, Li Yingzhen warned Yang Jingxing very seriously: "Don't get carried away after making a little progress. You are just getting started and have just started." There are so many people learning piano, and more than 90% of them are tortured by insurmountable bottlenecks and give up.
.Sometimes, it can be really frustrating to practice a sentence hundreds or thousands of times and still not see the slightest improvement. Even if Yang Jingxing seems to be a genius now, who knows what will happen in the future. A quick start does not equal endurance.
Strong.
Next, Yang Jingxing was taken to the office by Li Yingzhen for a small class. Li Yingzhen said that Hu Yiqing could leave if he was busy, but Hu Yiqing was not and listened to the class more seriously than Yang Jingxing.
Li Yingzhen checked Yang Jingxing's 599 practice and praised Yang Jingxing's fingers for their good running ability. He no longer relied on his arms and wrists to press continuously like before. He also basically got started with musical scales and chromatic scales.
Li Yingzhen brought Czerny again and found some items in 277,835 for Yang Jingxing to practice. It took more than an hour to declare that Yang Jingxing had basically passed this level of difficulty.
However, etudes are not the purpose. Just like swimmers can run, running is only for swimming. Etudes are only for music. So Li Yingzhen told Yang Jingxing to never stop practicing the basics.
When Li Yingzhen asked Yang Jingxing to start playing the music, Zhang Chujia had already finished teaching the children below and ran up to watch the fun. After listening to Yang Jingxing play "Shepherd Boy Piccolo", she was happy: "I can't do it without calling!"
Li Yingzhen was also very dissatisfied and asked Yang Jingxing: "Where was your spirituality just now?"
Hu Yiqing explained with a guilty conscience: "He hasn't practiced this yet."
That's right, Li Yingzhen asked Zhang Chujia to play, and she explained to Yang Jingxing the key points, the emotions that should be paid attention to in each paragraph, and so on.
After all, he is a graduate student, so Zhang Chujia picked up such pediatric music at his fingertips. While playing, he looked at Yang Jingxing, especially those cheerful rhythms. It is really not elegant. Why are you showing off to someone who has just learned piano for half a month?
Then Yang Jingxing played it again, but Li Yingzhen was still dissatisfied: "You are just imitating... When you play below, I can feel your own understanding and emotion. Playing is actually a process of re-creation. If everything is the same, this world
All that’s needed is the gramophone.”
Being criticized again, Yang Jingxing had to practice harder. But can't emotions be something that can be mastered through practice alone? After several times, Yang Jingxing's playing was almost a copy of Zhang Chujia's, but Li Yingzhen still couldn't find it.
"That kind of joy, but I can't criticize Yang Jingxing too much.
Next came the basic exercises, starting with the preview of 849. Li Yingzhen selected some targeted items for Yang Jingxing to play first, and then she pointed out the shortcomings. Of course, there were a few parts that she was satisfied with and asked Yang Jingxing to maintain.
The class went on like this until six o'clock. Li Yingzhen was surprised when she received a call: "It's so late...don't worry about me, I'll eat with the students." After the conversation, she asked Yang Jingxing: "Where did you say we were going to eat?
of?"
So the four of us had dinner together today. Li Yingzhen's car was a white Toyota, and she let Zhang Chujia drive it so that she could talk to Yang Jingxing. Without talking about the piano, she asked Yang Jingxing if he had any brothers or sisters, what his parents did, etc.
Homely.
After sitting down in the restaurant, Zhang Chujia asked for some delicious food and reminded Yang Jingxing: "I haven't even attended a three-hour class."
Yang Jingxing didn't thank Li Yingzhen and said back: "Who told you that you are already so powerful?"
Li Yingzhen chatted with Hu Yiqing and asked how Yang Jingxing's music theory was going. She also told Hu Yiqing that he should start paying attention to Yang Jingxing's writing training. Of course, it was not that he should write any good works, but that he should learn the format and at least know how to harmonize.
What's going on? Then you must at least know some basic techniques for processing basic motives. Given a musical phrase, you must at least know how to use the most basic techniques to enrich it. Even if it is formulaic, you must at least understand the echoes of the melody.
Li Yingzhen was still a little worried: "Is it okay?"
Hu Yiqing thought for a moment and nodded: "It should be no problem."
Yang Jingxing started texting again. Liu Miao and Xia Xue said that they wanted to listen to "Canon" next time, and Yang Jingxing was very motivated and said that he would play a new song for them every week.
After finishing the meal, Yang Jingxing was about to pay the bill, but Li Yingzhen frightened him with a look. Jiang was so old that Yang Jingxing didn't dare to say that he was a man, so he asked Li Yingzhen to invite the guests of the juniors.
Li Yingzhen also explained that tomorrow was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so she might not have time to watch Yang Jingxing practice, so she gave Zhang Chujia the full responsibility and assigned tasks. Yang Jingxing also shamelessly offered to give Hu Yiqing a day off, and Hu Yiqing agreed. Zhang Chujia called out
Yang Jingxing will prepare mooncakes and come to see her tomorrow.
There were quite a lot of people on the subway, but it wasn't too crowded. Zhang Chujia asked Yang Jingxing whether Shangpu was really an aristocratic school and whether the students were all the children of big bosses and officials.
Yang Jingxing said: "Obviously not, look at me."
To be continued...