Or is it the litmus test for a good pianist?

Yang Ruoyi didn't believe it at first, and she hadn't heard this tune before.

It doesn't matter, Yang Han quickly showed her a few videos of pianists at home and abroad playing this piece, and the clip was not long, just a short beginning - but it was also the difficulty that Yang Han wanted to emphasize.

Although Yang Ruoyi listened to it for the first time, she closed her eyes and listened very carefully, and she heard the difference after listening to it only once!

"Why, it's different...... the girl said to her father, frowning.

"Tell me, what's the difference?" Yang Han smiled slightly, motioning for her to try to express her feelings.

"It's just that the expression of emotions is very different, like the last one, there is a very subtle uneasiness, as if something bad is about to come out, it's a little scary. Yang Ruoyi didn't like the latter expression very much.

But it's not that the pianist at the back doesn't play well! On the contrary, Yang Ruoyi vaguely feels that the pianist at the back plays more in line with the direction of this melody, as if it should be played like this. It's just that she prefers a little more upbeat tunes.

"And then in front of these, there is a foreign aunt in front of her, and she is 'dong dong' in front, which doesn't seem right. Yang Ruoyi can't say too much specifically, after all, she still has too little to learn.

"Do you know why this pianist played like this in the end?" Yang Han didn't wait for her daughter to answer, and then smiled, "Let's take a look at the score of this "Sonata in B minor"!

Yang Han pointed to the middle note of the first beat at the beginning of the score.

"Is this a rest?" Yang Ruoyi raised her hand and brushed back the hair that had fallen out, but although she recognized the note, she was not able to immediately grasp her father's intention to mention it.

"Isn't it strange that rests appear here?" Yang Han said with a smile, "Do the scores we usually read start from the falling beat? The falling beat is a sign that this song is about to start!"

This is a bit abstract, Yang Han also stretched out his hand and played the beginning of a well-known classical piece on the piano.

Yang Ruoyi understood quickly, and she nodded again and again.

"When you look at the first beat of the "Sonata in B minor", it is actually a rest! It starts on a starting beat, not on the first beat, and not on a closing beat!" Yang Han smiled, "Think about it, is this becoming more difficult? How can you let others hear that there is a rest in front of it?"

"In fact, these pianists have their own characteristics, and we can't say who is better and who is wrong. But you just heard the last Kisin playing, and the expression should be very good. First of all, he played this rest, and secondly, behind this piece, what Liszt wanted to express, many people said was the theme of Faust, or a complex emotion of human nature, and he also expressed it!"

What Yang Han said, many people may not understand, thinking that it is just a piece of music, how can they hear these messy things, but Yang Ruoyi listened very attentively and could understand every word his father said - except for "Faust".

Under the guidance of Teacher Liao, Yang Ruoyi has gradually learned how to appreciate classical music, but what her father said today also gave her a deeper understanding - it turns out that those music without lyrics also have such a rich connotation!

Moreover, you can hear these things if you listen carefully to them!

Yang Han analyzed a few more pieces of music with his daughter before he came back, a bit like a sublimation theme and said: "So, piano playing is actually similar to singing, the difficulty in technique is not difficult, a top pianist who has practiced the piano since childhood, he can do all the things on the technique, you think it is a fingering performance of showing off skills, but it is a very normal technique in their eyes." ”

Singing may require the assistance of skills, but as long as you have been professionally trained and carefully honed, you can understand these skills, and if you are simply showing off your skills, in fact, the songs you sing may not be good, or there is a high probability that they will not be able to impress people, right?" Yang Han smiled.

"Well, I don't really like to sing with showmanship, and I feel that emotional expression is the most important. Yang Ruoyi nodded and said seriously.

"Yes, emotional expression is the real difficulty! After all, you can explain the skills clearly, but emotions are very metaphysical, you can't explain it, you can't teach it, you can only understand it yourself!" Yang Han said.

"And the same song, different people have different understandings, as for how to express it more well, more profoundly, it is more difficult than the technique!

Yang Ruoyi's head has been clicked countless times, and after listening to her father's explanation, she not only has a deeper understanding of classical music, but also has a deeper understanding of the piano.

"Originally, I wanted to learn to play the guitar because it would be more handsome to play and sing with the guitar on my father's back, but now it seems that the piano is more fun!" the girl smiled at her father with some embarrassment.

"The guitar is actually fun, and it also requires emotional investment to play. It's just that, compared with the guitar, piano music has a wider vocal range, richer timbre changes, can express more musical emotions, and it also has more classic works to enjoy and learn. Yang Han said, "Dad doesn't want you to be limited to one instrument, you can learn more about the piano, and then slowly get in touch with other instruments to understand their different characteristics." ”

"There is no end to the learning of music, the more you learn and the more you understand, the richer the way you express yourself, and the deeper your understanding of music. It also complements each other, as if the better you understand music, the faster you learn other instruments...... For example, there is a master surnamed Fang, his understanding of music is more extensive and deep, he can not only use the pipa to simulate the timbre of many Western musical instruments, but also learn to use hundreds of musical instruments, ancient, modern, modern, all of them!"

Yang Han sighed: "Dad doesn't want you to become an encyclopedia instrument master, but Dad thinks that since you have a good talent, you might as well try it, start with the piano, integrate it, different instruments, different music, to understand their essence, maybe, you can slowly find your own musical path, a different musical path!"