Hearing that Li Zhifan was going to demonstrate, the students became agitated one by one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the midst of applause, Li Zhifan walked to the piano and stroked his ten fingers on the piano casually, seemingly unprepared, but his fingertips played a string of beautiful notes.

"This is ...... Bell?"

Some students can hear it just by these few seconds.

As the music progressed, the atmosphere below gradually became more and more exciting.

For many students, what a rare moment it was, looking at Li Zhifan's hands that danced like phantoms as soon as they came up, the blood on his body couldn't stop boiling.

Li Zhifan didn't play for long, and after the second paragraph of the piece, he finished the finishing touch, got up and returned to the center of the podium.

"The way I play fast is to forget the method!"

As soon as this sentence was spoken, the students below were puzzled, and some even frowned, but there were also many students who nodded involuntarily.

Charlett and David glanced at each other, and both of them gave intriguing glances at the same time.

On stage, Li Zhifan continued: "I believe that everyone has had the experience of being lazy in the initial process of learning piano. At the time, we all felt that this was wrong, but when you reached the level of performance, you found that these rigid canons were restrictive, especially when playing some fast 32nd or even 64th notes, you will find that your fingers are not enough at all, and even especially envy those students who play plucked stringed instruments, because they have skills such as wheel fingers and finger shakes, and can skillfully play fast notes. ”

"Actually, when we reach the level of performance, we should start to reflect on our fingering and figure out the fingering that suits us best, which is an experience that can only be learned over time, and not for beginners, so looking back at the beginning, you should be glad that you have laid a good foundation and played the piano for so many years. ”

Li Zhifan seems to have made a joke, but in fact he tells a truth of cause and effect, where there is a cause, there is an effect, and if there is an effect, there is a cause.

For example, the person who invented the fingering thing must be a talent.

And every successful piano educator actually has his own set of fingerings.

In the beginner piano playing courses such as Czerny, Beyer, and Hanon, the fingering of each piece will not be the same, but beginners to piano learning will always say that it is best to practice according to the fingering marked on paper.

Admittedly, this is an indispensable path for beginners, and without these fingerings, later forging is very strenuous.

However, when you reach the level of performance, you will find that you have to lose the fingering you first learned one step further, because this fingering is not the most perfect, otherwise there will not be many genres.

"I don't know if any of you have read the martial arts novels of the East!"

Li Zhifan suddenly shifted the topic to martial arts, seeing that some of the students nodded again and again, and some looked dazed, he smiled, "Students who haven't seen it, you can go and have a look, not for your pastime, but to find philosophy from it, in Oriental martial arts, pay attention to simplification into complexity, the unity of heaven and man, there is no sword in the sword, and the sword is one, so in the piano performance, it is the same!"

In fact, many people understand these truths, and those who don't understand a little bit can be explained thoroughly, but no one understands how to do this.

Li Zhifan couldn't tell them a plan that suited everyone, otherwise they would need one-on-one guidance for piano lessons.

So, he turned to himself and said, "Back to the question I had at the beginning, how many people went to see me play the piano yesterday?"

It was still that part of the students who raised their hands.

Li Zhifan casually pointed to one: "Okay, this classmate, tell me, what did you see?"

He was referring to an Asian female student, I don't know if it was Chinese, but it was in English, the female student thought about it, and said seriously: "You play very well! The level is very high, it motivates me, but it makes me feel a little lost, you are like a mountain that is difficult to climb, even if it is so close to us, we can only look at it!"

"Thank you, I'll just compliment me as you!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "But what you said is not the answer I want!"

He looked at the others who raised their hands: "Can any of you tell me what else you saw yesterday?"

Everyone raised their hands one after another, and there were all kinds of rhetoric, some said that they saw Li Zhifan's level stronger than Zhongju Youdou, some said that they saw Li Zhifan's afterimage-like hand, switching back and forth between fast and slow, and the priorities were very natural, and some said that he seemed to have become one with the piano.

None of them were right, Li Zhifan smiled and said: "Okay, in fact, I heard many people talk about this answer after the concert yesterday, and it's hard to believe that you didn't pay attention." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Asian schoolgirl exclaimed, "I see! You've been closing your eyes the whole time?"

She spoke in Chinese, and it seemed that she really said it in a hurry, and Li Zhifan gave a thumbs up: "Good! ”

The schoolgirl suddenly became proud and repeated the words.

After she said this, many people also remembered it, and they just didn't watch Li Zhifan's performance yesterday, and they also watched the short piece of "Bell" he played at the beginning just now.

During the whole process, Li Zhifan was indeed playing with his eyes closed and his head held high, and he didn't open his eyes and leave the piano until he was over.

The astute person suddenly understood what Li Zhifan meant, is this what he said, the unity of the human piano?

"The piano is already in my heart, it can also be said that it is everywhere, I completely control the fingers with my heart, or I can say that controlling the heart is to control every key of the piano. ”

After Li Zhifan finished speaking, waiting for the intelligent translator to finish conveying this sentence, there was a sudden jubilation below, thunderous applause, and even students made repeated shouts.

In the last 20 minutes, Li Zhifan picked a few students to come up and instructed them to play the piano on the spot.

For the sake of fairness, three whites, blacks, and yellows were called.

The first white student's playing, decent, musical talent is very good, and the level is also trained from a young age, when he plays, he already knows how to make up fingering, but there are still certain routines, maybe he thinks this routine is very applicable!

And when Li Zhifan is playing, basically every fingering is different, and his fingers move completely at will, not to mention the routine.

Li Zhifan learned that he studied at the local Belmont High School in high school, and would come to Berkeley every week to participate in City-music classes during high school, and his firm piano performance was produced during this period, which means that the school's teaching played a great role in him.

Li Zhifan gave him two suggestions, in addition to completely asking for formulaic fingering, sit in front of the piano for an hour every day and play randomly, don't think about any melody and scores, just play casually, but must play rhythmically, musically, and harmoniously.

The white student seemed to understand whether he understood or not, nodded confusedly, and went down to ponder for himself.

The second black student came up and played a jazz piano.

The black man was indeed born to play jazz, and he played this passage very well, and he sat completely as he pleased, and although his eyes sometimes glanced at the keys of the piano, he was not looking at the next or the position of the keys, but as if he were talking to the piano with his eyes.

It's like a basketball player who says to the basketball when he shoots: Baby, you must go in!

After a short exchange, he learned that this black student was a pianist in the school's jazz orchestra, and his main business was not piano performance, but jazz composition.

The third yellow-skinned student, Lee Chi Fan, thought she was Chinese, but she didn't expect that although she was Chinese, she was Singaporean, and she still had one-eighth Malay ancestry.

The girl plays the piano and has many masters, but after the exchange, I learned that this girl is relatively bourgeois, and her family has money to send her to school, and her dream is to return to Singapore to become a piano teacher.

Although the dream is not big, it is also beautiful, Li Zhifan did not instruct her how to play the piano, but taught her how to teach the piano to the students, and they all wrote superficial things, such as how to hit the nail on the head, how to distinguish the qualifications of students, etc.

Although he gave individual instructions to these three students, each sentence was also directed to the students below, and the students below automatically sat down, and the others also listened a little, so that they could go back to independent thinking in combination.

"Alright, that's all for today's lesson!"

Li Zhifan seized the time and announced the end of class, "I hope everyone will like my class today!"

However, the students were still unsatisfied, and they stood up one after another to persuade them:

"Professor, show your hand again!"

"Professor Li, we still want to hear you play a song!"

"Dean, please ask Professor Li!"

"Professor David, you can also help talk, we really haven't had enough of this lesson!"

“……”

Charlitte and David were very helpless, but they were also reluctant, and walked to the front of the stage together to keep Li Zhifan.

"Professor Li, why don't you fulfill the student's wish?"

David said sincerely, "I'm sure you won't reject them, right?"

"Stop! I'm not a professor yet!" Li Zhifan spread his hands, "but since the students want to hear it, then I can talk about it again, that's all!"

After speaking, Li Zhifan began to think, what should I play?

Looking at the expectant eyes of the students, he didn't want to be fooled, not to mention so many professional students below, they could hear if they were fooled.

But with the difficult piano music, I can't remember what to play for a while.

After searching the piano music library in my mind for a while, a picture suddenly popped up - Lang Lang was playing the piano at a concert with great joy, and the shirt in his suit was already soaked with sweat.

The score and melody of this piano piece also came to his mind.

At that moment, Li Zhifan snapped his fingers and played this song, and then walked to the piano and sat down, closed his eyes and began to pretend to be deep.

The students didn't just scream:

"It's on! It's on!"

"Sure enough, I closed my eyes, and I was about to see the scene of the unity of the human piano again!"

"Oh my God! The moment Professor Li closed his eyes, his aura changed completely!"

"yes! I'll have to take a picture of it and pass it on to my friends later!"

"I'll shoot too!"

The repertoire that Li Zhifan wants to play is called "Memories of Don Juan".

This piano piece is based on Liszt's opera "Don Juan", but there is no such opera as "Don Juan" in this world, so naturally this "Memories of Don Juan" has become unique.

"Memories of Don Juan" is the essence of Liszt's many arrangements, the technical difficulty, the grandeur of the scenes, and the astonishing momentum of the rich expression of the original.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, which was originally about two and a half hours long, was adapted by Liszt into a short piano piece.

The piano piece does not delete a single note from the opera, and the whole piece is very difficult in terms of rhythm and technique, and is known as one of the top ten most difficult piano pieces in another world (ranked fourth), and is rarely played.

The version played by Lang Lang is also known as the version with the least misnotes, and no pianist in the other world plays this piece well, it's just a matter of how much.

However, later there was computer simulation synthesis, so there was also a version with no mistakes at all, but it was separated from human playing, and the cold machine brought only a piece of music, without emotion and temperature, and it could not be called a work of art.

After stabilizing his mood, Li Zhifan seemed to have come to an empty and unmanned world.

It was just him and a piano, and when his fingers played the first notes on the piano, the whole classroom was instantly silent, quieter than the concert hall.

Everyone looked at Li Zhifan's hands, the two hands were completely floating, as if they had not touched the keys at all, but the sound was real, which showed how fast he was and how accurate the strength was at the moment when he played it and left.

Outside the classroom.

Many students and teachers who passed by were attracted to it.

Some of them learned that Li Zhifan was taking classes here and came to see it -- and the reason they learned about Li Zhifan was that he had seen him play last night or knew his works, but more because he was an entertainment star.

Especially those students in South Korea and Japan, most of them have heard Li Zhifan, and in these two countries, there are really many covers of Li Zhifan's songs, which is also one of the important reasons for him to open up his popularity.

However, when everyone heard the sound of the piano, even if they couldn't squeeze in and couldn't see what he looked like when he played, they stood in the corridor and marveled.

This perverted level of performance, just a small public class, can you commit it?

But then I think about it, maybe this is the maestro, who treats every performance as if he were standing on the stage of a concert hall, and respects every one of his listeners.

Originally, Li Zhifan only planned to play the first movement, but as soon as he was immersed in it, he couldn't extricate himself, and in the end, he played it for 16 minutes and finished playing all the piano pieces!

When he opened his eyes again, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, there was not a single gap in the classroom, full of people gathered around him, and the latter was standing on the table and stool, and even David and Charlitt were staring at him.