Chapter Twenty-Four: A Song of Fixing the Godhead-I
Wu Weiran bet on Beethoven's moonlight one and two.
As we all know, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is a piano grade 10 exam repertoire and a world famous song, which is very difficult. It's a song that is absolutely enough to force the grid and show off its skills.
However, the Moonlight Sonata is the most opportunistic of all the piano examination repertoire above grade 8 in China, and the reason is that the difficulty of the three movements of Moonlight is very different.
Moonlight, it can be said that as long as you touch the piano, don't be too musical idiots, you can play the first dozens of bars in fifteen minutes - of course, just the shape.
The simple repetitive fingering of the right hand of "361, 361, 361, 361, 461, 461, 467......" and the long tone of the left hand and the foot are very easy to master, and the reaction time and forgiveness are also generous.
After the first two minutes of the first movement, although the difficulty begins to rise, it is also something that can be mastered by the amateur level of the third and fourth levels.
The difficulty of the second movement rises sharply, almost to the sixth or seventh level. However, this kind of difficulty is still nothing for those who draw this song in the exam.
What really made Moonlight eligible for the Grade 10 exam repertoire was the third movement.
It was a real lightning bolt. If people who are not familiar with the piano can't understand this description, then in layman's terms, it is equivalent to asking e-sports players to have an APM hand speed of 500+ per minute.
While it may seem blasphemous to use an esports game as an analogy to classical music, it doesn't make sense.
Wu Weiran has a piano level of grade 8, so her strategy is that she plays one or two movements of the moonlight first, so that in case Gu Mojie happens to choose this piece and pretends to be forced, then she will block Gu Mojie's shortcut to use the simple part of this famous song to brush the grid, forcing Gu Mojie to either compete with her or change the tune.
Gu Mojie's previous techniques are actually not as mature as Wu Weiran's, although Wu Weiran has never seen Gu Mojie play the piano, but she can come to this conclusion through guò touch bypass observation.
After all, among the common piano world famous songs, there is only one "Moonlight" with such a vastly different difficulty difference between the same piece before and after, so Wu Weiran asked herself if there was still a probability that she was right.
……
Gu Mojie himself knows this, after all, his actual piano level is only amateur level three or four, and if he practices intensively for a day in advance, he will be level five at best. Coupled with the help of a cheating software, it may be possible to forcibly elevate him to the point of view of the layman, who has a seventh-level Cheng dù.
With the prelude to "361, 361, 361 ......", Gu Mojie's face changed, and then he quickly returned to normal.
As soon as he heard Wu Weiran's prelude, he knew that he was going to suffer: the repertoire he carefully prepared was actually guessed by the other party!
In this case, if he doesn't change the tune, he will fall behind, and it is easy for people to wonder, "Gu Mojie is only able to use this tune, just to keep it for pretending." So even if Wu Weiran played it first, he didn't dare to change the tune."
And even if others are not so suspicious, after a while, his skills are superior and judgmental, and he will not play as well as Wu Weiran, and he will still be knocked off the altar.
The compulsions he had accumulated earlier were nothing more than picking out the blank areas among his classmates - only he had played those tunes in front of everyone, and no one else had played them, so there was no comparison.
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing the goods; The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.
This is like a talk show host's self-selected speech, and a proposition TV debate, the difference in difficulty cannot be calculated. In later generations, some domestic talk show hosts, such as Gao Xiaosong and Luo Fatzi, took the right to speak by themselves, and BLABLA said that on the online media, he was called a thriving and well-known boss, but if he was really open to accept the challenge like the TV debate of the Chinese people, he would immediately stop eating in minutes.
Gu Mojie's level can only pick a blank market to wreak havoc, and it can't withstand scrutiny and comparison.
The first and second movements of Moonlight, even if all the repetitions are fully utilized, are only 7 minutes, and sometimes those who play the abbreviated version do not need 7 minutes.
Therefore, Gu Mojie only has 7 minutes at most to find a countermeasure: to change the tune, or not to change?
Thankfully, the piano was loud enough to drown out his own inaudible whispers.
Naturally, he pressed the frame of his glasses, and one leg of the frame emitted a faint glow, which seemed to be indistinguishable from the reflection of a cold 6000K trichromatic fluorescent tube on a titanium alloy.
"To change or not to change."
"Audio effects retrieving...... Make sure that the opponent's technique is better than your level yesterday, and you have no chance of winning if you change the track or not. ”
"There are no alternatives." Gu Mojie didn't talk much nonsense, and directly consulted his hole cards coldly.
Hatsune Niang was silent for nearly two minutes, and when Gu Mojie was almost impatient, she replied with a very concise word: "Yes." ”
"Say."
"After a while, you play the abbreviated version of the first and second movements of the moonlight, and try not to give the other party a chance to compare. I'm going to cut down a new, four-minute Moonlight Indicator Spectrum for the first two movements, and you can just press it. At the same time, it is also a key part - after the completion of the second movement, you will be given a passage of moonlight three, so that you can show off your skills.
The other party's technique will definitely not dare to play Moonlight III, so even if you only play a short section of the third movement, only half a minute, or even more than ten seconds, as long as you play it, you will win. ”
"But I don't know the third movement at all! That product is too difficult, it's a card repertoire in piano grade 10! Everyone knows that the piano examiner drew "Pathos", but he just felt that his luck was in order; Those who draw Mozart K457 will feel lucky; Those who smoke Moonlight Three will feel that they didn't burn incense before going out! ”
In the domestic piano examination, in order to prevent students from practicing a certain piece for the exam, the question drawing system is implemented, that is, one piece is randomly selected from the music library at the same level as the repertoire for the exam.
In the 2010s, Mozart K457 was relegated to the library of the ninth grade exam, and "Moonlight" and "Pathétique" remained at the tenth level, and those who drew "Moonlight" would feel that they were unlucky, because the third movement was really difficult to explode.
"Don't do it all, just twenty seconds or so. I'll choose a piece of the piece that doesn't have to be shifted too much, and then the spectrum that will give you the indication will cut out two-thirds of the syllables, and just let you play the repetitive key part - the remaining two-thirds of the syllables, you put my sound device on top of the piano, and I will use the audio master to output it for you - that is, only about a third of the notes of this piece will be produced by the piano, and in the gaps between the piano syllables, I will make up with realistic electronic sounds. The sampling rate of my library is very high, and I absolutely guarantee that the timbre is completely restored, and there will be no goofs. ”
"But what about the hand? I should press a 12-note tune a second, but my hand only pressed 4, and I can go through the same way. ”
"This requires the activation of the cylindrical holographic projection technology...... For the clips I chose, the arm doesn't need to be moved, the palm is almost always pressed on the same block of the keyboard, and as long as your fingers move fast enough, I will help to create an afterimage of the keys at the position of your fingers with holographic projection.
Due to the phenomenon of human visual persistence, images exceeding 10 frames per second will produce afterimages. The hand speed of a player who plays Moonlight III at full speed is impossible to see with the naked eye, and as long as there is no high-speed camera to shoot and replay it, you will not be in a goof-and and the nearest observer is more than three meters away from the piano, and most people will not be able to see the keyboard clearly because of the piano's obstruction of vision. Coupled with the fact that I deliberately increased the finger afterimage effect with the holographic projection of the cylindrical lens, it definitely doesn't matter. The only problem is—"
"What?"
"Using holographic projection consumes too much power on the unit, and I can only hold it for a minute at most, and then it will go into protected standby. You know, the radiation dose of CDMA mobile phones is too low, and the efficiency of wireless charging with the radiation of this signal is naturally resistant, but people have never been full. Isn't it time to ...... after the deed is done?"
"After it's done, as long as you have money, you can buy whatever you want!"
Gu Mojie very simply accepted the alliance under the city of Hatsune Niang's self-respect, and promised the other party "Buy!" Buy! Buy! ".
……
Gu Mojie found a strategy for the dangerous moves, and Wu Weiran had already finished playing the first two movements of the moonlight.
"It's wonderful!"
Gu Mojie took the lead in applauding, very gentlemanly, and then waited for everyone to applaud, and then pretended to be embarrassed and said, "It seems that I can't pass the test today." I'm not afraid to tell everyone, I actually only have one piano piece, and it was this one that I prepared yesterday - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Now he actually collided with classmate Wu Weiran, so he had to show his ugliness with a shy face. For a while, he didn't play as well as Wu Weiran, so don't laugh. ”
There was a commotion in the audience, but there was no ridicule, Gu Mojie's openness has fully won everyone's favor.
Listening to him say that he can only sing such a song, even if he still suspected his hypocrisy, at this moment, passers-by have turned fans, and they really think that he is a gentleman and is not pretentious.
Wu Weiran secretly gritted her teeth, but the expression on her face remained unchanged at all.
Gu Mojie sat down, breathed, and began to play.
Sure enough, it is exactly the same moonlight song as Wu Weiran, and the technique is slightly more rusty than Wu Weiran, but the demeanor is very relaxed. In order to avoid making a fool of himself, some of the more difficult clips were cleverly skipped, and the layman's classmates couldn't hear the problem at once, but the insiders knew that Gu Mojie was hiding it.
But what's the use of hiding clumsy? According to Gu Mojie's playing method, the first two movements of the moonlight can't last for five minutes, and they can't be brilliant, so if this development continues, Wu Weiran will win.
In the midst of everyone's puzzlement, the last syllable of Moonlight II quietly fell, and it seemed that Gu Mojie had lost.
Only he knows that the real killer move has just begun.
"Actually, there should be a third movement, I don't know why Wu Weiran didn't let us observe it, I have always been bad at playing the third movement, so I wanted to ask for advice today."
"What? Would you like to ask...... Is that...... That's a grade 10 track, I ...... I ......" Wu Weiran didn't say the word "I won't" after all, but everyone knew that she wouldn't.
Wu Weiran couldn't get up and down on his face, so he quickly added: "What are you blowing?" What do you mean by 'you can't play the third movement'? I think you're a subsection at all...... Oh, no, you can't even play a clip! ”
"It seems that Wu Weiran is unwilling to teach me, it's a pity, I wanted to take the opportunity to learn today."
Gu Mojie shrugged his shoulders, and then lifted his glasses again.
Before everyone knew it, he took something the size of a grain of rice from his glasses, pinched it between his index and middle fingers, and then pretended to turn a page of sheet music, and placed the rice-shaped object on the back of the music stand, near the piano cavity.
Then, something that shocked the audience happened.
Syllables like a thunderstorm erupted from where the piano was. Gu Mojie's hands were like incarnating a six-fingered qin demon, a thousand-armed Guanyin, dragging out countless afterimages.
Moonlight Three's ** was actually played!
Although it is only an excerpt, the paragraph that broke out.
What's even more shocking is that Gu Mojie didn't use his feet! No sound pedal (right pedal)!
In other words, he played this effect with both hands!
Anyone who knows a little bit about the piano knows that the piano has a foot pedal, which is used to control the duration of the echo, or the soft sound effect. For example, Moonlight One needs to be used until the footsteps move to control the soft reverberation of the tone of the left hand.
In the very fast third movement, the echo pedal is normally needed to reduce hand movements.
Of course, in theory, it is possible to do this without pedals, and then you need to speed up the hand speed of the hand playing the keynote, which at some points is almost twice as fast as normal playing!
Even if it is a master of the world, such as Zimmermann, most of the moonlight three performance videos that have been leaked are to be used by both hands and feet. Later in the 2010s, in the dazzling videos on Youku or YOUTOBE, only a few people represented by the Ukrainian piano goddess Rystasha used pure hands to play the hand speed dazzling mode.
Gu Mojie didn't use his feet either.
It's just that the reason why he did this was not because he wanted to show off his hand speed; It's because when he sits there, he can't see his feet, and naturally he can't see Hatsune's cursor for the stepping action, and he is essentially playing the piano in the posture of playing a "rhythm master".
I don't know if Beethoven will be angry if he knows that his music has been ruined by such an unscrupulous person.
Silence, frightening silence.
There was not a single sound except the sound of the piano, and everyone's faces were as dead as if they had seen an incredible miracle.
After all, this is still an era without online video, and the threshold for people's requirements for miracles is still very low. As long as you have never seen the version of the Ukrainian master Ristasha, you will feel that Gu Mojie's watch today can only be described as a "miracle".
As for Gu Mojie's outburst of just over twenty seconds, there were some wrong sounds, who cares? And who reflects it?
"It can't be...... That's impossible! You...... You must be cheating! Wu Weiran seemed to suddenly feel that her faith had collapsed.
It turns out that the piano skills she has spent years practicing in her spare time are a joke in the eyes of others? She didn't care about being reserved, and rushed forward a few steps, trying to see Gu Mojie's hand shape clearly. (There is a third watch today, don't worry, there will be more in the evening, and the total number of words is estimated to be 10,000.) Doing it all in one go is my rhythm. For the sake of the day, can you smash the ticket again, or help Amway publicize it, thank you again for your support. )