Chapter 152: I Heard Me Right!
"Hello Teacher Peng, hello everyone, my name is Han Xiao, and I will play a song "Tie the Red Head Rope" for everyone", after Han Xiao finished speaking, he sat down in front of the piano and prepared to play.
The piano piece "Tie the Red Head Rope" is one of the fifth-level repertoire in the textbook of the Music Association, and Liu Yufan is very familiar with this piece. When he was still studying piano with Jiang Ya before, he focused on practicing this piece.
The melody of "Tie the Red Head Rope" is adapted from a passage in the opera "The White-Haired Girl", and the prototype is a duet between the tenant Yang Bailao and Xi'er when he tied the red head rope to his daughter Xi'er, the melody is straightforward and kind, which is impressive. Many people born in the sixties and seventies still remember the classic lyrics: "People's daughters have flowers to wear, and your father and I can't buy them with little money, so I pulled a two-foot red head rope and tied it up for my Xi'er......"
After this simple melody was adapted into a piano piece, some simple polyphonic expressions and variations were added, and the form was much more lively, and many beginner piano students liked this Chinese style vignette very much.
Han Xiao's hands and ten fingers are very slender, and the conditions for playing the piano with such a hand shape are excellent. I saw that after a little adjustment in front of the piano, she gently raised her hands and fell to the keys.
When his arms were raised, Han Xiao's head was still tilted to the side, and at the same time, there was a big forward leaning movement on his upper body, which seemed very exaggerated.
However, in the eyes of those who don't know the piano, this posture seems very "professional", regardless of whether it is played well or not, this style is very sufficient.
Liu Yufan sat in the back row, and he couldn't see the movements of Han Xiao's hands clearly, but she could see it very clearly.
"It's so contrived that it's completely unnecessary. The first part of this piece is very brisk, and the movements in the hands don't need to be too big at all, not to mention that the upper body has to follow such a big movement, wasting physical strength in vain. Liu Yufan secretly commented in his heart.
The sound of the piano sounded, and Han Xiao's hands rose and fell "staggeredly" on the keys, especially his left hand, jumping up and down on the keys, and the movements were very exaggerated.
The first melody is more cheerful, and the accompaniment of the left hand is also very distinctive, it is an octave and fifth jump, and a minor second dissonant double note is used to imitate the sound of hilarity, which sounds very lively.
However, Han Xiao's control of the strength was obviously not very good, and the excessively large left-hand movement made the accompaniment that should have been very dexterous and humorous become loud and irritable, which made people feel very uncomfortable listening to it.
The most unbearable thing is that the main theme of the right hand that should be a sentence is uncontrollable, and it is forcibly split into two or three sentences, destroying the artistic conception of the original song.
Liu Yufan frowned, feeling that it was really unbearable, if he played like this, let alone Mo Yan, I am afraid that Jiang Ya would also reprimand himself mercilessly.
And when Han Xiao played the gorgeous allegro composed entirely of sixteenth notes, the effect could be described as "miserable". In fact, when Liu Yufan saw her play the front part, he judged that the basic skills of her fingers were not enough to play this piece smoothly. When I got here, as expected, not only did the speed not meet the requirements of the song at all, but the dynamics were seriously uneven, each note was scattered and empty, without luster, and there was no smooth and light artistic conception of the original song.
That is, the final adagio part, Han Xiao's performance is acceptable, but this is the least technical part of the whole piece, let alone her, even a junior brother who has only learned the piano for two or three months can easily play it. And in all fairness, this simplest melody, Han Xiao didn't play the charm it should have, just pushed it away.
After hearing it, Liu Yufan simply didn't listen to it, and even had an urge to plug his ears. It's not that he looks down on people who play the piano poorly, it's just that he thinks that playing the piano should "have one playing one, two playing two", and obviously, this girl named Han Xiao only has "one" but is stubbornly playing the "two" that is not within her ability, which is what makes Liu Yufan feel the most unbearable. It's pointless to "pull out the seedlings and help them grow", even if you stutter and play Liszt's clock, it doesn't mean that you are at that level, what's the use?
"I'm afraid this Han Xiao won't be chosen." Liu Yufan sighed in his heart, such a level is obviously unpassable.
"Well, it's okay to play, but the dexterity of the fingers is still almost there, okay, it's over, the next one." Peng Tielin said, noting Han Xiao's name in the notebook.
"What? Passed? I heard you right. Hearing Peng Tielin actually announce that Han Xiao had passed the selection, Liu Yufan's eyes were full of disbelief, although this piano group is only an interest group, but it must be about the same. Can this level also work? Liu Yufan felt that this simply subverted his previous understanding of this interest group. He originally thought that even if it was poor, everyone should easily reach the level of amateur piano grade 9. I didn't expect this to be the case.
Seeing that Han Xiao could pass, Liu Yufan suddenly lost interest in this group, and originally thought that there were some classmates with a similar level to himself, and everyone could exchange skills with each other, but now it seems that with Teacher Peng's selection criteria, Liu Yufan is destined to be disappointed. Such a level, let alone say that it was three years ago, even if it was the self in the previous life, it was not looked down on at all.
Hearing that he had passed, Han Xiao looked very happy, and after saying "Thank you, teacher", he put away his score.
"Cut, it's rubbish. Can you pass the selection just like that? Seeing Han Xiao pass, Chu Yunfei, who was sitting in front, showed a sneer of disdain on his face. This kind of little tune has long been left over from playing by myself. Seeing that Han Xiao could pass, Chu Yunfei no longer had any worries about passing the selection. He was even thinking about what kind of expressions Mr. Peng and the group of students in the audience would have in the eyes when he played the "Turkish March" for a while.
At this moment, Chu Yunfei remembered Liu Yufan who was sitting in the back again. secretly said in his heart, that guy personally admitted that he hadn't even passed the sixth company, I'm afraid he was not as good as the girl just now. Fighting with such an opponent, there is really no challenge to the surname.
In another corner, An Quan Tao quietly lowered his head and flipped through a book of piano books in his hand. He didn't hear about the performance just now, but when Han Xiao finished playing, he heard Teacher Peng announce that she had passed the test, and A hint of disappointment flashed in An Quantao's eyes.
The second one went up was a tall and thin boy, wearing a plaid shirt and black-framed glasses, looking a little polite. But he went up and sat down in front of the piano without saying a word, stretched out his hand and prepared to play.
"Wait a minute, what is your name, and the tune you played, report it." Teacher Peng didn't expect this student to look like a gentleman, and he came up so fiercely, and he sat down and played.
Hearing Peng Tielin's words, the boy stopped his hand that was about to fall on the piano keys, held his glasses and said quickly: "My name is Xing Guangnan, and I play Beethoven's piano sonata in G major." Teacher, are you ready to start? ”
Listening to the boy's machine-gun-like speech, Peng Tielin was a little uncomfortable for a while, until he wrote down his name in the notebook, then nodded and signaled that he could start.
"Bang!" With his arms raised, he slammed his fingers against the keys. Then Xing Guangnan quickly played a short arpeggio in G major with his right hand.
This minor sonata in G major was played by Liu Yufan when he was taking the sixth grade, so he is naturally very familiar. It's just that when he saw this boy named Xing Guangnan, who came up with a style like a convulsion, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. It's true that Beethoven's music is contrasting and conflicting, but it can't be played like this, is it smashing the piano?
However, this boy's foundation is much stronger than the girl just now. At least Liu Yufan noticed that his ten-fingered flexible surname was far better than that of the girl just now. Although this piece is played very roughly, it is basically played at the original speed, and the reading power of the fingers is much better than that of the original girl. It's just that I'm playing too quickly, and I'm busy listening.
Running all the way and bounced down, Liu Yufan looked at the boy's expression, and felt tired and panicked for him. Music is an art that needs to be expressed, but watching this boy play, it seems that he is just to complete a task, I really don't know how his teacher taught him in the first place.
Of course, from the point of view of passing the selection, there is no problem with the boy's performance just now. This can be seen from the satisfied expression on Peng Tielin's face.
"Okay, it's very skillful, not bad, it's over, next one." Peng Tielin happily put a checkmark behind Xing Guangnan's name.
The next few people performed differently, the best one was the ninth-level "Dry Day Thunder", a girl named Liu Chang, which is also the only one Liu Yufan thinks that the technology is more standardized, and it can be seen that the teacher's level is relatively high, and he has made rules from some details. The worst one is more funny, playing an impromptu version of "Liang Zhu", a simple C major is played intermittently, and the chords in the left hand are also worthy of no regularity at all, even Peng Tielin, such a "magnanimous" teacher, is a little unbearable, and euphemistically suggested that he "practice hard", which is also the only one who was not passed on the spot among the nearly ten students who participated in the selection.
But fortunately, this benevolent brother has a very good mentality, and he doesn't care when he hears that he is not selected, and he happily watches the excitement there.
"That classmate, it's your turn." The pencil in Peng Tielin's hand pointed at Chu Yunfei, who was sitting in the third row, and said.
Hearing his name, Chu Yunfei stood up with a confident smile on his face, and at the same time did not forget to look back at Liu Yufan, there was clearly a hint of provocation in his eyes.
However, Liu Yufan didn't see it, and gave him an encouraging look.
"Idiot!" The expression on Chu Yunfei's face did not change, but he scolded fiercely in his heart.
(To be continued)