Chapter 223: "The Root of the Tongue Breaks Breath"
The sunny Saturday brings people a sense of relaxation and laziness, but many students in the wind music department of the West China Conservatory of Music surprisingly did not sleep lazy, but got up early in the morning.
In the large lecture hall, before 8 o'clock in the morning, students began to enter the classroom one after another, and they took up their seats early.
This morning, there is an open class by Mr. Ma Di, as the most popular open class of West China Conservatory of Music, there is naturally no shortage of studious students.
A young man wearing a white casual shirt, navy blue jeans, and a large black flute bag on his back walked into the classroom with the flow of people, and as soon as he entered, many students who arrived early greeted him.
"Chu Yang, sit here, it's a good location!"
"Master Chu is here, let's blow a little bit for everyone first, anyway, Teacher Ma hasn't come yet!"
"Senior Brother Chu Yang, we all listened to your "New Herdsman New Song" on the Internet, super dazzling, you are the collective idol of our dormitory, how about it, sign a name for senior sister?"
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It's not the first time that the stars are holding the moon. Since participating in Mr. Ma Di's public class for the first time and revealing his identity as "Dancing and Flying" at the West China Conservatory of Music, every time Chu Yang appears at the West China Conservatory of Music, he will attract many flute lovers to discuss and communicate with him, or learn flute skills, or ask for autographs and group photos, just like a small star.
It can be said that although Chu Yang has not officially enrolled in the school now, he is already a man of the year in the West China Conservatory of Music. During the art examination, he took two passes in a row and published three compositions on the Internet. The first big sell, participating in the Red Song Contest and winning the championship in one fell swoop, under the publicity of well-intentioned people, these deeds have become a halo shrouded in Chu Yang's head, so that he will often meet some admirers or some pretentious challengers in any corner of the campus, but he will not be lonely.
Chu Yang smiled and said hello to the people around him, then found a chair and sat down. Although he has a very high level of flute skills, he is not so good that he can show off his flute skills in Madi's class. He was not a student of Madi though. The two of them are just like a sparring exchange between enthusiasts. But Madi's public class, he is almost every must-listen. Although Chu Yang's performance level is higher than that of Ma Di, he has a systematic understanding of flute performance, as well as the artistic and cultural background of flute works. But it's his shortcoming. Listen to Madi's lessons. just can make up for his shortcomings, so in his heart, he still has a lot of respect for Madi. The relationship between Ma Di and Ma Di is also a teacher and a friend.
The big classroom was gradually filled with people, and after a while, Zheng Lao and several retired old cadres from the old cadre bureau also came over, and seeing Chu Yang there, Zheng Zhiming greeted him happily. Zheng Lao is a flute idiot, most of the time after retirement was spent studying flute playing, he used to admire Ma Di's flute skills, the two were close friends, and now he has added a Chu Yang. Although Chu Yang is a little younger, his level in flute performance is really not covered, and Zheng Lao has communicated with him several times in private, and he has benefited a lot.
"Xiao Yang, you have heard the "New Herdsman New Song" on the Internet, but a few old guys and I have heard it, and we still listen to the genuine version." Zheng Zhiming happily walked to Chu Yang's side, and a classmate next to Chu Yang immediately got up and gave him a seat. Zheng Lao is a frequent visitor to Ma Di's public guests, and these students of the wind music department also know his identity, although he is a retired municipal party leader, but in the cultural and artistic circles of Qinhai, Zheng Lao still has great influence.
"It's just a little trick, but it makes you laugh at Old Zheng." Chu Yang smiled and nodded at Zheng Zhiming and said.
"Hey, young people don't have to be too modest, your flute level is unknown to others, and a few of our old guys are still unclear? Don't listen to some people talking nonsense in newspapers and magazines, that's jealousy of you, such a powerful continuous spit, have the ability to stand up and blow one? Zheng Zhiming said disdainfully. As a flute friend, he naturally has to pay attention to some news in the flute world on weekdays, Chu Yang's "New Herdsman New Song" has been in a uproar recently, and he is also very concerned about this matter.
"That's it, Chu Yang, your song "New Herdsman New Song" is very admired by several buddies in our dormitory, the last part of the voice is too dazzling, it's too difficult to blow, amazing!" A boy in the back row couldn't help but stretch out his thumb and said.
"It's not that it's hard to blow, it's that your finger dexterity and breath control kung fu haven't arrived at home, the last part of this piece of music has to use the kind of tongue root that your teacher Ma talked about, and it seems to be connected with the artistic conception of non-connection, with flexible finger movements, in order to blow clean and clear, too hard, or stiff fingers, kung fu can't be blown at home." Zheng Lao commented casually, and at the same time sighed in his heart about the difficulty of the skills of the "New Herdsman New Song", he is also a semi-professional, he has been playing the flute for decades, and the kung fu at hand is not lost to those professional performers, but Chu Yang's "New Herdsman New Song" is the most difficult part of the super difficult sound, he can't blow it down, and he still practices for several days in a row, which shows what kind of height Chu Yang's skills have reached!
At nine o'clock, Ma Di walked into the classroom on time, and when he saw Zheng Zhiming and Chu Yang, he smiled and nodded at the two of them, and then began to teach.
What Ma Di is talking about today is exactly what Zheng Lao just said. Chu Yang hadn't heard Ma Di talk about this technique before, but his pronunciation was also based on his own comprehension, and he played it in the most comfortable state.
"Hello students, in today's class, we are mainly going to discuss the performance of Tuyin. As we all know, Tu Yin is a common technique in flute playing, and according to the different forms of expression, it is divided into single Tu, Double Tu and Three Tu. In playing, these three techniques are often mixed together. Many of you have systematically learned these three articulation techniques, so I will not distinguish them one by one, but I will focus on the performance skills of articulation. ”
When Ma Di said this, he saw that many of the students below showed focused expressions, and after a pause, he continued: "Many flute textbooks emphasize the importance of the tip of the tongue when it comes to voicing, but according to my years of playing experience, overemphasizing the articulation of the tip of the tongue, although it can achieve a short and elastic effect, it is slightly harsh and not rounded. ”
When Maddy said this, he took out a Bang flute in F key from his flute bag, adjusted the flute membrane, and began to blow a short section of three spit out.
This three-toit is a classic three-toit sound in the famous flute song "Five Bangzi", after Madi blew it again, as he said, each note is short, elastic, with a sense of jumping.
A short demonstration ended quickly, and in the face of the applause from the audience, Madi made a gesture of pressing his hands and said: "Don't applaud, don't applaud, what I just demonstrated is a wrong pronunciation, what are you applauding, as soon as you applaud, I taught the wrong school, and the school deducted my salary." ”
Ma Di's humor immediately caused a burst of relaxed laughter from the audience. After the laughter subsided, Madi continued: "This articulation just now was played entirely with the tip of the tongue. Some students may think that blowing like this is also very good, but in fact, this sound is very noisy, and it is not connected in the artistic conception, it is broken. Let's listen to this paragraph again. ”
Ma Di said, and raised the flute again, still blowing the "Five Bangzi" just now, this time, his lips were much looser than before, and the damper seemed to be much larger. It's still the same spit, but compared to the short, jumping flute just now, this time the flute sound seems to be free, coherent and much more coherent, the jump is still a skip, but between each jump, there seems to be a little more artistic conception that seems to be interrupted, compared to the previous one, obviously this time the phrase is more integral, but also more expressive!
"This is blowing right, if you want to applaud, you can drum." Madi said with a smile and put down the flute.
The classroom was full of laughter again, and at the same time, laughter was mixed with warm applause. Obviously, Madi's humorous teaching language is deeply loved by the students.
Chu Yang applauded, but did not laugh. He was thinking about what Madi had just said.
With his knowledge of flute playing, Ma Di had just demonstrated the two times of the sound, and he naturally heard the difference at once.
In the flute textbook, the tongue movements of the pronunciation part are generally represented by the letters "T" and "K", but the pronunciation is the sound of Hanyu Pinyin, not the sound of the English alphabet. For example, single vomiting is "T", double vomiting is "TK", and triple vomiting is "TKT or TTK", where T is mainly used to exert force with the tip of the tongue, and K is mainly used to exert force with the root of the tongue.
The three-spit performance in the later section of Madi just now obviously adds the force of T, which is mainly used at the tip of the tongue, to the force of the root of the tongue, and mainly at the root of the tongue, so that the movement of the tip of the tongue is much smaller, and the movement of the root of the tongue is mainly used to cut off the airflow. Compared with the tip of the tongue movement, the advantage of playing in this way is that the staccato of the stubble is more natural, and Chu Yang almost instantly figured out the truth of this.
"Next, I'm going to play a short piece of it for everyone in this way." As he spoke, he raised the flute in F key, and the next moment, a continuous and rapid spit like the galloping of thousands of horses came out of the flute!
Chu Yang was shocked, when he heard that what Ma Di was blowing was the "New Herdsman New Song" that he created not long ago and uploaded to the Internet, and it was the most difficult part after the most lu!
Hearing Ma Di blow this "super spit" that has recently been hyped by flute fans on the Internet, all the students who listened to the class were also instantly excited, concentrating on sticking out their ears to listen, for fear of missing even a small detail! (To be continued......)