In Chen Nan's hands, he was holding a few thin sheets of A4 paper, which were printed with the questions of this audition singing and ear training.

When she first got this topic, she thought that Director Wu was deliberately making things difficult for this special freshman. The reason why it is special is because Chen Nan has been here for so long, and he has never seen the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music hold an entrance exam for a student. The reason why it is difficult is because even if she is asked to do this topic, she does not have the confidence to pass it all at once!

Director Wu's audition singing and ear practice questions are too difficult. Not to mention anything else, just talking about ear training, the normal examination standards of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music are the addition and subtraction of major and minor thirds, as well as the major and minor sevenths and the addition and decrease of sevenths. For the hearing of the human ear, it is the limit of the average person to distinguish four tones at the same time, and this is only when the four tones are arranged in a regular manner.

Anyone who has studied music knows that the big and small chords are the easiest to listen to, because they have a very stable and harmonious effect, basically as long as you hear a note, as well as the overall color of the chord, the next thing is not difficult. The teacher will continue the sound for seven to ten seconds, during which time the remaining notes can be calmly judged. But if it's a triad or a chord, it's more difficult because its intervals are incongruous, not to mention the more difficult half-minus thirds, ∑ trines, and so on. As for the seventh chord, since it itself is composed of four notes, its difficulty is naturally correspondingly higher.

Chen Nan did not see a normal major and minor third chord and seventh chord in this listening and ear training test, almost all of them were very obscure kinds of increase and decrease chords, and none of them were in the normal C key, and the keys of several chords were different, and the simplest ones were above the four sharp and sharp signs. And Chen Nan even saw a very uncommon nine chord and hanging chord in this test paper!

This kind of chord. Even if you ask a composition student to listen to it, you may not be able to hear it all right, let alone a piano department? Not to mention a freshman who hasn't yet enrolled?

Even if he had received systematic professional training before, could he cope with such a problem?

But thinking of the anti-heaven pen test paper just now, it is inexplicable. Chen Nan's heart actually had a little more expectation.

"This guy, will he surprise everyone again like just now?" Chen Nan looked at Chu Yang, who was standing quietly beside him, and thought with some curiosity.

But then she shook her head silently in her heart. Music theory knowledge and music history may rely on diligence and hard work to achieve such results, and a good stroke can also be practiced, but the "hard skill" of solfeggio ear training, in addition to relying on hard work, depends more on talent. This lad is so young. No matter how amazing and brilliant he is, how strong can a person be?

"Are you ready?" Chen Nan looked at Chu Yang, who was standing on the side of the piano and was looking at her, and asked softly.

"Alright." Chu Yang smiled at her, then turned around and walked away.

Several other examiners saw that the exam was about to start, and they also picked up the test questions in front of them. The chords and melodies above were all prepared in advance, and Chu Yang didn't know what to play. They all know it.

"Let's go." Chen Nan gently spit out two words, and then put his right hand on the keys.

The first chord. F sharp major minus third chord.

The white fingers fell into the keys in an instant, and suddenly, a bright chord sounded, tense and intense!

A diminished third chord is a chord made up of two minor thirds, as opposed to a minor third chord. The chord color is extremely unstable and has a strong tendency to solve.

The minus third chord played by Chen Nan is an in-situ chord, with three notes densely arranged, and it is in the second group of small characters. It's very bright, so the first impression is very focused, solid, and so unmistakable that it's hard to distinguish each note.

She originally thought that even if Chu Yang could hear it, it must be after playing it for the second time, and after a period of thinking, she would be able to say these three notes accurately. However, her fingers had almost just left the keys before Chu Yang said it without thinking.

"The second group of small characters is down 7, the third group of small characters is down 1, and the third group of small characters is 3." Chu Yang's answer, almost without a pause, came out with Chen Nan's piano sound.

"How can it be so fast!" Chen Nan listened to this guy's answer, and was secretly surprised in his heart.

"This student is such a keen listener!" Seeing that Chu Yang answered the first chord so quickly, the other teachers present were also surprised!

This is a difficult chord, one is more complex in the key, the other is in a higher register, and it is also an incongruous minus third chord. It stands to reason that even if you can hear it, it will take a while to think about it. After all, there is no pattern to the distance between this chord and the standard pitch 6!

However, this is just the beginning!

Chen Nan then played a seventh chord in D flat major, this time there were four notes, and it was not in place, so it was impossible to quickly determine the specific position of these four notes as quickly as last time. However, a scene that made everyone unbelievable happened again. Almost the same as last time, as soon as Chen Nan's piano sound fell, Chu Yang's answer had already come out. It's still the same!

If Chu Yang heard the minus third chord before, several teachers still had some appreciation, this time Chu Yang's expression had already made them gasp!

You must know that this is the root note of the seventh chord, which is not a little bit away from the standard pitch of 6, and has a strong tendency to deviate from the tune, even if the first note is judged alone, it needs to be carefully scrutinized.

For those who have not been trained professionally, it can be difficult to understand how the tester can hear which note the player is playing at once. In fact, this ability to discriminate is based on extreme familiarity with scales and intervals. It's like at the beginning, sing along with the piano "Doremifa Instigated Laxi", sing it a few times, as long as you are not born out of tune, you will sing more accurately. At this time, you are asked to sing a note in the middle, for example, to separate "come" and "fa", and sing "Domi", which is a major third chord in C major. Well, after two tones apart. How can you sing it accurately? This is based on the familiarity with the C major scale, because I already have a memory of the fixed pitch position of the seven notes in my mind, so I will sing the mime immediately after singing, and the lost "come" will be filled in my mind according to inertia. Sing a lot more, even if you don't make up for that "come", you can sing Mimi immediately after singing. This is the establishment of the concept of absolute pitch for each note on the basis of a fairly familiar understanding of the scale.

After such training, as long as the trainee is given a standard tone, generally it is given to the small character two groups of a, that is, "la", this is the standard pitch, which is physically defined by the vibrational frequency, a = 440Hz (hertz). Trained trainees, after hearing this a. Using it as a "standard", it is possible to sing all other notes in C major quickly and accurately, even from a distance, and even at an octave or above.

Further, it is to listen to or sing some variations, with a rising and falling sign. Again, according to the above training method, this time it is to train the chromatic scale.

After the listening of one note is practiced, the next step is the double tone. The two notes are played together. You have to hear both notes at once. Again, in C major, then a variation is added.

Above the two notes is a three-note chord. The same is a common chord in C major, followed by a change chord, and then a transposition......

After three notes, there is a four-note seventh chord and a five-note ninth chord......

In general, listening exercises and tests. Four notes is the limit, and it has to be the kind of regular chord. Like the seventh chord that Chu Yang just heard, it belongs to the four-tone listening practice after the off-tune and transposition, in the progressive training mentioned above. This is already an extremely difficult exercise at the very top.

Even the most rigorous composition students need to think about it for at least 10 seconds before they can slowly say the exact position of each note. A second return like Chu Yang is basically equivalent to a super genius!

You know, although this seems incredible, the world is so big that there are still some geniuses in this world who have special talents in certain fields. There are people who are so sensitive to pitch position that they can hear exactly where the notes are played on the piano without even having to listen to the standard pitch. But there are often very few such geniuses, and basically, these people are also the talents that are coveted by the professional profession of composition, conducting, or piano tuning lawyer. They have a natural advantage over ordinary people in this work!

But Chu Yang had just shown his unparalleled talent in music theory, and then he immediately showed such an outstanding talent in the listening session, which was a bit scary! You know, it's already rare for ordinary people to be particularly good in a certain field. Not to mention being in two areas at the same time!

Chen Nan watched Chu Yang return to this extremely difficult chord almost in seconds, and was also stunned, and after pausing for a few seconds, he glanced at Chu Yang with an incredible gaze, and then looked at Director Wu with his eyes, which meant "This student is so powerful, do you still need to continue the test?" ”

Director Wu was also taken aback by Chu Yang's super accurate listening ability, but the question was made by him, and he hadn't finished the exam yet, and there were even more difficult nine chords next, so he didn't believe that this young man could even hear such an obscure chord!

Chen Nan nodded and continued the exam of the listening part!

Reduced seventh chords, hanging fourth chords, semi-reduced seventh chords......

The extremely difficult chords were played by Chen Nan one by one, but there were almost no exceptions, whenever her performance stopped, Chu Yang's answer sounded almost instantly, a good tone!

Chen Nan was already so amazed by Chu Yang's expression that he was almost numb! She had never met such a "perverted" guy who was so sensitive to pitch! Such a surprise made her no longer have any surprised expression in the face of Chu Yang's correct answer in the face of Chu Yang's second reply, even after playing the ninth chord on the most difficult G sharp melody minor! Because, in her subconscious, that's almost a matter of course!

"If this guy doesn't answer correctly, that's a strange thing!" In Chen Nan's mind, such a sentence suddenly popped up.

And the remaining six examiners on the scene were collectively speechless!

This kind of listening ability can no longer be described by the word "genius", this is simply a god-like ability!

The few teachers who came with Director Wu had forgotten about Director Wu's bad impression of this young man at the moment, and their eyes lit up one by one. It's like you've found a rare treasure!

"Such a student is born for music. Why did he come to the piano department? If you have the ability to judge pitch in this way, you should go to the composition department or the conducting department. With this guy's sensitivity to sound, he can definitely listen to every part of the most complex symphony, and even the state of every instrument in the shortest possible time!

Chen Nan exhaled. Qiang Zi suppressed the surprise in her heart, because her work was not finished yet, and next, she had to take the melody listening test!

The melody listening test is similar to ear training, except that it is no longer a chord, but a complete melody.

Thanks to Director Wu's "care", this melody is also quite "individual", and it can be regarded as a "masterpiece" of postmodernist music. More than half of a melody composed of more than 50 notes is a variation!

Even Chen Nan, the examiner. Looking at this melody, which is almost always composed of temporary ascending and descending marks, I have a headache. She didn't like this kind of melody that had no beauty and was written just to increase the difficulty, and she didn't even have the interest in playing it.

But exams always have to be played, and she has to play if she doesn't want to.

In fact, after the tests of the first two links, Chen Nan has already determined the fact that Chu Yang is a musical genius in his heart. Although she didn't know what kind of prejudice Director Wu had about this guy. But she still feels that this is difficult for a new student. Especially such a talented student, it's not a good thing. The piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music is set up for all piano geniuses, and there is no reason to keep such a genius out of the door.

Although she hadn't heard Chu Yang play the whole tune, before leaving here, she had heard Chu Yang try to play. At that time, she could hear it with her ears, this guy's piano level is absolutely amazing! That's an instinct that a teacher who specializes in piano education!

Despite his reluctance, Chen Nan still played the melody. She tried to play the melody as slowly and clearly as possible so that the student could have more time. Let's hear the melody clearly.

Although doing so may cause Director Wu to be unhappy, Chen Nan feels that it is worth doing for the sake of a talented and talented student.

What's more, looking at the entire piano department, there is only a vacant place in his own class, and it is estimated that if this guy can really enroll, he will also be assigned to his own class. The peerless genius who came out of this guy just now has already made Chen Nan feel very appreciative, such a student should really keep him!

However, even if she wanted Chu Yang to hear clearly, she couldn't play too slowly. If it is too slow, there will be no melody, and it will become a monotone one by one, in that case, it will cause another obstacle to Chu Yang's judgment!

Although melody listening is not like a chord, which requires listening to several notes at a time, what is more difficult than a chord is that in addition to judging the pitch of each note, melodic listening also has to judge the timing of the notes, and even the strength of the notes! You know, taking care of so much content at the same time is no less difficult than listening to the previous nine chords!

Finally finished playing, Chen Nan looked at Chu Yang with some concern, but found that he picked up the pen on the table in front of him without thinking and quickly recorded it in the staff book.

He writes as fast as ever, without the slightest pause. It took almost less than twenty seconds to write the melody composed of all fifty-three notes into the notebook.

"Bring it and I'll take a look!" Director Wu looked at this guy's writing speed and finally couldn't help it. He didn't believe that this kid could write all the right things this time!

Even if the notes are written correctly, can the time value be written correctly? You know, there are several special rhythms in this melody, pentatto, double dots, and drag rhythms...... He's pretty much using all the rhythmic patterns he can think of, that might be an obstacle for this guy!

However, after more than ten seconds, in the face of the two identical melodies in his hand, Director Wu finally reluctantly admitted the fact that this guy is indeed impeccable in basic music theory and listening training!

Although he is a little arrogant and arrogant, he does have the ability to do so!

Although Director Wu is still haunted by what he did two years ago, he is a person who has a clear distinction between public and private. At this moment, even other teachers can see that this young man in front of him is a rare genius, although he is old, he is not old and dizzy, and there is no distinction between right and wrong!

"Okay, I've passed the listening and ear training, let's start the performance." Director Wu put down the two sheets of music in his hand and said in a deep voice.

However, his voice has softened a little, and it is no longer the aggressive one it was at the beginning.

Chen Nan nodded, then turned around and returned to his desk, picking up the A4 paper pressed at the end, which was recorded in the performance part.

Although the content on this paper is the least out of several test papers, it is the heaviest in terms of weight.

There are four lines of words on it, each of which records the names of the four piano pieces.

A Liszt masterpiece, a four-part creative work by Bahau, a large piano concerto, and a large Beethoven sonata.

These four tunes are Chu Yang's last test questions! (To be continued......)