Chapter 45: Flower Dance
The piano has a total of 88 keys.
Among them, there are 52 white keys and 36 black keys.
Since ancient times, countless musical geniuses and masters have used these 88 black and white keys to compose gorgeous and moving movements.
To this day, no one dares to say that music has come to an end.
Even if you only play four notes, there are about 60 million combinations of 88 keys to the 4th power of 88.
Manpower is poor, and the arrangement seems to be endless.
Ning Yu has been playing the piano since she was a child, from the most entry-level little star to the advanced Che Neil 599 to the feared Liszt XII super technique etude for exam students, and then to the third place in Chopin.
There are so many piano pieces she has played.
For so many years, there have been few piano performances that make her throb.
but
When she first heard the four simple note loops of 3262 in the piano small print group, her tense heartstrings seemed to be suddenly plucked.
This gently flirtatious,
The soul resonates.
The four notes were simply looping, and she soon heard a murmur that shouldn't be there in a piano playing.
It is the voice of a man,
Still a woman,
It's still English.
This is the sound effect that is played on the stage, and it should be part of the arrangement.
She can certainly understand English.
In the new era, Chinese and English have become the world's recognized communication languages and are compulsory subjects in every country.
In many countries, the foreign language test questions actually contain two languages, and the front may be Chinese to English, and the back is English to Chinese, which is very torturous.
In her early years, Ning Yu traveled abroad to participate in piano competitions, and her English was first-class in both speaking and listening.
But when she understood,
She didn't understand it even more.
Because a male voice was added to the back.
This is a dialogue between a man and a woman.
The whole conversation is probably about a man buying a bouquet of flowers, but the woman says that the flowers are used to convert hydrogen to make oxygen, which is very important, so they don't sell it.
After the man was rejected, he still didn't give up, he said that he wanted to make a deal with the woman.
That is, the last sentence make a deal!
Then the whole dialogue came to an abrupt end, and there was no more follow-up.
Half of the words are gone.... Without.....
This resentment also appeared in Jiang Mingxiu's mind,
She is most annoyed by the kind of person who talks and talks half and leaves half,
The male and female dialogues inserted by Lu Ren in this prelude completely whetted her appetite,
She wondered what the next sentence was!
What kind of deal does this man really want to make with a woman?
It's not going to be the kind of deal that doesn't pass the trial, right? She was thinking nonsense.
Lu Teng, who was next to Ning Yu, had a slightly bad face, as if he was wearing a mask of pain.
It was English, he could hear it.
I could hear that one of the women was talking and the other was a man.
Also, I can barely hear the common words "but", "like", and "you".
Besides
It feels like a fourth-level listening test in college, and the devil is whispering that you can't pass the test, you can't pass the test.
He decided not to make any speech for a while, so as not to expose the embarrassment that he could not understand English.
As for the attack on No. 13 that I thought before, I poured all the firepower into No. 12 Lilac.
This girl looks dumbfounded, and it shouldn't be a big problem to be bullied.
Just a kilometer away,
Bai Jie on the studio boat saw the colorful heartbeat bar gradually rising behind the four tutor chairs, and saw that the heartbeat bar was like a flame burning dry wood higher and higher
The light in her eyes,
It's getting brighter and brighter!
.....
This male and female dialogue and arrangement are naturally Lu Ren's reproduction of the original song.
In 15 minutes of preparation, he found a stage to recreate the entire arrangement, while communicating remotely with the technicians about the stage effect he wanted.
If he wants to say that this pure music is a genius stroke, he thinks it is the male and female recitation of this prelude.
It is worth mentioning that the dialogue of the original song is sampled from an Italian science fiction movie from the 60s.
Whether you understand it or not,
Regardless of the content or rhythm of the dialogue,
This vocals are like instruments that merge into the entire melody line, like water blending into water, flawlessly.
With the repetition of the 4262 notes, the dialogue with the male and female voices is intertwined, and the song renders an atmosphere of opposition that is both romantic and sad.
And this,
It's just the gentle swaying of the flowers before the wind rises.
Lu Ren continued to play the keys, but increased his speed a little,
The abruptly different fresh melody breaks the previous four-note repetition and is more emotionally uplifting.
seem
The wind is blowing.
Because the melodious sound of the violin appears at this time,
It means the sound of the wind.
The breeze blows the flowers, carrying a refreshing fragrance that permeates the entire studio.
Jiang Mingxiu's pupils were slightly open, her nostrils were slightly inhaled, and with a fresh and moving melody flowing into her ears, she seemed to have smelled the fragrance of unnamed flowers.
Then the melody gets faster and faster, and the piano sounds faster and faster.
This means that the wind is getting faster and faster, and the flowers are swaying more and more.
In the close-up of Captain Dragonfly,
Lu Ren's left hand was looking for the melody key to the chord accompaniment, and his right hand was like a shadowless hand on the main melody key, only seeing dazzling keystrokes.
The two voices, light and dark, high and low, seem to be staggered and hovering upward, as if they are about to soar into the sky.
finally
At the point of 45 seconds of the original song,
The two melodies, rising in both directions, collide with the long-dormant percussion drumbeat.
"Bang!"
At that moment,
The wind is blowing and blowing.
At that moment,
Flowers have fallen for nine days.
On stage,
Countless pink and white cherry blossoms fall from the sky and fall like a pink rain.
At that moment,
The heartbeats of countless people instantly stopped!
The wind is blowing and the flowers are flying, and the flowers are solo!
After switching to the original author, Lu Renfang understood.
Why is this piece both sad and passionate at the same time?
Because
This is the life of a flower dancing in the wind.
Some people will feel sad that the flowers are so fragile that they can't withstand the wind in the world.
The speed at which the cherry blossoms fall is 5cm per second,
From the tree to the ground,
Hualuo's life may be as short as 70 seconds.
Analogous to 70 years of life, how short.
And some people will be amazed that the end of the flowers is so shocking when they see the flowers falling.
The speed at which the cherry blossoms fall is 5cm per second,
From the tree to the ground,
It's on this stage,
With the last tens of seconds of its closing time,
Trying to fight gravity and dance against the wind.
That's why this piece is not called "The Fall of Flowers", but "Dance of Flowers".
He can feel these emotions because the original author, DJ Okawari, has all the motivations and arrangements in his head, and they are as clear as a stone carving.
There is also no need for too complex and advanced performance skills, he can easily and casually play the most original feelings of this piece, just like Li Baimo wrote his "Will Enter the Wine".
In this world, no one knows "The Dance of Flowers" better than him.
But it's not enough to just fork it,
He's going to stand on DJ Okawari's shoulders and take the theme of this song even higher!
now
The cherry blossoms flying in the sky on the stage do not fall naturally according to the acceleration of gravity.
Because this is not a real cherry blossom,
It's an AI-made visual effect Sakura.
And according to Lu Ren's requirements, the speed of the cherry blossoms flying should be in harmony with the rhythm of the music.
Most importantly,
Before the music ends,
Not a single flower can fall to the ground.
thereupon
When people see the cherry blossoms flying in the sky, they are more like pink elves dancing in the wind.
With the rhythm of the music, it flips or rotates, or goes up or down, rippling like a pink wave, with a vibrant and colorful breath of life.
And Lu Ren is in this pink ocean, like a lonely boat walking with the waves in the waves.
His arms raised violently from time to time, and his slightly closed eyes indicated that he had been fully immersed in them.
It's not just him playing the melody,
The melody also swayed his soul.
finally
Slowly, the drum beat faded, the violin sound faded,
The melody returns to its original crisp four-note melody: 2362.
Simple repetition, pleasing to the ear.
Until he played the last 2362,
236 has been played,
Just the last 2 tones.
The wind and dance gradually stopped.
Flying all over the sky, the cherry blossoms that have never touched the ground finally have their first petals touching the stage floor.
And then as if the magic spell was gone,
More and more petals follow the pull of gravity and fall back to the ground at an accelerated speed.
Just when the curtain call of thousands of cherry blossoms landed, in the preparation area,
Shu Na looked up at Nangong Chu next to her, and said proudly:
"Chan, what do you want to say?"
Nangong Chu, who was originally calm, seemed to have been drained of his soul, and it took a long time to react.
"I've been searching for a long time, and it's really his original, and even the four notes of the intro are not repeated."
However, pride and conceit have been written into his DNA, and he still stubbornly said:
"Although this "Dance of Flowers" is really good, it is just a pure music after all, the market is too small to be popular, it really has to be divided into high and low, and it depends on the next singing."
After speaking, he regained his radiant color again, and his fighting spirit was high.
But Fujita-kun next to him had a gloomy face, staring at Lu Ren on the stage with his serpent-like gaze.
His solo show was also a solo piano performance.
And his original song "Cherry Blossom Falling" is also based on the scene of cherry blossoms falling.
But the two are contrasted,
Both in terms of technique and emotion, as well as the stage effect, they were completely crushed by Lu Ren's "Dance of Flowers"!
Not a grade at all!
Now with Lu Ren's jewel in front, his carefully prepared original piano solo is like a three-year-old child playing with mud.
If it weren't for this sun, his firefly could have been the only light!
The most angry thing is that
How rampant and arrogant those trash talk before him was,
unashamedly preached Lu Ren to play the piano.
It's not ashamed to say that no one knows Sakura better than him.
This slap in the face was too fast, too hard, and too real, and he didn't even have the courage to struggle and resist!
Because according to his own words, Lu Ren is a strong man, and he needs to maintain the necessary respect for the strong!
Shu Na made up a knife at this time:
"Fujita, with all due respect, do you still have the confidence to take the stage for "Cherry Blossom Falling"?"
Hearing Shu Na's mending knife, his shameful logic made his face gradually turn red.
“bageyalu!” He gritted his teeth and whispered.
As for the Sanhua trio, you looked at me, I looked at you, and they both saw the heart-pounding sentence on each other's faces-
"We almost drove out a great god before!"
Other than that, the other trainees were all extremely shocked and thought:
An audio repairer who doesn't want to be a trainee isn't a good pianist?
People are still performing in work shirts, and it seems that they are not going all out at all.
If you change into a formal performance white suit, the picture is too beautiful to imagine!
What kind of demons and monsters are this, what kind of fairy painted skins?
This TM is a guaranteed benefit sent by the program team?
This TM is the king who came to fry our fish, right?
In the evaluation room,
Jiang Mingxiu, Yang Xiaojuan and other instructors who are not instrumental music performance majors looked at Ning Yu almost at the same time, and the two of them were now full of two words: good, good, and so good.
They now want to hear more from professional pianists.
After all, this is the third place in the 3013 Chopin World Competition.