Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1109 369. The Piano Girl's Brainstorm

The lonely piano stands quietly in the endless flow of people, like another observer.

Forget the arena...

The stage for performances...

The teacher's words echoed in my mind, and as if I felt a call from the bottom of my heart, Xiaoche put down his schoolbag and slowly walked towards the piano.

A little brother in a suit, a big sister wearing headphones, a couple of uncles and aunts, and an old man with a nylon backpack...

One after another, the figures that had already gone far away appeared in the eyes of the car again.

If they get their own audience, what can they play for them?

Xiao Che had never thought of this idea before. If the teacher had not raised this question, she probably would not have taken the initiative to think about it.

She has always believed that playing is an actively personal thing and a complete expression of one's own emotions.

In other words, in Xiaoche's mind, the direct relationship between the performer and the listener is, what I play is what you listen to.

The teacher has also been guiding her on how to express her emotions through piano playing.

But now everything is reversed.

She has to think about how she should play from the listener's perspective.

This was a very novel feeling. Although she didn't know how to play, there was a voice in Xiaoche's heart that seemed to tell her: Not only should she forget the competition, she should also forget her original performance.

She didn't know why she had such an idea, as if she couldn't rewrite on the playing method she had already mastered without formatting it.

If one's own original playing style is mixed in, it cannot be considered a performance for a specific audience.

So how should we play it? What should we play?

Just as he was about to reach the piano, Xiaoche's mind went blank.

She walked slower and slower, and when she was still one meter away from the piano, she stopped.
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Xiaoche didn't know that she had attracted the attention of some passers-by.

Including Teacher An who was following not far behind the car, no one knew what was in the mind of this little girl in a loose white T-shirt.

I saw her standing in front of the piano, as if she wanted to say something but was hesitant, and wanted to move forward but couldn't.

Some people speculated that the little girl could play the piano and looked like she wanted to practice. But perhaps because there were too many people at the subway station, she lacked the courage to step forward.

A middle-aged man who passed by the car had this idea, but he didn't have time to stop for a moment. He passed the piano and continued walking forward.

Just like that, in just one minute, countless people passed by the piano, and most of them would take a glance at the girl in a white T-shirt in front of the piano.

Teacher An, who was holding a mobile phone, was also a little surprised. The scene at the moment was something he had never expected. He didn't know where the car was stuck.

But he was not surprised, because Xiaoche's train of thought sometimes resembled Wang Xiaohu's.

Not in a hurry, Li An found a nearby stone pillar and leaned against it, with his phone camera still pointed at the back of the car.

"Very good." He stared at the phone screen and murmured with a smile.

The car's reaction at least shows that it is thinking at the moment.

In Ang Lee's opinion, Xiao Che needs to go through a process of thinking and transformation. If Xiao Che sits directly in front of the piano and starts playing, and only integrates part of what he sees by adjusting the processing of some sentences, it will show that Xiao Che did not pay attention to his intention.

Ang Lee just needs Xiaoche to put down the game and sit at the piano again with a pure performance mentality.

This is a reshaping of the perception of performance. Without the constraints of competition, one can devote oneself to the performance stage wholeheartedly, regard oneself as a part of the music, and imagine that one is having an intimate interaction with the audience across space.

Among them, observing the crowd was the medicine he gave to Xiaoche.

As for the final effectiveness of the medicine, today is just the beginning.

The car will continue to carry out such training until before the competition.

When the car can be flexibly controlled, it will surely surprise quite a few people at the competition venue.

Sometimes, state is not metaphysics, it can be completely trained.

This is certainly not a teaching method that Ang Lee imagined out of thin air, but rather the experience he summed up from going from competition venues to concerts.

At this moment, the girl in the camera moved.

Li An quickly perked up.
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The noisy subway hall is still noisy.

Suddenly, a clear sound of piano rose into the air, and was almost instantly drowned out by all the other sounds.

The moment Xiaoche sat in front of the piano and played the introduction, the woman in red who was passing by the piano just glanced at the piano and did not stop.

However, less than half a minute later, Ang Lee had to change his position to continue shooting.

Because there were already a lot of people surrounding the piano, all kinds of people.
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Go back half a minute.

Xiaoche finally remembered another thing the teacher said, that is, to act like he was walking towards a performance stage.

With the piano just one step away, it was obvious that she no longer had enough steps to demonstrate an elegant gait.

Thinking of the elegant gait, Xiaoche laughed to himself, then walked to the piano and sat down.

But the moment she sat down, she felt her buttocks being supported by the hard piano stool, and in that instant all the music she had just conceived in her mind seemed to fly away.

Smelling the woody scent coming from the piano keys, she scratched the back of her head sadly.

This is how to do? !

Then a magical scene appeared, her right hand seemed to rise up uncontrollably.

The friction between the leather shoes behind me and the smooth ground also turned into an alternative rhythm at this moment.

Guided by this unique rhythm, Xiao Che gently rubbed the middle finger of her right hand against the piano keys. A crisp "ding" sounded and she laughed.

It feels exactly like the footsteps behind me!
Then she played the second note of the introduction, completely coinciding with the sound of leather shoes behind her.

It was like playing a metronome game, the third note, the fourth note, the fifth note, until the sound of leather shoes became farther and farther away. The car seemed to be getting a little anxious, and the speed of pressing the keys could not help but increase, as if trying to catch up.

It was during this process that a series of tremolo-like introductory passages, from slow to fast and then to urgent, vividly echoed in a corner of the subway hall.

The cheerful puppy waltz sounded again on the girl's fingertips.

Different from every previous opening, this time the girl's opening is like putting leather shoes on a puppy, funny and with an exaggerated childishness!

However, the little car had no idea that it had played an introduction to a completely new effect, and her leather-shoe puppy had already followed the crowd into the subway car.

There are shoes all around, all kinds of shoes, including leather shoes, high heels, sneakers, cloth shoes, and slippers.

The sound of the piano transformed into a puppy, hiding and jumping under the feet of the crowd, so happy that it seemed to have thrown all its worries behind it.

Suddenly, the young uncle in the white shirt appeared in front of her again. He was still holding the mobile phone with a frown on his face.

In Xiaoche's imagination, the puppy who turned into music jumped directly onto the uncle and took his mobile phone. Then he jumped onto the big sister's shoulder and knocked off the earphones hanging on her ears with his paws.

She circled around the couple's feet and continued to run towards the next carriage. She was completely immersed in her fantasy and didn't know that there were people surrounding her at this moment.

"when!"

As the happy melody continued to jump forward, the puppy accelerated again.

Strangely, a joyful waltz was also playing on the train's broadcast.

It seemed as if a grand carnival was about to begin.

The uncle leaning against the handrail suddenly loosened his tie, and his tie curled up into a musical note in the air.

The aunt in the red dress stood on tiptoe, and her pearl earrings turned into a set of decorative notes. The uncle with glasses slammed his briefcase on the ground, and the dull sound turned into a powerful rhythm in the bass.

The brother in the gray plaid shirt took off his glasses, and his eyelashes trembled rhythmically in the fluttering rhythm.

The child who was biting his nails suddenly raised his arms, as if he had become the conductor of the entire train.

But just as the carnival was going on, the train seemed to enter a dark tunnel. The music suddenly faded away. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked around in confusion.

The puppy gave a sly smile, and the next second he took off his leather shoes and ran forward at an even faster speed!

Just like that, after a brief and soft chorus, the music passes through the tunnel and flies at a faster speed.

Everyone in the car returned to singing and laughing.

When the light filled the car windows again, everyone's leather shoes turned into ballet shoes.

The ties fluttered like the wings of a black swan, and even everyone's cell phones turned into puppies, swaying wildly to the music.

The joyful train will stop, but no one wants to get off, and everyone on it will start dancing in a second.

The whole carriage was in a frenzy until a Santa Claus walked into the carriage carrying a large red nylon bag.

The puppy raised his head and looked around, looking at the people who were completely immersed in happiness, revealing two white little fangs, and jumped through the gap in the door before the subway door closed and jumped into the platform.

The train carrying joy continues to move forward, and the car firmly believes that the final stop must be called Happy Destination.

"when!"

Both hands fell neatly on the last note, and Xiaoche raised both hands, ending the performance of Puppy Waltz once again.

“Wow————————————”

In an instant, the enthusiastic applause almost overturned the piano!
“It’s so good!”

"Bravo!"

"another one!"

“The little beauty plays the guitar so well!”

All kinds of praises were heard everywhere, and Xiaoche was unable to describe his feelings at the moment.

She seemed to have just returned to the piano from a happy world where there was only happiness and no worries. It was a wonderful feeling.

If the teacher asked him now what kind of music he would play for his brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and grandfathers.

The car will answer immediately: happy music.

That's right.

She had many thoughts before coming to the piano.

For each different role, the music she plays is different.

The young man in the white shirt looks nervous and anxious.

Xiaoche hopes to play a slow piece of music that can soothe the other person's mood.

The kind sister wearing headphones had a hollow look in her eyes, as if she was in extreme exhaustion.

Xiaoche hopes to give the other person a major-key song that has a healing feel.

A couple of lovers, uncle and aunt, came to Chengdu for a trip and were on a wonderful love journey.

Xiaoche hopes to use a romantic and sweet piece of music to add a special memory to their journey.

No one knew where the old man with the nylon bag came from or where he was going, but the car showed that he was still struggling for life even at an age when he could enjoy his retirement.

So Xiaoche wanted to use a soothing folk song to make the old man temporarily forget the hardships of life.

Xiao Che knew that she was still young and had not had much life experience, so this was all she could think of.

But the moment she sat down in front of the piano, she forgot all these ideas.

But the footsteps behind her gave her inspiration.

The most memorable thing about today's short journey was the hurried footsteps.

It seemed that everyone was in a hurry. This, combined with the sound of leather shoes walking behind her, gave her an inspiration in an instant.

She wants to make everyone who is in a hurry feel happy.

She believes that no one can refuse happiness, and no one can dislike happiness.

So there was this version of the Puppy Waltz that made her feel extremely happy.

She had never imagined that this piece could be so joyful, nor had she ever heard a version of The Puppy Waltz that made her so happy.

If this was a performance stage, she could step down and confidently tell the teacher: Teacher! I want to give my puppy waltz a ten!
But this only lasted for a while, and the piano girl seemed to have really let go.

When the applause behind him died down, Xiaoche raised his hand and continued to play the next piece.

The bright piano sound rang out again, shining in front of the piano, as if the girl playing was emitting white light.

Beautiful.

If only one adjective could be used to describe the scene in front of the piano, the crowd would probably choose this word.

The holy melody and the clean girl, the combination of the two can only be described as beautiful.

Compared to the extremely joyful melody just now, the music at this moment gives people a strong sense of healing.

Many people returning home after a busy day have found a place for their souls to rest in this melody, as if life is not too bad and at least they still have a few moments of beauty that belong to them.

Whether the first movement of Mozart K.545 has this kind of magic or not, it is not up to each performer to decide, only the audience has the right to say.

Teacher Mou An, who had been pushed to the outermost part of the circle, did not expect that Xiao Che would play this song as the second one.

He certainly didn't know that this was custom-made by Xiaoche for the older sister who wore headphones, but he could indeed feel the changes that Xiaoche made in his processing of this piece.

First of all, the speed chosen by the car is only two-thirds of the original speed, which causes a fundamental change in the allegro rhythm of the music.

The narrative sense of the Andante music amplifies the background of the work, giving the music a sense of confession.

Secondly, in terms of key touching, Xiaoche replaced all the fingertips with finger pads, which makes the connection between notes smoother and more singing.

In the end, Ang Lee was a little "annoyed", and after hearing this, he decided to give himself a few days off.

I have to say that he has been very tired recently.

Putting down his phone and stopping filming, Ang Lee transformed himself into an audience member, enjoying this rare leisure time.

Soon, applause broke out again.

Wave after wave of spectators stopped to watch, and wave after wave of spectators continued on their journey.

Time flies by.
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On the way home in the evening, Li An gave Xiaoche a lesson.

"Linlin, what I meant was that you should feel more about the audience. To put it bluntly, you should think of yourself as a part of the concert hall, but you ended up getting excited by yourself."

"Well!"

"It's not a pass today."

"OK!!"

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