Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1143 403. Playing the game with my mother [Twenty-two]

This kid Xiao Jamel is really good at playing.

Looking at contestant No. 13 standing up and bowing on the big screen, Ang Lee couldn't help but sigh.

Technically, Jamel Xiao's last song, Will-O-Ghost, was truly a pure show of skill.

I'm afraid that among the fifteen contestants in this round, the award for the best two-tone technique should go to No. 13.

Compared with the technical display, Ang Lee was more impressed by the playing method Jam Hsiao used in the first movement of Leon Lai.

Lao Tang, Mu Xin and others have analyzed this piece of music from all aspects in the live broadcast room, but in the end Lao Tang still failed to explain how to play this piece like a smooth mirror.

It only said that contestant No. 13 has a high piano quotient.

So, for this piece, what exactly is the level of contestant No. 13's guitar quotient?

It's very simple. In Ang Lee's opinion, Jamel Xiao only did two things in this work.

First, the granularity of the sound.

Maintained from the beginning to the end.

Second, use all the short sentences.

Every long sentence must be composed of several short sentences, and there will never be independent long sentences.

Then the movement came naturally.

Different from the perspective of Lao Tang Muxin and others, he is a performer and has more personal experience in the actual interpretation of the work.

Not everyone who understands how to play it can play it well.

This is based on a true understanding of how the first movement of Dawn is different from all of Beethoven's works.

It uses a progressively moving theme from beginning to end, with the harmonies of triads and dominant sevenths constantly alternating with each other. In this way, the continued presence of the dominant seventh chord brings a neutral roughness to the music, which perfectly enhances the dynamics of the rhythm -

This is what Lao Tang said: no single movement of Beethoven's piano sonata can release such infinite energy.

In Ang Lee's view, rather than saying that this movement can release infinite energy, it is better to say that it has inexhaustible functions in its structure.

This is also why this work is said to be the pinnacle of Beethoven's technical creation.

Beethoven only needs to write the functions on the score, and the performers can play according to their functions to activate the infinite energy in the music.

So the performer must understand the function before playing.

This is something that requires thinking and understanding, and it is very complicated.

But Jamel Xiao did it, and it was perfect.

On the whole, it does not follow a complete academic approach, while also preserving the orthodoxy of the classical style.

This kid.
"Wow————"

There was constant applause from the parents' spectator area, and it was obvious that Jamel Xiao's father was also very happy with his son's stage performance.

As half a parent, Ang Lee can more or less understand the father's feelings at the moment.

As a piano teacher, Li An's thoughts were already wavering between the two children's stages.

Sun Wenjun and Jamel Xiao.

To be fair, comparing the two top students from different affiliated high schools, Ang Lee appreciates Jamel Xiao more.

At this point it is no longer possible to judge who plays better, as the two children's performance levels are comparable in his opinion, and it is also difficult to tell who is better in terms of style.

The reason why Ang Lee appreciates Jamel Xiao more is a little unfair to Sun Wenjun.

Because the two children have different starting points.

Ang Lee did not know much about Sun Wenjun's piano learning experience, but he knew that Sun Wenjun was promoted from the affiliated primary school.

Sun Wenjun’s starting point was the Affiliated Primary School, one of the best in the country.

Although Jamel Xiao’s starting point was also one of the best schools in the country, it was the Affiliated High School.

Referring to what Xiao Jingchen’s father said last night, although they started looking for famous teachers to prepare for the entrance exam to the attached primary school when Xiao Jingchen was in the third grade, the child did not pass. It was only after he was admitted to the attached middle school that he began to further improve his professional skills.

This is a common situation in the domestic art primary and junior high school stage.

Children who fail to get into the affiliated primary school in the first year will most likely try again in the second year. If they fail to get into the primary school stage, they will take the exam for the middle school stage.

The reason for all this is the value of the attached primary school.

Especially the attached primary school.

As the top primary school affiliated to the Huahai Two Academies of Music in China, it has such high value that it can be said that as long as children do not mess around after entering the school, they will basically have the ability to enter top foreign music schools in the future. The affiliated high school is relatively second.

This is also why quite a number of parents are trying hard to get their children into the primary schools affiliated to the two academies.

Therefore, it is destined that it will be extremely difficult to get into the primary schools affiliated to the two academies.

It is no exaggeration to say that taking Xiaomi’s alma mater as an example, if the difficulty of getting into Huayuan’s undergraduate program is A, then the difficulty of getting into Huayuan’s affiliated primary school is probably more than 3S.

But there are only a few places available in each session. What to do if students fail to pass the exam? Parents don’t want to give up.

Then continue to take the exam. If you fail the fourth grade, then continue to take the fifth grade.

If you fail to pass the fifth grade, you can basically only wait to take the entrance exam for the affiliated high school.

usually.

Usually, primary schools with a 6-3 system do not recruit sixth graders, of course there is also a 5-4 system.

But whether it is June 3rd or May 4th, it doesn’t matter. No one sends their children here to miss one year of elementary school or one year of junior high school.

The important thing is to send the child in first. The earlier the child is sent in, the earlier the starting point of the child will be.

The reason given by Xiao Jingchen's father for his child's failure to be admitted to the affiliated primary school at that time was: the child's teacher said that the child was still a little lacking in talent.

Ang Lee believes in this.

With the talent that Jamel Xiao showed today, no teacher would easily let such a child slip through his fingers.

To put it bluntly, for the top domestic professors, training a real pianist is truly a profitable business.

So when it comes to such children, they can see things more clearly than anyone else.

The earlier such children enter professional and systematic learning, the greater their potential will be in the future.

In other words, the period from ten to twelve years old is very important for such children.

This means that Jamel Xiao did not show enough talent in elementary school, so his teachers judged him as a child without such talent.

But why was Jamel Xiao the finalist for this competition?
A simple picture shows that the person Xiao Jingchen defeated in the competition this time might be the classmate who ranked ahead of him when he took the entrance exam.

The original words of Xiao Jingchen's father meant something like this: One day after the child entered the affiliated high school, he seemed to have become smart overnight, and the talent that the teacher had previously identified as lacking suddenly emerged.

Ang Lee has to put a question mark here.

His doubt was: Was it true that the child was blessed with good luck overnight?

As a person who has been through it and as a professional, he knows that this is impossible.

How much effort and sweat, how much thinking and how great a price are needed to achieve enlightenment overnight?

Jamel Xiao’s father said that Jamel Xiao had no time for socializing or playing with his phone. He spent his entire childhood at the piano, four hours a day during the week and at least six hours a day during holidays.

This is the key.

The key to the key is that Jamel Xiao’s father said that the couple never asked him to get any grades, and that all piano practice was controlled by the child himself.

In other words, children practice entirely on their own initiative. No matter whether it is holidays or school starts, children are willing to practice and like to practice.

Are there such children?
Have.

He has a living one in his house.

In terms of piano learning and piano practice, Li An did see the shadow of Xiao Jingchen in him. However, Li An did not appreciate Xiao Jingchen more because he loved him.

It’s just because Jamel Xiao and Sun Wenjun have different starting points.

While Xiao Jingchen was still wandering outside the gate of the attached primary school, Sun Wenjun had already started to work hard in the piano room of the attached primary school.

Several years later, in today's competition, the two are evenly matched.

What does this mean?
Does this mean that Sun Wenjun didn’t work hard enough?
No.

Does this mean that Jamel Xiao already has higher talent?

It seems impossible.

But if Xiao Jingchen had given up in despair after failing the first entrance exam to the attached primary school, perhaps today's competition would have lacked a beautiful prelude to dawn.

Walking alone through the darkness before dawn, such stories are probably more touching.
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"Wow——————"

As another wave of applause arose, Ang Lee couldn't help but clap harder.

Applause goes to No. 13 Jam Hsiao and to every child who loves piano.

As Ang Lee thought about this, he still didn't stop calculating the last ticket in his mind.

In addition to Sun Wenjun and Xiao Jingchen, there is also No. 02 Chen Yutong.

At this moment, Ang Lee still remembers Chen Yutong's last piece of music, Revolutionary Etude.

There is really a revolutionary spirit and his finger techniques are extremely solid.

"The next contestant to appear is contestant No. 11, Wu Yating."

When Chen Yutong finished her performance, Ang Lee gave her a score of 9.7, referring to the 9.75 he gave to Sun Wenjun.

This may lead someone to ask, if Teacher Li gave Chen Yutong 9.75, and also believed that Sun Wenjun and Xiao Jingchen were equally matched.

According to this reasoning, shouldn't Chen Yutong be the first person to lock the ticket?
But how did Teacher Li predict that Sun Wenjun and Jamel Xiao would lock in their tickets in advance?
Could it be that all three of them have locked the tickets?

Aren’t there just three tickets in total?
Yes, there are only three tickets in total, maybe these three people will really advance to the international finals.

Then Ang Lee could also say that Xiaoche He Jiaming and Tang Haoran who has not yet appeared will advance to the international finals together!

The key is that he has no say.

The extra 0.5 points he gave to Chen Yutong only represented him personally, and with his experience as a judge and a contestant, it was impossible for Chen Yutong's comprehensive stage to get a higher score than Sun Wenjun and Xiao Jamchen for the judges.

Unless there is an inside story.

The options obtained from the audience's perspective and the judges' perspective are different.

This is not just the end of one game, but also the beginning of another.

If Li An were sitting on the judging panel for the Chinese competition at this moment, he would naturally consider which qualified contestants would have a better chance of winning the final grand prize after arriving in Warsaw.

By then it will be a truly international server.

Generally speaking, what is going on now is the internal selection of Group C of the national team.

This is another reason why Ang Lee feels uneasy.

Compared with the stable performance of these three contestants, Xiao Che was like a bomb that could explode at any time. Every piece she sang in this round was like dancing on a tightrope. Although it was fascinating, the slightest mistake would result in her being smashed to pieces.

Looking back to 1980, at the turbulent th Chopin Competition, Argerich, the legendary priestess of the piano world, angrily walked out of the judge's seat midway through the competition.

The reason was that a contestant named Pogorelic was eliminated in the finals. The contestant was from Serbia, the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his performance had a strong personal style.

In the end, the jury eliminated Pogorelich before the final on the grounds that he was "heretical and deviated from Chopin's style."

Even Argerich, who enjoys various international reputations, can do nothing about it.

In international piano competitions, style is an important criterion for judging a contestant, but it is also a high barrier.

Ang Lee really doesn’t know whether the small car can break through this domestic barrier today.

"Wow——————"

Li An once again followed the other parents in applauding.

"The last player to appear in this round is No. 10 Tang Haoran."

If it weren't for Ho Ka Ming, Ang Lee might have had a little more fantasy.

Select three players to form a national team to play in the international server. If there are no accidents, the best configuration should be two people responsible for the backup and one person responsible for the charge.

The two-person guarantee is the safest, allowing the player responsible for the charge to rush forward recklessly to the greatest extent possible.

The best configuration in Ang Lee's mind is that Xiao Jingchen and Sun Wenjun are responsible for maintaining the bottom line, while Xiaoche is responsible for the charge.

Up to this point, I have heard the last contestant's Mazurka.

Li An can now guarantee that among the fifteen contestants today, except Xiao Che, no one else is suitable to be a striker.

Xiao Che is her student. She knows too well Xiao Che's calmness and tenacity. He is definitely a contestant in a competition.

If there is no car, then the candidate for substitute attacker is Chen Yutong.

Because Chen Yutong's unyielding spirit in the final revolutionary etude also made people feel her unwillingness and determination.

But in comparison, Xiao Che showed the momentum to shatter the stage with the first set of left-hand chords after taking the stage.

However, the above is just a reasonable arrangement made by Ang Lee from the perspective of the jury, assuming no accidents occur.

But there is one biggest variable in today's game.

This variable is He Jiaming.

The closer it got to the last moment, the more Ang Lee could no longer ignore He Jiaming's existence.

First of all, He Jiaming's strength has exceeded the limit. His style is similar to Sun Wenjun. Overall, he is inferior to Xiao Jingchen, but is comparable to Chen Yutong.

Secondly, He Jiaming’s five selected songs are more comprehensive in terms of the score, which can almost show a player in all aspects, giving him more advantages when playing on the international server.

At last.

He Jiaming is the son of He Peng.

He Peng is the conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.

As for the domestic classical music circle, anyone who arrives in the southeast corner must first pay their respects to the pier.

He Peng had a son in his old age, and everyone in the circle knew how much this father loved his son.

Ang Lee couldn't help but feel worried while sitting in the audience, so what about the judges, both big and small, sitting on the stage?

The key is that He Jiaming's stage performance has reached the standard.

"Wow————————"

As contestant No. 10 Tang Haoran finished his performance, warm applause rang out again in the parents' lounge.

The 28th Xiao Xiao Competition China Division Group C Finals lasted for seven and a half hours, and the stage part of it ended here.

Next is the judges' time.

The parents finally couldn't sit still anymore and stood up to look at the big screen on the stage waiting for the results of the competition to be announced.

In Sigang’s live broadcast room, No. 01 was refreshing the screen, and Lao Tang and others were so nervous that they were trembling as they spoke.

Brother Xiaohu couldn't open his fist anymore.

During the contestants' break, someone would occasionally say something in the silence, and the children had different expressions.

Five minutes later, staff member Mr. Wang suddenly walked into the lounge.

"The teachers on the judging panel need to hold a meeting. Please wait patiently for a moment."