Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1284, Section 504: The Bystanders: What a night of joy and struggle!

On the phone, Wang Xiaohu didn't know how to complain anymore, and just kept rambling on and on.

Finally, "Teacher, I need to come and report this to you in person!"

Li Anle: "Come on, come on, and while you're at it, go downstairs to Yonglian and buy me a box of peanuts, a small jar, called 'oil-free peanuts,' the five-spice flavor, don't buy the spicy one."

After hanging up the phone, Li An tossed his phone aside, picked up his wine glass, and took another sip.

"What's wrong with him now?" Xiao Che asked as he walked out of the kitchen after washing the dishes.

Ang Lee: "Who knows? I guess he got angry because the afternoon rehearsal didn't go well."

Xiao Che: "He has an incredibly bad temper."

Ang Lee: "Are you still practicing tonight?"

Car: "Practice."

Ang Lee: "Why don't you take a break? Go, go call Xiaoxing. You two aren't practicing today, so you should rest a bit too. Let's have some watermelon."

The little car turned around and shouted, "Xiao Xing! The teacher said there's no practice today! We're eating melons tonight!"

Tang Xiaoxing was actually practicing patiently, her mind filled with how to do the movements.

Hearing the car, she immediately closed the piano and ran out. Seeing that there was no watermelon on the coffee table, she went to the kitchen and brought back a watermelon.

Seeing this, Li An laughed heartily, while Tang Xiaoxing, holding the melon, looked on with a puzzled expression: "Huh?"

Little Car: "I'm going to get the knife. There's going to be a good show later."

A short while later, there was a knock on the door.

Wang Xiaohu entered without any ceremony, went straight to the coffee table, picked up a piece of melon, and ate it.

Then he put down the big bag he was carrying, saying, "Teacher, these are peanuts, and a cheesecake made by my mom."

Li Anxin said, "I told you to buy one box, but you bought a whole bagful. Why did you buy so much?!"

Wang Xiaohu: "I saw there were only a few boxes left, so I bought them all."

Ang Lee picked it up and glanced at it, his brows furrowing instantly: "What flavor did I tell you to buy?"

Wang Xiaohu: "It's spicy."

Xiao Che shook his head and sighed, "Brother, the teacher is eating spiced food, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Xiaohu slapped his forehead and was about to go downstairs to buy more, but Li An stopped him: "No need, tell me what's wrong, let me cheer you up."

"Teacher, you..." Little Tiger Brother plopped down on the sofa.

Tang Xiaoxing kindly reminded him: "Captain, you've sat in the teacher's score."

Wang Xiaohu: "."

The whole story is that simple.

After hearing Wang Xiaohu's bizarre one-minute stage performance story, Xiao Che and a certain teacher burst out laughing.

Tang Xiaoxing was extremely nervous, as if this were what she would encounter tomorrow.

A moment later, "Captain, you really jumped?"

Wang Xiaohu retorted irritably, "What else can I do! I'm the commander!"

The little car picked up a slice of watermelon and took a bite: "This watermelon is really delicious."

Ang Lee picked up a small handful of peanuts and popped them into his mouth: "Look at you, you can't even do it yourself, yet you expect others to do it. Do you think that's appropriate?"

Wang Xiaohu: "It's all your fault!"

Ang Lee: "What does this have to do with me!"

Wang Xiaohu said without fear: "It's all your fault. If you hadn't changed the style to be so serious, would everyone have been able to laugh?"

Ang Lee: "Is that what you call serious? That's called professional, okay? It's so high-class, and isn't it hard to sing? If you can't get the audience's emotions going, that's your own problem."

Tang Xiaoxing: "."

The little car suddenly became curious: "Teacher, can I see the sheet music you revised?"

Wang Xiaohu: "No way!"

Xiao Che pouted: "We've almost finished filming, there's no way we can change it now, you're so stingy."

Ang Lee: "Ahem, it's not that I can't show it to you, but I didn't actually change this score."

Three children: "?!"

Wang Xiaohu chuckled: "You're trying to fool kids again."

Ang Lee chuckled and said, "Don't believe me if you don't want to."

The little car pleaded, "Teacher, you're the most important person, please let us hear it."

Tang Xiaoxing also looked expectant, wanting to hear what kind of style could leave the captain helpless.

Wang Xiaohu pouted: "Okay, okay, when have I ever been stingy?"

Seeing this, Ang Lee had a sudden inspiration and made a request: "That's fine, but you have to sing it for me."

Sing it out! What else is Little Tiger Brother afraid to risk?

Car: "No problem!"

Tang Xiaoxing: "Okay, teacher."

Wang Xiaohu: "No! We're one person short for the four voice parts."

Ang Lee: "I can sing, who's as awkward as you?"

As he spoke, Ang Lee created a group chat and sent the sheet music to the group.

Wang Xiaohu: "You guys choose, I'll sing what's left."

Xiao Che and Tang Xiaoxing looked at the sheet music and chose numbers one and three respectively.

Ang Lee: "Then I'll just say 'lalala'."

Wang Xiaohu: "Okay, I'll sing number two."

The little car suggested, "Teacher, don't we deserve a piano accompaniment?"

Ang Lee grinned: "Come on, come on, let's play together today."

Upon hearing that their teacher was going to play piano for them, the three children immediately became excited.

The four of them, teacher and students, went to the study, and Xiao Che brought a tablet computer to enlarge the sheet music.

Li An took it and placed it on the music stand. "You guys sing it yourselves first, and I'll look at the sheet music to find it."

Wang Xiaohu: "Keep acting."

Li An ignored him, his fingers falling as he played the zither: "Go away, or you'll embarrass yourself later."

Wang Xiaohu ignored him and started playing along with the piano music while looking at the sheet music on his phone.

Xiao Che and Tang Xiaoxing were seeing this sheet music for the first time, but it was only a matter of glancing at it a few times.

As expected of a teacher, Xiao Che realized the vast difference between himself and his teacher after just a quick glance.

Tang Xiaoxing quietly nodded and sang along with the piano music: "I heard that every child wants it—"

"OK, come on, come on!" The little car then followed.

One minute later.

Ang Lee: "Are you ready?"

Wang Xiaohu: "OK".

Car: "Yeah."

Tang Xiaoxing: "Okay."

Ang Lee started playing the intro directly from the beginning.

The little car and little star enter the melody in two parts: "A seed is planted in my heart, tap-tap-tap—"

Li An and Xiao Hu's second and fourth parts rhythmically add a backing vocal: "la la—la la—"

For a moment, beautiful harmonies blossomed in the joyful melody.

If there were a fifth person present, he would definitely be moved by the performance of the four teachers and students.

The three children gradually got into the zone. At this moment, they were no longer arranging music, conducting, or playing the piano; they were simply singing and enjoying the joy of singing.

"Oooh!"

Before the interlude, the little car made an exaggerated expression, which made everyone burst into laughter.

While playing the piano and singing, Ang Lee couldn't help but praise, "Listen to this harmony, it's so sophisticated."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, that's enough!"

Car: "Ready!"

Tang Xiaoxing: "A seed has been planted in my heart, tick-tock—"

Li An and Wang Xiaohu: "La la-la la-"

The little car simply stopped singing: "Little Star is swaying! You're so cute! Wang Xiaohu, can you stop being so pretentious!"

Wang Xiaohu panicked: "La I don't have it! La la la! La I don't have it! La la la!"

Hahahahahaha——

Happy times always pass quickly.

The four teachers and students returned to the living room, all of them covered in sweat.

However, it was obvious that Wang Xiaohu felt much better.

Through simulated rehearsals, Ang Lee's intuitive feeling was that Wang Xiaohu's complaints were somewhat justified.

Qin Liming's adaptation is indeed not difficult, and each part is easy to sing, which effectively addresses the weaknesses of amateur youth choirs. However, to him, this version feels more like it was adapted for adult choirs.

It even made Ang Lee think that it would be better if an adult choir sang it.

Because once the harmony becomes complex, it no longer sounds like a song for children.

It's not that complex harmonies are bad.

To use an imperfect analogy, a suit might look good on Lao Tang and make him look very stylish, but it might also fit Wang Xiaohu well, though it would lose some of his childlike charm. Therefore, it's indeed quite challenging for the children in the Shuren Choir to find a joyful feeling within such harmonies.

After thinking for a moment, Ang Lee came up with an idea that he thought was pretty good.

"Wang Xiaohu, come here, come here."

Wang Xiaohu walked up to Li An with a puzzled look.

Li An bent down and whispered a few words in Wang Xiaohu's ear, and Wang Xiaohu's eyes lit up instantly.

I thought to myself, "This is a great plan!"

Ang Lee stood up and asked with a smile, "How is it? Is it alright?"

Wang Xiaohu: "That's amazing! It'll be absolutely spectacular!"

This made the two little girls sitting opposite on the sofa suspicious, because they didn't know what the teacher and Wang Xiaohu had whispered to each other.

Little Car: "Teacher, you're being unfair!"

Wang Xiaohu smugly said, "How is this considered favoritism? The teacher is the art director of Shuren (the book's publisher), you just wait and see—"

As he spoke, Little Tiger tilted his head and made a throat-slitting gesture, his eyes filled with smugness.

The car: "Tch! Don't underestimate us, just you wait and see."

Wang Xiaohu: "We'll see."

Ang Lee: "Alright, alright, let's leave the stage matters for the stage. Let's hurry up and finish the food so there's nothing left."

The four teachers and students then started eating again.

When Ang Lee asked about Qiao Zhizhi's performance today, Wang Xiaohu simply gave her a thumbs up.

"Don't worry, teacher, it's even better than what you heard in the recording."

Ang Lee: That's good.

Wang Xiaohu: "She practiced until 11 p.m. yesterday after she got home."

Ang Lee: I guessed so.

The two girls fell silent, because they had no idea what the teacher and Wang Xiaohu were talking about.

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, what time do we meet the day after tomorrow?"

Ang Lee: "It's 6:30. The competition starts at 8:30. We need to draw lots first. Yunxi Middle School is quite far away, so we need to leave early."

Wang Xiaohu: "okok".

As he spoke, he looked at Xiao Che and Xiao Xing, "Ahem, are you two going the day after tomorrow?"

Car: "Where to?"

Wang Xiaohu: "The band competition? Didn't you ask me about it the day before yesterday?"

Xiao Che: "Oh, our school's band isn't there either."

Wang Xiaohu: "You"

Tang Xiaoxing was about to die laughing at the two of them.

“Okay, okay,” Wang Xiaohu then extended an invitation to Tang Xiaoxing: “Xiaoxing, come watch our competition. You should also be interested in the band competition.”

Tang Xiaoxing grinned: "If Linlin goes, I'll go too."

Wang Xiaohu: "She doesn't understand orchestras."

Tang Xiaoxing shook her head: "If Linlin goes, I'll go too."

Wang Xiaohu looked helplessly at the car again, "We're brothers, you know."

Xiao Che: "See you on stage, bro."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher holds grudges."

Ang Lee: "You can just remember it too. She can remember hers, and you can remember yours. Xiaoxing, go get me another bottle of beer."

"Okay, teacher!"

Tang Xiaoxing skipped and hopped to the refrigerator. Wang Xiaohu looked at the car and touched his nose: "I was wrong, okay?"

Li An coughed so hard he almost choked on a peanut. "If you're alright, hurry back and practice your piano."

Tang Xiaoxing brought out the beer and saw Wang Xiaohu was about to leave, saying, "Bye-bye, Captain."

"Bye-bye," Wang Xiaohu said smugly before leaving, "Teacher, believe me, we will win."

After Little Tiger left, the three teachers and students continued to eat melon seeds and peanuts.

Then Ang Lee received a voice message from Wang Xiaohu: Oh right, teacher, don't forget the cake. Put any leftovers in the fridge.
Ang Lee: "Hurry up and eat your cake, you two."

And so, the three of them, teacher and student, spent a relaxing evening on the sofa in the living room.

Before the car returned to the house, the child asked the teacher what time the competition the day after tomorrow would end, and the teacher told her it would only last one morning.

"It won't interfere with your piano practice. Good night, I'm going to bed early tonight too."
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Ang Lee said he would go to bed early, and he did so before 10:30 p.m.

The two girls next door were still talking until midnight and hadn't gone to sleep yet.

Their discussion naturally revolved around the stage where courage could be unleashed.

While they were discussing, in another bedroom, Xiao Guan was still choreographing moves for the "Courage Burst" activity.

Xiao Guan watched all the courage-themed chorus moves that she could find online.

The conclusion drawn is that actions are always a plus.

Of course, this was just her own idea, but regardless of whether the choir needed a set of movements, she had to prepare them in advance.
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The alarm clock rang at 7:30 a.m.

Xiao Che turned off the alarm clock, and her phone screen showed her that there were still five days until the choir competition.

"Zao Linlin".

"Zao Xiaoxing".

Just like yesterday, breakfast was laid out on the table, but the room was very quiet.

The two knew that their teacher had gone to practice the piano again.

They need to keep going!
After eating and drinking their fill, the two little girls, wearing helmets, hopped on their electric scooter and headed to school, facing the rising sun.

"Linlin, do you think I'm okay?"

"You have no problems!"
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"Good morning, students!"

As Fang Zheng entered the auditorium, he saw Xiao Che and Xiao Xing leading everyone in vocal exercises on the stage.

After a night of rest, Fangzheng has regained its confidence today.

After the children finished their vocal practice, he announced today's rehearsal task: "Let's go all out and try to unleash our courage today! Does everyone have confidence?!"

Children: "Yes!"

Having confidence is a good thing, but objectively speaking, the key to whether or not Tang Xiaoxing can win this song depends on whether he can create a lively atmosphere at the scene.

This is simply a commander's duty.

As rehearsals began, Tang Xiaoxing stepped onto the conductor's platform.

Unlike yesterday, Tang Xiaoxing's starting gesture today has changed from having both arms outstretched in front of her chest to waving with one hand and placing the other hand on her hip.

They look quite cute.

This scene also gave the choir members on stage a unique sense of ease.

Fang Zheng nodded, it seemed that Tang Xiaoxing had overcome her psychological barrier.

However, as the piano and singing began, Tang Xiaoxing's movements and gestures gradually returned to a professional and measured state.

"OKGo, come on, come on!"

"OKGo, come on, come on!"

"OKGo, come on, come on!"

Um--

Fang Zheng sighed. Under Tang Xiaoxing's guidance and adjustments, the choir members gradually returned to a stable state.

Four more bars passed, and once again only singing remained on the stage.

Xiao Che sighed inwardly, "It really isn't working."

Last night in the study, she consciously helped Tang Xiaoxing open up, and Tang Xiaoxing showed her cheerful side, but she still felt that Tang Xiaoxing was still a little reserved.

Just like with Tang Xiaoxing, music must be a serious matter.

Last night, when she was going to bed, she and Tang Xiaoxing discussed a lot of stage movements and poses. During the process, Tang Xiaoxing was actually memorizing how to do each section.

So at that time, Xiao Che had a premonition that Tang Xiaoxing would probably run into trouble again today.

If something entirely driven by the emotions of the moment were performed like a sonata, wouldn't that turn into a formulaic stage performance?

Obviously, this is completely inconsistent with the tone of the work.

What to do.

The little car played the erhu while pondering.

Suddenly, an interesting image popped into her mind!
Got it!

Got it! ! !

If I remember correctly, she and Tang Xiaoxing played it together for the last time yesterday.

There was no conductor on stage at the time, and everyone sang without any problems.

If they don't want to conduct anymore, let Tang Xiaoxing play the accompaniment with her.

This means they have an extra accompaniment part!

Using music to enhance the stage atmosphere might be a good idea.

Eh! ?

In an instant, the sound of the live piano suddenly doubled in volume!
Fang Zheng quickly looked over, thinking to himself, "What's wrong with you now, you little devil?!"

This is too difficult. Boss, help!