Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 139 136. What is a major triad
Honestly, we met after dawn, and the neck under the corners of Chen Xuan's raised mouth was still extremely white in the morning light, revealing a trace of holiness.

She just sat there with her knees tucked up, smiling and watching Li An rummage through the bed.

"Where did it go?"

Li An got out of bed and walked around in the bedroom muttering, only to find that Bawan had returned to the bedroom at some point and was lying on the corner of the bed.

The long white T that has been piled up is padded under his body.

"Meow~"

The [-] mouths seemed to let out a sigh of relief, as if to indicate that they didn't sleep well last night.
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It was just 7 o'clock at this time, and the two actually woke up one after another in an hour.

It was like catching a plane before dawn, neither of them slept well last night.

Probably the main reason is that the sleep time is too short.

When Chen Xuan changed her clothes and walked out of the bedroom door, she was breathing heavily, but she was actually in good spirits, as if she was still in a state of excitement.

Li An was busy making breakfast, she went back to 2502 to wash and tidy up.

It was already half an hour later when the two had their morning together.

They walked out of the community at 45:[-]. They didn't have to catch the bus and subway early in the morning like ordinary working people. They came to the Yudong office building within three or two steps of the road.

"Morning, Teacher Chen."

Among the crowd waiting for the elevator, there happened to be students who Chen Xuan had class at eight o'clock.

"Morning, did you come by yourself today?" Looking around, Chen Xuan did not find the student's parents.

Student: "My mother sent me to the door and left. She said she would pick me up later."

Chen Xuan nodded

As soon as the elevator came down, people piled up at the door flocked.

Seeing that he might not be able to squeeze in, Li An said, "Go up first."

Chen Xuan was unwilling, so he gently pushed Chen Xuan from behind, and whispered, "Don't keep the child waiting, see you at noon."
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Li An waited for the next elevator to go to the ninth floor, greeted Wang Meili and walked straight to the teaching area on the west side.

Today is the first day of the new semester, and the hall is full of parents.

Along the way, he felt a different sense of attention than in the past.

It is understandable that now his high-quality teacher introduction is hung on the wall of the elevator on the ninth floor.

He admired the academic teacher who wrote his personal promotional copy, and insisted on blowing him up as the leader of the new generation of piano teaching in Chengdu.

He himself wanted to blush after reading it.

After reading it carefully, there is no personal achievement, no individual competition award record, and no student award record between the lines.

Pick up the ones that are there and the ones that are not, and the actual work is just one sentence——

Graduated from Rongcheng Conservatory of Music, majoring in piano performance, under the tutelage of Wei Hongjin.

It was Xu Nana's publicity introduction next door that made people feel at ease. Among other things, the rows of award-winning records were clear at a glance.

No matter how trivial the small prize is, it is also a prize.

After seeing it, people can intuitively draw a subconscious conclusion, this teacher Xu must be amazing!

This isn't really false advertising.

Who told you Ang Lee that every piece of whiteboard is a 0.

Even if you have a legitimate 1, there is room for us to add a few zeros to you.

Old Dong said this: "Xiao Li, you can use this to make a living for the time being, and participate in more activities in the second half of the year, and I will give you a whole new life next year."

There is really a way to fix this blue sky.
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When Li An came to the teaching area on the west side, Wang Xiaohu was leaning on the doorknob and playing with the little genius watch in his hand.

Hearing familiar footsteps, Wang Xiaohu raised his head, grinned and shouted, "Hi, teacher."

"Where's your mother?"

"My mother put me down and sent my grandma to the hospital."

"What happened to your grandma?"

"With dentures, my grandpa's dentures were poured down the toilet by my grandpa without paying attention yesterday."

"Pfft, okay."

As soon as he entered the classroom, Wang Xiaohu was pleasantly surprised to find that his previous piano had been replaced with a new one, so he immediately sat in front of the piano and started playing.

Wang Xiaohu's best repertoire right now is SUMMER.

The fluency of that little finger made Li An feel moved, thinking back to the time when he first took Wang Xiaohu with him.

All painful memories.

"Okay, okay, are you going to step on the pedal to death? Let go of your feet. Who did you learn from?"

"Liu Fengrui."

"Can you two study something serious all day long?"

Li An opened the window while complaining, and a gust of wind blew in, making it chilly.

As Wang Xiaohu loosened his feet, the volume of the piano in the classroom immediately doubled.

The music suddenly lost its appeal, and Wang Xiaohu unconsciously increased his fingers to try to get his summer back.

But to no avail.

Finally let go of his hand resentfully.

Li An stood aside and sneered: "What do you mean, stop playing? Huh? If you let go of the pedal, Kikujiro won't survive the summer?"

Wang Xiaohu shrugged and said nothing.

"From today onwards you are not allowed to pedal without my permission."

Wang Xiaohu nodded and muttered, "I know, I know."

"Have you learned to be impatient?"

This bastard is really familiar with him, Li An must not encourage this kind of unhealthy trend.

"say it one more time."

Facing Li An, the stern Wang Xiaohu was not only not afraid, but even a little happy, grinning: "Teacher, I understand."

That's about the same, Li An raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it's almost time, class starts.

"Did you bring the book you prepared?"

Wang Xiaohu stood up and took out Hanon Lianzhi and Czerny 599 from his book bag.

Li An asked him to open the first item of Hanon's finger training, "From this semester onwards, we will temporarily not need grade-examination textbooks, starting with Hanon."

Wang Xiaohu sat upright and shouted: "Good!"

Li An sat next to Wang Xiaohu, took the textbook and put it on the music stand, and demonstrated the first one.

He explained while playing: "Let's look at the sound shape of this work, it's very simple, right? So we need to pay more attention to the movement of pressing the keys and the physical state."

Taking the right hand as an example, Li An continued to emphasize: "After the thumb of the first sound is stabilized, don't worry, just flick the second finger. Here, pay attention to lifting independently when the hand rest is stable. Remember what I told you before. Are you going to throw your finger out?"

Wang Xiaohu directly stretched out his hand on the keyboard and performed a throwing finger for Li An.

"when!"

The volume is not small, and the whole action is completed with fullness.

"That's right, that's it, but be careful not to raise your other fingers. Your middle finger was raised just now."

"Then take it back, that is, when you press the key, you must hear a solid sound."

"If the tone is weak."

Li An demonstrated a false sound, "This is an unqualified action of raising the finger and dropping the key."

"Finally, we connected each note you saw. The fingerings above have been clearly marked. Now I will give you 30 seconds to read the first one, and ask questions if you have any questions."

Ten seconds later, Wang Xiaohu asked: "Teacher, there are sixteenth notes on it, how fast should I practice it?"

Li Ang: "At the beginning, you play each note as a quarter note, and the metronome is set at a speed of 60. After you can skillfully complete the movement of pressing the keys with your hands, you can speed up a little bit."

Wang Xiaohu hummed, and looked back to the first item.

After a while, he imitated Li An and started practicing.

Li An interrupted the correction at any time.
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The whole class ended in this kind of learning atmosphere, and Wang Xiaohu could basically complete the first article of Hanong according to Li An's request with 5 minutes before the end of class.

In fact, at Wang Xiaohu's current level, this piece can be played in less than 10 minutes.

But this is not the purpose of Ang Lee asking him to practice this set of textbooks.

Wang Xiaohu's background is the worst among the three small branches.

Through the private communication with Xu Li at the end of the concert, Ang Lee got a clear attitude——

"Ms. Li, just follow your method. I don't need him to take the test. If you need my cooperation, just ask."

With such enlightened parents, he doesn't need to worry.

Then start with Wang Xiaohu's weakest link, the proficiency of his fingers on the keyboard.

To put it more bluntly, Wang Xiaohu has been learning the piano for two and a half years, and he has no clear concept of the keyboard at all.

Ang Lee hopes to use the next two to three months for him to establish this initial concept.

This is very important for every child who learns to play the piano.

Compared with Xiaohu's shortcomings, Xiaobei's problems are more reflected in the problems of reaction and understanding.

So Li An chose Bach's elementary course for Xiaobei's next choice.

At exactly nine o'clock, when Xiaobei walked into the classroom holding the Bach elementary piano textbook she was thinking of, Li An was talking on the phone with Xu Li.

The environment over the phone was a bit noisy, "I'm really sorry, Mr. Li, for causing you trouble."

"It's okay, I'll let him stay in the classroom."

After hanging up the phone, Li An signaled Xiaobei to sit down first.

Then turned to look at Wang Xiaohu, "Your mother will pick you up later, so you should wait here for her."

Wang Xiaohu was happy, that's great.

Ang Lee warned: "Be honest and don't make trouble."

"hey-hey."

[Wang Xiaohu's teacher-student index has risen to 68]

Ang Lee: What's wrong? -
The teacher and student of Xiaobei, who hadn’t seen each other for a long time, had a chat before class. Xiaobei talked about her summer camp, how many books she distributed last week when the school started, what kind of book cover she wrapped for each book, and how the school started. Fun stuff from the first week.

Xiaobei suddenly thought of something: "Teacher, have you ever heard of a lonely brave man?"

Lone brave?
"I've heard it! I can also sing Xiong Da's version!"

Wang Xiaohu, who was sitting next to him playing with the Little Genius watch, was excited.

The two boys, Xiaobei and Xiaohu, looked at each other, as if they had found a confidant in their eyes.

Ang Lee was a little impressed by this song.

Last time in the group, Xu Hongxin posted a video of "Primary School Student Version Lonely Brave, so Embarrassing to Fly".

After clicking on it, I found that all the children in a class were singing loudly in unison.

After laughing, he found that all the videos posted after this video were all about various versions of the lonely brave man.

Although it is mainly used to spoof elementary school students, it can be seen that the popularity of this music on campus is quite similar to that of another elementary school student's Divine Comedy back then.

"I know, but I'm not very familiar with it."

Li An narrowed his eyes and recalled the few melodies in his memory and raised his hand to play.

Xiaobei: "Wow!"

Xiaohu jumped directly in front of the piano, staring at his hands on the piano, frowning for a moment, "Teacher, you played it wrong."

Li An backed up with a black face, but Wang Xiaohu couldn't believe it when he said he was wrong.

Because of the latter point, he is really just making up his impressions, and because Wang Xiaohu is a standard elementary school student.

"Teacher, can you teach me how to play?"

Looking at Xiaobei's longing eyes, how could Li An refuse, and said gently: "No problem, I'll go back and listen to a score and give it to you in the next class."

When Wang Xiaohu heard this, he said excitedly: "Teacher, I, me, me, and me." He pointed at himself frantically.

Li An immediately put on a look of disdain, "You stay on the sidelines first, and when will you practice Hanon to the fifth point."

"understand!"

Wang Xiaohu consciously rolled back under the window and continued to play with his watch quietly.

"Come to Xiaobei, let's go to class first."
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In view of the consensus reached with Xiaobei's mother, as the teacher of Xiaobei's piano career, Li An has a very clear idea of ​​Xiaobei's next piano learning.

Just like what Xiaobei’s mother said, he also hopes that when Xiaobei grows up in the future, he will have a good memory of Qin Tong’s time.

In addition, he also has a personal expectation: he hopes that the 20-year-old Xiaobei can turn on the piano and play something she was interested in at that time.

This is the real sense of learning for nothing.

So what he can do right now is to help Xiaobei to lay a solid foundation as much as possible, and at the same time choose some textbooks that Xiaobei wants to play.

"From today we will learn Bach's elementary piano textbook."

[Yu Xiaobei's teacher-student index has risen to 91]

Xiao Bei laughed, finally it's time!

Ang Lee said, "Let's start with the first article."

Xiaobei said: "Teacher, I have already previewed it. I have played the first piece, the minuet in G major."

Ang Lee smiled: "That's right, let's re-understand this work."

Wang Xiaohu's ears pricked up when he heard the minuet, which he had just practiced before the exam.

At the beginning, Ang Lee chose this set of textbooks for Xiaobei. He said that the biggest problem Xiaobei currently has is reaction.

Ang Lee hopes to exercise Xiaobei's auditory analysis ability through Bach's small works.

Some people compare Bach's music to high-grade liquor. The piece is not long, but contains a lot of content. It is difficult to keep up with the thinking without training.

Li An did the opposite, taking advantage of Xiaobei's serious learning attitude, he thought that he would use this set of textbooks to instill and sort out the other party little by little, and Xiaobei would definitely gain something in time.

As for how big it is, he can't say, but it must be stronger than it is now, and it's better than playing the grade-examination repertoire in the future.

Coupled with Czerny 599 practice, Xiao Bei should be able to bring herself a big surprise three months later.

Knowing that Wang Xiaohu was also listening, Li An told the two children the story of Bach seriously for the first time.

After he finished speaking, he talked about this elementary piano area collection.

Xiaobei asked, "Teacher, are there all dance music in this book?"

Ang Lee replied: "That's right, the whole book is mostly dance music. There are princess dances that give people brave and firm rhythms, and there are also deep and sentimental prince dances that give people rich emotions."

Xiao Bei nodded.

Wang Xiaohu asked again: "Teacher, why isn't the prince's dance brave and firm? That's the prince. Girls should cry."

Li An didn't answer at the first moment, but looked sideways at Xiao Bei, who was thinking about it.

In fact, he deliberately switched the identities of the prince and princess.

But Xiaobei didn't find out immediately, but Wang Xiaohu did.
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In fact, the question asked by Wang Xiaohu has already involved the tonality of music, and it is a very essential question.

Another problem is involved here. Li An remembered a student he took over halfway.

When talking about a chord with the student, he asked what a major triad is.

The student blurted out "bright and warm". This answer is not wrong, but it is not what Ang Lee wants. The answer he wants to hear is "a major third and a minor third."

Then he asked the child who taught you, and the child said that the literacy teacher taught you.

Now most teachers are more accustomed to giving answers directly, omitting the process in between, especially subjects that have nothing to do with further education.

In art education, if you directly tell a child that major triads are bright, you cannot say that you are an unqualified teacher, let alone an irresponsible teacher.

But is there a better way to guide children, let children's thinking diverge, and let them feel and discover by themselves?
Even if the child can tell that the major triad is not a bright color through his own perception, is the child wrong?

Or who stipulates that the sound effect of major triads must be bright.

Every epoch-making art has been burdened with disdain and controversy to varying degrees from the academic mountains.

This matter made Ang Lee think for a long time at that time.

Later, in addition to the necessary playing postures and basic music laws in teaching, he no longer imprisoned children in the so-called answers.

"Little Tiger, don't boys cry?"

"meeting"

"Girls are never stronger than boys?"

"Have"

(End of this chapter)