The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 111 Haiyin’s commanding emperor!
Orchestra rehearsals, even chamber music rehearsals, and other similar rehearsals are different from solo practice.

It was even different from the previous command rehearsal and assessment conducted by Chen Qiu in the regiment.

During the conductor's rehearsal and assessment, the orchestra has almost done its job as a whole and is just waiting for you, the conductor, to direct and guide and adjust the small problems in the orchestra. It does not require much processing.

As for solo performance, you know from the beginning what you are good at and what you are not good at, so you can also rely on your own understanding of yourself to find your weak areas and constantly make adjustments to practice.

Orchestra rehearsal is completely different from these two.

First of all, the people in the band basically have no problems with their own part.

They must also have few problems.

This means that when you rehearse for the first time, you don’t just start practicing in sections. Instead, you let the orchestra as a whole run through the music first and listen to the overall sound effect.

When you hear a problem in the music, you need to start marking it, find the root of the problem, and focus on practicing later.

After the first pass is over, you will then start rehearsing in sections.

For example, find the location of a certain air port.

If there are musical instruments in that place, it is easier to get in. Let them take a preparatory shot in advance to give everyone some space.

When they reach the corresponding location, let everyone enter together.

This is where the conductor needs to prepare in advance, that is, analyze the score.

Chen Qiu's ears were fixed on the sounds around him, and his eyes were commenting on everyone present.

Different from the previous orchestra of about fifty people, he did not let everyone in at this time with his own feelings. He simply played the rhythm for everyone and reminded certain people when they should come in and when to leave. .

Chen Qiu's eyes kept circling around the orchestra, looking at every possible problem that might go wrong in advance, and his brain had no chance to stop and think.

There are too many people in the orchestra, and the difficulty of conducting is also increasing crazily.

Before, when there were only about fifty people, Chen Qiu could let Qin Xian lead the string section alone. He turned his attention to the wind section. After all, the wind section only had one or two people per instrument, so as to promote the overall orchestra. go ahead.

But now there are about a hundred people in the orchestra. Even though Qin Xian and Zhao Xi in the string section should be able to perfectly accommodate all the members of the string section and guide their progress, for Chen Qiu, not only has the difficulty not decreased, Instead, it went up a bit.

As for the wind instruments, Chen Qiu's attention never left.

He stretched out a finger to direct, while writing down the details he needed to pay attention to in his brain and the score.

Very tiring, but very exciting.

Especially when he is surrounded by everyone in the orchestra playing music, his ears can still hear every detail in the music.

His ears can not only hear the specific pitch of the music, but he can also keenly feel the color produced when the music timbre is stacked, and whether there is any deviation from the color he wants.

Chen Qiu was suddenly a little excited.

When he was conducting a 2-wind orchestra of 50 people before, he paid more attention to pitch and had no sense of sound blocks. Unexpectedly, when he entered a 4-wind band with more than 100 people, his feeling for the color of sound blocks would deepen so much. ?
This is not just a simple absolute pitch, but also a strong control over relative pitch!

While Chen Qiu was conducting the orchestra, he was excitedly feeling the power conveyed to him by his ears, and even couldn't help but close his eyes.

He no longer uses his sight to guide the orchestra, but instead uses his hearing.

He listens to the sounds coming from his ears, the expressions of the music, the interpretation of the music, and then finds out the problems.

[The tone given by the back side of the string section is thicker and needs to be slightly thinner]

[The timbre provided by the wind instrument is too warm. Although the feeling required for the New Year's concert does need to be a little warmer, the warmth there is a bit too warm and needs to be dealt with]

[The timbre blending of the wind and string instruments is not particularly good. It feels like the first and second groups are not completely integrated]

[There is a clear dividing line between the front and back sections of music. The timbre at the back is thicker, and the timbre at the front is clear.]

[The overall feeling is a bit chaotic, and the processing of many details is not fine enough]

Many such thoughts flashed through Chen Qiu's mind.

He opened his eyes and continued to look at the people in the orchestra, while the thoughts in his mind continued to wander.

[The hands of the group of people behind the strings are heavier, and the strength of pulling the strings is also biased towards force, resulting in a slight deviation in the timbre. It may be because of the guidance I gave them before, but they are still using the fifty people before us. The orchestra’s playing techniques will need to be adjusted later]

[The string strings in the first group tend to be light and feel more like what Li Tian gave when he conducted before]

[The timbre of Diplodocus on the wind instrument is a bit harsh, and it seems too prominent in the wind instrument, but it just reaches a certain balance? 】

[The timbre of the trumpet is quite good, and there is no problem with the principal's intonation. However, the group of people in the second group still have the same problems as before in the second group, and the overall effect affects the performance of the principal]

[The position of the trombone needs to be adjusted. The man in front has been hit on the head by the trombone several times... How about writing a bow mark on the music score for him? Tell him when to bow his head? 】

Chen Qiu looked at the person in front of the trombone in a daze.

Just as he was thinking about what to do with the trombone, the man was poked in the head by the trombone again.

The man who poked him turned to look at Trombone angrily, but unfortunately, Trombone just looked at him helplessly, saying that there was nothing he could do.

Although the position in front of him is large, it is difficult for him to turn his instrument in a different direction, otherwise the breath will be misaligned.

Maybe there's a bit of Murphy's Law in it? The less he tried to hit the man in front of him in the back of the head, the easier it was to hit him with the butt of his trombone.

Especially when he was playing well, it would be easier to hit someone if he accidentally stretched out the trombone handle.

Seeing this situation, the corners of Chen Qiu's mouth twitched.

He felt that if he didn't stop it, the two of them might start fighting.

Ok……

Chen Qiu temporarily took his eyes away from the two people and continued to pay attention to the other people in the orchestra, constantly writing down the mistakes of everyone in the orchestra.

When Chen Qiu was silent, other people in the orchestra were also paying attention to Chen Qiu.

Especially those in a group.

The only contact they had with Chen Qiu was that one cooperation.

Maybe many of them have had contact with Chen Qiu before, but overall there are not many.

Therefore, they were very curious about how Chen Qiu's first rehearsal would lead them to perform.

But the strange thing about them is...

Chen Qiu actually didn't say anything to them. He just played the rhythm on the stage and gave them the hint to enter, with almost no special movements.

Is it possible...

Chen Qiu has changed his gender? Know that he was wrong?

During the training process of the second group, you no longer like to troll people?
Although many of them look down on the second group and think that the people in the second group have relatively poor grades.

Even if they won the national competition and even received full marks, they still felt that most of the credit was due to Chen Qiu. Chen Qiu was a good conductor. After all, Chen Qiu was the number one in the command department.

But seeing Chen Qiu's appearance as the commander now, they couldn't help but feel a little bit of identification with the Second Regiment.

The second group is actually not that useless.

At the very least, it would be great if they could bring Chen Qiu's character back.

How great would it be if we could easily win the Nine Schools League Championship?
Some people present couldn't help but think so, and even the tone of their playing became much sweeter.

The moment these changing timbres appeared, they entered Chen Qiu's sight. He immediately stared at those people, narrowed his eyes slightly, recorded the performance of those people in his mind, and smiled slightly at them. one time.

It seems that nothing was said, but it seems that everything was said.

Some people in the Second Regiment were shocked when they saw Chen Qiu's smile. They couldn't help but sit up straighter, and there was even a trace of cold sweat on the top of their heads.

Others don't know, but they know it too well.

There must have been a big problem with someone's performance, and Chen Qiu caught him!
You have to know that when Chen Qiu smiles while conducting, unless the orchestra performs particularly well, it almost never has a particularly good meaning.

That man is absolutely miserable!

Everyone in the second group thought. They played with a more serious attitude, paying attention to all the signals given by Chen Qiu to prevent themselves from making too many mistakes.

The music reaches its end in such a smooth progress.

Everyone put down their instruments and looked at Chen Qiu, waiting for Chen Qiu's comments on them.

Under their gaze, Chen Qiu smiled at them and asked them.

"How do you feel... how does it feel when you play?"

“I feel like there’s still a lot of room for improvement, for example, our strings!”

After Chen Qiu finished speaking, Zhao Xi smiled and said directly.

"During the string performance just now, I heard a lot of timbres that were not integrated enough, and there were many problems with the expression of the music."

Seeing Zhao Xi like this, Qin Xian felt a sense of crisis in his heart. He scratched his head and asked Chen Qiu tentatively.

"I also feel that there are some problems with the strings. Although I can drive the whole string section forward, it always feels a bit stagnant, and the people around me are not close enough to my pace. Although many people follow my expressions to play, they can't. But they often add some of their own things to it, just..."

Qin Xian thought for a while and spoke cautiously.

"A little too self-assertive."

He acted on his own initiative rather than being self-righteous, which gave people behind him a lot of face.

As for Qin Xian, he was still a little hesitant. He felt that it was his own problem and not the problems of others in the orchestra, which was why those in the orchestra did not listen to him.

Look for your own problems first, and then look for other people's problems after making sure you have no problems. Qin Xian has always done this.

Chen Qiu did not comment, nodded slightly to Qin Xian, and asked the others

"Anyone else have any ideas?"

No one spoke.

Facing the silence of everyone, Chen Qiu nodded and spoke directly.

"Since none of you have anything to say, let me do the talking."

Chen Qiu looked at Xian Xian, especially the group of people behind Qin Xian, and nodded one by one.

"First of all, I won't talk about the wrong notes. From behind Qin Xian, the wrong notes from left to right are 112, 28, 37, 132, 32, 7, 47, 56... If If you think I’ve made a mistake in counting, please report it directly. Parts of the sound that you didn’t play, or the sound played by the void, are also classified as wrong sounds, but I won’t deal with these now, and we will talk about it later when we rehearse the parts.”

Chen Qiuchuan nodded one by one.

Most people's faces turned a little pale.

They thought that Chen Qiu didn't hear many of the wrong sounds, but Chen Qiu not only named them all, but even missed them by a few.

The leading ones, who made hundreds of wrong notes, wanted to crawl directly into the ground.

They accidentally played the wrong notes from the beginning, and had no choice but to keep up with the orchestra. They could only make mistakes or find some parts that they could follow.

They even played lots and lots of harmonies to make the music sound as harmonious as possible.

If you let them listen to it on their own, they may not be able to tell where they are wrong.

But unexpectedly, Chen Qiu heard everything.

What the hell kind of ears are these?

Those who made the most mistakes felt severe pressure.

Originally, Chen Qiu just smiled and didn't think much about it, but I didn't expect Chen Qiu to be so strict.

Chen Qiu didn't care about the thoughts of those people. He turned the pencil in his hand and continued.

"Viola, your problem is slightly better, but the tone is too mature and a bit too depressing, as if you were still scolding your parents with a straight face during the Chinese New Year. I think you guys don't like this feeling very much, right? This is especially true for the New Year’s Concert!”

"You have very few wrong notes on the cello, which is worthy of praise. However, your tone is too white. Are you afraid of making mistakes? Are you still reluctant to express your ideas in this orchestra? Why is there no sense of music in your music? , or even inferior to the sound provided by music production software?”

"Double bass, you should be the best string performer in the orchestra. It may be because you have a small number of notes and don't have much to express, but I have to admit that you are the best performer in the orchestra! There are some wrong notes and If the expression is inaccurate, we will discuss it later.”

When it’s time to praise, it’s time to scold.

Chen Qiu was not ambiguous at all.

If you perform well, then I will praise you, you deserve my praise!

And if your performance is poor, then don't think you can escape.

The emotions of everyone in the orchestra were mixed, but what was relatively similar was their recognition of Chen Qiu's ears and strength.

Chen Qiu can really catch mistakes, and his ability to correct mistakes is first-rate, and he is very powerful.

Just like the feeling Chen Qiu gave them when they collaborated on bolero before.

However, this kind of command is what they need
Bi Li Tian has great personal charm and can convince everyone in the band better than Li Tian.

They looked at Chen Qiu and listened to Chen Qiu's evaluation of them, with a hint of enthusiasm in their eyes.

Chen Qiu is very capable of finding mistakes, but what about Chen Qiu’s command and correction ability?

If you can only find mistakes and have no way to adjust the orchestra and make changes among the people in the first and second groups, then there is no meaning.

In the final analysis, orchestra rehearsals still have to get better through continuous rehearsals.

After Chen Qiu evaluated everyone present one by one, he did not stop. Instead, he stretched out his hand, pointed to some people sitting in the back of the orchestra, and said.

"It is unrealistic to ask you to change your playing habits temporarily. It will not only make your performance worse, but also make you lose your feeling for the orchestra. So I will not ask you to change your playing method at this time, but to change your seat! You guys, get up!"

The people who were lit by Chen Qiu were stunned. They couldn't help but get up and look at Chen Qiu, wondering what Chen Qiu wanted to do.

Chen Qiu walked around them, thinking about the previous sound effects from their first performance, and then calculated the effects that would occur if they were changed.

After confirming that there should be no problem, he continued to light a few people.

"You guys change positions, adjust your positions, and then after I finish adjusting everyone's positions, play the opening melody again!"

Those people were a little confused.

Can the sound effects be changed by changing seats?

Why does it feel so childish?

However, out of respect for the commander, they didn't say anything. They just changed their sitting positions according to Chen Qiu's request.

The most important thing to stand up is the position on the string section, where there are many people. As for the wind section, there are no particularly big changes.

Only Chen Qiu slightly adjusted his seat to a certain French horn who was often poked in the head by the trombone behind him, so that he would be less likely to be poked in the head by the trombone behind him.

After finishing all this, Chen Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, returned to his position, picked up the baton in his hand and said to everyone.

"Okay, now look at me, let's do it again, starting from the beginning and ending with the first theme, without playing the riffs!"

"it is good!"

Although they didn't quite believe in Chen Qiu's current operation, they still started their actions according to Chen Qiu's guidance.

After Chen Qiu gave the most basic pre-shooting, everyone in the orchestra played their instruments.

Afterwards, almost everyone in the band was shocked.

At this moment, what they heard in their ears was no longer the music with strong boundaries like before, but a group of phrases that seemed to have been refined for a long time.

They looked at Chen Qiu and the instruments they played in disbelief, and their minds were filled with shock.

This... is Chen Qiu?

Haiyin's, command the emperor!

(End of this chapter)