The world's number one pianist

Soon, the first small class was completed. He Shen assigned everyone homework to practice at home during the National Day holiday, and then let them leave directly. Read М

With the completion of the first class and the National Day approaching, most things in the school also ushered in a brief stagnation.

Like the National Day in the past, most teachers planned to go home to spend the National Day with their families.

A small number of teachers went to find their partners and planned to go out to play.

Even though there would definitely be a crowd outside and there would be no decent scenery at all.

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Even though neither of them wanted to go out to play, they had to bear it and go out together in order to accompany their partners.

What else to do? Two people playing together in the room for seven days?

Let alone whether they would get bored, it was still a question whether the male teacher could hold on for seven days...

As for the last few teachers left, that is, He Shen's group, they either chose to go back to their hometown for a walk or stay in school and continue practicing the piano.

He Shen had no doubts, he chose to stay in school and continue practicing the piano.

Because of some special things, he didn't want to go back to his hometown.

After all, if he really wanted to go back to his hometown, he wouldn't be alone in Jiangzhou Ningcheng, living in the basement, not having enough food every day, causing himself to have hypoglycemia and malnutrition, and almost died.

And the reason why he was willing to practice the piano in school was very simple.

The school's piano room has central air conditioning, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, and there are humidifiers and dehumidifiers to ensure that the humidity in the whole room is constant, which will not cause great damage to the piano or other musical instruments.

In addition, most of the time in Jiangzhou Ningcheng is in the state of strong sunshine, and the afternoon sunshine is very comfortable.

Such a comfortable environment makes He Shen have no idea of ​​leaving this place and returning to his hometown.

There is no desire to go back to his basement.

What to do in the basement? Stare at the window that only has a little sunlight in the morning?

Or practice the piano in a small space?

Although the piano at home is slightly better than the upright piano in the school, how to say...

Practicing the piano in school is much more comfortable than at home!

The basement was cold and damp, and the heat was entirely due to its own positive energy and the stuffiness brought by the unventilated room.

The school has central air conditioning to ensure constant temperature. Isn't this uncomfortable?

So, on the first day of National Day, when He Shen came to school as usual, he just felt that the school was inexplicably empty. The usually noisy piano practice sound was much smaller at this time. Many piano rooms were empty and there was no one inside.

Pushing open the door of the piano department office, it was more deserted than usual. Many people didn't even have a little office material on their desks, and they were all locked in the cabinet.

However... He Shen didn't expect that there would be anyone in the piano department office. Today was the first day of the holiday, and he could still work in this place.

So he just went to his desk, opened the drawer, picked out a few lollipops that he liked, put them in his pocket, and walked towards the piano room.

The road was still deserted, except that he met the counselor when he went downstairs.

The counselor saw He Shen coming down from upstairs, and his eyes were filled with surprise. It was obvious that he had no idea that He Shen was still in school today.

But soon, a smile appeared on his face. He dug into the briefcase behind him, took out a registration form, and asked He Shen with a smile.

"Teacher He, are you not going back this year?"

"No." He Shen shook his head.

"Is that so? That's great. We will organize a faculty sports meeting around the 4th or 5th. We will have fun together. Do you want to participate? Here is the registration form."

The counselor put the registration form in his hand into He Shen's hand, and regardless of whether He Shen refused or not, he immediately spoke, blocking He Shen's words, and said.

"Teacher He, please don't refuse. This sports meeting is just for teachers to have some fun together. We can play badminton, tug-of-war, etc. There won't be any particularly difficult competitions that require a lot of physical strength. There won't be any track and field events like running."

"Of course, if there are enough teachers who want to compete in track and field, then it can still be held. Just fill in the competition you want at the end of this registration form, that is, in the other column. If the number of people reaches the standard for holding, then it can be held."

Looking at the counselor who was talking endlessly and introducing the teacher sports meeting, He Shen shook his head, returned the registration form in his hand, pointed to his head, and waved his hand to refuse.

"No, hypoglycemia, lack of physical fitness, I'm sorry, I really can't do it..."

"Huh? Is that so..."

The counselor was surprised after hearing this, and then clearly showed a trace of regret. He reluctantly took the registration form from He Shen's hand, rolled it up a little, and stuffed the registration form back into the bag behind him, saying with a little regret.

"Then there is nothing we can do. We don't have any card games or anything like that here. The main purpose of the Teachers' Games is to give us, the left-behind teachers, a chance to relax. I didn't expect that your health is so bad, Teacher He. It's really a pity."

"It's okay, I have a piano, I can practice."

"Hiss... you still have to practice piano non-stop during the holidays? Teacher He, you are really, tsk tsk, too hard, I can't do it..."

The counselor shook his head helplessly, pointed to He Shen downstairs, and waved his hand.

"Since you don't want to come, Teacher He, I'll leave first. If you feel bored, you can come to us in the music department office below. We have many counselors here. We can have fun together and communicate more. That’s it, let’s go now.”

After that, the counselor walked directly down the stairs and quickly disappeared from He Shen's sight.

He Shen didn't have any idea about the counselor's invitation. After all, he was really a layman in sports.

It's the kind of level where you can run a thousand meters for seven or eight minutes, and you can run 50 meters for more than 10 seconds.

If you count his grades, it is basically impossible for him to pass, and he is even a little short of the passing line.

But... he can still do pull-ups. When he was in school, because playing the piano required arm strength, he specially trained his arms to make his upper body very strong.

Unfortunately, even if his pull-ups are pretty good compared to other sports, he is still far away from the passing line.

Now that he has graduated from college and became a teacher, he no longer has to take physical tests, so he naturally stays as far away from sports as he can and is determined not to get closer.

Of course, apart from training the upper body muscles, He Shen plans to go to the gym or somewhere else to exercise his upper body after his body is a little healthier, so that his body can produce more brilliant sounds.

It is impossible for a body that is too weak to play that feeling.

And more powerful power also means that you can create deeper musical levels.

After all, playing the piano is still a percussion instrument, and it is a strenuous job.

During ordinary practice and recording, you can still hold it back a little bit, but when it comes to the competition, the physical exertion cannot be compared with practicing and recording.

He Shen shook his head and walked towards his piano room. He walked into the piano room and dug out the piano scores he had printed out in the library. He just sat on the sofa, basking in the sun, and read from the side On the coffee table, he took out a pen and carefully analyzed the piano score.

In the past few days, apart from giving lessons to others, he spent most of his time analyzing music scores.

When he was in college, he actually didn't have many opportunities to analyze music scores. Because he was anxious to complete the work, most of the works were just listened to the teacher's explanations, and then he followed the teacher's ideas and combined them with his own ideas when listening to the master's recordings. , resulting in an understanding.

This kind of understanding cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said...

It's not entirely his. In fact, all these understandings are the teacher's understanding, or the master's understanding. They are not his, and he is just following what others say.

This also leads to the fact that many of his works are stuck in the intermediate stage between beginners and experts. Without his own thinking, it is impossible for his works to move from beginners to experts.

Now, he has more time, and he doesn't have to be too anxious and rush the schedule, so he has so much time in this place to carefully think about the interpretation of music.

Time passed quickly at the tip of the pen, the sky was getting late, and the light was no longer enough to illuminate his music score.

He Shen raised his head and looked at the street lights on the side of the road that turned on at the same time. He suddenly realized that the day had just passed by like this, and he felt a little dazed for a moment.

He stood up and walked to the door of the piano room, turned on the light in the piano room, and let the gentle yellow light shine on the music score again.

Just when he was about to go back and read the piano score, the system, which had not made any noise for who knows how long, suddenly made some noise again.

【bite! Congratulations to the host, romanticism, advanced, successfully entered Lv6, professional level]

Expertise level?

He Shen's eyes widened slightly and he was stunned for a moment.

How could he actually reach the level of professionalism in romanticism just by checking for omissions and filling in the gaps?

this……

No feeling at all...

He Shen scratched his head, took out a lollipop from his pocket, calmed himself down, and then lay down on the sofa, looking at the system panel in front of him, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Just like that... it was a matter of course, reaching the professional level directly?

He Shen touched the non-existent beard on his chin, his mind filled with doubts.

When you learn the professional level, shouldn’t you feel instantly enlightened? Why does it feel like it has no impact at all? Just so ordinary and unremarkable, promoted to the professional level?

He Shen said to the system.

"System, has my romantic music... really reached the professional level?"

[Level query in progress...The query was successful. Your Romanticism level is Lv6, and your current level is Specialization level. 】

"Are you really sure? My romance level is expert level? Not entry level?"

[Your Romanticism level is Lv6, and your current level is Specialization level. 】

He Shen checked it two or three times in a row. After confirming that he was not mistaken, he couldn't help but scratch his head.

This feels too futile, reaching the expert level directly without feeling any excitement at all.

but……

He Shen looked at the pile of musicians under his romantic period works and couldn't help but sigh.

It is relatively easy to upgrade from the entry level to the expert level, but it is difficult to upgrade from the expert level to the master level.

A few of my master-level works basically can't reach too many levels, and they can only raise a little bit if they are enough.

The farther back you go, the harder it is to pull.

So the question is, the average level is Lv8, are there such strong people in this world?

He Shen thinks there shouldn't be...

[Ding, we found romantic music, ranked first in the world, anonymous, works from the Romantic period, level Lv9; works from the Baroque period, level Lv7 (132 people); works from the classical period, level Lv8 (37 people), works from the modernism period , Level Lv6 (not displayed)]

"???"

Hey, that's too much. I haven't even asked yet, and you're going to attack your self-confidence?

He Shen looked helpless, sighed, and waved his hand at the panel in front of him, intending to keep it out of sight and not let it disturb his state of mind.

Romantic Music finally broke through from Level 5 to Level 6, and the result looks like this...

It seems like there are none in the top 1,000 in the world?

I really don’t know where so many perverts come from. I just put them here to make the list...

Just when He Shen picked up the pen and prepared to continue analyzing the music score, the system spoke again.

【bite! The system monitoring passed and confirmed that the host’s current romantic music level is: Lv6. If it reaches the professional level, the host will be rewarded]

[Reward 1: Lottery wheel: 5 times]

[Reward 2: Pure and professional-level works, choose any group. 】

[A group is defined as: works of the same type under the name of the same composer. 】

He Shen was stunned again. He didn't know whether this review was because he had asked several questions in a row before, or was it for some other reason?

But no matter what... I actually got so many rewards!

Especially this one...

He Shen looked at the reward at the end, which was reward two.

Choose any group of rewards, professional-level works!

This means... I can choose other works under Chopard's name?

He Shen looked at the work he was holding in his hand and fell into deep thought for a moment.

If you need to use this item, which one should you choose that is most suitable and cost-effective?

Several options immediately emerged in He Shen's mind.

First of all, the works that I want to choose are naturally those that I have not studied yet, so I have to exclude Chopin's ballades, preludes, and concertos here.

As for the remaining nocturnes, since I only learned one, there are still more than twenty that can be used completely to make myself proficient in all nocturnes.

But...is it really worth it?

If you look at the direction of future career development, no matter what you choose, it is worth it. Even if you choose works that have reached the master level, it is still worth it.

After all, one is from a first-person perspective to see how Chopin interprets these works, while the other is from a third-person perspective to see how Chopin teaches others to play his works.

This one is completely different!

Of course, if he were asked to choose now and use this master-level work to give this master-level work a professional-level experience book, he would definitely not be willing to do so. This is completely unnecessary.

As for whether Chopin's nocturne is worth it, in fact it is the same as other master-level works. He has already used a master-level work, the nocturne of Chopin Op9 and No2.

Therefore, he has a general idea for other nocturnes. They are basically played for friends at night parties, and there is basically no other particularly important information.

Therefore, now he only has a few works left to choose from.

There are three piano sonatas by Chopin. This is a very important work and can be used as an alternative.

Chopin's four scherzos and six fantasies are all very exquisite works.

Chopin's fifty-five mazurkas, ten polonaises, fourteen waltzes, and four improvisations are all small works composed of emotional forms.

After seeing the fifty-five mazurkas, He Shen really wanted to choose this piece. After all, there are so many pieces...

It can be regarded as the largest number of works.

However, he still held back and looked at all the works in front of him.

According to the classification, these works can be divided into three categories, and the three serious sonatas are counted as one category.

Scherzo and Fantasia are considered one category, and they are larger works written in free form.

Finally, mazurkas, polonaises, waltzes, and impromptu can all be counted as one category, small musical forms.

So what should you choose?

He Shen gave priority to excluding the sonata. If he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely need to use his master-level memory for this thing. This is a particularly important work and must not be taken lightly.

So, what are some works that are relatively simple and applicable, especially helpful to me in the future?

He Shen looked at the Scherzo and Fantasia, they were very exquisite, but...

One thing to say is that this overlaps with the ballade, so it is naturally important. However, it is not particularly necessary to produce this piece immediately. I have a ballad in front of me, which can be used for a long time.

Then, the options for me now should be Mazurka, Polonaise, Waltz, and Impromptu.

He Shen thought about it and ruled out Mazurka and Impromptu, because these two things are not very practical.

There are too many Mazurkas. If he really wants to master all the works, he must spend a lot of time.

If he suddenly gets another prompt that he is not strong enough and cannot use them, and can only save them temporarily, then he will curse his mother!

And Impromptu, this thing is obviously improvised. Although there are thoughts and rewrites, the most important and core idea is still improvisation.

You can learn improvisation accompaniment from improvisation, but the kind of improvisation of purely original classical music melody...

It is basically impossible.

So, now there are only Polonaise and Waltz in front of me.

So should I choose Polonaise or Waltz?

He Shen looked directly at Polonaise without any hesitation.

With Polonaise, what other Waltz should I choose? There are many famous works in Polonaise!

For example... Military Polonaise (dance music)!

So...

He Shen looked at the system and said.

"Use the pure-level specialized work group, the work selection is Chopin, Polonaise"

"Also known as, Polonaise!"

[Ding! Successfully used! ]