Cheng Xiaoyu's bedroom is on the second floor of the villa next to the door, and underneath is the billiard room where Aunt Zhou promised to be his piano room. Cheng Xiaoyu took off his clothes when he entered the bedroom and planned to take a good bath. The simple bathroom in the special care ward obviously cannot accommodate those with slight germaphobia.

He was satisfied. The bathroom was quite luxurious and fully equipped. Cheng Xiaoyu lay in the bathtub with a massage system, feeling comfortable until he was ****. He soaked for half an hour until the skin on his body turned red and his fingertips wrinkled.

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Opposite the bathroom is the cloakroom. The spacious cloakroom is empty and there are not many clothes. As an otaku, I am not very particular about it. Apart from pajamas and school uniforms, there are only a few sportswear and a few black T-shirts.

Cheng Xiaoyu dried his hair, looked in the mirror and couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know how long it would take him to lose weight. He casually put on a pair of blue sweatpants, took a black T-shirt and put it on, then went downstairs to look at Su Yuxi's piano.

Go to the room.

As a music director, he is good at guitar, bass, and drums. He was also the lead singer and lead guitar of the band. The name of Cheng Xiaoyu's band is Roaring Plastic Bottles (Roaring Plastic Bottles). The music style is similar to that of the Xin Band. It is pop rock, barely considered powermetal (

Power Metal).

His own voice is relatively high-pitched and loud, and he can sing everything he loves to death, such as farewell songs, etc. effortlessly. In his heart, he loves RNB-type songs. He once devoted himself to studying black singing methods and achieved some success.

Another Time and Space Since the 1930s, black singing has continued to influence and integrate with white music until the 1990s. It can be roughly divided into two types. One is the singing method that still maintains most of the traditional black characteristics. The representative figure is Brian

McKnight, BoyzIImenRKelly, is characterized by a concentrated and delicate voice, with great alternation between closing and closing. He doesn’t like to use vibrato, and his voice is flat to avoid being associated with the “atmospheric, shocking” emotions that are common in white operas.

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Secondly, there are many representatives of the improved black singing model that is heavily colored by white music. The familiar ones are MJ, who was influenced by white hard rock singing, and Hao Ge, the acupoint singer on Avenue of Stars who was influenced by white opera singing. They are both

It maintains the movements of some black people's vocal cords, and at the same time focuses on absorbing the white people's use of cavity resonance and vocal transmission channels. The second singing method is characterized by huge sound energy, which is suitable for singing large-scale stage drama music and opening ceremony music.

This singing method in turn influenced a group of white singers, such as David Phelps.

Cheng Xiaoyu's timbre conditions forced him to choose the second singing method. At the moment, he didn't want to try his current voice. Instead, he couldn't wait to see how far the otaku's piano skill attributes were improved. In the previous life, Cheng Xiaoyu was very interested in piano.

He doesn't have much exposure and is a novice in classical music who only listens to popular pianos. The classical pianos that can only be appreciated in concert halls are really out of reach for him.

Cheng Xiaoyu walked into the piano room and found that his heartbeat was a little fast. He looked around. Although the piano room had most of the glass structure, it was obviously not ordinary glass. Not to mention the thickness, there were three layers, 2

The mezzanine is still vacuum, so sound insulation will definitely be no problem.

Cheng Xiaoyu closed the door. The bookshelf on the right side of the door was filled with music scores. He glanced over at random and saw Czerny, Bach, Bugmueller, Clementi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Liszt, Beethoven,

There are also Chopin's works. Cheng Xiaoyu walked to the white Steinway placed in the center, with Debussy's Moonlight on it, which Su Yuxi had obviously practiced recently.

Opening the cover of the piano, his butt rested on one third of the leather sofa bench, he straightened his upper body, and placed his feet near the pedals. Cheng Xiaoyu took a deep breath, and gently swept the black and white piano keys with his right hand, sending coolness like steel beads to the piano.

The ding-dong-dong sound on the ice echoed in his ears, and these familiar jumping notes made Cheng Xiaoyu feel extremely warm.

The reason why the piano is called the king of musical instruments is not only because it is the largest instrument with the most complex internal structure. A good modern piano is not only a beautiful and elegant work of art, it also has a sound range as wide as the sea, such as

The acoustic quality is as beautiful and pure as the sky, and the rhythm is as accurate and stable as time.

The modern piano has the widest range of musical instruments at all times and at home and abroad. It has 88 black and white keys, like 88 naughty elves that move lightly and have their own characteristics. The wide range of the modern piano completely encompasses the keys used in music.

The entire musical system. To put it simply, it can not only be used to play classical music. (The musical form and style of classical music are relatively complex in terms of technique and harmonic system. And other musical instruments, especially ethnic instruments, are

The range of the sound range is too small. For example: Guzheng has only five notes: 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. The range is not wide enough.) Folk songs, popular songs, alternative jazz, blues and other styles of music can all be played on the piano.

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Not only can it be played, but it can also be matched harmoniously with other musical instruments. Whether it is symphony, folk music, even rock or Peking opera, it can be seamlessly integrated into it. This is why it is called the "King of Musical Instruments".

That means you can play almost all music in the world.

If this alone is not enough to win the title of king, the most important point is that the piano is the easiest to express musical emotions, such as joy, liveliness, cheerfulness, excitement, sadness, and anger. But this is not the case for other instruments.

It's more difficult to get up.

In fact, the piano is not an instrument that requires talent. In fact, as long as you have enough IQ and persistent practice, you can reach a certain height. Instead, it is the innate physical conditions, mainly the size of the hands and the length of the fingers, that play a critical role in performing difficult music.

Classical piano repertoire has a greater impact. But if you want to become a master, hard work alone is not enough. You also need sufficient music appreciation skills, analytical skills and a strong sense of music to open up the road to master promotion. Cheng Xiaoyu does not have a

He has a heart to become a master. For him, his short-term goal is to pass the piano test to get into the theater, and his long-term goal is to play difficult songs such as "The Memory of Don Juan" and just get a B.

Debussy's "Moonlight" probably belongs to level 9 in the piano repertoire. It is not very demanding in terms of fingering skills to play it, but to play the soft keys and fine control of timbre and dynamics, it is far from level 9.

It can be achieved at level 9. Although this is a level 9 piece, to perform it smoothly and express an ethereal artistic conception, it must be at least performance level B. Cheng Xiaoyu's innate conditions are very good, with big palms and slender fingers.

Just looking at these hands is really beautiful, and looking up, you can see two plump lotus roots, which are white and fat, which is really pleasing to the eye.

Now Cheng Xiaoyu can play the relatively unfamiliar moonlight piece without reading the music score. The original Cheng Xiaoyu could not do it. The otaku who started practicing piano at the age of four and the music director who started playing guitar at the age of 12 are very familiar with music.

His understanding ability is not simply one plus one, but a wonderful chemical reaction. Not only has his musical perception and memory improved, but now his ears have also been upgraded to the monitoring level, which is particularly important for a musician.

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Since he had not practiced the piano for a long time, Cheng Xiaoyu felt that his hands were a little tight and he could not express the picture of silence and moonlight freely and smoothly. To handle a piece of music like Moonlight well, it not only requires repeated practice and comparison, but also more

It pays attention to the performance of different dynamics in music, and the most important thing about Moonlight Song is that when playing, the fingers need to be very close to the keys, or even only lift the keys halfway, giving people a continuous feeling, even in the quiet background

The same weak and delicate melody lines are highlighted in the background.

Cheng Xiaoyu's current strength is that he knows where he doesn't play well enough and where he needs to improve. There is no doubt that this is a golden finger-like skill and an extremely powerful R skill. This is better than the smooth popping of the moonlight song.

He is excited.

After playing Moonlight, he felt like he had entered a favorite game, constantly climbing up the difficulty level, from Chopin's Revolutionary Etude to Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata to Liszt's Transcendental Etude Majeppa, constantly testing himself.

What are the limits of your fingers?

Cheng Xiaoyu, who was engrossed in his concentration, didn't pay attention to the passage of time at all. He was completely immersed in a world of his own. Until he stumbled through the Harmony of the Night, this piece was not the most difficult among Liszt's virtuoso etudes, but it was the most difficult.

The physically demanding song made Cheng Xiaoyu feel like he was shattering the void, stepping on the moon and soaring. He was sweating all over and felt that the two of him were merging together. He no longer had the confusion of doubting whether he had a split personality, and he felt more relaxed.

The joy was like the excitement of playing League of Legends from gold to platinum, and then directly to diamond. He completely failed to notice that his sister Su Yuxi opened the door to the piano room when he finished playing the last note of Harmony of the Night.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know that the person in the family whom he least dared to offend had quietly stood behind him, twisted his fat waist, and began to play the most famous song in the Sky City, Moonlight: Sea of ​​Clouds. He had already tried it.

With the classical piano skills of the otaku, I now want to see if the skills of the music director can be added with piano attributes. The music director Cheng Xiaoyu has only played the guitar version of Moonlight: Cloud Sea. Guitar tabs and piano tabs are definitely not the same concept, but he has also heard it

The piano version of Moonlight No Sea, so he planned to play it according to his own improvised arrangement. Moonlight No Sea is a classic work by Joe Hisaishi. Among popular pianos, it is second to none in terms of melodiousness. However, it is difficult to play in terms of difficulty.

It's hard to mention. Cheng Xiaoyu wanted to use this piece of music to soothe his tense nerves, so he played it particularly freely.

He closed his eyes, and his hands jumped smoothly on the black and white keys. When the gentle melody slowly floated out from the piano, it seemed as if he was carrying his thoughts and flew to the sky like a light blue velvet curtain. The melancholy girl followed the warm words.

The wind blew the bagpipe in his hand, while the lost child in the distance looked at the bright moonlight but could not find his way home. This slow sadness is so profound and so intoxicating. The more than four-minute tune is flawless.

Taking people into the sea of ​​stars and experiencing a lonely journey. Cheng Xiaoyu exhaled, very satisfied with the effect of this piece of music.

Before I had time to reflect carefully, there was a sudden burst of applause in my ears.

Cheng Xiaoyu suddenly realized it, and immediately stood up, picked up the sofa and stool and jumped a little, making a squeaking sound when it rubbed against the wooden floor.

When he turned back, the setting sun happened to fall into the scope of the glass bay window, and the orange afterglow suddenly filled most of the piano room, making Cheng Xiaoyu a little dazed. He saw Su Yuxi's slender shadow, and then

She saw the white lace window screen swaying gently, as if a breeze blew through the piano room and blew her long navy blue hair.

"What's the name of this song?" This was the first thing she said to him.

"City in the Sky, a song about dreams and destruction." This was the first sentence he said to her.

Then the slowly flowing sunlight stopped. In the icy embers of sunset, he saw a pair of touching eyes.
Chapter completed!