After all, musical notes are not words and do not have literal meaning.

So if you want to play two notes to produce a sound effect with a logical relationship, you have to start with the hands of the player.

Before playing, the player must first clarify in his mind how to match the timbre and intensity of these two notes, that is, how to make a smooth transition from the word "you" to the word "good".

This process requires the player to control the strength of the fingertips and the speed of pressing the keys.

Only when you have done both can you make this statement clear.

In order to give Xiaobei a more concrete understanding, Ang Lee gave an example on the piano.

"When we first came into contact with the piano, most of us did one thing."

As he spoke, he rubbed the back of his hand from the bass range to the treble range of the keyboard, producing a rapid and even sequence of ascending notes.

"Zhao Qin, have you ever played it?"

Xiaobei shook his head.

Li An: "....Haha, it doesn't matter, you can give it a try now."

"Pay attention to keeping your shoulders and arms relaxed during the entire process, allowing the back of your hands to slide horizontally at a uniform speed without any obstruction, without stopping at any point in the middle."

After Xiaobei finished doing it, he found that the sound produced by the piano was the same as that of the teacher, and his face was filled with excitement.

Ang Lee asked: "Does it feel like a complete sentence?"

Xiaobei: "Yes!"

Ang Lee explained: "Because of the action of wiping the piano, the weight our arms exert on the keys and the speed of the key drop are even and smooth, and the center of the hand is also transferred evenly."

As he spoke, his speaking speed became slower and slower.

This is crucial. If Xiaobei can digest this, then he can continue.

What follows is the core content.

Suddenly, a line of small blue characters floated in front of Li An's eyes [Teaching point 1 from Xiaobei]

Xiaobei: "Teacher, can I imagine two connected notes as the scratching keys between the two notes?"

bingo!

Li An snapped his fingers and said, "Correct."

It was unexpectedly easy, and Li An continued to talk while the iron was hot.

"So when we play two-note slurs, the drop-lift movement also requires the wrist and arm to move laterally in a relaxed state."

"It requires a lateral movement of the center of gravity, which can largely compensate for the imbalance in the force of our keys and better achieve the feeling of even transition between the two notes."

"When you can play evenly from one note to the second, your words will become clear."

There was a pause.

"Xiaobei, do you understand?"

Yu Xiaobei nodded vigorously and said: "I understand."

very good.

"Now, let's get back to how to use the drop technique in actual performance."

“Take the sounds from #dol to si as an example.”

As Li An said that, his right arm dropped, his middle finger landed on #dol, and a full "dang——" came out from the piano case.

"Drop your right arm and stand firm with your middle finger."

"The power of this movement comes from the natural hanging of the arm. You cannot deliberately exert downward force on the arm. The middle finger must stand firmly as a supporting finger."

"Then the wrists and arms drive the center of gravity to shift laterally, from #dol to si."

"It must be natural here, and you cannot press it with force deliberately. Just like the two legs when we walk, when the center of gravity of the left foot changes to the right foot, will we press hard?"

"We only need to stretch out our right foot, and then the center of gravity will naturally fall on the right foot."

Li An took advantage of the situation and placed his thumb on si, and let out another 'dang-' that was shorter than the previous one.

The space between the two piano sounds was as smooth as breathing. Li An raised his hand, and the final sound of si ended smoothly.

"The core of lifting is to place the center of gravity of the hand in front, move forward with the fingertips as the center of gravity, and at the same time raise the wrist, driving the fingertips to finally leave the keys."

"The fingertips finally leave the keys."

"The fingertips finally leave the keys."

"The fingertips finally leave the keys."

"Xiao Bei, remember this sentence to death, otherwise the Luoti will only become an external formal performance and will not be of any help to our smooth playing."

‘Teaching point 2 from Xiaobei’

Li An paused, "Then come on, Xiaobei."

Li An felt that it was almost done, although there was more to Luoti than that.

He did not expect Xiaobei to fully understand this technology through this lesson. Even if Xiaobei understood it, he would not be able to master it immediately.

He knew that what he said today would be repeated to Xiaobei countless times in the future. This is the job of the piano teacher.

Moreover, learning the piano is also a long process. Theory needs to be combined with practice to understand it, and effort needs to be accumulated bit by bit.

This is a gap that no one can cross.

Xiaobei's journey has just begun.

In the blink of an eye, most of the class had passed, and Xiaobei was practicing her new understanding of the falling technique in front of the piano.

Li An was not in a hurry to turn on the system, so he sat aside with a tea cup and stared.

I add 1 teaching point every now and then.

When class was about to end, he estimated that he had gained about 6 or 7 teaching points in this class.

Comparing Wang Xiaohu to Wang Xiaohu, Li An feels that Xiaobei is simply his lucky star.

It's just that he doesn't understand why Xiaohu's grasp of yesterday's class was no worse than Xiaobei's today, but why he didn't see any teaching points.

Let's wait and see what happens with Liu Fengrui's class.

"Xiao Bei, what day of the week will you finish the exam?"

"Teacher, we will finish the exam on Thursday afternoon."

"Come on, I wish you good grades. get out of class is over in five minutes. Let's practice some more. I guess you won't have time to play the piano again before the exam."

Li An said as he stood up and left.

"Old rule, knock on the door and get out of class."

Coming outside the classroom, Li An talked to Xiaobei's mother about the learning content of this class.

When he was saying, "In this class, I will teach Xiaobei about wrist lifting again," a trace of dissatisfaction flashed across Xiaobei's mother's face.

Xiaobei's mother is very concerned about her children's learning in various subjects. Regardless of in-class culture or extracurricular literacy, she follows the progress of each subject in real time.

In each class, Li An would explain to her in detail what the children had learned in that class, to what extent they had mastered it, how to practice it at home, and what to learn next.

This is also the reason why she was quite satisfied with Li An taking Xiao Bei from the beginning.

But recently, Xiaobei's piano lessons have been stuck on this issue of "falling off the hook". The previous teacher had never mentioned it, but with Ang Lee, it has become a big taboo.

For this reason, she also checked the information online.

There are different opinions about this "falling" technique. Some people say it is the most critical technique in piano playing, some say it is just a showpiece, and some say it is impossible to learn falling piano if you don't master it well.

Others say that although the drop technique is important, it is not necessary, and cite some world-class pianists who do not use the drop technique.

According to her plan, Xiaobei had to take the CET-3 exam during the summer vacation, which was why she didn't ask for leave before the end of the semester.

She doesn't want to slow down the progress of her child's exam by delaying her child's piano lessons.

But there was still one month left before the exam, and Xiaobei had not yet started learning music for Level 3, which made her a little anxious.

There is also some dissatisfaction.

But in the end, she resisted asking anything because Li An finally talked about the issues she was concerned about.
Chapter completed!