52. Inspiration and ideas from masters
‘An experienced teacher or performer can replace another fingering with one fingering if needed.’
‘But before this, a complete firm finger state is required, and certain etudes must be played in all tones with a fingering.’
‘For example, when playing Cherny’s etude in different tones, you will encounter difficulties in converting various black and white keys. This not only can improve the toughness of each finger and learn to make your fingers react quickly when encountering new combinations, but on the other hand, you can strengthen your listening.’
Playing Cherny's etude on different tones, just think about it, there is a thin layer on the back of Ang Lee's neck...
As Beethoven's most proud disciple, Cherny was not only a piano composer.
He wrote countless piano etudes throughout his life, which was the basic textbook for countless piano players to practice over the past two hundred years.
His status is to build a solid bridge between Beethoven's era and modern piano performance.
His disciple Liszt inherited his mantle, blossomed and scattered leaves, and later dominated the European piano circle for nearly eighty years.
It can be said that every piano player today is a student of Cherny.
"Play Cherny's etudes on different tones."
This is too bold and imaginative.
It is worthy of being a character who can create a branch of the genre with just one person.
Turn pages.
Um?
Ang Lee was stunned and couldn't move.
Um.
"Thank you for your advice."
He got out of bed and moved around the house. At this moment, he was not sleepy at all. He thought that it would be great if there was a piano at home.
At this point, Ang Lee not only found a solution to his thumb, but also had a practice idea for the clip of the black and white keys.
He has been stuck at this stage for two years.
Over the past two years, he has tried various ways of improving, and has performed a lot of exercises like a headless fly. Except for the increase in his personal music library, his actual performance level has not been significantly improved.
Now that he has a new goal, he sees a new direction
The moment he just found that the page could not turn, a moment of insecurity flashed through his heart, just like you just started learning with a good teacher, and the teacher suddenly disappeared in a blink of an eye.
But then I think about it. Life is not like this. On the road ahead, every step is full of unknowns.
At least for the next half year, he already knew how to practice.
When he came to the living room window, Ang Lee opened Samir's notes and read them again.
In the bedroom separated by a wall, Chen Xuan turned off the Legend of Zhen Huan and turned on Breaking Bad.
After watching her for a while, she changed to a good voice.
After watching the Voice for a while, she changed to Friends again.
Friends looked at her for a while and she put down her cell phone and went to the living room for sit-ups.
After sweating heavily, she took a shower and returned to bed, she picked up her phone again.
She found that the melons on Weibo were no longer fragrant today.
I can't watch the drama I used to like today.
So she chose to dry her hair and sleep.
But when she closed her eyes, she wanted to get up and find something to do.
But I don't know what else I can do.
She originally wanted to go out with Sun Yuman for a crazy time, but when she stepped on her high heels, she realized that there was no such thing in her bones.
After dragging her shoes back to the bed, she picked up her phone, and she opened the Legend of Zhen Huan again.
She never thought she was so unsuccessful.
...
A brand new day came quietly. Before dawn, Ang Lee got up from the bed like a chicken blood.
I sat in a pot to boil water, washed my face and brushed my teeth with boiling water, boiled the water and slurped the noodles, used the time I cooked the noodles and shoveled cat food for 80,000 yuan, and put the cat cake.
A bowl of Lao Gan Ma noodles started his day.
I thought I was the first person to arrive downstairs at 7:30, but I walked into the hall and found that Xu Nana was already waiting for the elevator.
"It's so early Teacher Li."
"It's better for Teacher Xu." Ang Lee knew that Xu Nana's home was far away.
Due to the office distance, the two of them had basically no communication and were now competitors with very subtle rankings, so they didn't say anything in the elevator.
After leaving the elevator, the piano sound came from the teaching area on the west side.
"It seems that there are earlier." Xu Nana smiled and turned around and said a word, then walked towards the east office.
Ang Lee also quickly came to his classroom.
I started practicing with Lin Pengfei next door.
Starting from the C major scale, Ang Lee no longer consciously imposes consciousness into every finger today, but lets ten fingers run by themselves.
After careful observation for an hour, he found that running his entire wrist in this state seemed to be liberated, and the sound really sounded a little more natural.
But problems arise, and fingers will lose control from time to time.
After practicing the scale for another hour, after careful observation, he found that the fingers that often lost control were the index finger of the left hand, the thumb and ring finger of the right hand.
After confirming the problem with these three fingers, Ang Lee turned on the phone to record the recording and began to specialize in training the three fingers just like he once taught Ji Yang to keep looping and repeating.
From today to tomorrow, his goal is to find out whether this practice method is effective.
If it works, he will continue to strengthen according to this method and re-establish the muscle memory of these three fingers.
If it is invalid, he will find another way.
This is the process of finding practice methods. Even if you already know the root of the problem, you still have to rely on yourself to explore the solution. Even the method the teacher tells you may not be completely suitable for you.
As long as the general direction is ensured, all that is left is a matter of time.
Can anyone sit in front of the piano and practice scales all day at 60 beats?
Lin Pengfei believes that only fools and his German professors will do such things.
But in his opinion, Ang Lee is definitely not a fool, so he was eager to know why he would go to the stage the night after tomorrow, but Ang Lee spent his time on this matter at this critical moment.
He is not the only one who doesn’t understand, including Chen Xuan, Zhang Youwei and Ding Jie from the west teaching area.
Today, Chen Xuan has reviewed all four level 10 etudes to the point of memorizing the score. Although she doesn't want to think of Ang Lee, she can't pretend to be inaudible by the two of them just across the wall.
From the perspective of her colleague, she wanted to remind Ang Lee that sometimes she should not be too stubborn when practicing the piano.
Of course, she just said this in her heart.
However, they didn't know how happy Ang Lee was to sit in front of the piano today.
So when class was held on Saturday, Ang Lee's class changed a little.
The first lesson of Wang Xiaohu.
"Come to Xiaohu, the teacher will play with you today."
Of course, Wang Xiaohu was happy if someone was willing to accompany him. The teacher and student practiced together. Li continued to experience the feeling of learning to walk again while talking.
"Teacher, why are you playing slower and slower?"
"I'm not slow, it's because you're running too fast in this sixteenth note. Xiaohu, remember that whether we sing or playing any instrument, we must establish a concept of speed in our minds, and count the beats and sounds with me."
“1—2—3—4—”
Chapter completed!