Chapter 195 Street Piano Battle

Although the stations in Paris are very messy and full of black people of different shades and thieves, to be honest, the overall artistic sense of Paris design is still very strong. If there were not so many black people and thieves, this station would be really special.

pretty.

The facilities inside also look very modern, which is very obviously different from the overall traditional feeling in Europe.

Fu Tiao and the other three walked towards the place where the sound of the piano was heard in the distance. Before they had gone far, they saw an upright piano placed next to the armrest. A group of people were surrounding it, smiling and looking at the people sitting on the piano bench.

Up that person's performance.

After the three of them walked up the stairs and arrived at the floor where the piano was, everything here became clearer.

This is a Yamaha upright piano of unknown model. There is an obvious paper bubble sign placed on the piano with the words "A VOUS DE JOUER" written on it.

"What does this mean?" Fu Diao looked at the two people around him.

Before the girl next to her said anything, Zhao Chengzhen explained directly: "The direct translation is up to you, but normally, we will translate it into it's your turn, it's your turn, which means here.

Just play casually, don’t worry about anything.”

"Um……"

Fu Tiao nodded thoughtfully and continued to look at the passerby who was playing in front of him.

This passer-by seems to be a professional pianist. From the perspective of Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen, this person has a very strong sense of dynamics on the piano. It is obvious that he has professional training in piano performance, and is not a professional pianist.

An ordinary passerby who plays well.

In fact, if you don't look at this person's hands, but just listen to the feeling of this person's playing, you can also find that his level and strength are very good.

First of all, his tone is very delicate. The transitions of phrases in music can be played very well on this occasion and on this piano. You can clearly hear all his thoughts about music and know that he wants to use music.

express something.

Secondly, in many places in the music, his hands are floating above the piano as if they are parallel and stationary. The feeling of each note falling is very clear and full of grain.

This graininess and finger movement are something that many ordinary practitioners may not be able to achieve even after years of practice. Many people even make their arms fly up and down when their fingers move. There seems to be no difference. The two are the same.

You can let the music run, but in reality the difference is huge.

It may be that if your arm flaps slightly up and down, the music in your hand will tremble, ruining the overall feeling of the music.

A layman doesn't feel anything, but an insider can hear it.

The in-depth study of countless details is the main reason why professional pianists are pianists, or even master-level figures, rather than ordinary music lovers.

As the last few chords fell, the pianist who was sitting on the piano bench waved his arm, and the applause of the passers-by around him instantly rang out, and everyone immediately cheered him loudly.

"Bravo!"

"Well played!"

"sharp!"

"..."

Although there may still be many differences compared to the performances you pay to listen to in concert halls, in this case, on this street piano, you are already very good if you can play it. Even if you play poorly, the audience will be very happy.

I applaud you cooperatively and support your performance.

Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen also applauded and supported the performer, and shouted a few words together with the surrounding audience. The performer who called was a little embarrassed, and scratched his head with a silly smile.

He walked aside and gave up his position.

After all, this is not his piano. He has been playing it for a long time before, so he has to let someone else play it.

If there is really no one around, he will continue going up.

Everyone around looked at each other, but no one moved. After a while, an old man came up and played a piece similar to a little star. It was very simple, but it also won encouraging praise from the audience.

Looking at all this, Fu Diao couldn't help but smile and said: "It feels like no matter who comes, the popularity will be about the same, and there won't be many changes."

"But the audience will definitely feel the difference in strength between the one playing in front and the one playing behind. If the performance is good, they will shout more excitedly."

Zhao Chengzhen couldn't help laughing as she spoke, then she suppressed her smile, took two steps forward, turned around and looked at Fu Diao, and said with a serious expression.

"So, do you want to do it again? Compete with me again? This time we will not play some classical works. There are too many details in classical works that cannot be expressed on this stage and this piano, so we will

Let’s compare improvisational works, popular works, and some modern works?”

"Are you sure?" Fu Tiao confirmed.

"Sure!"

"Since you are sure, there is no problem."

Fu Tiao nodded without any hesitation.

For him, it is not very difficult to play the piano temporarily, even if he does not use classical music.

Zhao Chengzhen was very happy to hear Fu Tiao's agreement. He turned to look at the piano, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

"That's fine if you agree. If that's the case, then I should go first, just like in the Chopin International Piano Competition before? Or do you want to go first?"

"I can do it, you decide."

"Then let me go first."

Before Zhao Chengzhen finished speaking, he had already turned around and walked towards the piano with a very handsome figure.

The girl next to him who came from Brussels with Fu Diao looked at Zhao Chengzhen with shining eyes.

To her, Fu Tiao is a god, and Zhao Chengzhen is an idol.

It's such a great feeling to see the showdown between idols and gods.

Although I feel that idols may not be able to defeat gods and will be easily crushed by gods, but...

This kind of knight charging towards the windmill like Don Quixote is so handsome!

"Zhao! Come on!"

She saw Zhao Chengzhen sitting on the piano bench and couldn't help but screamed excitedly.

Zhao Chengzhen, on the other hand, turned back to her with a very graceful smile, and then raised his hand.

It was not like in a concert hall where he raised his hand to tell everyone to be quiet, but the people around him who were watching looked at him with great curiosity and became much quieter.

Zhao Chengzhen didn't care about the noise.

That's how it is when playing on the street outside. Compared with the spiritual communication in the quiet environment of the concert hall, in this large environment, it is more about communication between oneself and oneself.

In this case, if you play some particularly slow works, such as the one played by the old lady just now, I don’t know the name, but it sounds a bit like the children’s song of Little Star, use this kind of work to attract other people, and

If Fu Tiao hits the front, he is simply asking for death.

Everyone is very busy. Those who come to this station to listen to the street piano are basically people rushing to catch the train.

This group of people don't go to a restaurant to eat or play on their mobile phones. They come here to listen to you play the piano not for enjoyment, but for fun and a place to relax.

So it is impossible for you to play some particularly slow pieces.

As for those fast works, such as some of Chopin's works, the texture of those works is relatively thin. There is no way to show the beauty of Chopin's music in this kind of space, and you also have no choice.

The best choice here is to play some familiar and light works.

Secondly, there are works of pure virtuosity type.

Therefore, Zhao Chengzhen did not hesitate too much and started to show off her skills directly.

After all, he is someone who has won a lot of championships. Even though he may not be able to beat the first-tier bastards, he is not bad either.

In particular, he did not participate in the tour after the competition. Instead, he went directly to the school to find a teacher to continue practicing. He analyzed his own weaknesses and Fu Tiao's strengths with the teacher, and kept learning and analyzing.

After working hard for so long, he still really didn’t believe that he couldn’t beat Fu Diao!

He looked around and thought for a moment, then immediately smacked down his fingers.

boom!

The huge roar of the chord directly shattered everyone's reverie and drew everyone's attention to him.

No one could have imagined that a piano could make such a loud roar.

Especially compared to the previous two people.

No matter it was the old lady or the professional pianist who played before, the sound they played was not as loud as Zhao Chengzhen's.

If it's just a noise, then that's it. After all, if a child breaks the piano, who doesn't know how to break it?

But at the same time, Zhao Chengzhen arranged many melody lines on his chords and constructed a very heavy musical texture.

The sound of his piano is not only loud, but also very heavy and continuous, standing like a mountain in front of everyone.

This feeling instantly attracted many idle spectators to walk towards his position.

Fu Diao's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly as he listened to Zhao Chengzhen's performance, and he nodded thoughtfully.

"This feels pretty good. Although the melody of the piece he played is relatively weak, or there is no sense of melody at all, his ability to control the musical texture is still good, and the overall arrangement is not in accordance with

Ordinary piano arrangement, but something a bit similar to a band or... organ arrangement?"

Fu Tiao looked at Zhao Chengzhen and commented casually.
To be continued...