It's not just Jiang Ruijia who is wavering, but people in other countries are also wavering.

Classical music lovers in many places have watched the preliminaries of the Chopin International Piano Competition and have a general understanding of many players, what they look like and what their level is.

After all, we are all adults, and our level will basically not change significantly until the competition.

The middle six months are actually more for the Chopin Organizing Committee to conduct a pre-competition rehearsal and the like, rather than for the players to practice.

Everyone’s understanding of other players also came from the preliminaries a long time ago.

As a result, now, everyone's ideas have been completely shattered.

No one thought that Japan would actually release the performance videos of all the players.

Moreover, among the twelve contestants, more than ten contestants had obvious changes in their knowledge of Chopin and their piano skills.

The remaining two players have not changed significantly, but it can be seen that they have made a little progress.

Many people were instantly confused. They originally thought that at this level they should be able to advance to the third round and get medals and certificates to show off, but now it seems that the possibility is getting smaller and smaller.

Almost all of the Japanese players have evolved, and you still don’t know if they were hiding tricks before or if they have really improved so much.

If it were a hidden move, it would actually be okay. If you work hard, you might be able to catch up.

But if it is true that so much progress has been made in these two months...

The hearts of those players suddenly became cold. If those people really improved so much, then they wouldn't have to think about what happened after the first round.

Because it is entirely possible for these Japanese players to continue to improve. Maybe the top 20 players, that is, the players in the third round, can enter nearly ten Japanese players?

And you must know that East Asian monster houses are not only Japan, but also China and South Korea.

As for South Korea, it has been a long time since they got a relatively good ranking in the Chopin International Piano Competition. This year they said they would send all their outstanding players to study with top players to learn their techniques and understanding of Chopin.

It's impossible to be that bad in terms of ability in international piano competitions.

They are definitely making progress.

Although China is the weakest among the three East Asian countries, you must know that in recent international piano competitions, more and more Chinese players have begun to show stronger and stronger strength, and even won other top international piano competitions.

Piano competition champion player.

Their classical music education will never be weak, and they will definitely improve during this period of time.

I just don’t know the extent of progress.

But looking at the situation in Japan, the extent of progress of those people is simply terrifying. China and South Korea should not be much different, right?

In that case... the information obtained during the previous qualifiers, especially the information about the three East Asian countries, may be completely invalid!

For a time, the Chopin International Piano Competition contestants from various countries in Europe and the United States, especially those who already knew that they had entered the first round, became extremely worried.

They also began to look for top teachers to prepare for further tutoring to see if they could make a little progress in the final time.

Many of them have already gone to other places to hold concerts and rest, and some are even preparing to go on vacation at sea. After all, most of them have been consolidating their own skills in six months, and how many people can make progress, so instead of

If you keep practicing, it is better to relax your mind.

If the string remains tight, it will definitely break, so proper rest is also necessary.

As a result, as soon as they relaxed a little, news came from Japan that they might be directly eliminated, and now everyone became anxious.

As for those vacationing on the sea... it's miserable.

Even the signal on the sea is very poor. The distance from the mainland is not far enough for sightseeing helicopters to fly back. Even if they go to the islands, it is impossible for those tourist islands to build an airport specifically for them.

For a while, the group of players who were on vacation could only wait for the next landing with a wry smile on their faces, and then take the car to the big city to return to their hometown to practice.

Or just set up a piano studio in a big city to practice.

For a time, there were cries of mourning everywhere, and everyone was exhausted mentally and physically by the news from Japan.

Jiang Ruijia sat cross-legged on a stool and watched more and more comments. Many people were arguing about the gap between Chinese players and Japanese players. The entire live broadcast room became chaotic, but she became calmer and calmer.

She rubbed the list of contestants that had been rearranged in her hand, looked at the names on it, and spoke softly.

"I originally thought there would be 14 Japanese players, but now only 12 Japanese players have entered. There are far fewer people from Japan than I expected."

"However, it is still within the normal range of reason."

"This year's Chopin International Piano seems to have changed a little bit from previous years' Chopin International Piano. This change only occurred after the 14th edition, that is, after 2000, and it has become more and more prominent and strange.

, it wasn’t until this year that it became extremely sharp.”

"From Li Diyun in 2000, Li Diyun should be the talented Chopin player with the strongest personal style and the strongest level of ability. He is not particularly good at playing in a regular manner. Every time he performs, his strength is very stable. He

It’s more of a genius’ flash of inspiration, depending on one’s own condition.”

"In the year 2000, his condition was extremely good, which also allowed him to develop his personal style to the extreme. For various reasons, he became the most powerful Chopin International Piano Competition champion that year, and he did so with an almost

Run over them in a crushing way."

"But after 2000, the feeling of Chopin changed. Those top teachers taught them more and more pure Chopin than Chopin. It was necessary for the performer's personal feeling, but it was not that good.

need."

"With each year's changes, the judges pay more and more attention to Chopin's feelings, but not to the performers themselves. I originally thought that the percentage should be about half and half, but I didn't expect that from Japan,

Judging from the ratio of players advancing, the feeling should be...seven to three, paying attention to Chopin is seven, and paying attention to the performer himself is three."

"This should be the last year, and it should also be the most critical year for those judges who want to see the players' abilities fully demonstrated."

"If this year's champion is still a pure Chopin player and not a real pianist, then... these judges will change their minds and will not continue to choose the performer, but choose the second Chopin.

, and will become more and more extreme, wanting to find a second person who can truly represent Chopin."

Jiang Ruijia's expression became calm. She was completely immersed in her own world and forgot about the live broadcast.

After all, what she felt from the Japanese players was very different from what she thought, so she was extremely worried about how far the Chinese players could go.

The mainstream direction of the Chopin International Piano Competition has changed. If you continue to follow the previous method, it will only become more and more difficult, and even the players who clearly have the ability to stand in the last step will fall early in the third round.

Even beyond the second round.

Unless their strength can overwhelm everyone.

But here comes the problem...

Nowadays, piano teaching methods are becoming more and more integrated, especially those players from beautiful countries. Their piano playing methods are almost a fusion of the three major piano methods in the world.

The German-Austrian School, the Russian School, and the French School.

The teachers of Meiliguo have absorbed the characteristics of the three major music schools, reorganized and integrated them, and constructed a Meiliguo teaching method that is independent of the three major music schools, but also subordinate to the three major music schools.

The fusion of this situation has brought about the closeness of many players' abilities. In fact, the professional level of everyone is not much different, and their basic skills are also very similar, and they can all be seen through.

Even the difference between the worst basic skills and the best basic skills is still within the acceptable range.

This also makes the possibility of defeating everyone purely through basic skills almost non-existent.

Your players with the best basic skills, that is, the people in Fu Tiao's batch, if they purely discuss their basic skills, their scores may be one or two points higher than those of the group with the lowest scores.

This one or two points can be made up for elsewhere.

For example...

Jiang Ruijia focused on the last item in the status column of her player list.

On the feeling of Chopin.

If the feeling of Chopin is strong, then their level strength can be used to be more in line with the feeling of Chopin, so that the judges and teachers can score higher to make up for the gap of one or two points, instead of being completely incapable of fighting.

Of course, if you are weak in any of the categories, then you should take more rest. After all, the judges' preference cannot be exclusively for you, they only have a preference in a certain aspect.

But if you say so.

Jiang Ruijia glanced upward and nodded silently.

If those judges put Chopin's feeling first, then their demands for music's beauty and personal expression would be lower, and their demands would no longer be as abnormal as before.

In that case...

Jiang Ruijia's finger gradually moved from the top of her list, the player Zhao Chengzhen from South Korea, to the bottom of the list, Fu Diao, who was very far back, and her expression became extremely solemn.

If you look at it this way, Fu Tiao's advantage will be reduced, while Zhao Chengzhen's advantage will be infinitely expanded.

Not only that, but so does Aimi Kobayashi, and so do some players from Poland.

As for those who have the ultimate sense of beauty in music and want to express a little bit of their own ideas, their advantages will be greatly reduced.

You must know that there is not much difference between Fu Tiao's basic skills and Zhao Chengzhen's basic skills. The two people represent two completely different directions.

There was too much ego in Fu Tiao's music, so Jiang Ruijia sent Fu Tiao a lot of messages, hoping that Fu Tiao could restrain the ego in his music a little bit and let Chopin's feeling come out.

Recently, I have been listening to Fu Diao's music, and it is obvious that the Chopin feeling has come out a lot in Fu Diao's music. I have a little bit of Chopin's feeling, and I have made great progress.

But even so, Fu Tiao can still be regarded as the most outstanding player among all the people in music, focusing on self-expression.

Zhao Chengzhen is completely different. He is from the French school of music, and his music is extremely pure and pure. If you heard his music correctly, his music is actually a bit like the teacher in school, He Shen.

He Shen is also pure, but He Shen's purity is like a mirror, reflecting the purity of himself through Chopin.

The purity of Zhao Chengzhen is blank, like a blank sheet of paper, with nothing but Chopin.

This super sense of purity, coupled with Zhao Chengzhen's technique, and Zhao Chengzhen's agility in music.

Zhao Chengzhen's score jumped up, directly reaching the top of the Chopin ranking currently set by Jiang Ruijia.

Of course, Jiang Ruijia is just a simulated judge. She is not a judge of the competition and has no authority.

But from this place we can also see the terror in South Korea and Japan.

And China...

Jiang Ruijia became even more silent. She didn't know what to say for a while, especially when she saw the player she was originally optimistic about changing from a state of endless hope to a state that could be eliminated at any time.

This is because Fu Tiao has made great progress. It is obvious that if he were placed in the previous sessions, as long as there were no major problems with his performance, he could directly enter the final ten or even become the final six.
To be continued...