442. Blue Skirt Ye Yi and Fang Xiaoyu's Weekend Time
Perhaps this is the unique taste of great musicians.
Perhaps it was because Chopin understood women so well that he wanted to challenge some areas in which he was not good at.
Shen Qingci once commented on Chopin's works in a class - "Chopin's works are more delicate than any woman's heart."
Qin Jian still has some doubts about this even now. It may be because his understanding of women is far inferior to that of the other party.
But in his opinion, music still has to start from the notes, and the perspective provided by Shen Qingci is still biased towards an impressionistic description.
Of course, this is due to the fact that the other party is originally from the French school of piano.
However, Qin Jian also knew that his Chopin could not just stay at the current stage.
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The fourth day after returning home.
Teaching and Research Section 309, Huaguo Conservatory of Music.
Qin Jian has just finished the basic exercises in the morning. After three days of trying, he can now complete the octave double-note exercises from single notes to all modes in three hours according to the planned time.
Then he opened the track list for this Xiao Sai DVD audition.
He pondered for a moment.
"Change your mood today and start with the mazurka."
The next second.
The piano plays.
The air seemed to dance a gorgeous waltz in the joyful triple beat.
‘Mazurka in D Maior op33.no2’
Qin Jian's fingers are also dancing.
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Yes, 309 is now not only the place where Qin Jian practices piano, but also his living room.
It seems that this is also because the school is on holiday and the student apartments have been sealed.
After Shen Qingci got off the plane, he actually gave Qin Jian two options: go with him or go to the Tea Table Piano Studio.
Qin Jian felt uncomfortable in the former, but he felt comfortable in the latter, but it was too far from the school.
The art exam will be held in a few days, and he needs to accompany Fang Xiaoyu here to complete the exam.
Fortunately, he lived in 309, which could also meet his requirement of suddenly getting up to practice piano in the middle of the night.
The night he came back, he made a plan for the rest of his schedule.
Because the date for submitting the audition dv is February 20th, although there is still a month left, it involves New Year celebrations and recording issues.
According to the recording details required by the organizer, Shen Qingci's suggestion was to let him record it in Yanjing.
Whether it is the stage or recording equipment and recording technology, the advantages in Yanjing are definitely much greater than in Nanshi, and Qin Jian also knows this.
In addition, the Chinese New Year falls on February 19 this year, so to be on the safe side, Qin Jian plans to record the DVD ten days to a week in advance, so that he can go home early to spend time with his parents.
There are still one or two days left to accompany Fang Xiaoyu for the art test.
As a result, the time left for him to prepare for the audition DVD is only about 20 days.
These 20 days were not used by Qin Jian to prepare the songs for the DV audition. He had already prepared these five works as early as last year.
Qin Jian is absolutely sure of entering the preliminary round.
What he has to complete in these twenty days is not only daily practice and consolidation of the audition repertoire, but he also needs to use this time to select the repertoire that will go to Warsaw for the first round of preliminary competition in April.
After the New Year, school will start again.
Therefore, these twenty days belong entirely to him, and he must make full use of them.
When he participated in the Huayun Competition, his music library was shallow, so his focus could only be on how to cleverly arrange the order of the songs so that he could go through one more round and gain more adoration points.
When he participated in the Mozart Competition, he had done a lot of preparations, but his original intention was just to appreciate the elegance of strong foreign players.
After experiencing two large-scale competitions at home and abroad, and on this trip to Russia, where he witnessed the displays of academies from various countries, Qin Jian is now calm when facing the Chopin Competition, from his mentality to his music library and his performance skills.
Of course, all this is too early to say about the outcome of the game.
It’s just about Qin Jian’s state of play.
In other words, this is the first time that Qin Jian intends to face the Chopin Competition seriously and with a competitive attitude, which is known as the ultimate battlefield for pianists around the world and the Olympic Games in the music industry.
Even if it is a game, there must be tactics.
In this aspect, Shen Qingci taught Qin Jian a lot of experience.
The mobile judging system of Xiao Sai means that the selection of judges for each session is different, which also means that the tastes of the judges for each session are different.
The term ‘Chopin taste’ is unique to Warsaw.
Even every Warsawite has his or her own taste of Chopin, which I have to say is a unique cultural phenomenon in the piano world.
There are two situations that will occur in almost every Chopin Competition. The first is that in every competition, the seeded player who is predicted to be the favorite by the outside media is upset in the second or third round; the other is that in the competition
After the first few rounds of fighting, when entering the final round, there will always be one or two unknown dark horses.
This is the charm of Xiao Sai. No one dares to pat their chest and say that they will definitely advance to the finals, and a passerby may win the championship and be promoted to the international stage and become a well-known grand pianist.
Therefore, studying the judges’ appetites has become a necessary homework for every contestant before the competition.
Qin Jian agrees on this point, but he also has his own persistence, so he plans to choose two of the four songs in the preliminary round to perform in his own style, and try to 'show favor' to the Polish judges on the other two.'
In this way, he not only showed himself, but also left some good impressions on some key judges.
It's actually very easy to understand a judge's taste. You don't even need to attend his master class or lecture - you just need to listen to his performance.
A pianist's strength must be in his performance.
In the next twenty days, Qin Jian plans to spend six hours in addition to his normal practice time to study the works of these Polish performers and search for the most important information in music in their works.
Information about Polish music.
This kind of information may be his magic weapon to win at some point.
It is certainly not an easy task to summarize everyone's playing style and characteristics of their works. This requires the summarizer to have strong playing skills and ears.
It just so happened that Qin Jian already had both of these things.
Of course, this is just the first step of planning and preparation for the preliminary round, assuming that he has passed the audition.
In the Chopin Competition, including the audition rounds, contestants have to go through five rounds of tests if they want to reach the final round. It takes half a year from the audition to the final round.
So this is also a protracted battle.
Take it step by step, and if you are in the right direction, there is no need to worry.
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After finishing the morning practice, Qin Jian ate fried noodles at the school gate at noon and then returned to 309.
After an hour's lunch break.
He sat down in front of the piano, opened his laptop and continued listening to yesterday's concert.
The performer he was listening to at the moment was named - Andrzej.
A veteran judge of the competition.
The style is fast and the fingers are powerful.
Qin Jian listened to his Dongfeng theme passage over and over again, about 15 times, and then he stopped.
Then I imitated it on the piano.
"Sounds pretty good."
While playing, he recalled the other party's performance in his mind.
After playing the same passage, he picked up his notebook and started writing it down.