Second Piano Concerto

When Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou came to Liu'an, there were already many customers in the store. From a distance, they could see that the tables by the window were all occupied, and there were also many tourists coming and going by the stream outside the store.Tan Shuo got off the Xiaoxi Bridge and walked towards the gate of the coffee shop. Seeing this, Qin Haiou quickly gave him a hand and said, "Let's go in from the back." He pointed to the narrow alley next to the shop.

The two got into the alley, and Qin Haiou took out the key to open the small door in the backyard.This is the first time he has used this key outside of practicing the piano. After entering the door, he took a look and saw a clerk coming to the backyard with a tray of cups, so he greeted the clerk and said he would borrow some. Use the piano room.The guy knew that he had the key, so it was not surprising that he could appear in this place. In addition, Tan Shuo, a familiar face, was standing beside him, so he only exchanged a few words with them in a hurry and went to work on his own.

The two went straight into the piano room, Tan Shuo turned around and closed the door, opened the curtains to check whether the windows were closed tightly, then walked to the center of the room, raised his hands and clapped vigorously twice.Qin Haiou knew that he wanted to hear how the sound reflected in the room, so he quietly walked to the side and sat down, continuing to study the score in his hand.

Tan Shuo walked back and forth in the room, slapped a few more times, then sat down in front of the piano, opened the cover, played some chords, listened carefully with his ears up, and then moved from the low range to the high range. Played all the keys to check whether there are any damaged keys with abnormal sound. Finally, while playing, he stepped on the pedals below one by one to make sure that the pedals were fine, and finally said: "Let's record here!"

Seeing that he had come to a conclusion, Qin Haiou looked quite satisfied, so he got up and pointed to a place on the score and asked, "Do you want to connect or disconnect this place?"

This piece by Tan Shuo has just been written, and due to the rush of time, many places on the score lack performance hints such as dynamic symbols, and some details are not clearly marked, leaving a lot of room for the performer to process.Qin Haiou had a lot of thoughts and doubts while reading the score, so he wanted to discuss it with Tan Shuo.

Tan Shuo took the page and looked at it: "This place can be played a little more jumpy."

Qin Haiou nodded to show that he understood, found another page, pointed to another place and asked, "What about here? Is it weak first and then strong, or the other way around? There are also the two sounds in the middle, what do you want?" Effect?"

Tan Shuo took the paper again and put it on the music stand. While explaining, he put his right hand on the piano to demonstrate to Qin Haiou: "This place needs to be weakened...and then start from here, in the fast running crescendo..."

He hasn't practiced the piano for many years. Although the piano is a compulsory course in the composition department, he just touches on his electronic keyboard after graduation. Now he has returned the basics of school to the teacher. As soon as I said "running fast", my hands got stuck, and I mixed my fingers together, so I had to muddle through this passage in a daze, and I didn't know how many sounds were missed in the middle.

But this didn't affect his explanation to Qin Haiou, and he didn't care too much, and continued: "The two notes in the middle should be very bright!" As he spoke, he poked the keyboard twice, "Start descending from here, Diminishing out..." Then he moved back from the high-pitched range to the mid-pitched range in a daze, and finally concluded, "That's probably what it means, you can understand it!"

Qin Haiou listened carefully to what he said, and obviously didn't care how he got through those two difficult episodes.He was originally standing on the side of the piano bench close to the high-pitched area, and now he leaned forward, quickly played the passage just discussed with his right hand on the keyboard according to Tan Shuo's request, and asked, "Is that so?" ?”

"Yes!" Tan Shuo affirmed.Not only did Qin Haiou understand exactly what he meant, but he was also very satisfied with the sound.

Qin Haiou continued to turn back, turned to a larger paragraph, and directly put the score on the music stand: "This paragraph can be processed into three levels, do you think it is possible?"

Tan Shuo looked at it twice, and praised: "Of course! This way the overall sound will be richer, but in this place—" he pointed to the middle bars, "here needs to let the violin float out, so the above This level should be weakened, mainly supported by the lower two, and after this period, it will be restored to three levels." While talking, he used his hand to draw on the keyboard, but this section requires the cooperation of both hands, and he also Knowing that he couldn't play well, he stopped after swiping and pulling twice, and didn't even bother to touch it.

Qin Haiou said, "Let me try."

Tan Shuo immediately stood up and stepped aside, and Qin Haiou sat down in front of the piano instead.As soon as Qin Haiou put his hands on the keys, he played from the beginning of this paragraph.

He played all the way very smoothly, and when he reached the place where the violin needs to be set off, Tan Shuo reminded: "Control..."

Qin Haiou dealt with it as he said, and then continued to bounce down.Tan Shuo saw that he was not sluggish, so he simply put all the remaining scores on the music stand, and reminded him of every detail while turning the score for him.

Liu Yang was busy in the store, and was surprised to hear the sound of the piano from the backyard.Qin Haiou never came to the piano room to play the piano at this time, and the sound of the piano was intermittent, which was different from his usual practice.Just wondering, the store clerk came to report that Tan Shuo and Qin Haiou borrowed the piano room.When Liu Yang heard that Tan Shuo was there, he was even more surprised. After making two cups of coffee in his hand, he took time to look in the backyard.

The windows of the piano room are usually covered by curtains, but just now the curtains were opened by Tan Shuo. When Liu Yang came outside the piano room, he saw Qin Haiou playing the piano in the room at a glance, and Tan Shuo was standing beside him watch.Liu Yang was taken aback, looked at this scene again and again, and made sure that he was not dazzled, a surge of joy suddenly surged in his heart, he was so happy that he didn't know what to do, he stood there in a daze, unable to move.

Qin Haiou can play the piano in front of Tan Shuo—is he no longer nervous?Does that mean he's getting better?Could he be back on stage anytime soon?

Liu Yang was very pleasantly surprised, many thoughts flashed through her mind, not only that, she also found that Tan Shuo was not just watching from the sidelines, he sometimes poked at the score and said something, while Qin Haiou While playing the piano, he could still open his mouth to respond to him. The whole person seemed very relaxed, without any pressure or burden at all.Liu Yang looked outside for a while, although he guessed that they might be busy with something, he couldn't help but push the door open and enter.As soon as she entered, Tan Shuo saw her, and hurriedly said to her: "You came just in time, there is something urgent! I want to record something in your piano room..."

When Qin Haiou heard Tan Shuo talking to others, he immediately stopped playing and turned around. When he saw that it was Liu Yang, he smiled at her, as if he didn't realize what happened just now.

Liu Yang stared at Qin Haiou in surprise: "You, you can play!" Then he looked at Tan Shuo, "Didn't you notice? He played the piano in front of you just now!"

Before Tan Shuo could finish his sentence, he couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, and turned to look at Qin Haiou, finally showing a look of surprise on his face.

It took Qin Haiou some time to figure out what Liu Yang was talking about.He looked up at Tan Shuo, and then looked down at his hands. Just now, he was only thinking about how to handle the details of the work better, and he never distracted himself from thinking about other things. He even forgot that Tan Shuo is not only the author of this work. creator, but also a viewer.He didn't feel the slightest strangeness, he didn't feel nervous or afraid, his fingers played what he was thinking in his heart and what Tan Shuo told him, everything was so natural and logical, he was in it , did not realize that his state of mind had changed at that moment.

Seeing that he bowed his head and said nothing, Liu Yang was a little anxious, and stepped forward to ask: "Seagull, how are you feeling? Are you still nervous? Are you already healed?..."

Qin Haiou looked up at her, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.Liu Yang's question made him suddenly think of his troubles again, and the feeling in his heart suddenly became complicated.He did play in front of Tan Shuo very relaxedly just now, but when he thought of what Liu Yang asked, and then thought of the possibility of going on stage in the future, the strings in his heart that had just been loosened immediately tightened again. He couldn't do it - he couldn't do it.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about these things later!" Tan Shuo felt something was wrong when he saw Qin Haiou's expression, and raised his hand to pat him hard on the shoulder, "I'm going back to get the equipment now, you can think about it, let's go early Finish the recording and hand over the job as soon as possible!"

As he spoke, he winked at Liu Yang, and walked out the door first.Although Liu Yang was puzzled, he had no choice but to say: "Okay, then do your work first." After speaking, he followed Tan Shuo out of the piano room.

Seeing Liu Yang coming out, Tan Shuo pulled the door of the piano room behind his back.Liu Yang didn't speak immediately either, the two walked away tacitly, guessing that it was impossible for Qin Haiou to hear their voices, so Tan Shuo lowered his voice and said, "Don't worry."

Just as Liu Yang was about to speak, Tan Shuo continued, "There is no need to rush this matter. He acted completely unconsciously just now."

Liu Yang stared at him, and gradually calmed down: "You mean, it was a coincidence just now?"

"Yes, and no." Tan Shuo said.

Liu Yang was depressed: "Can't you speak clearly at once?"

Tan Shuo said: "Can't you exercise your independent thinking ability?"

Liu Yang said: "My mind is very confused now."

Tan Shuo said: "Let's go over it first! I'm really in a hurry today. If I summarize such a profound question in one sentence, you won't be able to understand it. I'll talk to you slowly when I'm free!"

Liu Yang had no choice but to think of another matter: "Then why did you lie to me?"

Tan Shuo was shocked: "I have lied to you too much, which one are you talking about?"

Liu Yang had long been used to his way of speaking, so he ignored him and said, "You said you couldn't make him get better!"

Tan Shuo complained: "I really didn't lie to you about this!" Seeing that she didn't believe it, he explained, "I wasn't sure at the time, but now I have an idea."

"What way?" Liu Yang asked.

"It's not a solution, it's an idea," Tan Shuo corrected, "I still need to verify it. The most important thing now is to keep the phased results and analyze the existing successful experience to achieve the final victory of the revolution, so don't worry."

Liu Yang said: "Can you stop talking like an underground worker?"

Tan Shuo laughed.Seeing him smile, Liu Yang felt a little more relaxed, and asked again: "How long are you going to sell this thing?"

Tan Shuo said: "Tomorrow, let's talk tomorrow! I really have to go back now. For the sake of my small contribution today, just let me go!"

Liu Yang said with a smile: "Then you kneel down."

"Hey!" Tan Shuo yelled, turned around and ran out through the back door.