[Comprehensive] Escape from shame is useless

"You must have been born for music."

When Mr. Kazama decided to accept her as a student, he said this to her.

Mr. Kazama is a well-known Taishan Hokuto in the Japanese classical music circle, and has trained no less than ten internationally active performers.Although he is a bit rigid and is too strict with everyone around him, no one can underestimate his vision and level.

Such Mr. Kazama, among the Qin boys of their generation, chose her without the slightest hesitation, and said the above sentence in front of everyone.

What an honor to be proud of.

She is only 6 years old and doesn't quite understand what this sentence means.

I just noticed from his expression at that time that he was praising himself.

At the time, she never thought about what it meant to be a student of Kazama-sensei.

At that time, I plunged into the ocean of music with all my heart, thinking, talking, doing, playing every day... everything was related to the violin.Even the person who became a lifelong friend was brought to her by music.

Akashi Seijuro, the child he "reluctantly" accepted and taught at the request of a friend a week after she became Kazama-sensei's student.He is also the only one among the teacher's many students who does not have any violin foundation.

He didn't want to waste time teaching him the basics, so the task of getting him started fell on her somehow.When the teacher himself is in a good mood, he will occasionally mention a few words.In her memory, the time he was personally in charge of guiding may not exceed ten hours in total.He even proposed that if all the basics cannot be completed after 8 months, the harsh conditions of being his students are no longer allowed.

So how reluctant this "reluctance" is, it can be seen.

But for her who lacked common sense at the time, 8 months must be no problem.

So the only person under pressure is Akashi Seijuro himself.

She doesn't understand the progress of ordinary people and follows her own pace completely.

No matter how long it took her to learn how to play the piano, she asked Akashi how long it took.

No matter how long it took her to learn more than a dozen positions, she asked Akashi how long it took.

How much time did it take her to learn vibrato, overtones, and plucked strings...

Fortunately, according to Kazama's requirements, he only needs to learn the first 7 positions. As for the skill of vibrato and overtone plucking, it is not within the scope of the assessment.Otherwise, probably Akashi at that time would have been tossed to death by her directly.

Even so, this is an almost impossible condition to fulfill.

In the face of the nominal teacher who only rarely gets to see one side—he doesn’t treat himself very much—and the actual teacher who lives in another dimension, Akashi doesn’t have any complaints, and comes to ask her on time every day.

When she had classes, he followed her to Kazama's classroom.

When she was not in class, he would go to her house to ask for advice, or go to his own house to entertain her—in the name of friends coming to play at home.

So honored, she became his first little friend who could visit each other in name.Of course, the word "in name" was canceled later.

It was only after a long time that she found out that the young Akashi never mentioned the condition of expulsion if he failed, and just relied on his own perseverance and strength to carry it through.

When faced with her question, he replied as follows:

"From the beginning, it was an exchange between my father and Mr. Kazama. It doesn't matter if I say it or not."

"I'm not like you, I don't have any obsession with the violin. But even if it's just a part of self-cultivation, I don't want to give up before trying it."

Perhaps, it's just that they simply don't want to admit defeat.

Akashi's mother, Aunt Shiori, likes to come and listen to them during their practice. She always brings delicious snacks and juices, and calls for a break every 40 minutes.On sunny days, they will accompany them to the yard to play basketball.

By the way, she doesn't like basketball that much.The ball is too big, she is too small, it will be lost when it is slapped, and it will be crooked when it is thrown.But as the only one of her peers who will play with Akashi at home, she can only risk her life to accompany Junzi.

Aunt Shiori likes to hear her play "Aria on the G String" the most.When mentioning the reason why she loves this song the most, she once laughed at herself, saying that she can't appreciate too complicated and gorgeous rhythms.A piece like the Song of the G String does not require much knowledge of classical music history, and even listening to it for the first time can make people feel the beauty of the piece itself.

"Compared to the profound Chopin, Bach is very close to the people in this kind of place, simple, but rich in connotation. It is especially suitable for appreciating while eating dessert on a sunny afternoon."

She smiling like this seems to interpret the full meaning of the word beautiful.

In contrast, his father, Uncle Zhengchen, appeared very rarely.He was rarely seen in their practice room, aside from the occasional dinner table encounter.In her young memory, she was an unsmiling person who only showed a gentle expression when looking at his wife and son.

He also likes the G-string song best.The reason, according to Aunt Shiori, is called Aiwujiwu.

So after Aunt Shiori passed away, he never heard this song again.

But that was a long time later.

A few days after Akashi passed the Kazama-sensei assessment, she was introduced to tennis because of the recommendation of her neighbors.

Since then, she has been obsessed with this small ball that can be grasped with one hand, and she is out of control.

He even encouraged Akashi to follow suit, just so that during practice breaks, he could play tennis with her like she used to play basketball with her.

Slowly, she spent more and more time on tennis and became more and more addicted.As a result, once, I was so happy to play that I missed the class time and let the teacher dove.

Teacher Kazama was very angry when he knew the reason.

"You're putting the cart before the horse!"

She still clearly remembered the words that the teacher yelled when he was so angry that he blew his beard and stared.

Akashi also disagrees with her approach. Although he also plays basketball, he never lets basketball occupy his other study time.So he made a timetable and asked her to strictly follow the work and rest time in the table.

This move was very effective. Facts have proved that as long as the class is well attended and enough practice time is guaranteed, Mr. Kazama has no interest in whether she spends the rest of her time playing tennis or catching crabs.

That's how it should be.

—if she hadn't broken her arm playing ball.

"From now on, you are prohibited from playing tennis again."

According to the mother later, Mr. Kazama was so angry that she couldn't fall asleep all night, so she called her early in the morning, gave her a good reprimand, and asked her to promise that she would never let her daughter touch these things that would hurt her again. And the movement of the hands.

"The teacher is also for your own good."

After her arm was completely healed, she only persisted for a week before she broke the agreement with her mother.

"Just like I feel uncomfortable if I don't play the piano for a day, I don't feel happy if I don't play for a day."

The mother who was soft-hearted and cared about her daughter did not persist in the end.

Her mother originally planned to let her play tennis secretly without telling the teacher, but she has been obsessed since she was a child, and she felt that she could not deceive the teacher, so she shook off the fact that she wanted to continue playing tennis after class.

Mr. Kazama was really furious, but she refused to give an inch. The two had a fierce fight, and neither could convince the other.

At such a delicate moment, the William International Music Competition kicked off.

This is a music competition for violinists under the age of 12 all over the world. First, the list of participants is determined through auditions and internal recommendations. After regional, national, and continental competitions, the final winner is determined in Vienna, the capital of music. By.Starting from the national competition, the sponsors of each country will provide valuable prizes, and the prize for the final winner is a Guarneri violin of inestimable value.

"You go to this competition. If you can win the final championship, I will allow you to continue playing tennis."

Just when the dispute between the two could not be reconciled, Mr. Kazama proposed this "compromise".

In a world-class competition where the average entry age is 11 years old, she, a child who has just turned 7 years old and has only learned piano for a little over two years, is required to win the world-class competition.She had no choice but to take up the challenge in order to continue playing tennis.

As the saying goes, there is no need to make a bet that one party is doomed to lose.

The reason why Kazama regards this agreement as a "compromise" is precisely because she has a certain degree of confidence in her winning the championship.But more, it is hoped that through the game, most of her time will be collected, and her time in contact with tennis will be indirectly reduced.

Maybe after the game is over and the honor is added, she can give up tennis completely and focus on the violin.

She didn't know what the teacher thought. At that time, for the sake of tennis, she was obsessed with winning this competition.Because she lacked sufficient understanding of her own violin level and that of others, when she entered the national competition as No.3 in the Kanto region, she did something that surprised everyone in order to ensure the victory of the competition.

In the part of free selection, "Paganini No.20 Four Caprices" was played.

The reason is simply because this is the most difficult repertoire that she can master and placed in the score set of Kazama Classroom.

As for the outside world's evaluation of this piece and what kind of people can play it, she has no idea.

No one thought that a 7-year-old child could play this piece well, even her teacher Kazama.Because of the bet, she didn't communicate with the teacher even once throughout the competition.So he was not informed by his friends until the day before the competition, after all the repertoire declarations were completed.

It was too late to stop it now.

On the day of the finals, she stepped onto the stage for a reason that had nothing to do with music.In the eyes of the judges sneering and laughing, and the audience expecting——

It perfectly reproduces the brilliance of this most difficult piece in the history of the violin.

However, this is the beginning of all tragedies.