When the students heard Li Zhifan want to demonstrate, they all became restless.

Amid the applause, Li Zhifan walked to the piano and stroked his fingers casually on the piano. He seemed to be unprepared, but his fingertips played a series of wonderful notes.

"Is this... "Clock"?"

A student heard it in just a few seconds.

As the music progressed, the atmosphere below gradually became excited.

For many students, this is such a rare moment. Looking at Li Zhifan's hands dancing like a phantom as soon as he comes up, his body can't stop being excited.

Li Zhifan didn't play for a long time, and finished the second paragraph of the song, got up and returned to the center of the podium.

"The way I play fast is to forget the method!"

As soon as this sentence was said, the students below became confused, and some even frowned, but many students were like gods and nodded involuntarily.

Charlie and David looked at each other, and both of them showed intriguing eyes at the same time.

On the stage, Li Zhifan continued: "I believe that everyone has had the experience of being lazy in the initial learning piano. In order to be relaxed and save trouble, they did not strictly follow the fingering techniques taught by the teacher. At that time, we all thought this was wrong, but when you reach the level of playing the performance, you find that these stereotyped rules are restricted, especially when playing some fast 32 or even 64 notes, you will find that your fingers are not enough, and you even envy those students who play string instruments, because they have techniques such as wheel fingers, finger shaking, and other skills that can cleverly play fast notes."

"In fact, after reaching the level of playing, we should start to reflect on our fingering and figure out the most suitable fingering method. This is an experience that can only be figured out over time. It is not something that beginners can understand. So when you think back on the beginning, you should be glad that you have laid a solid foundation and played the piano for so many years."

Li Zhifan seemed to be a joke, but in fact he told the truth of cause and effect. If there is a cause, there is a result, and if there is a result, there is a cause. The so-called return to nature is not really following the most primitive method, but after a great enlightenment, he found the most simple truth at that time.

Just like the piano, the person who invented fingering must be a talented person.

And every successful piano educator actually has a set of fingering techniques he invented.

In the tutorials of the primary piano performances of other worlds, Cherny, Bye, and Hanon, the fingerings of each piece will not be the same, but beginners who learn piano will always say: It is best to practice according to the fingering marked on paper.

Admittedly, this is an indispensable way for beginners. Without these fingerings, later forging will be very difficult.

But when you reach the performance level, you will find that you must throw away the fingering you first learned one step further, because this fingering is not the most perfect, otherwise there would not be many schools.

"I wonder if any of you have read Eastern martial arts novels!"

Li Zhifan suddenly turned the topic to martial arts. Seeing that some of the students nodded repeatedly, some looked confused, he smiled and said, "Students who have never seen it can come and see it. It is not for you to have fun, but to discover philosophy from it. In Eastern martial arts, it emphasizes simplification into traditional Chinese, and the unity of man and nature, there is a sword in your heart and no sword in your hand, and the unity of man and sword. Then the same is true for piano performance!"

In fact, many people understand these principles, and they can explain them thoroughly if they don’t understand them very well, but no one understands how to achieve this.

Li Zhifan couldn't tell them a plan that suits everyone, otherwise there would be one-on-one guidance for piano lessons.

So he turned over and talked about himself: "Go back to the question I first started, how many people have seen me play the piano yesterday?"

It was still those students who raised their hands.

Li Zhifan pointed casually and said, "Okay, this classmate, what did you see?"

He refers to an Asian female student. I don’t know if she is a Chinese, but she speaks English. The female student thought about it and said seriously: “You play very well! Your level is very high, it motivates me, but it makes me feel a little disappointed. You are like a mountain that is difficult to climb. Even if you are so close to us, we can only see it!”

"Thank you, I'll just think you are praising me!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "But what you said is not the answer I want!"

He looked at the other people who raised their hands: "Who can tell me what else did you see yesterday?"

Everyone raised their hands and said a variety of words. Some said that they saw Li Zhifan's level was better than the best in the middle, some said that they saw Li Zhifan's afterimage-like hand, and the speed was changed back and forth, and the priorities were very natural. Some said that he seemed to have become one with the piano.

No one was right, and Li Zhifan smiled and said, "Okay, actually, I heard a lot of people say about this answer after the concert yesterday. It's hard to believe that you didn't pay attention."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Asian female student shouted: "I understand! You are closing your eyes all the way?"

She spoke Chinese, and it seemed that she was really in a hurry. Li Zhifan gave a thumbs up: "good! convey this sentence to every student in English."

The female student suddenly became proud and repeated this.

After she said this, many people also remembered it, and they had never seen Li Zhifan's performance yesterday, and also watched the short section of "Clock" he had just started playing.

During the whole process, Li Zhifan was indeed playing with his eyes closed and his head raised. He did not open his eyes until after the end.

The clever man suddenly understood what Li Zhifan meant. Could this be what he said, "The combination of man and piano"?

"The piano is already in my heart, and it can be said that it is everywhere. I am completely controlling my fingers with my heart, and it can be said that controlling my heart means controlling every key of the piano."

After Li Zhifan finished speaking, waiting for the intelligent translation to convey the sentence, there was a sudden burst of joy below, applause thunderously, and even students screamed repeatedly.

In the last twenty minutes, Li Zhifan picked a few students up and guided them on the spot to play the piano.

For fairness, three white, black and yellow people were called respectively.

The first white student played the musical style, with a good musical talent, and his level was also trained since childhood. When he played, he already knew how to create fingering techniques, but there were still some routines. Maybe he thought this routine was very suitable!

When Li Zhifan plays, his fingering is basically different every time, and his fingers are completely moved by his heart, let alone routines.

For his guidance, Li Zhifan just started from here and learned through communication that he was studying in the local Belmont High School in high school. During his high school, he would come to Berkeley to participate in city-music courses every week. He was determined to play piano during this period, which means that the school’s teaching played a great role in him.

Li Zhifan gave him two suggestions. In addition to completely asking for formulaic fingering, he would draw for an hour every day and sit in front of the piano and play randomly. Don’t think about any melody or piano scores, just play randomly, but you must play rhythm, musical, and harmony.

The white student seemed to understand it, nodded in a daze, and went down to think about it himself.

The second black student came up and played a jazz piano.

The black man was indeed born to play jazz. This part was very playable, and he sat completely at the right time. Although he sometimes glanced at the piano keys, he was not looking at the next one or the keys, but as if he was talking to the piano with his eyes.

Just like a basketball player, he said to the basketball when shooting: Baby, you must enter!

After a brief exchange, he learned that the black student was a pianist in the school's jazz band, and his main business was not piano performance, but jazz composition. So Li Zhifan only started from flexibility, gave him some advice, and discussed with him a little about composition issues.

The third yellow-skinned student, Li Zhifan, thought she was Chinese, but she didn't expect that although she was Chinese, she was Singaporean and had one-eighth of Malay descent.

There are many masters for girls playing the piano, but after the exchange, I learned that the girl is relatively bourgeois and has money to send to school. Her dream is to return to Singapore to be a piano teacher.

Although the dream is not big, it is also beautiful. Li Zhifan did not instruct her how to play the piano, but taught her how to teach the piano to the students. She also wrote superficial things, such as how to hit the nail on the head, how to distinguish students' qualifications, etc.

Although he gave individual advice to these three students, every sentence was also directed to the students below. The students below automatically took the seats, and listened to the others, so that they could go back and think independently in a combination of their own nature.

"Okay! Let's stop here for today's class!"

Li Zhifan seized the time and announced the end of get out of class, "I hope everyone will like my class today!"

However, the students were still unsatisfied and stood up to persuade:

"Professor, show your skills again!"

"Professor Li, we also want to hear you play a song!"

"Dean, please ask Professor Li!"

"Professor David, you also help me talk. We really didn't teach enough of this lesson!"

“…”

Charlie and David were very helpless, but they refused to give up. They walked up to the stage together and tried to keep Li Zhifan.

"Professor Li, why don't you satisfy the students' wishes!"

David said sincerely, "I believe you shouldn't refuse them, right?"

"Stop! I'm not a professor yet!" Li Zhifan spread his hands, "But since the students want to listen, I can talk about another song, just this paragraph!"

After saying that, Li Zhifan began to think, what should I play?

Looking at the students' expectant eyes, he didn't want to fool them. Besides, there were so many major students below that, they could hear whether they fooled them.

But I couldn't remember what number to play for a difficult piano piece.

After searching in the piano music library in his mind for a while, a picture suddenly popped up - Lang Lang was playing the piano at a concert with a funny feeling, and the shirt in his suit was already soaked in sweat.

The score and melody of this piano piece also came into his mind.

At that moment, Li Zhifan snapped his fingers and played this song. Then he walked to the piano and sat down. He closed his eyes and began to pretend to be deep.

The students not only screamed:

"It's starting! It's starting!"

"Sure enough, I closed my eyes and wanted to see the scene of the integration of human and piano again!"

"My God! The moment Professor Li closed his eyes, his aura changed completely!"

"Yes! I have to take a photo and it will be uploaded to my friend later!"

"I'll shoot too!"

The repertoire of Li Zhifan is called "Memories of Don Juan".

This piano piece was adapted by Lister from Mozart's opera "Don Juan", but there is no opera "Don Juan" in this world, so naturally this song "Memories of Don Juan" has become the only one.

"Memories of Don Juan" is the essence of Lister's many adaptations. The technique is so difficult and the scene is grand, creating an amazing momentum in the rich expressions of the original work.

Mozart's opera "Don Juan" was originally about two and a half hours long, but was adapted by Lister and turned into a short piano piece.

The piano music does not delete a note from the opera. The whole song is very difficult, both in rhythm and in skills. It is called one of the top ten most difficult piano music in another world (ranked fourth), and few people play it.

The version played by Lang Lang is also called the version with the least misalignment. There is no pianist in another world who plays this song well, it is just a matter of how many things are.

However, later there was a computer simulation synthesis, so there was a version with no wrong notes. However, without human hands playing, the cold machine brought only a piece of music, without emotion and warmth, and could not be called an art work.

With a stable mood, Li Zhifan seemed to have arrived in an empty and uninhabited world.

There was only him and a piano here. When his fingers played the first cross note on the piano, the whole classroom was silent in an instant, even quieter than the concert hall.

Everyone looked at Li Zhifan's hands. Both hands were completely floating, as if they had not touched the keys at all, but the sound was really loud, which showed how fast and how precise the moment he played and left.

Outside the classroom.

Many passers-by and teachers were attracted.

Some people learned that Li Zhifan was in class here and came over to take a look. The reason why they learned about Li Zhifan was not only because they had seen his performance last night or knew about his works, but more because he was an entertainment star.

Especially in South Korea and Japan, most of the students have heard of Li Zhifan. In these two countries, there are quite a few people who cover Li Zhifan's songs, which is one of the important reasons for him to gain popularity.

However, when everyone heard the sound of the piano, even if they couldn't squeeze in and couldn't see him playing, they stood in the corridor and exclaimed.

Is this perverted performance level just a small open class?

But then I thought, maybe this is the master, treating every performance like standing on the stage of a concert hall, respecting every listener.

Originally, Li Zhifan only planned to play the first movement, but once he was immersed in it, he couldn't extricate himself. In the end, he played it for sixteen minutes and finished playing all the piano songs!
Chapter completed!