world number one pianist

Chapter 116 Refusal or Agree
"Why did your heart suddenly become chaotic? What were you thinking at that time? Why didn't you control your thoughts?"

"What is the reason that can make you break away from the music, can you tell me? I'm curious, the idea that can let you empty your mind when playing."

He Shen looked at Ji Mengting, and asked lightly, his tone was unhurried, as if making a statement.

This statement made Ji Mengting extremely uncomfortable.

Before she could speak, He Shen continued.

"When you enter school, you are going to be a professional musician, but what are you doing? You haven't done anything..."

"You don't even have a complete characterization of a piece of work. The beginning is very good, but you can't guarantee that the end will be equally perfect. Is this how you practice the piece?"

"Tell me, tell me, tell me what reason you have. I want to hear why you are like this."

Ji Mengting was a little anxious, took a small step forward, and whispered.

"I……"

In the middle of speaking, she suddenly became silent, opened her mouth, but said nothing.

Yes, what He Shen said was indeed correct. She had no reason to start thinking about things in the middle of the performance.

Is it possible that because everyone else only played for a few minutes before being stopped by the teacher, I thought I only needed to play for a few minutes?

Speaking of this reason, Ji Mengting herself finds it ridiculous. Does this sound like a person who majors in music?

Do you think what you think is what you think?

As a college student who aims to be a professional musician, this must not be the case. When playing music, you must concentrate on it.

For example, in an event, even if you know that you may only need to play for a few minutes, a fraction of a work.

So what?I definitely want to prepare a whole piece of work!

How can anyone prepare a work only half way through?
I made a mistake, not in professional skills, but in my own mentality.

There was a problem with my mentality, and I started to think wildly in the middle, and I didn't maintain a very good mentality to play.

Then, naturally, you will usher in failure.

There is nothing that can be refuted at all, it cannot be questioned!

Thinking of this, Ji Mengting shook her head, but let go of her previous anger, took a small step back, and said to He Shen.

"No, I admit that I don't have any reason. I did make a mistake. There is something wrong with my mentality. This is my problem."

Speaking of this, she suddenly stopped, took a step forward, and spoke again to He Shen.

"But it doesn't matter if other people say I'm thick-skinned, I still know, teacher, are you willing to accept me as a student? I really want to learn piano from you!"

He Shen looked at Ji Mengting, the expression on his face remained unchanged, and Ji Mengting looked flustered.

None of the other people around, whether teachers or students, could see what he was thinking.

To accept, or not to accept?For many people, this is not a problem, but for He Shen, this is a very big problem.

As far as the other teachers think, Ji Mengting's strength is very good, but there is a little problem with her mentality. It will be good to exercise more at that time, and just take her around the various competitions across the country.

Exercise more, your mentality will be better, and you will not be particularly nervous about performances and competitions.

So, their focus is on human expertise.

As far as Mengting's skills are concerned, as long as she develops a little bit, she will definitely be a strong player in Jiangzhou Normal University in the future.

Therefore, if they were any other teachers, they would definitely choose to accept Ji Mengting as their student.

But this is just the idea of ​​those teachers, not He Shen.

Most of the people present didn't know He Shen very well, so they had no idea whether He Shen would accept Meng Ting.

He Shen is also thinking about it at this moment.

He was thinking, what would he teach Ji Mengting after taking him in?
Teach her Chopin?

No, obviously she doesn't need to teach her Chopin herself, her teacher has taken her on the right path, and she just needs to follow this path slowly to the end.

All roads lead to Rome!
For example, the world's three major music schools, the Russian music school that focuses on physical release, the German-Austrian music school that focuses on logical thinking, and the French music school that focuses on subtlety and purity.

The teaching and performance styles of each school are different, but each school can produce top musicians.

It doesn't say which school of pianists are good, or which school of pianists are weaker.

Basically each has advantages and disadvantages.

Therefore, although Ji Mengting's path is different from her own, she is obviously walking on a broad road, and there is no need for him to force her to follow him and change her learning concept.

So besides Chopin, what else can I teach her?

Thoughts behind the music?Thinking from the music itself?
If she simply discusses the thinking behind music, she can go to music history to study slowly and think about the logic of music itself, then she must choose to study under Qu Shi.

As far as simply analyzing the score, Qu Shi is obviously more logical than herself.

After all, she is a professional, and in the piano department, she is always the type of small expert in papers. She doesn't know how many papers she has written, let alone the papers she helped translate and organize.

He can analyze works by himself, after all, this is the foundation, but let him teach another person to analyze works...

Forget it.

I really don't know how to teach another person how to analyze.

My own analysis is basically to look at each note slowly, with the help of memory, to think about the composer's intention when writing this note.

Other than that, basically nothing.

But if it is a song poem, she will use a more scientific and rational way to analyze this work.

And more importantly, Ji Mengting is now...

The biggest problem is not technical, but her biggest problem is mentality, she always thinks about a lot of things.

Therefore, she will naturally have some strange problems, such as thinking about things in the middle of playing, and then her fingers start to mess up.

Maybe it will be better when she participates in more competitions in the future.

And this happened to be me, so I couldn't teach her at all.

So, He Shen shook his head, and under everyone's gaze, he spoke to Ji Mengting.

"No, I refuse."

Whoa!
Although I had expected it, but I really heard this sound, and the whole concert hall suddenly became noisy!
Many people started to scream.

"Why? The first one this year, Ji Mengting, plays so well. Why did the teacher reject her?"

"Is it because of her mentality problems later on? You broke the rules and let her finish playing. Can you blame her?"

"That's right, I don't accept this, what is this teacher thinking? This is the number one this year! This teacher has no discernment at all..."

"Fast forward to Ji Mengting who finds a particularly rubbish teacher, and later plays even better than this teacher, come back and slap her in the face!"

"It's over. This teacher's requirements are so high. I wrote him on my paper. Now I'm really struggling to change it. Isn't this too scary?"

"Oh my god, is college so scary? Is every teacher so demanding? Woohoo, I want to go home..."

"I'm afraid, I feel like I won't have a teacher who wants me..."

……

Even some teachers sitting near He Shen couldn't help whispering.

"Huh? He didn't accept this No.1? If he doesn't accept it, I really want it. Unfortunately, I'm just a lecturer, and the associate professor above should want it."

"Speaking of why, He Shen plays Chopin, and Ji Mengting, the No. It's all good, why don't you accept it?"

"I didn't understand it anyway. If anyone of you understands it, can you tell me?"

"Coincidentally, I didn't understand He Shen's thoughts..."

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Ji Mengting seemed to be prepared for He Shen's refusal, she clenched her fists hard.

Squeeze it, let it go, squeeze it, let it go.

After gradually calming down his mind, he asked He Shen.

"That... Teacher, although I have prepared for it long ago, can I ask why?"

All eyes focused on He Shen again, waiting for his answer.

Even Qu Shi, who has not expressed anything extra, is the same, casting her gaze on He Shen, with a curious look in her eyes.

Looking at the gazes of so many people, He Shen didn't have any shyness, and said directly.

"Because it's obvious that you don't need me to teach you."

"Huh? But..."

"No, but, I'll just tell you that your piano level is still passable. The point is that you're on the right path. As long as you keep going forward, you'll be fine."

"If I suddenly intervene in the middle, it will cause confusion in your thinking, and make you even more confused about how you should play. This is what I don't want to see."

Seeing that Ji Mengting wanted to say something again, He Shen immediately raised his hand, stopped her from speaking again, and then said.

"I know you may be a little dissatisfied, but no matter what you say, I will not agree with you as my student."

"What you lack now is time and games!"

"Your level is not high, but it is good that you are on a very correct path, so I am not of any use to you, so you need time to keep improving, this is your It must be done!"

"Your mentality needs to be improved. This improvement cannot be completed in a day or two. You need to keep tempering, find more and more competitions to participate in, run around the world, and then among them, compete with those top players. Meet the masters, go and hear them play."

"And finally, which is the most important point, I probably guessed why you want to follow me. Maybe it's because you think I'm good at analyzing works, so you want to learn this from me."

"For this point, I just want to say that I actually took a little trick. You can't learn this trick, so I suggest you give up."

"If you really want to learn, I personally suggest that you can choose again and choose Teacher Qu Shiqu. Her analysis of music itself is very good. Even Professor Dan Yidan praised her."

"If you insist on me, then it's not that I can't accept you, but I have to tell you in advance that you may not learn much if you follow me."

"If you choose to give up, then if you have questions, you can still ask me. I will not refuse anyone to ask me questions about the piano."

After He Shen finished speaking, he closed his mouth and left time for Ji Mengting to wait for her choice.

When Qu Shi heard that she was suddenly mentioned, she couldn't help being stunned. After He Shen finished speaking, she immediately poked him on the shoulder and asked in a low voice.

"Well, He Shen? Why did you recommend her to me? My piano teaching skills are very average, I'm afraid..."

"Didn't you listen to what I said before?"

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm still in the shock of you saying you won't accept her. No. 1 won't accept her. What are you thinking? Other associate professors and lecturers are rushing to ask for it. You don't want to..."

He Shen pinched his eyebrows helplessly, pointed to Ji Mengting who was standing in the middle of the stage in a daze, and said.

"It can be heard from her piano that she actually has a teacher, and she is a very good teacher. That teacher took her to learn the piano and showed her a bright way. Just follow that way and continue walking. If you go down, you can be a very good pianist, there is no problem with that."

"Take the position in the conservatory as an example. She can at least enter the conservatory as a lecturer. I don't know about higher levels."

"So, I don't think I need to teach her."

"And what you want to teach her is to teach her how to analyze the piano score and get some important information from the piano score, just like what I discussed with Professor Dan before, starting from the music, that is, the body of the score .”

"What she wants to learn is to analyze music, not the piano."

Qu Shi nodded if she realized something, clapped her hands suddenly, and shouted.

"Oh, that's it, so that's why you recommended me?"

"Yes, that's why I recommend you."

"Well, if you say that, I'm relieved."

Qu Shi nodded in satisfaction, halfway through the nodding, suddenly felt a little guilty again, and asked additionally.

"Um, well, what if she really has some piano questions to ask me, and I can't solve them?"

"Then come and ask me, and..."

He Shen looked at Qu Shi speechlessly, clicked on the list of students in front of her, and said helplessly.

"You are a lecturer and she is a student. Why are you afraid that her piano skills are better than yours? If your piano skills are too weak, why do you think that Principal Wednesday and other teachers will let you in?"

"Forehead……"

Qu Shi scratched her head and said a little uncertainly.

"After all, everyone around me is better at playing the piano than me, so I have a little inferiority complex. The main reason why the principal let me in on Wednesday is that I am good at analyzing music scores?"

After finishing speaking, he made a special addition to He Shen.

"Oh yes, I'm better at playing the piano than I am, the main thing I'm talking about is He Shenyou!"

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After He Shen rolled his eyes at Qu Shi, he didn't bother to pay attention to her, and put his attention on Ji Mengting, waiting for her answer.

Ji Mengting stood on the stage and rubbed her hands. She obviously thought about it for a long time, and finally, she spoke to He Shen.

"Teacher, I still want to follow you to class!"

"Didn't you understand what I said before?" He Shen frowned and said, "I said, if you follow me, you may not learn anything."

"Well, I heard it very clearly. I insist on my own path very thoroughly, so I won't be confused. You can rest assured about this. I just want to follow you in class and learn a little about Chopin from you!"

"As for Teacher Qu... I also want to follow her in class, Principal Zhou, is it possible?"

Ji Mengting looked at Zhou San who was sitting on the side watching the excitement, and asked.

After listening to it on Wednesday, he refused without any hesitation.

"No, if you want to study with teacher No.2, you can only take small classes in private. Each teacher's time is limited, and it is impossible to lengthen the class time because of you."

"Also, remember to discuss with the two teachers. Don't let me finish the class here, and he will say that the one on my side is better than him or something, understand?"

"Well, I understand all these, so the two teachers, can you?"

Qu Shi nodded indifferently.

"I can do it. Anyway, I don't have any students. If you want to take small classes with me, I'm free on weekends."

"What about Mr. He? Are you willing to accept me as a student?"

Looking at Ji Mengting who was so persistent, He Shen couldn't help but feel a headache.

He always felt that after accepting this girl, he would start to enjoy his future career as a university teacher.

However, it would be a little bad if you refuse someone for the second time and the third time, because the attitude of the person is already in that way...

So, He Shen scratched his eyebrows, subconsciously touched the lollipop in his pocket, trying to calm down.

But he found that the lollipop in his pocket had been eaten, he couldn't help sighing, and said to Ji Mengting.

"Okay, since you insist so much, come on."

When Ji Mengting heard He Shen's agreement, she immediately laughed, bowed vigorously to He Shen, and thanked him deeply.

"Teacher, thank you, I hope we can cooperate happily!"

After all, she jumped off the stage and walked off the stage, not hiding her inner excitement at all.

Looking at her bouncing back, He Shen felt a headache again.

This bouncing and jumping made him suddenly think of Zhao Zitong.

Although the styles of the two are completely different, one is as elegant as the eldest lady, and the other is eccentric.

It felt like something might be wrong.

(End of this chapter)