world number one pianist

Chapter 193: Not enough time...

He Shen probably guessed what the director was thinking, so after the end, he followed up with Xu Yuqi, and then he took Ji Mengting and the two unlucky children directly back to the Jiangzhou Normal University Conservatory of Music .

A few days later, Xu Yuqi also returned to the Music College of Jiangzhou Normal University to study with other teachers in the school.

She originally wanted to come to He Shen, but when she took piano lessons with He Shen, she found that He Shen had stopped any lessons.

According to the information provided by the school, He Shen has now entered the stage of preparing for the competition.

This is the news given by the school, and it is also He Shen's idea.

The Chopin International Piano Competition is getting closer and closer, and within a few months, it is necessary to submit the video of the preliminary round to the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee.

Although it is said that He Shen already has enough repertoires to submit the pre-selection round of videos, but...

He is still a little bit away from the repertoire of the competition...

It is still short of all Chopin's etudes, as well as barracks, scherzos, mazurkas, grand waltzes, and works in these categories.

These things seem to be a lot, but in fact they are not too many, because He Shendu has already pulled them all up to Lv5 level.

Unfortunately...Lv5 is not enough.

If it's just an ordinary school level competition, Lv5 level works can basically kill everyone in seconds.

No one can fight against him at all.

After all, before, for example, in the music higher education competition in China, the strongest freshman was his own student, Ji Mengting

Her strength is barely Lv5, and she can get No.1 with this kind of performance.

If I hold a Lv5 peak work, it is relatively easy to beat those people.

However, if this competition is held nationwide, if Lv5 level works are played enough to enter the finals of the competition, there will be nothing else to go further.

Just like the Golden Piano Awards I participated in before, those who can enter the finals can basically touch the edge of Lv9, and they may enter Lv9 at any time and play master-level works.

For example, Yue Li, Pei Qi, and Fu Tiao.

These people definitely have works of Lv9 level in their hands!After all, these people are all the existence that the whole school has vigorously cultivated!

And if you put this, only Lv5 works, into a world-level competition...

so sorry...

Works of Lv5 level are basically embarrassing.

Those people don't have a Lv7 or Lv8, so they are embarrassed to show their hands.

That is to say, the highest level that one can achieve, the top level under the master

Basically this is what it looks like.

It's not that He Shen has never heard those people play the piano, but from the audio, he heard the level of the champions in the past few years.

If the competition is young, the champion level is basically around Lv9, ranging from Lv9-Lv10.

But if there is a competition year...

The strongest works played by those champions are basically all Lv10, without any accidents!
If my own works, the newly prepared works, no matter what, they need to at least reach a very high level.

Lv6 is a must, and Lv5 is basically eliminated steadily, without any hope of advancing.

Lv6, Lv7, Lv8, I must reach this level in the shortest possible time!
He Shen sat on the sofa in one of his piano rooms, looking through the glass at the campus of Jiangzhou Normal University.

The school is beautiful, as spring draws to a close and summer approaches.

The green in the whole school is getting more and more colorful.

This also means that the competition is getting closer and closer, and his time is getting less and less...

He Shen touched his chin with serious eyes.

I got up and walked to the window, stretched out my hand to open the window, breathed the cool wind outside the window, looked outside, and kept thinking about music in my mind.

Unconsciously, he took out a lollipop from his pocket and put it in his mouth.

Then soon, he threw it into the trash can with an ugly face.

This lollipop is actually the coriander flavored lollipop that I threw on my desk before, but when and by whom, I put it back in my pocket again?

Really, this coriander-flavored lollipop is really strange, full of coriander flavor, without a trace of sweetness at all, just like eating coriander.

It's not even as good as the aloe vera juice sold to me by the boss's daughter in front of my house before!
That aloe vera juice-flavored lollipop is at least sweet!
And this thing has no sweetness at all!

In addition, He Shen is the kind of person who refuses to touch coriander to the death. There is coriander in the food he eats, and he will pick it all out and put it aside.

Thinking of this place, He Shen directly took out all the lollipops, picked out the coriander-flavored lollipops, and threw them into the small basket above the piano, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

At the very least, this way you won't get lollipops with weird flavors.

He Shen looked at the pile of lollipops in his hand, hesitated for a moment, picked a yellow lollipop at random, put it in his mouth, and then forced a smile.

Kumquat lemon flavor, sweet and sour, more traditional taste...

But I don't know how many times better than the coriander-flavored lollipop!
He Shen nodded silently, blowing the cool wind outside the window, looking at the sheet music he had just bought in his hand, his face continued to regain his calmness and innocence.

The work he is currently working on is a famous work by Chopin, the Scherzo.

The most important thing for him now is to come up with this scherzo first.

This scherzo is not difficult for He Shen, so He Shen intends to come up with it first, and then use it when it enters the second round.

He Shen has already decided on the repertoire for his first round.

First of all, there are two etudes by Chopin. He Shen intends to use these two works directly after his memory is unlocked.

Now my own Chopin etudes, several well-known works, such as Dongfeng Torrent, have been practiced by myself before, and they look like Lv6-Lv7, which belong to my own masterpieces.

The other works are Lv5, waiting for the memory to be unlocked.

After his own memory is unlocked, no matter which Chopin etude he has in his hand, it is directly at the level of Lv9.

Then after a little practice, you will be able to reach Lv10!

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for these Chopin etudes to overturn.

Then the first round still needs two works, and He Shen decided to choose Nocturne for one and Ballad for the other.

These are very simple things. He Shen only needs to practice hard and pick them up again, and basically he can complete what he needs in the first round.

The first round should not take too long, basically half an hour is enough.

If there is not enough time, I can also add some other works to fill up the time a little bit.

All of these things that he has are basically already part of his repertoire.

At least, they all look like Lv10.

Therefore, He Shen didn't have the slightest worry about it.

Then there is the second round of works.

For the second round of works, these things are very difficult, and it is difficult to produce them in the first time.

Now I can come up with another ballad, or two ballades in the second round.

Chopin's Nocturnes and Chopin's Polonaises can also be brought out a little bit more.

However, there is not enough time and the number of tracks is too thin!
He now needs to prepare other works to cope with this game!
The first thing He Shen chose was Chopin's Scherzo, which is the book He Shen is holding now.

This scherzo is no stranger to He Shen.

In fact, He Shen has practiced it a long time ago, and has practiced it many times.

When He Shen was still at Wuzhou Conservatory of Music, this work belonged to He Shen's previous masterpiece.

After all, works like Scherzo are basically compulsory courses for He Shen and the others.

And He Shen also used the scherzo to win awards in the school.

Therefore, it is not very difficult for He Shen to pick it up and continue playing now.

He Shen only read it a few times, and then directly restored this work to the state of Lv5.

Then... He Shen got stuck here.

It's been too long, what He Shen often practiced is usually Chopin's etudes, that is, the few Lv7 etudes that he himself practiced before, those are the ones he often practiced.

This piece of work, even if it reached Lv6 before, is completely useless now...

And the most critical problem, that is, the most difficult problem, is how to restore this piece of work from the state of Lv5 to the state of Lv6.

As long as I can recover to Lv6, then I can upgrade from Lv6 to Lv8, which will become extremely easy.

All of these are from ready-made experience. It didn't take much time for He Shen to upgrade Chopin's Prelude and Chopin's Polonaise from Lv6 to Lv8.

Just like that, He Shen sat directly on the sofa, enjoying the wind, basking in the sun, eating lollipops, and looking at the score.

He looked very leisurely, but He Shen's brows were tightly frowned...

Trying to analyze every trace of the composer on the score.

From time to time, the fingers run a few times on the piano.

Let yourself be able to feel very clearly the flow of music in your hands.

These are very important things.

While He Shen was looking at the music score, his mobile phone rang suddenly, and there was a very familiar name on it.

"But Professor"

Looking at the name, He Shen's eyes couldn't help but brighten. He immediately stood up from the sofa, walked to the window, closed the window so that the outside sound would not be transmitted into the room, and then connected the phone. Pass.

As soon as the phone was connected, Professor Dan Yi's voice came directly.

"He Shen, hahaha, I watched your video, and you can play it well, how do you feel? Did you have fun?"

But Professor Yi laughed a few times at He Shen, and didn't care about He Shen's previous performance at all, it was just a very ordinary performance at Lv6 level.

This kind of performance, as long as it is the kind of person who is a little closer to the top, will not care, but Dan Yi said this, probably following He Shen.

I have been paying attention to He Shen.

But after Professor Yi exchanged a few words with He Shen, he did not wait for He Shen's answer, but continued to talk to He Shen.

"He Shen, let me tell you, you can play this concert just for fun. It's good to improve your own influence in China, but don't take it as your main job at present, you know? Your current goal , not here."

"Um……"

He Shen nodded at the phone, and suddenly realized that Dan Yi couldn't see him nodding, so he switched the phone from his left hand to the other hand, and said to Professor Dan Yi.

"Well, I know, so I turned down their request for a later concert and went back to school."

"Yes, you have done a good job on this point. After all, your main goal now is the Chopin International Piano Competition. If you can't enter the Chopin International Piano Competition and win the prize, all these reputations are all vain!"

But Yiyu said earnestly: "How are you preparing for the competition recently? How is the repertoire? I haven't come to Jiangzhou recently, so I don't know the situation on your side."

He Shen glanced at the music score beside him, and said, "The repertoire is almost ready, and now there are only a few songs left."

"I have already prepared the works in the first round. The works I chose are two Chopin etudes. Don't worry about the etudes. The remaining two are Chopin's Nocturne Op27No1 and Chopin's Ballad. a."

"The works in the second round are similar, but I'm still missing a little..."

"A little less?"

Dan Yi was stunned for a moment, his voice was obviously hesitant, after thinking for a while, he asked He Shen.

"Which works are you missing?"

"The second round lacks Chopin's Scherzo, Chopin's Mazurka, and Chopin's Waltz. The time is 45-50 minutes. I'm still not sure about the specific repertoire and which works I should choose."

"The third round of works...I haven't decided yet."

When He Shen talked about the third round of works, he hesitated a little.

He is currently in the third round, and the best thing to use is a full set of preludes.

This is definitely no problem, he can use this work.

However, apart from this work, he still has a lot of works...

For example, other works of Chopin.

His own ballad should not be used in the third round, and his own Polonaise should not be used either.

In the third round, the works that basically need to be performed are generally based on Mazurka, and then supplemented by Chopin's preludes and Chopin's sonatas.

If the repertoire was arranged for him, He Shen's first reaction was to let himself play Chopin's Mazurkas and the complete set of Chopin's preludes, so as to make enough time for a whole piece of work.

The third round will take a full hour...

For an hour, He Shen can guarantee that his prelude can occupy half an hour, but what about other works?
What other works can I use to fill the repertoire time?
When He Shen thought about this place, he couldn't help feeling a little heavy.

He found that there seemed to be many, many fewer works that he could produce.

It's Chopin's Scherzo, Chopin's Sonata, Chopin's Mazurka...

these things……

He Shen hesitated for a moment, looked at his mobile phone, and said slowly to Professor Danyi on the other end of the mobile phone.

"For the third round of works, I decided that the repertoire should be Chopin's Prelude. However, I am still short of works, and I am still short of many, many Mazurkas. My time may not be enough."

"But the fourth round of the Chopin Concerto, I'm ready, but..."

"But I don't know, whether I can enter the fourth round and successfully enter the final..."

"Um……"

Dan Yi on the other end of the phone was also obviously a little silent, and he also suddenly realized this.

He knew He Shen, and he naturally knew the works that He Shen had in his hands.

All of Chopin's Polonaises, all of Chopin's Preludes, all of Chopin's Ballads, one of Chopin's Nocturnes, one of Chopin's Concertos.

Others, gone...

These works are basically He Shen's strongest works, so powerful that he can't see through He Shen's realm at all.

Already the kind played by a master!
Although it can't reach the level of the master's most perfect recording, his performance is already at the level of those masters holding a concert under normal circumstances.

He doesn't need to worry about these works at all.

Then the problem is coming...

How did He Shen survive the first three rounds and enter the final?

The first round, as well as the qualifying round, but don't worry, Chopin's two etudes, plus a nocturne and a ballade, are enough, and there is no problem in entering the second round.

But in the second round, problems began to appear.

The repertoire should be as varied as possible.

For He Shen's current works, in the second round, one ballad, one polonaise, one missing waltz, one missing set of prescribed mazurka...

The second round has already begun to reduce works...

The third round, let alone...

He Shen can only take out half of the repertoire, and He Shen can play a Polonaise that is within the regulations.

Fantasy Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 61.

what's next?

What piece will you play next?
Gone……

The most important thing for He Shen now is Mazurka and waltz.

Best of all, add a set of Chopin's Scherzo.

It's impossible, He Shen, for the judges, play all of Chopin's Polonaises once?

This is totally impossible!

Therefore, the task...

Incomparably heavy...

Dan Yi looked at the phone in his hand, he pursed his lips hard, and after a while, he spoke to He Shen.

"He Shen, you have to keep in mind what I'm going to tell you next!"

"It's April now, and you submit the video of the first round of qualifiers in June. This is a rule, so I won't tell you much about it. Just do it as much as you can. I know several specialties in Haicheng. Great recording hall, I will give you the address later, you can go to them, but this is all trivial, don't worry about it."

"Then, in May, I need to see you give me two works, a waltz, and a scherzo, and you need to prepare them for me quickly, and I need you to be able to do it, before you show me Polonaise level! Is that okay?"

"If not, then we can only make other plans..."

"For example, give up certain works and make certain works a pull-point item, with a relatively low score, and scratch the line."

"This is very dangerous. If you don't do well, you may be eliminated directly. I don't want us to choose this..."

"So, please complete the work in your hands as soon as possible, and I will also make preparations to help you improve."

"Therefore, in May, I will come to you. In May, this is the last deadline, and it is impossible to delay any longer!"

"He Shen, can you?"

He Shen looked at the mobile phone next to his ear, nodded slowly, and spoke to Danyi very seriously.

"Well, I'll do my best!"

"Do my best, as much as possible..."

　The remaining one is at eight o'clock in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)