My girlfriend is a cellist

Video recordings of the competition of 38 contestants.?

Lin Tian was surprised:
"No, when did you see it?"

"I started reading it as soon as I landed in Vienna. I read it every night. I asked Mr. He Zhichen to find the information for me."

Lin Tian then remembered.

No wonder Gan Yanyu has been looking at his phone much more frequently since they arrived in Vienna three days ago.

Even when eating or shopping, Gan Yanyu would put on headphones and take out her phone to watch TV when she had some free time.

Lin Tian didn't think much about it. He thought Gan Yanyu was looking up information about where to have fun in Vienna, recording her life, etc. After all, as a little girl, it was normal for her to like playing with her phone when traveling.

Unexpectedly, Gan Yanyu was actually watching the opponent's game video?
"I'm not sure how much this will help our performance, but I think it's better than doing nothing. As long as there's a direction to work towards, I want to give it a try first."

"Besides, you've been trying to get me to adjust my mindset these past two days. I think if I could watch all the game videos of our main opponents and understand their performance levels, I'd have a better idea of ​​what to expect. That way, no matter what happens, we can face it calmly."

Gan Yanyu finished speaking seriously.

"So how do you feel now?"

Lin Tian asked carefully.

His original intention was to bring Gan Yanyu to the first stage to gain confidence.

This girl is so good, she secretly went to study the opponent in the second stage!

What if I feel even less confident after watching it?

How many people's mentality collapses when they are studying their opponents.

"Although I can't say I can win, but..."

Gan Yanyu played with her fingers, paused, and said a little embarrassedly,

“I think none of them can do it.”

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Instantly, Lin Tian hugged Gan Yanyu and started crying bitterly on the spot:

"My little Gan has grown up, woooooo"

“There are so many people!!”

Gan Yanyu's face turned red and she grabbed Lin Tian's arm and tried to break free.

However, in Lin Tian's warm embrace, she finally gave up struggling and breathed gently on Lin Tian's arm.

She also knew how difficult Lin Tian's life was.

Starting from Qingzhou, the two officially stepped onto the stage for the first time to play together.

Gan Yanyu's character flaws have been causing constant trouble for Lin Tian.

It is hard to imagine how much trouble a cellist with severe mental illness and asthma could cause to his partner.

The issue of not being able to pick up the bow with confidence has always been a topic throughout Gan Yanyu and Lin Tian’s musical careers.

Even now, in Vienna.

Lin Tian was still thinking of ways. Before the competition officially started, he brought Gan Yanyu to the competition site of the first stage to adjust his mentality.

Gan Yanyu saw all of Lin Tian's efforts.
now,

Now Gan Yanyu gradually realized that he was actually very strong.

In fact, he is not inferior to any world-class cellist here.

Although this was just a small thing, it had a huge impact on Gan Yanyu's mentality.

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Somehow.

Gan Yanyu opened her mouth and bit Lin Tian's arm.

"Ouch!"

Lin Tian quickly let go of his hand, looked at Gan Yanyu who was curled up like a little white rabbit in his arms, and then looked at the teeth marks on his arm.

In Lin Tian's confused eyes, Gan Yanyu smiled sweetly:
"I owe you this hug. Please give it back to me when you get back."

"Okay."

Lin Tian agreed reluctantly but with relief.

He looked around again.

There were about 20 contestants in the viewing area today, but a quarter of the recommended cellists still did not come to watch the competition.

For example, Nanali, and Isaac, the rival that Wanqi repeatedly emphasized.

Although Gan Yanyu said, "After watching the video, I feel that they are all not good enough."

However, this only shows that Gan Yanyu is in a very good state of mind now, enough to play any song with Lin Tian, ​​but it does not really mean that these people are not good enough, and they still cannot take it lightly.

but,

That's enough.

After listening to what Gan Yanyu said just now, Lin Tian now has a choice in his mind.

A piece he had been hesitant about whether to play at the Cole Cup now seemed like a viable option.

Lin Tian stood up:
"Let's go."

"You're not going to finish it?"

Gan Yanyu raised her head and asked.

"No, we'll go back now."

After hearing this, Gan Yanyu was silent for a while.

Then the expression on her face was a little subtle, and she said:

"You can't wait to hug me?"

"no!!"

Gan Yanyu's words made Lin Tian confused. He covered his face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"There's no need to watch it. We came to watch the first stage of the competition to help you get into shape, right?"

Although it's a bit hurtful to say so.

But after watching these games, although it looks intimidating at first glance, to be realistic, so far no player can pose a substantial threat to Gan Yanyu.

It is definitely an exaggeration to say that they have "studied the opponents" in advance. They just come here to "gain confidence."

Fortunately, the conversation between the two was now in Chinese, and none of the nearby pianists could understand it.

Otherwise, in their eyes, if two people with connections came to "gain confidence" in the first stage of the competition, they would definitely be annoyed to death.

"We'll go back now."

Lin Tian said,

"I've got an idea of ​​what to play."

After leaving the Golden Hall, the two took a car and returned to the International Hotel.

These days, Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu stayed in this hotel. As the capital of music, Lin Tian was happy that many hotels and apartments here had supporting music facilities, and there were a lot of "piano rooms".

They were staying in a grand hotel in Vienna that was said to have a history of 200 years.

The lobby on the first floor is filled with posters of various celebrities, with small introductions below.

In 18XX, the famous pianist stayed here when he participated in a certain performance.

In 19XX, the patriotic musician XX created the XXX Symphony that shocked the world in room XXX of the hotel.

All kinds of introductions and history like this are found in every corner of the hotel.

The building is very much in keeping with the architectural features of the medieval European Renaissance, and there is also a white artistic statue standing at the door.

Entering and exiting such a hotel is itself an extreme emotional value.

Suddenly I felt like I was a great musician in the 19th century who was about to perform in the Golden Hall.

Back in the room, Lin Tian came to the piano.

Before officially playing, Lin Tian started to test the sound on the piano.

These days, Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu's life in Vienna can be described as relaxing.

The competition is about to start in about a week.

But Lin Tian never touched the piano in the room. They always relaxed on the city streets of Vienna, eating and playing every day, without any musical activities at all.

The main reason is that Lin Tian has not yet decided what song to play.

This is extremely explosive even for any musician who is about to participate in the Cole Cup.

But after returning from today's qualifying round, Lin Tian already had a judgment in his mind.

After a successful audition, he quickly played a piece on the piano.

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Just a very simple piece of music.

The light melody and dynamic music immediately attracted Gan Yanyu.

"It sounds good!"

Gan Yanyu was surprised.

"What song is this?"

"March."

Lin Tian said.

If, in the case of the same "general genre" of classical music.

Be it a symphony or a waltz, any piece of music can be unpleasant to the ear.

But marches usually do not have the right to be "bad-sounding".

It's like having a midnight snack.

All chefs who make high-fat, high-calorie foods taste bad should be shot.

Unpalatable, bland, tasteless. Such adjectives can only appear in low-oil, low-fat, healthy and green foods.

I was eating high-fat and high-calorie foods, I was eating midnight snacks, and I was overdrawing my health.

You can actually serve me a pile of shit? ?

The situation is similar with the march.

As a musical genre with distinct functions, the artistic characteristics of the march are very obvious.

Marches are also divided into classical marches and modern marches.

The typical 2/4 beat is actually the acoustic mirror image of the resonant frequency of human walking. For example, the first 32 bars of Elgar's "Pomp and Glory March", in which the rhythm of the Victorian Guards' leather boots tapping on cobblestones is reproduced, is very exciting.

Modern marches, such as John Williams' Imperial March in "Star Wars", use fractal rhythm algorithms to deconstruct traditional dotted rhythms into golden ratio pulses, bringing the audience the ultimate auditory enjoyment in a musical score that looks like a mathematical formula.

As to why marches sound good to the ears, there are some nonsense like the fact that the creative mechanism is a perfect fusion of biological evolution codes, neurodynamics and acoustic engineering, or that modern brain science research shows that after continuously listening to marches for 15 minutes, the neural plasticity of the premotor cortex is enhanced, which is equivalent to the physiological effect of 2 hours of military goose-step training.

Lin Tian has all of them in the [Mastery of Music Theory] in his brain.

But he was too lazy to flip through it. It was too long and too boring, and he was not interested.

In short, fundamentally speaking,
A good march is hard to be unpleasant to the general public.

And some "very nice" marches.

Generally speaking, a song that has a wider range of singing and dominance, even if it is not as significant and influential as some other seemingly more awesome works, is still as popular as any of these masterpieces that have a pivotal position in music history even after hundreds of years.

And this is the song that Lin Tian is playing now.

It is one of those “very nice to listen to” marches.

It can be said that no other march is as popular as this one.

It is not an exaggeration to call him the "Emperor of March".

"Why did you suddenly think of this song?"

Gan Yanyu asked from the side.

Since landing in Vienna, Lin Tian has been in a state of "no hurry" and "no hurry".

She didn't urge him, but Lin Tian was really not in a hurry.

Until the Cole Cup officially started today, Lin Tian did not say which song they would play.

Gan Yanyu didn't have any objections.

If she was really anxious, she would have urged Lin Tian a long time ago. She now has absolute trust in Lin Tian.

Even if Lin Tian showed the music score to Gan Yanyu the night before the second stage, Gan Yanyu would definitely believe Lin Tian.

But she was more curious.

Why only after watching the first stage?

Why this song?

"Because, although this piece of music looks simple, it is very difficult to play to your strengths and bring out the highest emotions on stage."

Lin Tian explained,
“What it requires is a state of absolute self-confidence!”

"Absolutely confident?"

"Ah."

Lin Tian had wanted to perform this piece of music on the competition stage a long time ago, but he had never had a good opportunity.

To a large extent, this is because this piece of music requires a "Gan Yanyu who has absolute confidence in his abilities" to play it well.

In essence, this kind of music is somewhat similar to the "Can-Can".

It’s fine if they just create videos and post them on online platforms, but once they perform on stage, they have to act as if “no one else is around” and immerse themselves completely in their own world.

If it is emotionally deep, sad music, the requirements are not that high.

Because this type of music comes with its own stories, Gan Yanyu can easily immerse herself in it. Moreover, even if she is affected by the reality of the judges and the audience, these influences will not interrupt Gan Yanyu because she is standing on the stage and is "nervous" and "fearful".

But the emotions of "joy", "romance" and "elation" in this march are different.

It actually requires a higher level of mentality.

When you are under stress, it is easier to tell humor from sadness than to feel sad.

to be frank,
It was my first time in Vienna and my first time standing on the stage of the Golden Hall.

Even someone like Lin Tian couldn't help but feel nervous.

It is so difficult to ignore everyone else on the stage and immerse yourself in your own happy world.

but,

In the viewing room just now, Gan Yanyu showed that he was "insolent" and didn't take any opponent seriously.
Although it was only a moment, and Gan Yanyu herself was somewhat frightened when she said these words.

But Lin Tian thought that this was enough.

On stage, they can definitely do this to the extreme.

Lin Tian took out a pen and paper and quickly wrote down the music score.

And finally wrote down the name of this piece of music composed by Mozart on the title of the paper:

"Turkish March".

Time flies quickly.

In a blink of an eye,
The second stage of the world "Cole Cup" cello competition has arrived!
Early this morning,
He put on a new suit and a tie of the same color as Gan Yanyu's dress.

The moment we walked out of the hotel room and smiled at each other.

They all know it.

Today is destined to be the day they become famous in Vienna!
Lin Tian took the girl's hand and set off. (End of this chapter)