Chapter 104: The Innocent Little Man
"Hello!"
"Senior Xiuheng, I..."
"Kim Taeyeon, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't want to be your teacher? I don't want to be your teacher. I really don't want to be your teacher. If you call me again and tell me this, I will put you on the rejection list!" Zheng Xiuheng was already quite resentful of the girl who called him every two days. Why would she be a trainee if she loves playing the piano so much? Wouldn't it be better to learn piano?
Zheng Xiuheng really wanted to complain about these two sentences, but he held back.
Kim Taeyeon, who was on the other end of the phone, finally found out about the relationship between Zheng Xiuheng and Zheng Xiujing half a month ago. Although it was only on the surface, it made her more determined in her heart. Since she had a younger sister like Xiujing, the chances were still great.
"Senior, I just have a small question. It's not too much trouble . I just want to know that if I practice with my feet, it seems that I can't play some complicated songs. Many fingerings are difficult to do. I wonder if you have any good ideas to change it?"
Zheng Xiuheng felt a little amused and helpless about Kim Taeyeon's stubbornness. Thinking of this cute girl with fair skin, he sighed in his heart.
Zheng Xiuheng felt a headache when he thought that this would never end, but the other party was in the same company as the younger sisters, and might be teammates with Sooyeon in the future. He seemed to have a good relationship with Soojung. Zheng Xiuheng really hoped that someone in SM could take care of them.
After hearing what Kim Taeyeon said, Zheng Xiuheng felt helpless, but suddenly he had a new idea to solve this little trouble once and for all .
"Your little tricks are too obvious, don't make such lame excuses next time!"
"Ah, um, what did you say, Senior? I don't understand!"
Hearing the panicked tone, Zheng Xiuheng was sure that the girl on the other end of the phone was blushing.
Kim Taeyeon, who had just finished vocal practice, was making a phone call during the break. She was sitting in a corner with Lee Sunkyu, a friend she had just met. Her face was flushed and she looked embarrassed.
The girl sitting next to her is a newly landed paratrooper. She has long straight black hair, a cute face and a short stature. At the moment, she is looking at Kim Taeyeon with curiosity. She is mainly curious about what the senior opposite her looks like who can make Taeyeon believe that practicing piano with her feet looks like, and what kind of grudge does he have with Taeyeon?
“You know!”
"I really don't understand, senior!" Kim Taeyeon replied with a blushing face. She never expected that her idea of slowly getting to know senior Zheng Xiuheng and then starting to understand him would be shattered in an instant, not to mention the subsequent treatment methods that target the symptoms.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Now I'll give you a chance!"
"Ah? Ah! Senior, are you willing to accept me as your apprentice?" Lee Sunkyu was startled by Kim Taeyeon's scream. She looked at Huang Miyoung and others not far away, who also looked over curiously. Then she shook her head and talked worriedly about Park Injeong.
Kim Taeyeon, on the other hand, was extremely excited. She kept breathing out of her nose and looked very excited, but the next moment she became nervous.
"I'll give you ten days. After ten days, you must play the entire Ode to Joy with your feet. You can adapt the score to make it easier to play, even if it's just a single note. In the end, the judgement will be based on your continuity and pitch. As long as you can do it, I can promise to teach you to play the piano!"
For piano beginners, fingering is everything. Putting aside music knowledge, the first thing to do is to understand the structure of the piano, be able to find each note skillfully, distinguish tones, etc., and then comes the most painful fingering practice for beginners.
This kind of thing depends on talent and personal effort. Generally speaking, if you want to be able to play some nice music proficiently, rather than etudes , you will have to practice the fingering for half a year.
In fact, when learning the piano, practicing fingering basically means practicing those famous exercises. As for playing songs, of course you can also do so. No one stipulates that you cannot play other music before the fingering practice is completed.
"Ode to Joy" can also serve as a basic exercise. After all, a song can have countless versions. The simplest version, played with fingers, is actually not too difficult if it only requires continuity and pitch.
But using feet is impossible for normal people.
Kim Taeyeon was a little confused. She had been practicing playing with her feet for a long time and had made some progress, but she couldn't really play the music smoothly. Whether it was the fingering techniques of crossing fingers, spreading fingers, or chord fingering, it was impossible to do it with her feet, at least ordinary people couldn't do it.
But now, senior Zheng Xiuheng gave her a chance to modify the music. As long as she played it with monosyllables, there was still hope. The flame of struggle instantly ignited in Kim Taeyeon's heart.
"Senior, then we have a deal. I will be ready to come see you in ten days!" Kim Taeyeon replied excitedly. Her pretty face showed a happy smile, which made Lee Sunkyu beside her a little dazed. She didn't expect Taeyeon to be so beautiful when she smiled.
"Sure!" Zheng Xiuheng on the other end of the phone answered very straightforwardly, because the naive classmate Kim Taeyeon had been fooled.
It may not seem too difficult, but actually there is a lot of knowledge involved. "Ode to Joy" is a huge variation, full of solemn religious colors and magnificent momentum. It is a model work of cooperation between vocals and symphony orchestra. Through many variations on this theme, the music finally reaches a climax, which is also the peak of Beethoven's music creation.
No matter how Kim Taeyeon changes it, Zheng Xiuheng has the final say on the actual result. Based on the melody of this song, Zheng Xiuheng can already imagine that in the end Kim Taeyeon will take out the most basic "single-note playing" score for beginners to practice.
If it was a simpler song like "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", maybe it might be possible to do it, but even if "Ode to Joy" is played with a single note, because of the speed and continuity of the intervals, it might be possible to play it with your feet, but it is absolutely impossible to do it within ten days. Here I mean achieving the pitch and continuity that Zheng Xiuheng mentioned.
In addition, Zheng Xiuheng had the final right of interpretation, so he decided to deal with Kim Taeyeon, the persistent girl, in one go.
"Thank you, Senior. By the way, Senior, I..."
"how?"
"No, nothing. I will contact you in ten days!"
"Well, then hang up!"
After hanging up the phone, Kim Taeyeon looked at Jessica Jung who was sitting in the corner to rest. Ever since little Krystal came back to the company and went straight to her sister half a month ago, Jessica Jung's performance has been very poor in both practice and assessments in the past half month.
Because it was someone else's family affair, although Kim Taeyeon was curious, she did not ask any further questions. She just kept watching and felt a little worried. She had wanted to say it just now, but after thinking about it, she felt that it would be too nosy. Moreover, these three siblings seemed to have a special story that was not something that an outsider like her could understand, so she held it back.
Following Kim Taeyeon's gaze, Lee Sunkyu also sighed. Although being isolated was expected, she did not expect that this reserve group would have so many problems and seemed a little precarious.
Jessica Jung's abnormal performance in half a month and Park Injeong's extraordinary performance in the past half a month, everyone felt their noses sour when they heard her singing of "Snow Flower" in the monthly exam. To some extent, Park Injeong's singing this time reached the level of Kim Taeyeon's performance in the exam, but the company still ranked her at the bottom. However, the reason this time was not a bad performance, but disobeying the company's management.
But surprisingly, Park In-jeong was not depressed at all and still interacted with everyone with a smile, but everyone knew that she might be ready to leave.
As a result, friends who had a good relationship with Park In-jeong also had problems to varying degrees. It was also said that Lee Hwan-hee's big mouth let other seniors hear about the last competition with JYP, which resulted in Park In-jeong being scolded by the president. The result was that although no one blamed her for the incident, Lee Hwan-hee herself couldn't stand it. The girl, who was only sixteen years old, had not come to the company for three days.
And she is still isolated. As a super paratrooper, except Kim Taeyeon who is willing to contact her, even Kim Taeyeon's best friend Huang Miying rarely talks to her.
This project, called "Super Girls", seems to be full of uncertainty during this period, and there seems to be a strange undercurrent within the company. I wonder if this project will fail at this time.
"Taeyeon, take me with you next time you go to see that senior!" Shaking off these complicated thoughts, Lee Sunkyu still did what she was supposed to do. However, in order to have more time to communicate with the members, she should still contact them even after practice.
Kim Taeyeon glanced at Lee Sunkyu, thought for a moment and nodded, "Then let's go together then!"
"Um!"
“Pah!”
The dance teacher came back from the bathroom, clapped his hands, and shouted, "It's time to practice, everyone get in position!"
“Hah!”
The girls hurried back to their positions and started training, but several of them looked absent-minded.
The dance teacher felt a little uncomfortable when she saw this situation, but she also had some understanding of the situation of this team. Anyway, there was nothing she could do, but she didn't want these girls' dream-chasing journey to end here.
"Should we give Mr. Lee Soo Man a call?"
