There is a saying
Don't be afraid of people who are more talented than you
I'm just afraid that talented people will work harder than you
Those who are called masters, each has an inspirational story of their own, and everyone has experienced a long period of hard practice. How long do they practice every day?
Beethoven
In Beethoven's childhood, his strict father asked him to practice the piano and violin for more than 8 hours a day, even in the cold winter. After Beethoven became famous, he continued to study like a schoolboy and worked hard to improve his piano playing skills.
Later generations passed on his hard-earned good story: Beethoven put a basin of cold water next to him, he put his hands in the basin of water from time to time to soak, and then dried his hands, and continued to practice, it turned out that his playing was like a storm.
His ten fingers kept moving, it was hot, in order to keep practicing, a basin of cold water was almost dipped, the floor was also sprinkled with water, the water slowly flowed downstairs, and the women who listened to the gods when their dresses were wet, they found the leaking water, and they shouted in surprise: "The roof is leaking rain!"
Liszt
Liszt studied under Cherny, and since then he has walked back and forth for more than two hours to class, practicing for 4-5 hours a day, although his piano skills were already very skilled.
But in order to achieve higher achievements, he still started from the basic skills, three degrees, six degrees, eight degrees, fingering exercises, tremolo, and huacai sections were his daily must-practices, his skills and expressiveness were unmatched at that time, and he was called "the king of the piano" by posterity.
Ashkenazzi
Russian pianist Ashkenazzi said: "I practice about 3 to 4 hours a day. Practicing is a very tiring thing, even if it is only 3 to 4 hours a day, it will be very exhausting, because practicing the piano requires full dedication. Everyone is different, so the practice time required will be different. ”
Maxim
When war broke out in 1990, the Croatian pianist Maxim and his teacher were not afraid of the harsh environment, and although they were trapped in the cellar for eight days, they still practiced for seven hours a day and held concerts in the war. He eventually won the Grand Piano Prize at the Zagrab Music Competition and the first prize in the Pontos Piano Competition in Paris.
Jiang Dingxian
In the early 1940s, when China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered its most difficult period, when the conditions of the Chongqing National Conservatory of Music were very simple, the school's piano room was set up in a grass house on the top of the hill, leaking water when it rained, there was no electricity, and it was only illuminated by tung oil lamps. But every morning, as soon as the bell rang, the piano room heard the melodious sound of playing Chopin's round dance and improvisational fantasies, and the students knew that this was Teacher Jiang Dingxian practicing.
Yin Chengzong
Yin Chengzong said: "Although my current title is Professor of the Cleveland Conservatory of Music in the United States, my hand playing the piano has never stopped. I have to practice for at least 5 or 6 hours a day, and when I come across a show, I have to increase it to more than 8 hours."
Lang lang
Lang Lang said: "When I was a child, I loved watching football games, but practicing was my main task every day, and every time I saw half of the game, I had to practice." Lang Lang often practiced bare-chested, he began practicing at six o'clock every morning, and was very punctual every minute and second, so that some neighbors did not have to look at their watches every day at work, and they got up as soon as they heard Lang Lang's piano.
Later, he went to Sendai, Japan to participate in the international competition of young musicians of Tchaikovsky, during the competition, he seized the time to practice hard, did not leave the piano room during the noon break, sometimes he was really tired, he lay down on the floor, took a nap, and finally he won the honor for the motherland with excellent results.
Kong Xiangdong
Kong Xiangdong said: "If you don't pay, you don't get it, and the threshold for entering art is not an easy thing." It is impossible to appreciate art without immersion and master the know-how of art.
Paying is a continuous effort, not to be able to play a few songs today and always play, not so. Or you need to keep paying. In middle school, I practiced for a maximum of 18 and a half hours."
Bao Hui Buck
1961 was a very important year for Bao Hui's piano career, and she was ready to participate in the domestic audition of the second George Enescu International Piano Competition. There are only more than half a year from the selection to the official participation, and it is really urgent for Bao Huisa to prepare a total of three rounds of competition repertoire.
It was just after New Year's, the coldest season of the year. Her piano room is a bungalow, every day to make their own fire, often forget to add coal when practicing, the fire is extinguished and have to start again. Summer is coming, the house is small and impermeable, every day is sweaty like rain, the body is full of prickly heat, summer practice three volts winter practice nine cold.
Bao Hui buck had only one belief in his heart: he must win glory for the country. She eventually won the fifth prize at the 2nd George Enescu International Piano Competition.
Liu Shikun
In September 1956, Liu Shikun and Gu Shengnian went to Moscow on behalf of Chinese artists to participate in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, which was recognized as the highest standard and the most difficult piano competition, in order to win time and not be disturbed by the outside world, Liu Shikun bought more than ten pounds of bread and sausages, and he locked himself in the piano room.
Practice the keyboard for 16 or 17 hours a day, and when you are hungry, you will eat bread with raw lemon and sugar. After arduous training, Liu Shikun, with the cooperation of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, played Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, which won warm applause from the judges and peers, and won the second place in one fell swoop.
Xu Zhong
Xu Zhong showed an extraordinary musical talent as a child. At the age of 4, his parents used the only 800 yuan of savings in the family to buy him an old piano, and on this old piano, Xu Zhong began his career as a piano child.
In September 1986, the 18-year-old Xu Zhong came to Paris to learn piano performance, in the Paris Conservatory of Music for 6 years, he brought bread into the piano room every day, a practice is more than ten hours, hard practice finally achieved fruitful results, in the fifth Tokyo International Piano Competition, Xu Zhong miraculously won six of the seven awards.
Chen Sa
Chen Sa said: "More than ten years ago, when I was in Chongqing, I was a primary school student. Just every two weeks, under the leadership of my mother, take the train to Chengdu to take a class with Mr. Dan Zhaoyi, I must admit that for a small child, the process of just learning the piano is always arduous.
On the issue of practice time, I personally think that there are always different priorities at different stages, so the timing will be very different. Either way, I now promise to practice for 3 or 4 hours a day. ”
Zhou Guangren
Teacher Zhou Guangren and a master who moved a piano, suffered an accident with a broken finger, and gradually recovered after careful treatment by the doctor, he said: "When I started practicing, I was wearing rubber gloves. It's like a doctor's thin glove with a little cotton padded in front of it.
So when I play on the piano, I don't directly touch hard things, so I slowly start to move..., until now it still hurts, so it hurts to knock, but now the pain is a pain with numbness, not like a prickly pain, so it doesn't matter. I'm still playing the piano now." One year and two days later, Zhou Guangren's "Return to stage concert" was held in the auditorium of Peking University.
Seeing this, do you find that your practice time is simply beyond the reach of the masters? A piece of hard work and a harvest, from now on to work hard, one day you have your own inspirational story!