After bowing to the audience and the judges in a daze, Zhuoluodos sat calmly and sweated. Looking at the row of snow-white keys, a gleam flashed in his eyes.

As if he turned his head casually, Valodos frowned at the direction of his side. It was the waiting room, and Valodos and the other fourteen players were waiting quietly to play. At that time, Valodos' attention was always focused on one person.

This person is nothing else, but Lu Wei!

Since the last concert, Valodos has listed Lu Wei as his only opponent who needs to surpass. Perhaps this is incomprehensible to outsiders, because no matter from the perspective of reputation, experience, Valodos should not regard this pianist who seems far from surpassing him as his opponent. Perhaps his opponent should be Lang Lang or higher, Kissin. However, only Valodos himself knew that he had a deep sense of powerlessness when facing Lu Wei's performance. It was a comprehensive defeat in terms of skills and musical performance. He studied music since he was a child and always claimed to be a genius in the piano, but until he faced Lu Wei's performance, he realized that he was actually far from a genius. Compared to Lu Wei, he was so bad.

So, since that concert, Valodos has done a move that many people seem incomprehensible.

He turned down all the concerts and competitions, locked himself in a villa in the suburbs of New York, and no one knew what he did. Many people even felt that Valodos was hit and was so depressed.

Many music fans who like him wrote to greet him and support him, but they could not have imagined what Valodos was doing during the months after leaving the stage.

Practice piano!

That's right, Valodos was practicing piano almost crazy. After the contact with Lu Wei at the concert, Valodos finally saw himself and Lu Wei clearly. After thinking about it seriously, Valodos finally realized that he could not reach the musical realm of Lu Wei, because his musical style was different from him!

Yes, I can't play "Starlight"! But why do I have to play "Starlight"? Valodos knows that he is good at skills. Since that's the case, why don't I make a breakthrough in this? Why should I go far and far?

Valodos, who figured it out, decided to focus all his energy on the breakthrough of skills. Over the past few months, he has practiced a large number of highly skilled music, from Cherny to Lister, from Chopin to Moshkovsky, Valodos chose all of the top concert etudes. At the same time, he also tried to change these music and adapted them into a Valodos-style, super-skilled version of the etudes in the Valodos style. There is also "Hanon". Valodos has to play such an exercise that everyone needs to do from beginners to pianists almost every day, and his performance is different from others. He simply pursues speed.

Generally speaking, it takes two hours to play the fingerings of "Hanon" from beginning to end, but Valodos can practice hard without intercourse. The time can be shortened to within an hour. The speed is surprising. In a few months, several hammer heads in the piano practice in his villa have broken because they cannot withstand his super-strong playing intensity. His practice for more than ten hours a day was also stunned by his economic man.

Extra-high intensity exercises are obvious. Compared to before, Valodos is absolutely a terrifying existence in terms of skills. He can even play 64 notes continuously for five minutes at the speed of a small fastball. What is this concept? The prickly color of that kind of speed is basically the sound stream connected into a piece. There is no way to distinguish every pound, sound, and the intensity of the keystroke have almost reached the limit of human finger movement! The world's top-notch piano music, such as Liszt's Super Skills series, only has more than ten seconds to appear, but he can hold on for a full five minutes. If such a result is applied for the Guinness World Record, it is absolutely fine.

Another benefit of Jing Dongxi's strength is that his sense of intimacy to the keys has reached an unprecedented intensity. The so-called sense of intimacy is actually a very emotional statement. Every pianist has such a feeling. When his hands touch the keys, the more intense this feeling, the stronger the pianist's desire to play, and the easier it is to perform beyond his level! After such high-intensity practice, Valodos's sense of intimacy to the keys has reached a very terrifying level! At this moment, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a playing machine!

"Lu Wei, I will prove my strength in my way! Watch it carefully." Valodos thought silently in his heart, raised his hands gently and placed it on the keys.

The moment he came into contact with the keys, a very familiar feeling was transmitted from his fingertips to Valodos' whole body, and he made a very wonderful feeling, just as the keys turned into extended numbers of fingertips. With the trumpet state, Valodos could even clearly feel the static damping force of the keys, as well as how much power and what kind of movement he needed to get the desired tone.

An uncontrollable impulse to play rose from his heart, and in an instant, Valodos moved!

The fingers were running quickly on the keys at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. A series of clever and weird chromatic scales, like a piece of smooth silk, instantly swung from the keys!

Liszt's super skill practices the song "Ghost Fire"!

This work, considered by music fans to be one of the most difficult etudes in the world, echoes in the Stanway Concert Hall at a speed far beyond the original song!

"Hiss!" All the audience, including the judges, took a breath of air conditioning! Even though they had heard of the ghost fire countless times, there were no one else who could perform at this speed except Valodos!

The speed of the ghost fire etude itself is a rush board. But Valodos's performance speed is obviously more than 20% faster than the speed of the score superscript!

"So fast speed! Valodos can be regarded as a wizard who can bounce the ghost fire to such an extent! It seems that he has not been idle during this period!" Looking at Valodos's performance, Lu Wei suddenly saw the difference between him and that day. Not only was the super fast speed, but Valodos's face now had a little more calmness and confidence that he had never seen at the concert before.

Valodos' upper body leaned forward slightly, and his chubby hands were as mysterious as an endless machine, rising and falling quickly, and his movements looked extremely clean and decisive!

Although each piece has its own speed, this speed is not static. Within the allowable range, the performer is allowed to choose a suitable speed according to his or her playing habits, but the premise is that the difference between the original song cannot be too large. Of course, according to Valodos's playing speed at this moment, although it is still within the allowable range, it has reached its limit.

Of course, this guy is the only guy who can increase the already extremely difficult "Ghost Fire" again. Ordinary pianists slow down when playing this song.

The song that was only four minutes and thirty seconds long. Valodos lifted it up for twenty seconds, and it took only a little more than four minutes to end the whole song.

After a series of dazzling brilliances, Valodos ended the whole song with a simply powerful chord. The moment he stood up, the audience burst into applause!

"This guy is a bit interesting." In the seat area under the stage specially prepared for contestants' observation, a Russian in a silver suit and full of hair like a fluffy hedgehog. While applauding, he chatted with a man beside him.

"This Valodos is really crazy. He dares to increase the speed of Liszt's "Ghost Fire" and is in such an international competition. However, it is not so easy to conquer the judges just by playing the skill mother." The Russian next to him said.

"No, your idea is not completely correct. Protov, skills can sometimes be sublimated into an art." The hedgehog head said, and his eyes turned to Valodos on the stage again, and the expression in his eyes became a little complicated.

"Maybe, this Stanway Masters Cup will not be as smooth as I thought. Kissin seemed to be talking to himself.

Valodos chose the second song. He chose a song called "Black Key Etude" by Chopin

This is the only song Chopin's tentative hand to the left hand, while the right hand plays a continuous specific sound to annotate the theme. The reason why it is called the Black Key Etude is because the melody of the right hand part of this song is almost all above the black keys of the piano.

There are a total of keys for the piano, and the black key is one. Compared with the white key, the black key is shorter. Moreover, since it is not on the same small plane as the white key, the fingers need to be raised higher when playing. Occasionally, one or two black keys don’t feel anything, but if almost all of them are played on the black key, the difficulty will become quite high, especially at very fast speeds. Simply playing the black key gives the pianist a feeling like walking on a high wall, lacking a sense of stability and causing huge difficulties.

However, the Black Key Etude is not a very difficult song among Chopin's etudes, but compared to other songs, this song seems more distinctive.

However, under Valodos's hands, this black key played a different meaning!
Chapter completed!