An Omni-Anime Genius? There Are So Many! What's One More? Chapter 726

"Your playing lacks feeling—expression. Right now, you're just reading the notes off the score. Your breath is so steady it might as well be solid. There's no rise or fall at all. How can you play well like that?"

Himemiya Chihaya tapped the instrument, feeling the helplessness of someone teaching a slow student.

If they weren't reasonably good-looking, and he weren't gentlemanly enough to put up with it, he might have lost his temper days ago.

The only thing more painful than studying was teaching someone else to study...

"You have to understand: even if the score shows only one note, there's a lot you can do between that note and the next—even within half a note, or between low do and middle do."

"Playing music is like reciting a speech. Saying the words correctly is just the foundation. Nobody will give you a high score for accurate but dull delivery."

"If you want a high score, you have to bring your own style and emotion to it—emotion that moves other people!"

"Beginners usually add vibrato and advanced techniques to make their playing sound more flexible. But that's just surface decoration, an illusion. It still sounds stiff."

"What really matters is whether you can freely add and take away..."

They all lacked lively emotion, but these girls were nothing like Wakaba Mū and the others.

Even without emotion, Wakaba Mū and the others had mastered their technique. Their melodies shifted and surged with their thoughts without the slightest strain, enough to make most people overlook what was missing.

Those girls truly controlled their instruments. These girls could only be described as controlled by theirs...

If Kaori reached even half of Wakaba Mū's level, he could sit back and do nothing.

At a competition, she would be one of the brightest