Chapter 13: Music Professors
Mozart is said to have started composing at the age of three, and this example has always been on the lips, but who has actually seen someone who started composing at the age of three. When Alex revealed his unusual intelligence, everyone praised him as a prodigy. At first, everyone will be surprised, but after a long time, they will get used to it.
However, Alex has always played it well, at least not to make people think that he is a demon. If he pretends to be sophisticated and speaks in an old-fashioned manner, he may really be arrested and studied. If he thinks about making money, speculating in stocks, starting a company all day long, and jumping up and down, instructing his relatives to do that. Maybe he was beaten to death by Bart and Angel before he made it, and when he met such a strange child, what would he be if he didn't possess him as an evil spirit?
The legend of reincarnation has been circulating all over the world, whether in the East or in the West, there will always be such examples every once in a while. Once these suspected reborn people are reported in the newspaper, a large number of people will study them, and their every move will be observed with a magnifying glass.
Why did these people end up in obscurity? It stands to reason that they have already survived once, and there is no reason why they will be so badly mixed. Why is there no such person in the world who is rich and powerful?
This question has been pondered by Alex since he was reborn. He believes that there could be several reasons. The first is that these people are liars, and they are simply pretending to be ghosts. Second, these people did not succeed in seizing it, and were eventually wiped out by the host's soul, resulting in both defeats, and finally ending up in dementia and madness. Third, these people are really reborn, but they don't know how to be obscure, and they are subdued or arrested by relevant organizations in the shadows to study.
Either way, Alex decided that the secret of his being a reborn was best kept out of the second person. Once you reveal your identity as a reborn, you will simply get yourself in trouble, which is a thing that will do more harm than good.
Maybe the guy in history who composed music and wrote poetry at the age of three and became a prime minister at the age of twelve was actually his kind. It's just that people cover it up well, so that the world mistakenly thinks it's a prodigy.
Bart's new teacher is a university music professor with a lot of teaching experience. The professor spends his weekends working part-time to pass the time and earn extra money. When Bart first approached him, he thought he was going to teach music to sixteen or seventeen-year-old students!
When the professor knows that his students will be children under the age of five! He almost refused, but fortunately Paul knew him and came to explain it to him himself, so he reluctantly came to see him.
After meeting Alex, he got to know each other a little and found that it was exactly what Paul had said. Alex's comprehension and learning ability are very strong. No matter what music knowledge he did, as long as he taught it once, Alex would soon learn it.
"He's like a sponge, absorbing what I've taught like water!" The music professor feels that he has found a very good seedling, and as long as he takes some time to cultivate it, he will definitely be able to become a talent!
At the same time, the professor also noticed the difference between Alex and other musical geniuses in history.
A genius like Mozart has a strong sense of rhythm in music and can discern very subtle differences. The way to play the instrument is quickly mastered.
As for Alex, he is not usually very active, but he has a super strong memory and can remember it completely after only one lesson. In addition, Alex will play refreshing tunes from time to time, although it is only a few fragments, but it is already memorable.
The music professor usually had to go to college, and he could only come over on Saturdays and Sundays to teach Alex. From Monday to Friday, Paul takes over, usually during the review of what he learned over the weekend and getting familiar with the various instruments.
Under regular teaching, Alex made rapid progress. Within six months, he learned how to play accordion, piano, violin, drum kit, guitar and other instruments. Originally, with his urine nature, he didn't plan to learn honestly. But when he thought that he was already very eye-catching, wouldn't it be asking for trouble if he did something evil.
What's more, he didn't know what side effects this kind of spirit puppet would have. It was as if he had inadvertently broken into a treasure trove now, cautiously exploring. So Alex studied honestly for a while, and did not use the anti-heaven ability of spirit dolls again. Besides, if you want to copy skills, of course, you have to find top people to copy them.
"It would be nice if piano masters like Maxim and Richard were in front of me, and if I stretched out my little hand, wouldn't I be able to do anything." When Alex was practicing the piano, he was tired and thinking nonsense.
At this time, he had slowly figured out that if he wanted to make a spirit puppet, he had to be someone who had seen it with his own eyes. In this way, he can build a puppet model of the target object, and once he has the model, he can activate the puppet by touching the other person. He guessed that in the process of activation, the current he felt was actually the other party's information energy transmission.
"Forget it, the skills of puppet copying are too tricky, until you figure it out, let's learn it honestly."
Putting the opportunistic spirit puppet aside, Alex concentrates on learning from the professor. There was also the question of whether the skills copied from the puppet were permanent, and if he turned the Paul puppet into other puppets, then whether the skills copied from Paul were still there. Before he figured out this question, he thought it was better to keep it as it was.
The music professor uses the Orff method of music teaching, which is especially suitable for gifted children like Alex.
Karl Orff is a well-known German composer and music educator in the contemporary world. He was basically a self-taught master, and from his youth to his youth, he studied the works of the masters assiduously through self-study. After becoming a music master, he founded a music and dance school, and in the process of teaching, he wrote a music textbook.
Orff wrote this music textbook with the aim of "to enable students to design their own music and to accompany the movements!" ”
The teaching materials were so successful that they were eventually accepted by music educators around the world and adopted by major music schools. It can be said that this is a very scientific set of music teaching methods. The best way to quickly make beginners become talents.
Alex is particularly fond of the accordion, piano, and violin, and has practiced the most and is the most proficient.
As for the other instruments, he practiced them casually, and although he had memories of his past life, it was not of much help in practicing the instrument. He also tried to use "simulated memory" to learn music, but unfortunately failed. Unless he used spirit puppets to replicate the skills taught by music, he couldn't have learned so many instruments at once.
When using the ability, he is indeed able to reach the level of the simulated object, but once the ability state is removed, he will return himself to his original state. It's like using a high jump to increase your height, you do increase your height when you jump, but once you fall to the ground, it's the same as your original height. They even jump too high and have to bear the impact when they land.
In other words, if you use the ability more times, even if you don't exceed the limit time, you will cause subtle damage to your body. Although this kind of damage is not large, it can be adjusted over time, but it can add up and eventually have a certain impact on the body. This is also the reason why he does not dare to use the spirit puppet copying skill at will, and he is worried that there will be side effects from overusing the ability.
Alex had to look for other options, and unexpectedly, the twelve sets of movements he spent seven minutes a day were more helpful.
This seven-minute workout allows him to quickly master his body and develop his potential. One of the benefits is that it allows him to improve his precision on the muscles.
At first, he didn't notice that. However, he soon discovered that whenever he finished these twelve sets of movements and then practiced the music, he mastered the instrument much faster than him.
In contrast, if he used the memorization technique and then practiced it, his improvement was very slow.
"It doesn't make sense, I recall the details of the last performance in my mind before every performance, and I should improve faster! How could it be a little slower? Puzzled, he did some experiments to compare.
Whenever he was tired from practicing, Alex would do twelve sets of movements as a rest. I didn't expect that after the break, his practice level would improve by leaps and bounds.
This seven-minute workout was known to adults half a year ago, and it is no secret in Carpenter's house. The Carpenter were not surprised, they thought it was where the children had learned gymnastics.
"After a seven-minute break, you'll feel refreshed again!" Alex was surprised to find that such high-intensity movements really allowed the brain to rest and release extra energy from the body at the same time.
"You can do that! Could it be that this set of movements is some kind of martial arts cheats? Alex was speechless, but these twelve sets of movements were really not high-intensity exercises for him who had been doing them consistently, at most they were just a set of gymnastics exercises.
Alex has been able to learn the instrument much faster since he adopted the correct learning method, but this is relatively normal in the eyes of others. Because Alex has a problem, that is, he is not focused enough on doing things and likes to be lazy. He wanted to do too many things, and as a result, he would try everything with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west.
Lazy people have a characteristic that they like shortcuts and spend a lot of time and energy to find ways to save time and trouble.
"By the way, it seems that the full memory ability can be used like this!" Alex had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way to improve his speed in practicing his instrument.
His method was to use his complete memory to remember the most perfect movement he played. He only had to memorize every detail of that time, and then he could rehash that fragment in his memory, as if he were practicing it over and over again in real time.
Alex's method has a certain theoretical basis, human beings continue to carry out repetitive training, in fact, they are carrying out repeated muscle memory, only the muscles of the body need to remember the action, then it can be perfectly repeated in the future. He has a complete memory that ordinary people don't have, so it stands to reason that every time he recalls a complete memory, he repeats the action at that time.
With this method, Alex's proficiency in various musical instruments has grown exponentially.
"Wow ha! Memorizing this thing completely is a big killer for learning! With such a powerful plug-in, no matter what I learn, it won't be difficult for me! Alex has finally realized the benefits of his own ability, and now he can quickly master an instrument in a few tenths of the time it takes others.
Subconsciously, he thinks that what he has learned from using spirit dolls is too overbearing and not the right way, and he still doesn't dare to use it indiscriminately unless necessary. Only the "retrospective" and "simulated memory" derived from complete memory, these two abilities, are the two abilities that he uses the most.
In the beginning, Alex didn't seem to be very enlightened about the practice of musical instruments in the eyes of the professor. Ever since he used the new usage of full memory, his performance has been jaw-dropping!
Since his first successful performance in the tavern, Alex has become a "celebrity" in the area! Soon, he was invited to perform in various public places, schools, churches, parties, etc.
Most of the performances of this nature are of a public interest nature, and at most they can only earn a few dollars. This extra income is small, but it can help ease some of the burden on the family.
Sometimes, Bart's band would take Alex with him to perform in various regions. He is also called to the concerts held by musicians, and in such concerts, there are some popular performances from time to time. The dominant music of this era was black blues and white country music.
He sometimes goes to concerts in Chicago with the adults, and more often than not, Bart goes to the concert on his behalf. Every time Bart came back, he brought a lot of useful information, and a lot of news about the music scene came from his mouth.
Another means of obtaining information is the radio, which Alex particularly likes to make sounds, and will hold it all day, wherever he goes.
"In this era of no computers, no Internet, and even TV is a luxury, what can you do without listening to the radio?" Alex thought with some resentment, he was still a little uncomfortable with this kind of news-poor life, and could only listen to some news every day.
Sometimes when he gets bored, he will immerse himself in his spiritual world, reading the video materials, books and news left behind in his previous life. In the mental space, he can flip through the things in his past memories at will, the TV plays the videos he watched in the past, the radio plays the music in his memory, and the bookshelf puts the books he has read.
With this means of entertainment, he seems to have returned to his original otaku life. In addition to going out to perform, he stays at home, sometimes in the real world, sometimes in the spiritual space.