Reborn in America

Chapter 9: Mr. Paul

Paul Harrison is a German-American in his sixties with a burly stature and red hair. High-speed update

He only immigrated to the United States during World War II, and was penniless when he first arrived in the United States. Because I was good at accordion, I got a job in a tavern. In the pub, I sang while playing the accordion, and sometimes I worked as a bartender. I have been working until now.

He is also a member of the "Owl" band, but he is a cameo member, usually he has to go to work at night, and only have free time during the day.

Bart, on the contrary, has to go to work during the day and have time at night. Because of this, their band members often change.

"Hey, Paul! This is my son Alex!" Bart introduced Alex to Paul, and then explained Paul's identity to his son. "In the future, Paul will be your teacher. He will teach you how to be in the audience. Sing in front of you."

"Hello, Mr. Paul!" Alex greeted Paul obediently.

"Haha, what a clever boy!" Paul was happy, and no one had ever called him Mr. so respectfully!

After Bart handed his son to Paul, he left with confidence. He still has a lot to do and has no time to accompany him.

Paul didn't come empty-handed, he was carrying an accordion. He believes that singing is best accompanied by an accordion.

"Let's start now!" Paul did not teach Alex how to sing as soon as he came up, but made a request: "I heard that you play the guitar well? Can you play it for me?"

Alex nodded, picked up the guitar, put his back on him, and played a tune without saying a word. After these few days of practice, his playing level has risen linearly. On the one hand, it is because he is still young and accepts things quickly. On the other hand, he learns carefully and properly.

Crucially, he found that "simulated memory" has a great effect on learning other people's playing techniques. This is normal. When humans just start learning, they always find an object to simulate.

A guitar tune is finished very quickly. It is not considered very good or bad.

After Paul listened, he was secretly surprised. Leaving aside Alex’s age, let’s say that people who have only practiced for less than a week are able to play freely so quickly. He praised Alex for a few words, and then said: "Alex, I think you should learn the accordion first."

"Then sir, when do I start to learn the accordion?" Alex asked impatiently. He had only seen an accordion before, but had never learned it! Singing or something, he is actually practicing secretly.

Paul was very satisfied with Alex's studious attitude. He said, "Have you seen an accordion before?"

"Sir, is the accordion the thing on your back?" Alex noticed that Paul was carrying a large object with a keyboard and buttons on his back. It was divided into three parts. The left side was like a reduced piano keyboard, and the right side There are rows of round buttons, with a folded bellows in the middle.

"What a smart boy! Yes, this is the accordion!" Paul took off the accordion behind him and handed it over.

This accordion is a heavy one for a four-year-old, and Alex can hold it firmly with all his strength. If you want to play in your arms like an adult, it's a difficult job! Fortunately, the accordion has a strap and can be carried on the body.

Paul was very happy to see that Alex liked the appearance of the accordion. He slowly introduced Alex to the keys of the accordion and the origin of the accordion.

"The accordion is a reed instrument that can be played both solo and accompaniment. It is a musical instrument based on the pronunciation of Chinese sheng reeds."

"It turned out to be an instrument from China, which I really didn't expect!"

Alex was a Chinese in his previous life. He had never heard of the origin of the accordion, and he only knew it when he heard Paul talk about it.

In fact, more than one musical instrument was manufactured based on the principles of Chinese musical instruments.

In 1777, the Chinese musical instrument "sheng" was introduced to Europe by the Italian missionary Father Amoit. Soon after, Europeans made some similar musical instruments based on the pronunciation of this Chinese musical instrument. This was the predecessor of the accordion, but most of them were eliminated without being spread.

The real hand-drawn organ is the mouth-blown ola made by German Derek Bushman in 1821. Soon, the hand-controlled bellows and buttons were added to the ola. Later, the Austrian Ciriles Demian combined the various predecessor instruments of the accordion on the original basis and successfully improved the world. The first accordion to be named accordion.

Until now, the accordion is still called accordion all over the world.

In Germany, and even throughout Europe, many rural farmers have an accordion in their homes. Compared with the piano, it can not only play the beautiful melody of a single part, but also can play multi-part music, and can play rich harmony with both hands like a piano. The most important thing is that its low price makes it a very suitable musical instrument for poor people.

Paul knew how to play the accordion since he was a child, and it is also one of his favorite instruments.

In some old-fashioned European black-and-white movies, the entertainment of poor people after eating and drinking is to form a group, with one person playing the accordion and the rest singing and dancing.

The accordion performance that impressed Alex the most was a video watched on the Internet. That video was a movie version of the song and dance clip of "ievanpolkka", the predecessor of "Singing Onion Song". In that video, a tramp played the accordion, while others sang and danced in a circle, appearing very happy.

At that time, Alex felt that the accordion, an ancient-looking instrument, was very powerful, because such an instrument played the role of a band.

Paul's teaching method is very simple, that is, let Alex practice by playing the accordion. Of course, he will teach the most basic playing techniques one by one. The piece he played was called "Sky in Paris", which sounded like a European country.

After Alex listened, he remembered every detail of Paul's movements. When he wanted to repeat those movements, he found that it was not as simple as he thought. He was playing, stumbling, and the music was slow and fast. The more he wanted to play well, the harder it was to play well. He obviously remembered Paul's actions.

"Haha, not bad, not bad!" Paul didn't expect that Alex would be able to play from beginning to end after only listening to it.

"But I'm not as good as you, teacher!"

"Your performance has surprised me! Many children even teach basic notes several times when they first start."

Regardless of what Paul said, Alex felt that he was not up to the level he should be. Obviously he had tried his best to learn, so he had to use "simulated memory" to repeat Paul's actions, but he still hadn't played smoothly.

Using "simulated memory" can learn faster, but doing so consumes more energy, which limits the learning skills. He thought about it, only using "simulated memory" to learn other people's skills, and in the end he would learn at most 70% to 80%. When he uses it in the future, how can he not exceed this level. When he really wants to use it, he can only "simulate" it all the time, which will exhaust him.

Only study seriously, and use "simulated memory" to break through when it is critical. That is the right way to learn skills.

Paul felt that he couldn't teach too much at once, so he said, "I think you learned almost the same today. Now you will practice it a few more times."

After speaking, he let Alex go to practice the accordion alone. At this time, Alex was practicing and thinking about how to learn Paul's accordion skills more quickly.

After thinking about it, there is only one way to go, and that is to practice more honestly. In the end, he didn't want this problem at all and stopped practicing the accordion. He entered the spiritual space he created, which still looked like a small house. It was still filled with the rays of the setting sun, and he was lying on that bed in a daze.

Although he was in a daze, he knew that his body was under great pressure now, and his energy was being consumed bit by bit. Once consumed, he has to replenish his energy through deep sleep. Yes, this is his purpose, he wants to sleep.

However, when he was in a daze, his head was not blank. Suddenly, he suddenly thought: "Create a living object in this spiritual space, it looks very interesting!"

When he created this space before, he never thought of creating other lives. He once wanted to extract the people in his memory directly, but found it was useless at all. The person who was drawn was like an unstoppable puppet, repeating the actions in the memory scene in the past.

"If you don't extract it from your memory and generate a person directly in this space, will he move? If he can move, will he talk? If he knows all these things, what about thinking?"

Alex gets more and more excited as he thinks about it, he sits up, concentrates, and begins to "create people"!

At this time, he realized that people and objects are completely different. At least "creating people" is hundreds of times more difficult than "creating things"! He has no way to create a new person out of nothing. He can only find a prototype from the past to learn from, so that it is possible to create it.

At the same time, he found that the more familiar people are, the easier it is to create. Also, the newer the memory, the easier it is to create.

"Who made it? Bart or Angel?"

Alex is most familiar with these two people, he thought for a while, forget it, or not make them. He worried that after creating his parents, he would feel embarrassed if this virtual person had the mindset of a parent. If the created person can't think, then he also feels a little embarrassed.

"Then Paul! He is the person I have seen in the latest memory. Anyway, it is an experiment. I will still have the opportunity to observe him in the future. You can compare it to see what is different."

Alex did what he thought of, and he quickly built a model in the spiritual space to create Paul's body. From the outside, this "human" object looks exactly the same as Paul, there is no difference. However, Alex soon discovered that the person he had created was a puppet, a realistic puppet.