Rebirth in America

Paul Harrison is a German-American, over sixty years old, with a tall build and red hair.

He immigrated to the United States during World War II and was penniless when he arrived. Because he was good at the accordion, he found a job in a tavern. I played the accordion and sang in the pub, and sometimes worked as a bartender, and I still work there today.

He is also a member of the "Owl" band, but he is a guest member. He usually works at night and only has free time during the day.

Bart, on the other hand, has to work during the day and is free at night. Because of this, the composition of their band changes frequently.

"Hey, Paul! This is my son Alex!" Bart introduced Alex to Paul, and then explained Paul's identity to his son, "Paul will be your teacher from now on. 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 smart kid!" Paul felt happy. No one had ever called him sir with such respect!

After Bart handed his son over to Paul, he left with peace of mind. He still has a lot to do and doesn't have time to be around.

Paul didn't come empty-handed, he also carried an accordion. He believed that singing was best accompanied by an accordion.

"Let's start now!" Paul did not teach Alex how to sing right away, 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 it on his back, and played a song without saying a word. After these few days of practice, his playing level has skyrocketed. On the one hand, it is because he is still young and accepts things quickly; on the other hand, he is diligent in learning and uses appropriate methods.

Crucially, he discovered that "simulation memory" plays a huge role in learning other people's playing techniques. This is normal. When humans first start learning, they will always find an object to simulate.

A guitar piece is played very quickly, and it doesn’t count as playing well or poorly.

After hearing this, Paul was secretly surprised. Regardless of Alex's age, someone who only practiced for less than a week was able to play freely so quickly. He complimented Alex a few times and then said, "Alex, I think you should learn the accordion first."

"So sir, when will I start learning the accordion?" Alex asked impatiently. He had only seen the accordion before, but never learned it! Singing and other things, he actually practiced secretly.

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

"Sir, is the accordion this thing on your back?" Alex noticed that Paul was carrying a big thing with a keyboard and buttons. It was divided into three parts. The left side looked 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 from his back and handed it over.

This accordion was quite heavy for a four-year-old child, and Alex had to use all his strength to hold it steadily. If you want to play while being held in your arms like an adult, it’s a difficult job! Fortunately, the accordion has a strap so you can carry it on your back.

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

"The accordion is a reed instrument that can be used both as a soloist and as an accompaniment. It is an instrument based on the pronunciation principle of the Chinese sheng reed."

"It actually borrowed musical instruments from China. I really didn't expect this!"

Alex was Chinese in his previous life. He had never heard of the origin of the accordion and only learned about it when Paul told him about it.

In fact, more than one musical instrument was originally 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 instruments based on the pronunciation principle of this Chinese instrument. This is the predecessor instrument of the accordion, but most of them were eliminated before they could spread.

The real hand-pulled organ is the mouth-blown Ora made by German Derek Bushmann in 1821. Soon, hand-controlled bellows and keys were added to the Ora. Later, the Austrian Cyrillus Demian combined the various predecessor instruments of the accordion at that time on the original basis, and successfully improved and produced the world's first accordion. The first accordion named Ordion.

Until now, the name ordion is still used all over the world to call the accordion.

In Germany, and even throughout Europe, many farmers in the countryside have an accordion in their homes. Compared with the piano, it can not only play beautiful single-part melodies, but also play multi-part music. It can also play rich harmonies with both hands like a piano. The most important thing is that it is cheap and is a musical instrument very suitable for poor people.

Paul knew how to play the accordion from an early age, and it was one of his favorite instruments.

In some old European black and white movies, the entertainment of the poor people after they have had enough to eat and drink is to gather in a group, one person plays the accordion, and the rest sing and dance.

The accordion performance that impressed Alex the most was a video he watched on the Internet. That video was a song and dance clip from the movie version of "Ievan Polkka", the predecessor of "The Song of Onion", which was widely circulated. In that video, a homeless man played the accordion, while others sang and danced in a circle, looking very happy.

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

Paul's teaching method is very simple, which is to let Alex practice by playing the accordion. Of course, he will still teach you the most basic playing techniques one by one. The song he played was called "In the Sky of Paris", which sounded very European and rural.

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. As he played, he stumbled, and the music was sometimes slow and sometimes fast. The more he tried to play well, the harder it became. He obviously memorized Paul's movements.

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

"But I can't play as well as you, teacher!"

"Your performance has already surprised me! Many children have to be taught even basic musical notes several times when they first start."

No matter what Paul said, Alex felt like he wasn't as good as he should be. Obviously he had tried his best to learn, but he still had to use "simulation memory" to repeat Paul's movements, but he still couldn't play smoothly.

You can learn faster by using "simulated memory", but this consumes more energy and has limitations on learning skills. He thought that if he only used "simulation memory" to learn other people's skills, he would only learn 70 to 80% of them in the end. When he used them in the future, he would never be able to exceed this level. When he really wants to use it, he can only keep "simulating" it, which will exhaust him to death.

Only by studying seriously and using "simulated memory" to break through at critical times is the right way to learn skills.

Paul felt that he could not teach too much at once, so he said: "I think you have learned almost enough today. Now you can practice a few more times."

After saying that, he left Alex to practice the accordion alone. At this time, Alex was practicing and thinking about how he could learn Paul's accordion playing skills faster.

After much deliberation, there is only one way to go, and that is to practice more honestly. Eventually, he simply stopped thinking about the problem 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 light of the setting sun. He lay on the bed, quietly in a daze.

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

However, when he was in a daze, his mind was not blank. Suddenly, he had a whim: "Let's create living objects in this spiritual space. It looks very interesting!"

When he created this space before, he never thought about creating other life. He once wanted to directly extract the people in his memory, but found that it was useless. UU Reading www. uukanshu． net The person who draws it is like a puppet that can't stop, repeating the actions of the past memory scene.

"If we don't extract it from memory and directly generate a person in this space, can he move? If he can move, can he speak? If he can do these things, what about thinking?"

The more Alex thought about it, the more excited he became. He sat up, concentrated, and started to "create people"!

Only then did he realize that people and objects are completely different. At least "creating humans" is hundreds of times more difficult than "creating things"! He has no way to create a new person out of thin air. He can only find prototypes from past memories to draw on, so that it is possible to create one.

At the same time, he discovered that the more familiar a person is, the easier it is to create one. Also, the more recent the memory, the easier it is to create it.

"Who to make? Bart or Angel?"

Alex was most familiar with these two people. He thought about it and decided not to create them. He is worried that after creating his parents, if this virtual person has the thinking of his parents, he will feel very embarrassed. If the person created couldn't think, then he would feel a little embarrassed.

"Then let's take Paul! He is the person I saw in the latest memory. It is an experiment anyway, and I will have the opportunity to observe him in the future. We can use it for comparison and see what is different."

Alex did it as soon as he thought of it. He quickly built a model in the mental space and created Paul's body. From the outside, this "human" object looks exactly like Paul, there is no difference. However, Alex soon discovered that the person he created was a doll, a lifelike doll.