The Healing Life of a Music Genius - Chapter 5



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Miller wanted to tell Seojin as much as possible.

It wasn’t just about English or survival on a desert island.

Starting with basic humanities, world history, writing, or philosophy.

Music history, harmony, counterpoint, composition, musical form, basic German, and even things that might be helpful to Seojin in making music.

Miller brought out all the knowledge he knew, and Seojin acquired that knowledge at an incredible speed.

As the place was a place, there were no distractions. There were no cell phones or TVs on a deserted island.

Hunting activities, which were increasingly becoming a pattern, no longer required a lot of time, so there couldn’t be a better way to immerse yourself in something.

Miller couldn’t help but be surprised to see Seojin change day by day.

In fact, it was like that until now.

After hearing Miller’s problem, Seojin wrote down the answer without much thought. He drew a staff line on the sand with a twig and then proceeded to draw the notes.

After about a minute, Seojin suddenly turns his head.

“how is it?”

A triumphant look.

The thought that he might be wrong seemed unlikely.

Mark Miller smiled and answered.

“okay. All correct. “I’m getting it right now.”

“It’s as simple as this. But shouldn’t the questions become more difficult? “It’s too easy.”

“You’re fussy.”

What Mark Miller and Seojin were doing now was listening.

Listening to a note and guessing what note it is.

It was a class that Mark Miller took every day after picking up an acoustic guitar from the sea.

It goes without saying, but sound is the basis of music.

Listening to the note and understanding it accurately can also be considered basic.

In a word, listening could be seen as an essential study in order to learn accurate pitch.

Of course, if you have absolute pitch, you may not need this type of study.

All you have to do is listen to the sound ‘do’ and write down ‘do’, so what’s the point of studying?

but.

If you don’t have that kind of talent, you have to practice every day to get better. Just little by little, unnoticed.

For your information, Seojin did not seem to have an innate sense of pitch.

To put it bluntly, it’s average.

Instead, Seojin was the type of person who worked hard endlessly.

One day, I saw Seojin playing the same note on the guitar all day. When I asked what he was doing, he said it was listening practice. Still, he thinks this is so much fun. It’s nice just to be able to hear the sound being made.

Was it thanks to that?

It was a lot different now than when Seojin first heard it.

All monophonic notes played on the guitar were correct, no matter how many notes there were.

Seojin did not find polyphonic music, which involves playing multiple notes at the same time, difficult.

‘Until now, it was a 12-measure problem made with 4 or 5 multiple sounds…’

Everyone got it right.

Is this really possible?

‘It’s an acquired sense of absolute pitch…’

It was hard to believe even when I saw it in person.

‘Maybe this is why I have disciples.’

Living on an uninhabited island was quite enjoyable just by being able to watch Seojin grow up.

Miller, who had been helping Seojin practice his hearing for a while at the beach, soon returned home.

The house wasn’t that far from the beach. It’s about a 2 minute walk. We set up a house in a place where we could run right out when the rescue team arrived.

It was a house built with a fairly strong frame made of thin wood and wood woven around wooden pillars.

There was also a brazier made of mud, and a hole was drilled to serve as a chimney.

There was no problem with people living there.

but···.

The time here on this uninhabited island is getting too long.

A year has already passed since the plane crash.

Seojin, who looked like a young child, also grew by 10cm.

However, no one came to the deserted island.

As Seojin said last time, it may have truly been forgotten by people.

then.

You may need to come up with the following method:

‘Should we make a real ship?’

So how do you prepare the ingredients?

It would be difficult to escape by roughly tying the tree with grass.

This is something Mark Miller experienced firsthand. There are places near the uninhabited island where the ocean current flows strangely, so if it was as strong as a raft, it would easily break apart.

Also, when you go out to sea, you may be drifting for quite some time. If so, enough food and water would have to be loaded, and the size of the ship would have to be correspondingly larger.

In addition, Seojin’s physical capabilities must be carefully considered.

No matter how tall he was, he was only 5 feet tall (about 150 cm). Will that child be able to endure it?

‘Not yet···. Should I say it was far away…’

Building a boat and escaping was like a last resort.

For your information, we don’t even know exactly where this is. Since there was no compass, it was likely that one would die if one sailed aimlessly.

In a word, a life-threatening gamble.

‘That’s why I’ve been quietly waiting for the rescue team until now.’

Mark Miller’s worries grew deeper. It was not an easy matter to decide.

Meanwhile, I saw a long wooden board placed in a corner of the house.

The shape was well drawn with a ballpoint pen.

Miller let out a chuckle.

‘I can’t even hear the piano here.’

Of course, it was not a playable piano. It’s just thin wood made into a keyboard shape.

Still, whenever he had time, Seojin practiced playing it. The passion is truly amazing.

Now that I think about it, things that I didn’t ask Seojin suddenly came to mind.

Even though we had been together for such a long time, there were some things I passed off as my wife.

Why did Seojin get on the plane?

Did you ride with your parents?

How did the plane escape?

I never even thought to ask such a basic question.

Why did you do that? why.

It’s really basic.

Besides that.

‘Even about me…’

Is it because I’ve been using my head too much lately while teaching Seojin?

Sometimes my memory gets blurry like this. Should I say it’s like being in a fog? There were times when I felt this way when thinking about a specific thing.

Mark Miller shook his head vigorously.

Worries that are not a big deal cannot be resolved anyway.

Just for now.

Let’s focus more on this moment.

Mark Miller unconsciously cupped his ribs under his chest with his hands.

I made that decision.

* * *

A few days later.

Miller, who had been concentrating on fishing for a while while sitting on a hill on an uninhabited island, let out a sigh and Seo-jin immediately asked him a question.

“My story?”

“I want to hear it again. “If you don’t want to do it, you can skip it.”

“It’s nothing like that…”

Seojin bobbed his leg a few times and then slowly opened his mouth.

“It was probably the first time I touched the piano…”

The story began from the moment Seojin first received a toy piano as a gift as a child.

Even though it was a toy, I was attracted to it for some reason, and as I continued to play it, my parents bought me an electric piano.

It was around that time that I started attending a local piano academy.

And it seemed like he met some guys there who were really learning the piano.

They looked so cool as they entered local competitions and even received awards.

“From then on, I started playing the piano diligently. Honestly, those guys were on a different level than me. Of course, the sound of his playing was different from mine. “To be honest, I was fascinated.”

“That lasted until you were 12?”

“yes. My skills improved so much that I entered competitions from time to time. However, I did not enter the prize pool. The maximum participation award was the encouragement award. But then, for no reason, something came up. I like the piano more than those people. Why only me… Well, that’s what I think.”

“It looks like you’ve developed a competitive spirit.”

“Looking back now, it seems like that. So I guess she practiced harder. practice. practice. It was just practice. But the funny thing is that the results were even worse. “There were more mistakes.”

Mark Miller seemed to have a vague idea.

compulsion. Impatience. stress.

This may be a necessary element to some extent for professional pianists.

But that wasn’t a necessary element for a child dreaming of becoming a pianist.

If you are that young, the problem may be solved naturally if you just take time and practice slowly.

Children basically grow up. The growth mentioned here refers to physical growth.

The keyboard, which seemed impossible to reach no matter how much I stretched my hands, becomes very easy to reach after just a year.

The power becomes stronger and the emotions become deeper.

As the height increases, pedaling becomes easier.

But is there any need to rush?

“i know. But in Korea, there is nothing we can do. If you want to continue playing the piano, it is advantageous to go to an arts middle school. To do that, having competition results is of great help. The next time is similar. Only if you keep doing that can you enter an arts high school or music school. If this continues, won’t it be possible to finally make a living by playing the piano in the future?”

“That’s so realistic.”

“People always have to live in reality.”

Seojin laughed while speaking.

Perhaps because Seojin had been hanging out with Miller, their speech patterns seemed to be becoming more and more similar.

“Actually, I felt like I could just leave all that behind and do a little more. “Do you know that feeling?”

“What does it feel like?”

“I feel like I can hit it properly if I practice a little more. A song written by Mozart and a song written by Beethoven. “I feel like I can play like them!”

“······.”

“At times like that, my heart would race. So I couldn’t stop.”

Seojin also added a story about a time when he participated in a local competition.

Friends I always see. Friends who always win awards. On the contrary, you are always in the bottom rank.

Still, it is said that he continued to challenge until the end and was finally able to achieve some kind of result.

“That was this flight. Although it was only once, I was given the opportunity to receive direct instruction from a famous pianist. I received an invitation to a masterclass held in Singapore. what···. “Now it may not be possible to use it because the period has passed.”

“really. What about airplanes? “Did you ride with your parents?”

“no. I rode with the organizers of the master class. Are they still alive? “I’m worried.”

“okay···.”

Mark Miller hit his head with a sudden headache. Why is this suddenly happening again? The front looks blurry.

‘I’m not sure…’

For some reason, these symptoms seemed to come when I talked about the time of the plane crash. The rib pain that felt better seemed to be getting worse again.

In the midst of this, Miller felt like he needed to ask at least one more question. Because I felt like that would solve all my questions.

Miller barely caught his breath before asking the question.

“Then then. “Why were you humming when the plane crashed?”

“yes?”

“What you were humming. I do not remember?”

“······.”

Seojin was unable to answer Miller’s question for a long time.

And finally,

The answer that came from him was a little unexpected.

“I···. “You’ve never done anything like humming on an airplane before?”