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It was obviously a sudden suggestion, but Elaine seemed to have been prepared for it. She pulled out the sheet music with Zart: Piano Sonatas on the cover.

"Learning piano is actually very simple. You just need to set aside ten minutes every day to play one or two pieces of music."

Hermione suddenly remembered that in the second grade, Lavender seemed to have said that she wanted to learn piano from Elaine, and some other people had also mentioned it.

Elaine accepted everyone who came, but they lost interest for some reason after practicing for a while.

"The first difficulty for ordinary people to learn piano is that they can't read music scores, but we are wizards, you see."

Elaine gently pressed a white key on the piano, and along with the crisp sound, the notes on the piano sheet also glowed.

But when I pressed the second place, the next note did not respond. Instead, another key on the piano lit up.

"This is a piano score that I modified. If you play the right note, it will light up." Elaine explained. "If you make a mistake, a bright light will light up on the piano to remind you. Although it is opportunistic... but we are not trying to be pianists, so just be happy."

"If you don't like staff notation, you can try to read simplified musical notation. 1234567 corresponds to the seven tones of dorefasosi. The small dots above the numbers are the pitch. With the do in the middle of the piano as the center, each additional dot on the number represents the number. It's one more step to the right... On the contrary, the lower dot represents going to the left, which is unmarked and is in the middle."

"The sound on the left is lower, and the farther to the right, the higher the sound, so click on it." After playing a few notes to demonstrate to Hermione, Elaine moved to the left and motioned for Hermione to sit down next to her. Come next to me, "Come on, try it."

"Uh……"

Hermione hesitated for a moment, then sat next to Elaine.

Two girls sat side by side on the short piano chair, making Hermione a little restless.

With her previous remarks and her new relationship with Daphne, Hermione didn't know how to deal with Elaine.

"……so?"

"You are sitting too far forward." Elaine looked Hermione up and down. "When playing the piano, body coordination is very important. Your buttocks should be stable and fixed in the middle of the piano bench. Don't sit full, sit half way, so that it is easier to use. Strength──then raise your head, lift your chest, and sit up straight!”

"...Are you kidding me?"

"I won't joke with you about my major." Elaine said seriously, "Adjust your sitting posture and your wrists. Don't exert force on your shoulders. Let your arms hang down completely relaxed and use the pads of your fingertips. Play the piano."

"The tips of the five fingers are semicircular, and the palm joints are naturally arched. It's like holding a ball loosely, and the wrists are approximately parallel to the keyboard. Don't arch or collapse--no, if you play like that, your wrists The joints cannot move easily and the burden on the fingers is too heavy. After playing for a long time, the hands will become numb.”

Hermione adjusted several positions in succession, but Elaine was not satisfied.

"There is a big difference between amateur pianists and professional pianists. The reason lies in the fingers. The fingers affect the clarity, evenness and smoothness of each note you play. Wrong posture will make you unable to control the strength of your fingers. There is no way Even if you play a good tone, it can even cause hand injuries in serious cases... although it will take several years of continuous playing to be possible."

"Didn't you say we just played it for fun──?!"

"You have to have a good posture while playing." Impatient Elaine directly stretched out her hand to cover Hermione's hand, grabbed her and adjusted it directly. "You are just learning now. If you don't adjust well, you will develop bad habits in the future."

Elaine, who was concentrating on teaching, didn't notice at all. The moment she put her hand on Hermione's, Hermione froze.

If she hadn't realized that Elaine was really teaching seriously, Hermione would have wanted to distance herself from Elaine immediately.

Then, Hermione was frightened by her own thoughts.

They were obviously friends and it was normal physical contact, so why did she suddenly feel embarrassed and want to avoid suspicion?

They used to fight and fight like this, didn't it mean nothing happened?

What on earth... does she think of Elaine?

How to get along with her next?

"That's it, remember... Hey, Hermione? You're not going to fall asleep now, are you!?"

"………what?"

"I'm teaching you so seriously, but you actually get lost in my thoughts..." Elaine complained angrily, "Does my voice have a hypnotic effect? ​​Okay, okay, if you're tired, just go up and sleep─"

"No, uh, I was just thinking─um... what does this have to do with music magic?"

Facing Elaine's dissatisfaction, Hermione didn't know how to answer, so she could only make an excuse.

She didn't know what was wrong with herself. As for Elaine, she... didn't know.

It was certain that they wanted to continue to be friends. It had been almost seven years since the two had known each other, and Hermione couldn't bear to part with this friendship.

But when she thought of Elaine's declaration of hugging her in front of the whole school... Hermione felt sore in her mouth and wanted to bite something chewy.

For example, Elaine's meat.

"Of course it does matter." Elaine, who had no idea what Hermione was thinking, shuddered. "How can you use music magic if you don't understand music at all? You don't know how the music plays and how to use the magic. ?I kid you not, this is the basis of musical magic.”

Elaine flicked the keys.

The next second, the keys seemed to have come to life, and a beautiful melody automatically played out.

After the piano music stopped, she raised her wand and pointed it in the air, and the sound of the piano echoed out of thin air in the lounge.

"This...doesn't that mean that every Shafik member must be a music master?" Hermione asked in disbelief, "This is impossible, there will always be someone who is not good at─"

"You don't know, the wizard who created the Shafiq family was very powerful. He didn't know how to do it. He engraved the instinct for music on the magic power and passed it on to future generations. As a result, every Shafiq member learned music. You always get twice the result with half the effort, whether you’re singing or playing an instrument.”

Elaine looked at her hands and recalled the first day she was reborn.

In his previous life, Du Chen had no musical talent at all and relied on his own exploration and practice. Although he was just a restaurant performer in the end, he was always proud of himself and believed that he would never lose to others.

After changing her body, Elaine realized that some things were doomed from the beginning.

Talent is not something that ordinary people can catch up with through hard work.

The fingering and speed that Duchenne needed to practice dozens of times before he could barely pull it off, Elaine just played it casually, and her fingers followed naturally; the rhythm that Duchenne had to rely on a metronome to catch, Elaine could do it just by listening to it once. Get it right.

People are not fair at all.

"People from the Shafiq family don't need to practice. Their body instincts will tell them how to control music. People who are not Shafiq have to practice music on their own if they want to learn music magic."