Raikov has usurped a spot in my favorite titles.
The thirst to learn, the meditative patience to stay through the difficulties and boredom; the excitement of accelerated learning, the employment of better learning sessions such as taking focused time blocks; have all lead to hours of learning interrupted only by physical pain of the back, wrist and fingers.
The best of all, it never felt like hours; it felt like time is on my side.
Pattern recognition and technique dissection; I’ve been watching some of my teachers’ playing a piece that I will be performing and unlike never before, the focus is, I don’t know how to put it, but I could see the strumming pattern, the change in beat, the speed, the whole movement and emotions, it’s like a picture within a picture where it is focusing on the instruments to the point I began imitating them exactly as they play and feel the difference between myself and where I am messing up (rushing) and rectifying it real time as them.
The confidence is unparalleled and borderline magical; I remember before my first loop where I had that nagging voice of not being prepared… completely gone, and the messy playing went away with it.
And it’s always working; I’d be in a taxi and I would learn from the driver, I would be watching a movie and I’m assimilating the characters feeling and psych profile as well as the actor himself. Anything coming my way that interests me. Even though so far I am mainly using it for vocals, guitar and writing.
One thing, I have this feeling like Raikov is an Artisinal title wearing a normal title cover; it feels like it could’ve had much more potential. Could be wrong
Edit: all that I learn from observing is immediately processed and integrated; I would then use them real time in my practice until they’re second hand. The best of all, for example, I had to re-learn a whole different strumming pattern, and it took me but a couple of times to quickly switch from the old strumming habit that I’ve been using for a month to the new one. The flow is unreal, like I have never experienced from Limitless, Vibes, QL, BL, or RM. It’s like a quick fade from thinking to flow while doing whatever I am, and distractions sink away.