The babies live in a fluid world. Newly-born can even physically float. Then the world fragments into names and shapes; the body changes, floatability ceases, and babies are kept away from water by fearful grown-ups. The feeling of inner peace is restored only by music after floatability is lost. The world of our emotions is still offered the soothing feeling of bliss only by music. In this context electric guitars and effect pedals may seem first a bit artificial. And so may education.
We are neither aquatic mammals, nor opera singers by birth for sure, but we get surprisingly close. Still, we have to learn to swim. Making music doesn't come any more naturally to our young. As an instinctive way of strengthening their muscles and of expressing emotions, toddlers scream and shout, before being gradually taught to mold their voiced expressions. What all healthy toddlers possess will be regained with years of endeavor only by singers.
Music becomes a split universe to most of us as soon as we try to replicate what we hear, although it seems so fluid when we listen to it. This is a hurtful discovery, even if you don't keep distinct memories of it. If you enjoy music made by others so much and you are not able to be an active part of this exchange, this can hurt much more than a routine of conscious practice lasting for months or years or even a lifetime, where your throat and your hands have to change their physical shapes by effort. Meanwhile you will experience a growth, strengthening and increased inner balance of your emotional world and the capacity of your mind to take you on trips to places otherwise inaccessible. If you fear discovering that years of effort did not turn you into a musical prodigy, you must now that only not being able to return at least a bit of this joy can be more saddening.
Playing a musical instrument is a necessity and it is always profitable. Teenagers largely establish that when they purchase their first guitar. Inborn capacities play a lesser role here than in the case of singing and a greater role is played by learning. You cannot trick the thousands of years and quite some innovations that had your electric guitar sound the way it does and master its sounds but by learning.
Besides bridging the breach between what you hear and what you can perform, musical education can help you perform what you would like to hear. Self-education, informal education with your peers as well as formal musical education take you to the same position, the one of the gradual master of a complicated and subtle world of sounds where modern technology with its amplifiers and effects pedals acts as an enhancer.
We are neither aquatic mammals, nor opera singers by birth for sure, but we get surprisingly close. Still, we have to learn to swim. Making music doesn't come any more naturally to our young. As an instinctive way of strengthening their muscles and of expressing emotions, toddlers scream and shout, before being gradually taught to mold their voiced expressions. What all healthy toddlers possess will be regained with years of endeavor only by singers.
Music becomes a split universe to most of us as soon as we try to replicate what we hear, although it seems so fluid when we listen to it. This is a hurtful discovery, even if you don't keep distinct memories of it. If you enjoy music made by others so much and you are not able to be an active part of this exchange, this can hurt much more than a routine of conscious practice lasting for months or years or even a lifetime, where your throat and your hands have to change their physical shapes by effort. Meanwhile you will experience a growth, strengthening and increased inner balance of your emotional world and the capacity of your mind to take you on trips to places otherwise inaccessible. If you fear discovering that years of effort did not turn you into a musical prodigy, you must now that only not being able to return at least a bit of this joy can be more saddening.
Playing a musical instrument is a necessity and it is always profitable. Teenagers largely establish that when they purchase their first guitar. Inborn capacities play a lesser role here than in the case of singing and a greater role is played by learning. You cannot trick the thousands of years and quite some innovations that had your electric guitar sound the way it does and master its sounds but by learning.
Besides bridging the breach between what you hear and what you can perform, musical education can help you perform what you would like to hear. Self-education, informal education with your peers as well as formal musical education take you to the same position, the one of the gradual master of a complicated and subtle world of sounds where modern technology with its amplifiers and effects pedals acts as an enhancer.
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