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Why Take Piano Lessons? By Paul Tobey Did you ever notice how most people who start off at a young age taking piano lessons rarely continue past high school? Then, when these people grow into adults many of them will eventually regret their decision to quit. So much so that, many will actually seek out a new piano teacher and start all over again.
Why do most people quit? I don’t think it’s because they’re not motivated or they don’t like music. I believe it’s because they don’t realize why they’re taking piano lessons in the first place. Sure they can tell you that is important and they probably should be trying harder but the fact is most simply cannot tell you the real reason for learning in the first place.
Do you want to know why? Ok, here it is. I truly believe that is engrained into our subconscious and most of us truly want a way to express ourselves in ways that words cannot. Not only has been around since the dawn of time, way longer than most modern forms of entertainment but, is an integral part of our humanity.
Music resides deep within us and when we hear it, sing it, play it, share it, learn it, teach it or even dance to it, we get a little closer to who we truly are; multi-dimensional beings who are ultimately creative.
So why do we quit? Because we get discouraged when we cannot express ourselves through the way we want to. Usually this happens because we compare our abilities to others and the distance between the way we play now and where we want to get seems insurmountable. But, here’s the good news. Nothing can get in your way of learning if you just realize that know matter how you play you cannot be bad. Expressing yourself in any way with is a good thing and can never ever be bad.
Now, I’m not going to go as far as saying that most piano teachers cause their students to quit because that would mean that it’s intentional. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, I do believe that many teachers lack the necessary skills to teach their students how to play from within. What does that mean? It means that teachers know how to teach notes, scales, rhythm, harmony and how to play a piece of music. What most of them fail to realize is that there is much more to teaching than just what the mind can absorb.
If teachers knew how to tap into the souls of their students by providing the right motivational, emotional and spiritual information then, it would be easier for their students to overcome all the obstacles of learning to play. In fact, no obstacle is too big to overcome on
the way to learning to be a great artist or musician. The drive is within all of us, it just needs to be recognized.
So, how can teachers learn the necessary skills? By learning how to tap into their own creative energy. You see it’s all about energy. It would be impossible for a teacher to share information about energy if the teacher lacks the creative energy themselves. Creative energy comes from within. In my experience, many teachers have never learned how therefore can’t possibly teach it.
Learning to tap into creative energy is a process which can be learned. It’s never too late. The first step to learning is realizing that you are not already connected to this energy. Then, once you realize that you’re not connected you begin to search for ways to get connected. How? By focusing on the reasons you play music. For example; you do not play to impress rather you play to inspire.
Music causes emotional changes within us that are positive. Most anyway. Of course you have to be wary of low energy that disguises itself as high energy such as heavy pounding rock with repetitive angry lyrics. But, piano does not fall into this category. Piano is the perfect outlet to express innate creative energy. If more teachers are to see the results they desire then more teachers will have to tap into their own creative energy.
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U got it wrong. It's always racist when anyone other than a black does it.[/quote]
Then how come it's not offensive if a black calls another black a Negro?[/quote]
way i see it, it's a question of inequality. the use of the term arose from a fictional, racist, assumed inequality, and the term was used to denigrate black persons. i guess i'm not talking about 'negro' here, but its a similar deal.
the term then became transformed, for better or worse, to invert the power of the word. nowadays, it's used based on a very real inequality, that of experience. no white man has ever had to experience the original intent of that word as a means of degrading their character, whereas pretty much every black western person has. for me, that pretty much makes me think i have no right to say whether or not a black man should or should not use the word. its a choice made with understandable reasoning.
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If I?m a Lesbian, I can call myself and other lesbians ?Dykes??
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I mean, can I not call you ?Fat? because I?m not?
Words that are designed to hurt, or inflame have no place in our society other than their use by prejudice people. It would seem to me that calling another man, or woman a nigger, would be to reenforce the stereo-type, and continue the value tradition that blacks [niggers] are part of a sub species, seperate and unequal.[/i][/b]HAI @ 01/07/2009 07:31 PM : [quote aronf13]I had to watch trainspotting like 3 times before i could actually understand everything the characters were saying x_X[/quote]
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