Why Is Music Important To Me?

When most people are asked this question they always say the obvious family, friendship, and most likely one of their personal hobbies. While family and friends are very important to me I want to talk about something different. The things that matter the most to me are music and time. Music means the world to me. To be more specific hip-hop music. The genre of music was there for me when no one else was. Growing up without a father hip-hop taught me life lessons that I was never taught. The likes of Tupac Shakur, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West were the men that acted as my father figures. They taught me how to deal with twenty-first century racism, aspiring for more, and how to deal with a similar lifestyle that we all lived. Though people say

A question that kept running through my head for many years, came back to me recently. How have I done to find and retain as many jazz tunes? How could I remember all the songs of Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Django Reinhardt, and many other jazz musicians.

Music is defined differently for each individual. It is the universal language that speaks to us all, but in different ways. It is one of the few genres that can instantly transport a person back to the past. Music is also an art of sound which expresses ideas, thoughts, and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. It is the design of giving structural form and rhythmic pattern to combinations of sounds produce instrumentally and vocally. To me, music brings a sense of calmness, happiness, and peacefulness. Music is the absolute bread of life because it feeds my soul.

For a little while now I have been asking myself this question: why is this music so important to us? It seems to be a complicated question to answer, but maybe it's not quite as difficult as I thought.

Despite the experiences and changes in thinking brought by college, I haven’t changed majors. Going into college, I chose the right major for all the wrong reasons. I chose Music Education as a safety net. I knew teaching music in a high school could be very fulfilling, but I really wanted to teach in a college—a position I could obtain by majoring in Performance. However, my time at Concordia has shifted my entire perspective on the importance of education at all levels, due in part to the highly skilled teachers I came to know, and in part to the classroom teaching experiences I’ve received through the Education program.

As stated by Custodero (2005), both playing and performing music have the ability to induce a flow-like state. In music performing, flow helps in foreseeing long-term motivation and achievement in a particular person (Lamont, 2012). Csikszentmihalyi (1990) has also come up with a theory of optimal experience based on the concept of flow wherein frame of reference to music, playing music is considered as a state where people are extremely engaged in a particular activity that they would do it for the sake of doing it just because of the experience itself which is undoubtedly enjoyable even if it demands a great cost (p.

Music has had varying importance in my life. When I was young my brothers’ listened to Alternative Rock, so naturally I also listened to Alternative Rock. However, today I find my musical taste to much wider anything from Indie Rock to Classical to R&B. I was (and am) more focused on the quality of the sound rather than the music itself, but I still enjoy simply listening to music more than the majority of people. I have played a couple instruments, namely the cello.

When I was little I was interested in music so I decided, in 6th grade, to start playing an instrument, that instrument was the Trumpet. At first I started out playing the Flute, but I later realized that I was not good at it. When I went to go try out instruments I picked the Fluet and they told me because of my lips and braces it would be hard for me to get the appropriate air flow out, so I decided to play the Trumpet. I picked the Trumpet because my father payed it when he was in high school, and because it only had three valves. My first Trumpet was rusty and old looking and the third valve would always get stuck when I played my music. I got over that and continued to play anyways because I had an interest in it, and because I loved music of every type. I love to sing as well. Playing the trumpet was pretty hard, but I met some cool people and expanded my playing ability. When I entered middle school at Patrick Henry, I got a brand new Yamaha Trumpet that was shiny and new, and all the valves worked. The band room in the middle school was really cool. It had previously been painted by older classmen, but unfortunately it soon disappeared because the teacher wanted to paint it white so we weren 't distracted. If felt pretty cool, for some reason it gave off a calm and creative atmosphere.

There’s so many reasons why I love making music I would have you here all day! Making music is my hobby. I spend all my free time making music. Any chance I get I’m in the studio. Making music is not easy to do with a busy life. I started making music because my dad died and he inspired me. Also I entered myself in a contest. Also I enjoy making music with my friends.

Everyone has a key. That key is what makes the gears shift in one 's thoughts. That key

It is queer how human vocal chords can influence sounds. Another queer aspect is that human brains distinguishes many noises as a pattern of rhythms to identify as music. Music affects the brain in many ways. It can help the brain focus and stay concentrated, improve your mood, and motivate people. Listening to music while studying is a study habit for students of all ages. Many students don’t know whether they should listen to music while they are studying. Listening to music may be helpful to their academic achievement, but it may also be harmful to their academic achievement.

Music is everywhere, in the classrooms, at a job site, in family houses, music is anywhere where there is air and it is played throughout the world daily. Some people like Ribeiro and Santos who published an article about music helping math students thinks music in an educational setting is beneficial for learning (Ribeiro, Fabiana Silva and Flávia H. Santos, 2017) Some people like the Kent and Sussex Courier who published an article on how the Kent police station put a bunch of money towards getting music in the station say that having music on the radio stations in their place of work is beneficial as well (The Kent and Sussex Courier, 2013). Using music as a therapy tool according to the journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is beneficial for those who have COPD (Ho, Chiung-Fang, et al, 2017). Boethius would say that in these settings music is acceptable, but depending on what kind of music is being played. Mo Tzu on the other hand would say that music is a waste of time in the educational setting, work place, home life, and even those who are ill.

Many schools have cut music programs due loss of funding, and loss of interest. Some believe it is a waste of time, and music is another expense on bills, a weight in our wallets. This is widely believed by parents and educators to be a big mistake. Music, whether taught in or outside of school, helps students excel in the following ways I have stated Music is beneficial to students in schools.

Music is extremely important. Growing up, music always played a big role in my life. My soul works through music. It also helped me through extremely rough times in my life. When I was 7, I lost my little brother. I was mentally unstable during that period of time and music became the medicine to cure my broken soul.

Music will always be an important part of life. Music can help soothe people, think better, get people dancing and other things. Music will continue to get better and to change over time. I’m glad we’ve been given the chance to go out and listen to live music outside of our normal range. For my concert report, I went to see a band called Unity The Band. They were pretty good. The genre they played was reggae. My experience started with my reactions, the style of it, and the things I liked most about the music.