music

Around 20%-30% of parents actually make their kids learn how to play a certain instrument, or learn the music theory. A lot of kids know how to listen to music and not interpret or learn something new about the song, or the actual music genre. If parents made their kids learn the music theory, the HSPE score would have improved dramatically, and parents would have less headaches with their kids failing a class, or a subject. It’s said that if you made your kids listen to classical music, that would actually make them smarter, and like I said...less “F ‘s”. So parents, I think that you should have to tell your kids at  young age that the should listen to music. I was born in Vancouver, WA on 9/22/95. I have been interested in music all of my life, and I have always been trying my hardest to learn the most that I could about music and sound.

There was a time in my life where I didn't care about music, and I was against my parents and telling them that I didn't care about music. The only thing was that when I didn't want to be involved in music, I still listened to it without my parents knowing that I did. The only reason why I didn't want to learn music was because the teachers that I had were very strict, and I didn't understand how you could be taught music with a serious mindset of perfect music.

So, angry and mad, I  had stopped wanting to learn how to play music. That was a time of depression, and fear of never learning music the right way, the way of happiness in the heart! Then only sadness struck me, and no one would understand me. Then I thought of something that would make me happier in life, and I thought that if I had a “girl-friend” that would make me feel better. Her name was Marie, she was just an average girl I met at a party. We became good friends, started to talk about each other. Then I asked her out, we dated for a few months. I thought that she was the right one for me, she was beautiful, then what happened to me was the only thing I feared. She met another person without me knowing anything. Then she told me she doesn't love me anymore, and she broke up with me, and that was when my heart sank lower than the ground beneath me. So again I went back into depression, and had nothing that would make me happy.

One day when I was in church, and it was a new church we started to attend. The sermon had struck me deep in the heart, and I realized that the only way I would have happiness in music was if I centered it in God. I don't know if you reading this believe what I believe, but that's what happened to me.

Sometime after the day of that sermon I brought my life to Christ, and now I was a child of the God who had saved me from the depressing state. Now I was living a better life then I was living, and for two years I didn't think about music.

Then one day I decided I should sit down and try to play the piano again. I went and I sat down at the piano I had at my house, and I started playing the way I have never played before, and then I stopped. I haven't felt that before, and then I lost it.

So my mom, her name was Irina. She was finishing up in the kitchen after she left the kitchen tired and sleepy. She saw me struggling with making up music, came in and told me, “ You should find a song that you really like and learn it and play it. Then you’ll learn to teach yourself how to play any instrument you want to play.” After that I got so excited, and I found a song that I would like to play and I successfully played it. The song was from a band called “the Hush Sound” the song was called “You are the Moon.” When I learned it, it felt as though I had snow falling on me, when it was only the “goose bumps.” That was the best song experience I’ve ever had. The thing is that piano was the hardest instrument of all. You had to put more expression into it so it could be played on, and now I seem to now know how powerful it should feel.

So parents, I think that you should have to tell your kids at  young age that the should listen to music. After that day I would be able to learn how to play piano, guitar, drums, and eventually start being a composer. That's my story about how I learned the way to play music, what’s yours? So you see parents, I think this should leave with the thought of, “should your kids understand music to the fullest”? Because I don't think it’s a good idea if they learn on their own.