In the process of setting up my online piano courses school Pianosmart - Play Better, I kept asking myself: what is the message I wish to send to my potential students, the future e-learners, about WHY they should learn music, aside from encouraging them to give e-learning a try. All in all, the essential question is that why we should learn to play piano or learn music at all?
As I tried to draft an "outcome" for the first course I am offering, Piano for All Beginners A, I brainstormed ideas and tried to see what concepts I could come up with by examining my personal journey. For me music is an innate instinct and interest since I was very very young, which I believe is common among children. All human beings respond to music in a very natural way. Our connection to music is direct, which needs no mediums, translations, or conversion. The easiness in receiving emotional stimulation through music makes it something we easily turn to when we need to feel comfortable and at ease. This is my theory.
As we grow into an adult who carries a lot of responsibilities our personal expressiveness and imaginations are often suppressed or become dormant because we are busy adapting to fit into the society that we rely to live on. We are raised and taught to be skilled to have a good career, making good money, attracting good future partners, raising good kids, and so on. Very quickly, I believe we are being trained to be social beings who are less and less imaginative and creative than when we were five years old. However, the need for expressiveness and creativity would not die only because one needs to put it aside for a long time. Music is the way for me to channel that personal need.
All in all, learning to play an instrument serves that kind of personal need! Through playing an instrument we can make music that makes us feel good. It soothes. It heals. It creates a personal space, a world where we can always turn to, in good times, and in bad times, to express our feelings.
Pianosmart - Play Better Link to the landing page for piano beginners online course lineups set to be launching on September 27!
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