The Importance Of Learning How To Read And Learn

Learning how to read and write was one of the first major lessons each of us have learned. Each of us sitting in room 319 from 10:20 to 11:15 have a unique story about learning how to manipulate letters into words and words into sentences. All of us have a different event that stuck with us no matter what age we experienced it. There is no set way we as individuals learn information. Just like our finger print, our learning methods and tactics are unique to each of us. My individual experience is centered around when I learned my second language. However, my second language is not represented with letters, but rather with dots and lines that can be translated into pitches. Not everyone can relate to my specific experience; however, I can relate …show more content…
I was, and still am, learning and growing as a musician. As I moved through middle school I held onto the basics and applied them to the newer, harder music eighth grade showed me. The pieces I looked at that made me nervous months before began to make more sense as I retained more and more information about the rules of music. When I reached high school I hit a rough patch when I fully lost sight of the joy music gave me. I stopped trying and gave up on learning. I spent my freshman year on the fringe of quitting band all together. My directors started to notice by my sophomore year that I was about to give up. Instead of telling me I was okay or that it happens to the best of us they pushed me to my absolute limit. One day they pushed me to tears, and that is when something snapped inside me. They made me so mad that a little fire began to develop in the pit of my belly. I wanted to prove to them I was better than they thought so, I began to push myself past my limits. I memorized every inch of our music, every step of our ten minute show, and every visual that was thrown at us. I executed everything I did on the field with careful precision. My notes were clear and crisp. When they wanted the music to be fierce I made it my job to make my music sound angry, but beautiful. In the time I was trying to prove to my superiors that I could do …show more content…
There are countless rules and exceptions when it comes to reading music. Each piece, no matter how big or small, comes with its own rule book. Music is unique all the way down to how long you hold out a note. However, music is not the only activity that falls under the category of 'difficult yet rewarding '. I know I can relate it to a majority of things we do daily without even thinking. For example, we read and write almost every day of our lives in some way, shape, or form. Even though the task of talking and writing do not seem hard at one point it was a challenge for everyone. We all started out on the most basic level and continue to grow each day in these areas. I have not stopped learning about speaking and writing my thoughts ever since I started learning my abc 's. It is a continued growth and is constantly evolving inside our heads. Learning any language, whether it be spoken word or a series of letters on paper, it is about the failures that frustrate you. It is about the mistake you made in your high school English class that frustrates you to the core and makes you want to be better than you were yesterday. I relate this to band and learning how to see a dot on a piece of paper and noticing what it was supposed to sound like. Music is my second language, and like English I am still learning constantly in both