I have been playing piano since I was eleven. In those years, I have experienced that my growth in music has benefitted all areas of my life, and vice versa. I always have believed that real music is conceived by everything else in the universe, except for music itself. Every piece of music is a completely different species of emotion, color, suspense, and without having life experience of say, being in a state of resigned despair, I would have been able to explore the Bach 6th Partita.
The study of music has taught me about life skills. A strong work ethic is the most prominent quality in any musician. The year I started taking piano seriously, 14, I would wake up at 6 am and practice all of my repertoire at 30% speed, making sure every sound was connected to the last, always with a vision of what is to come. Classes would start at 8:30, and when I had a break, I would continue to go through my repertoire again normally. This took extreme amounts of concentration, which I took away from my studies. I compare the intense listening required to eye contact. By maintaining "eye contact", you partially compromise what happens peripherally (an allusion to circumstance) to prioritize exactly the intention your brain and heart want to execute. …show more content…
In polyphonic music, it is necessary to balance each sound so that there is both harmonic support and a melodic incentive. If there is any small discrepancy in each timbre of a chord, the whole chord loses it's meaning. At the time, I was putting the majority of my time into piano, while attending to my academic and extracirricular endeavors, all while keeping my physical and mental health as the basis. The idea of pacing in music is also relevant- how to plan saving and steadily building the sound to the apex of the piece. Every day I would identify the point in my day that required the most amount of energy and build up to
The study of music has taught me about life skills. A strong work ethic is the most prominent quality in any musician. The year I started taking piano seriously, 14, I would wake up at 6 am and practice all of my repertoire at 30% speed, making sure every sound was connected to the last, always with a vision of what is to come. Classes would start at 8:30, and when I had a break, I would continue to go through my repertoire again normally. This took extreme amounts of concentration, which I took away from my studies. I compare the intense listening required to eye contact. By maintaining "eye contact", you partially compromise what happens peripherally (an allusion to circumstance) to prioritize exactly the intention your brain and heart want to execute. …show more content…
In polyphonic music, it is necessary to balance each sound so that there is both harmonic support and a melodic incentive. If there is any small discrepancy in each timbre of a chord, the whole chord loses it's meaning. At the time, I was putting the majority of my time into piano, while attending to my academic and extracirricular endeavors, all while keeping my physical and mental health as the basis. The idea of pacing in music is also relevant- how to plan saving and steadily building the sound to the apex of the piece. Every day I would identify the point in my day that required the most amount of energy and build up to