3 superpowers that music gave me

Introduction

I joined the world of music when I was 9 years old. For three years in a row, my parents unsuccessfully sent me to piano lessons, and for three years in a row I could not study for even six months. I had some success, at least my teacher praised me. Although, looking at other children in a music school, now I already understand that a fat, quiet and calm boy was an outlet for teachers among cheerful and sometimes inadequate classmates. The first acquaintance with music did not end very well. But the second one lasts until today, and, I hope, will last for a long time. This acquaintance began with a concert of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers seen on TV. Those who have seen RHCP's performances at least once know bassist Flea, who simply knocks you off your feet with his energy. Quite by chance, I heard the song and realized that I want to be the same as them. When I came to a music school and turned to a classical guitar teacher, I heard in response that there was no point in learning to play the bass guitar, and I should start with the classical guitar. I resisted for a long time, because I did not understand these strange people who choose the first guitar between guitar and bass, but my teacher offered a compromise: I will learn to play the classical guitar, and in my free time I will learn to play "bass". For the first two months it was like that. Two months later, the bass guitar had no place in my life. The guitar took the whole place in it. And for 9 years now she has not given this place to anyone else.

Super abilities

Why did I make such a long digression, and why didn't I get to the point right away? Advisors on the Internet are harder to believe than in real life, so the desire to prove that I understand something about this resulted in several paragraphs of unnecessary (for some) text. So, superpowers. We all dream about them in childhood, and, often, these dreams disappear at a more mature age. We stop believing in miracles and realize that there are no superpowers. But what if I told you that superpowers do exist and can be developed through music? For myself, I have identified 3 interesting abilities that wake up in a person if he is engaged in music for a long time. How long? It's hard to say, and it's all very individual. The inspiration came to me after a few years. Perhaps you have talent, and it will turn out in a month?

Superpower # 1 (external ear for music)

External ear for music is the ability to perceive a melody. That is, each person has an external ear for music? Yes and no. Unfortunately, a person who is not involved in music hears only the "song", while a musical person hears the composition itself, its structure and rhythm. And now what I like the most about this super ability. With a little experience, you can lay out any composition on separate sounding instruments in real time. For example, you are listening to Can't Stop, which has already been mentioned in this article. It contains 4 instruments: vocals, bass, guitar, drums. Having learned, you can "bite off" only the vocals from the melody and listen to it. Or bass. Or drums. Does not matter. Why is this needed? But there is no need. Seriously. This ability will not save your life and will not allow you to make a lot of money. But she will bring one very necessary thing - pleasure. I don't know why, but this kind of concentration is really pleasant and relaxing. How to learn? Listen to music. And play music. More music! The more music you listen to, the closer you get to your outer ear for music. Of course, as in any other science (and music is a science), knowledge of theory, practice and other similar things is also necessary here. If you dreamed of learning to play an instrument or sing, but found excuses, then here it is, the last frontier. Learn to play - learn a cool superpower!

Superpower number 2 (inner ear for music)

You will have to work hard with this. It may take you years to master this ability. The inner ear for music is the ability to play music in consciousness without listening to it. Remember Beethoven, even when he was completely deaf, he continued to write incredible music, relying only on his inner ear and his experience. This ability already has real benefits: it allows you to write music, and the stronger your inner ear is, the richer your musical arsenal. The development of the inner ear for music is preceded by many hours solfeggio … This is the discipline that is most disliked in music school. The basis of solfeggio is musical dictations. This is a performance of a small piece of music, after which it needs to be recorded in notes, without picking up on the instrument.

Superpower # 3 (Musical Empathy)

There is no such term as musical empathy. But I'm sure that we all own it, to a greater or lesser extent. After all, you can easily answer the question: "Why do you like listening to music?" I think that our answers will coincide - it evokes emotions. It's also more fun to wash the dishes to the music, and running is not so boring, but this is also an emotion, right? So, the more you know about music, the more you understand it, the more emotions it evokes. Again, why? Washing the dishes becomes even more fun, which is already good.

The final

For a long time it did not occur to me what conclusion can be drawn from this article. And here's what came to my mind: we like to learn and we need to learn. Each of us has something that we can teach other people. For me, this is music. I am sure that there are many readers on Lifehacker who understand the music topic better than me, so I will be glad to learn from you. Write down everything you know about music and what it is to you.