These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week.
First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.
Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.
Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.'
Sunday, September 27, 2015
WEEK THREE WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ
Is music the key to success?
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How has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
How has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
I love music. All types of music and from all different centuries. It's infectious, superior to existence, and whisks you away to an unearthly travel. It travels from device to ears; to mind; to heart; to essence; to thought; to creation. Yes! Simply put, music creates life. It manifests its own soul. A soul, boundless of form, flowing outward, until it kisses the thinning tearing fabric of our dimension. It stretches until it rides the very tip, one tiny, microscopic point, of the thread, of our ever expanding universe. Shocking? Yet! It's extremely heavy, crushing like the weight of a thousand Pacific Oceans. Continually compressing, flattening the earth. And just then! The world, to the meekest of animal, is like afternoon sidewalk hopscotch on a cool summer day. Happily, we're tip-toeing through cultures, 'and glancing through memories like a Sunday matinée. You hold music in the palm of your hand. Wear it as fashion accessories. Wrap your car around it. Sleep and wake by it. Make it your ring tone or, let it slip like the softest whisper from the lips. Or blast it from the highest mountain top. Let it emanate through speakers that tower mortal men. It spread as an epidemic .Faster than a Santa Ana fueled wild fire. It's traveling. Over every tube, town, territory and form of tabernacle. Questioning its virility? Just do it "Gangnam Style". It moves people emotionally when exposed. Moves them to joy; to hate; to love; to sadness; and sadly even to death. It can just brush upon you, carried upon the breeze as you start to sway. It can thunder inside of you and erupt into a shower of warmth and seduction. It scars you. Cutting, clawing, biting deep as it works its way into the tissues of your reason. It's immortal. With a journey that borders boundaries but is never inhibit by one. Confusing. There is no expiration date. No metabolism, yet its substance is the airwaves. It lies. Hibernating peacefully. Until stumbled upon, it waits to inhale; to consume its next victim. And it sprouts. It grows and blossoms. It creates; and spreads; and teaches us how to live fully.
How has music impacted your experience of or think about life?
I am natural not very musical. I guess some of that comes from the fact that I did not put as much time into developing my singing or piano skills as I did playing with my soccer team. The quote from Woody Allen in the reading about how he practices every day to be "as bad as he is" made me realize if I put more effort into music that I might have been better. However, even though I do not play an instrument and I don't like to sing in front of others, I always have a song in my head. Every time I am happy, sad, angry, or any other emotion you can think of, I am listening to music. Looking back on my life, I can think of a song that fit into every stage of my life from Taylor Swift's songs about love that came out when I was 13 too all the worship music that I have learned during the good and bad times in my life. My dad likes to play a game with me when we are on long road trips where someone comes up with a word and we go back and forth singing songs that have that word in it until someone cannot do it in the 10 second time limit. It usually takes a long time before someone wins since we both remember almost every song we have heard. So even though I do not know an instrument, because I think in songs and remember events and emotions through music, I feel that music has had a profound positive impact on my life by allowing to channel my feelings into something as simple as singing a song about them.
I don't know if I would say that music is the key to success, but I believe it certainly does play a role in it. Music has been present throughout my life and I believe that it shows. I've been playing different instruments since I was nine, and have enjoyed each more than the last. To this day, I still can't get over how much a song can effect a person emotionally. Just listening to a song can completely change your mood and I find that amazing. From my experience, learning music enables you to think in a different way. It does this by making you pay more attention and listen to your surroundings, focus on not only the present, but also the future almost simultaneously. These are both fantastic skills that one picks up whenever one studies music. As stated in the article we were given, “It helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view – and most important, to take pleasure in listening”. I couldn't agree more with this statement by Lipman, and even believe it can sharpen your collaboration, creativity, and discipline. These definitely sound like elements one would need to be successful in life. So while I'm not saying it is directly a key to success, the studying a music will help develop skills many deem necessary for that goal.
Music has impacted my experience of thinking of life in a positive way. I remember seeing a picture of myself when I was a toddler sitting on top of a boom box and my mom telling me that I would always turn the radio on, sit on top of the boom box and pretend like I could sing along to the songs. I also remember watching home videos of my sister and I making up songs about random things and my mom recording them. So I think it is fair to say that I have always loved music since I was a baby. Whether I am cleaning, in the shower, doing homework, studying or simply driving in the car, I listen to music. When reading "Is Music the Key to Success" by Joanne Lipman I felt as though many points she touched on, I was able to relate. She stated that music, "helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening." I completely agreed with this specific statement because I truly believe that music can put you in a different mind set or mood and your brain then works differently. There are times were I have had some bad days and if I turn on the worship song station on Pandora and listen to a few songs, I feel so much better. I also agree with Lipman’s point of being able to process different points of view as listening to music has helped me while studying. Many times when I have feel stressed out while studying, I turn on my musical spa and relaxation station and I quickly feel relieved. Once I feel relaxed and continue listening to this specific genre of music, I can better understand the material that I am studying and no longer feel confused. I know it may sound crazy but for some reason that works for me which is why I can really understand this point that she made. When I was in elementary school I had a teacher that would always play classical music when we were reading, taking tests or working on projects and I noticed it really has helped my process of thinking. With that being said, I feel like music has helped me channel a creative, relaxed and a part of me where I can express myself in different areas of my life through music even if it means just listening to it and not actually playing an instrument or singing. If it weren't for music I probably would look at life in a more stressful and negative point of view. Music allows for me to experience feelings of happiness, sadness, triumph and discouragement while listening to different genres and makes me feel like I can have something to relate too while enjoying what I am listening to at the same time.
Music is most certainly a different language. I played the clarinet for nine years before I gave up when I got into CSUB. Music brings many positive outcomes for children because it teaches them many things that are not taught in an every day classroom. I believe that music rehearsals should be incorporated in an elementary classroom for various reasons. It requires time and commitment to be able to play a piece of music. Like mentioned above, playing music once is not going to make perfection, it takes practice. I remember the struggle of not being able to play musical phrase. I spent countless hours outside of school rehearsal practicing my music to make it better. The results are very rewarding. Music also challenges us to work as a team with the rest of the band. One has to listen to the other musicians to make sure that our sound is not over powering another instrument. Music also requires younger children to use some mathematical skills. In music, there are notes that have to played out longer than others. For example, a quarter note is only played for one beat while a half note is played out for two beats. I believe it is incredible what one person can do with an instrument in his/ her hand.
In this article, Joanne Lipman tells readers about how music may contribute to a person's success story. Music affects people differently. For example, Paul Allen, a programmer for Microsoft and past violinist and guitarist says, "something is pushing you to look beyond what currently exists and express yourself in a new way.” Music is used as a motivation to express himself and push himself towards success. Another example is Mr. Todd, who did a solo audition when he was 17 responds to his success as, "There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.” Mr. Todd believes that if you work hard towards something with practice and hard work you can get there. Each and every person may use past music experiences or impacts that contributed to who they are today. Music may inevitable be a key to success. It provides collaboration, listening abilities, new ways of creative thinking, provides different point of views, and discipline. Many have used these concepts and skills to help them succeed throughout their own lives.
How has music impacted your experience of or think about life?
Music has always had a positive impact in my life. Like most, I have experienced times in my life where I am angry, sad, happy, or in love. There has always been a category of music for each of these emotions. I believe that people begin to love and appreciate music because it is a form of expression that some of us have a hard time showing. For example, if I am feeling sad or negative about certain circumstances, all I need to do is turn on my Christian or country music to feel more positive about the problem. It’s like music encourages us through words that we need to hear the most. I have never really reflected on music in my life. Now that I think of it, music is present wherever I am. When I get ready for school, take a shower, work out at the gym, or drive my car, music is always there. It is a form of escape and a sense of hope. In our reading Mr. Wolfensohn states “music provides balance.” I agree in which music helps us regulate our moods and cope with our feelings.
Ray Charles, a famous and inspirational singer, songwriter, and musician, once said, “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.”
Music, I believe, impacts everyone at some point in his or her lives. With some many different genres and forms of music, a person is bound to have a favorite type of music. This prompt is really personal for me because I have seen and have been inspired by the effects of music. When I was younger, I came across a student in middle school that was deaf. He had an assistant translate for him that was provided by the school and, because of it, always had to sit up front. It was not until he was in my music class that I became curious as to how he interacted with other students. I don’t remember the device, but I came to learn that he was able to sense the rhythm of music through vibrations. Every single day that I entered the class, I saw how happy he was and that really moved me. Some songs I thought were absolutely boring, but to him, it was really profound and he smiled every single session. From this, I learned how important music was in this world. People can say that it inspires them or moves them, but to me music delivers happiness to all those who listen to it. Whether its rock, pop, classical, or through vibrations, music has the ability to make people smile and I think that’s ultimately what’s important.
II truly don't believe that music is the key to make someone successful. I do belive it can help with the success, but making it a key essential to success is a belief. Which brings me to how music has impcted my life. Music has positively impacted my life in different aspects. Music helps people express themselves. Many songs help you feel emotions in a way that you couldn't express but the artist and the lyrics do the job. Everytime I'm feeling happy, sad, or inspirational, there is always a song that I can relate too. Music is what moves people i believe, it changes the way we feel about certain things. One example is, in high school i played volleyball, during warm up before a game we played music to pump us up or get us going. The music gave us adrenaline to start the match off strong and our outcome was always winning. One day before a match the music box was not working, we did everything to try to make it work because my teammates and myself knew how important it was but still no luck. We started the warm up without the music, and the mood, the adrenaline already felt different. The outcome of that game was horrible, we lost and we were all very disappointed. We all knew that we couoldn't blame the music but we realized that music is what got us going. Music is important because it can make you feel a certain type of way most of the time in a postive manner. It has always positively impacted my life, which is why i feel it has a big impotance.
I believe that music is the key to success. I went to Cesar E. Chavez High School all four years and was involved in dance. All my peirs who were in band, dance, choir, or color guard had the highest gpa's in their class. Music brings everyone together and I personally believe that music requires everyone to work together. All the students who were involved in band, dance, and choir were the most successful and most involved. Whether your dancing, singing, or playing music you must practice and work with others. Music teaches how to contribute and listen to others. I don't believe students can learn this is a regular classroom. In regular classrooms students do work with others, but they only do group work for a day and move on. I would encourage and stress for students to be involved in music so they can learn the skill of working with others. Music requires countless hours of practice and every members effort to become successful.
I do not believe that music is the key to success. I believe that it definitely can help, but I don't think it is the key to it. Music is a big part of my life. I think that music helps in all kinds of ways. When you are stressed out it can help you relax and when you are sad or scared music will make it better. Music can help you focus on certain tasks and help you do them better than if you weren't listening to it. When you clean your house, when you listen to music you are more motivated to do then you would if you weren't. When I was little, my parents used to fight all the time before they finally got divorced. However, when they would fight I would just put my headphones on and try to drown out the yelling and screaming. Music is what got me through all of that, and it really impacted my life. That is when I really fell in love with music and started to listen to it all the time to figure out what I liked. Music is important and can make you feel a certain emotions, most of the time make you feel happier and more positive.
How has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life? Music has impacted my experience of life because many songs have a true meaning to what they say. Lipman said “many high achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking”. This is true, I feel as if some of the ideas from songs open up my creativity when thinking. This helps me come up with new ideas on how to approach situations, how to do things, and how to expand on my ideas. Music is not all about the rhythm but also about the meaning of the song. All the good songs have a significance because they portray a meaningful event, situation, actions, or emotions. Music works for me either when I’m happy, stressed, sad, or frustrated. Music is a great reliever that works sort of like a stress ball. Music brings joy and life to a party because people enjoy listening to it and getting their groove on. For example at my family’s parties there is always music and people dancing. I feel as if it’s more like a tradition that we have music at parties because we are just so used to the ambiance with music. Music impacts my life in many ways such as sharing time with my family at a gathering, listening to it while doing homework, while doing chores, or even while driving. Music is more like a necessity in my life because like the song says “I’m so addicted to this”. Music producers are someone who I would certainly connect to because I know it takes time to come up with some lyrics or a song. Therefore it’s just like writing a ten page paper its difficult for me to write but eventually I’ll finish it after so many tries. Therefore music impacts individuals in many different ways.
Music has impacted my life in many ways. Music is part of our culture and our society. We include music in our everyday life, when we are sad, happy, angry, or celebrating a special event. Without music, our life would be boring. Music is necessary for everyone because it makes us enjoy life and connect with others. In my personal life, many songs have impacted me because they have been part of special events that have influenced me to become who I am. Certain music for example children songs relate to my childhood, alternative rock and metal music reminds me of my adolescent years, and the current music now represents my generation and me. For example, when I hear a certain song that reminds me of a personal event, that change my life, I often wonder if things could of being different, or how I could of handle the situation during that part of my life. Sometimes when I hear a happy cheerful or happy song, I just want to dance and not care about what others think or say about me. Music is very important to me because whenever I feel sad or stress, I turn on the radio because I know music will make me happy and forget about my problems. I think music is essential for every person because it represents who we are and who want to become in society. Music has impacted me in many ways that it has become part of my everyday life.
There are many ways in which music has impacted my life. I have always liked singing ever since I was small. Although I have never played an instrument besides the flutophone in third grade, I have sang most of my life. I used to sing in the church choir and in high school I was in choir all four years. I really enjoy singing because it allows one to be creative and experiment with different pitches of voices and sounds. Also the lyrics can be very powerful and influence ones mood. Sometimes when I'm feeling down or blue I play upbeat music and it gets my mood up making me feel so much better and happy. I agree with the many positive points this article says about music such as it providing a balance and relating to one's professional achievements. Music has made a great impact in my life it has taught me to think outside the box, to be outgoing and freely express my thoughts and feelings.
Is music the key to success? After reading the article I don’t think that music is the complete key or reason for success. I do think however, that a talented musician may be given many opportunities to become more “successful” but in more of a famed way. Last year, I took a music 310 course and I was definitely surprised on how much of an impact music can have on a child, especially in an academic setting. The author mentions that she too is surprised by how “music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that weaves together disparate ideas. The power to focus on the present and the future simultaneously.” I also agree with Paul Allen how music can lift your confidence and your power to create. In the music class, I witnessed elementary students create complete feelings and scenarios based off of melodies and rhythms they listened to. These students could barely write sentences, yet they could draw and create a complete location, scenario, or story. This is why I believe that music can definitely create qualities for individuals that will help them become successful, weather it is in the music industry or not. And I think that the author sums of this idea perfectly with her conclusion that, “Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.”
Although I have not heard about the link between music and future success, it makes sense. Music is a language, its read, and interpreted through those who can make out the symbols. Only those who practice and practice can do so, this is can also be improvements in learning processes and, therefore, possibly creates academic improvements in other areas of education. I remember a friend from high school who was talented in music and drawing. He would always practice with his other band members or practice drawing talent. I admired his willingness to practice for improvements in areas that did not need improvements. This shows that music may have an influence in the willingness to study or practice in areas that need improvements. If not that, than the dedication for improvements. If music has a high significance in a connection among students that result in better grades, why is that many schools who are an economic downfall, first choose to cut music programs? There is a lot of work that is put into learning music that there are positive effects on brain development. Better memorization techniques, reading ability, and communication skills. Now that I have read this subject, I also think that music may give stronger communication skills to those musical-students because, music is “diverse.” People with different cultures may enjoy practicing the same instruments, they will eventually connect due to common interests. I do believe there is a strong connection between music and success. I personally love listening to Peter Bradley and Colbie Caillat. Music opens a different world, in my opinion.
When I was in the 5th grade, I had the opportunity to play the flute. Partly, I just wanted the chance to skip class once a week. I was so excited for my first session. I bought my own flute instead of renting because I truly thought I would be the next big musician. When I had my first lesson, I left in tears. 10 year old me was not used to not being perfect at things on the first try. Achieving top scores and understanding things quickly came naturally to me. I had never encountered something that stumped me as much as learning how to read sheet music. After endlessly pouring over musical notations, I was ready to involve the actual playing of the flute. This confused me even further. How does one breathe in specific patterns and move their fingers in patterns that are even more specific at the same time? I could not rub my belly and pat my head, needless to say. I became so frustrated, I begged my mother to take me out of the classes. She would not allow it because of how much money they put into buying me a flute instead of renting it upon my request. After an endless bout of pouting, I returned to my lessons. I worked extremely hard to understand and perfect the techniques. I would not look like a fool. Yes, I was a very stubborn and sometimes cocky young girl. Before I knew it, it was time to play in front of the entire school and their families. I sat in the front row and played Mary Had a Little Lamb without even looking down at my sheet music. I didn’t mess up once, and I was so happy I think I may have ran to my mom and cried after. In the end, I gave up on the flute, but the flute taught me to not give up on myself. I may have been 10, but I think I had an epiphany that day. Things don’t always come easy in life. Sometimes you have to work, and the work could be really tough. When you finally get on the stage and nail it, you realize how much it was worth it.
How has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
As Lipman states in the article “Is Music the Key to Success?,” music “helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view.” I certainly notice this in my own life. I can listen to country, hip hop, classic rock, and heavy metal all on one electronic device, and by doing this I can immerse myself in several cultures. Most songs hold some kind of message in their lyrics, messages that I can relate to my life. Whatever mood I’m in, I can find a song to match it. Recently, I started listening to folk music, which is something I’ve never done before. Although I love the poetry behind many song lyrics, it is pretty nice to listen to music in another language. The song can then be whatever I want it to be. I can create my own image. This has an application for the way I think about life: I thrive on structure, but I can still be whoever I want. Music is a universal language, one that can connect people from all walks of life. My experiences will be vastly different when I feel that I can connect with others.
How has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
ReplyDeleteI love music. All types of music and from all different centuries. It's infectious, superior to existence, and whisks you away to an unearthly travel. It travels from device to ears; to mind; to heart; to essence; to thought; to creation. Yes! Simply put, music creates life. It manifests its own soul. A soul, boundless of form, flowing outward, until it kisses the thinning tearing fabric of our dimension. It stretches until it rides the very tip, one tiny, microscopic point, of the thread, of our ever expanding universe. Shocking? Yet! It's extremely heavy, crushing like the weight of a thousand Pacific Oceans. Continually compressing, flattening the earth. And just then! The world, to the meekest of animal, is like afternoon sidewalk hopscotch on a cool summer day. Happily, we're tip-toeing through cultures, 'and glancing through memories like a Sunday matinée.
You hold music in the palm of your hand. Wear it as fashion accessories. Wrap your car around it. Sleep and wake by it. Make it your ring tone or, let it slip like the softest whisper from the lips. Or blast it from the highest mountain top. Let it emanate through speakers that tower mortal men.
It spread as an epidemic .Faster than a Santa Ana fueled wild fire. It's traveling. Over every tube, town, territory and form of tabernacle. Questioning its virility? Just do it "Gangnam Style". It moves people emotionally when exposed. Moves them to joy; to hate; to love; to sadness; and sadly even to death. It can just brush upon you, carried upon the breeze as you start to sway. It can thunder inside of you and erupt into a shower of warmth and seduction. It scars you. Cutting, clawing, biting deep as it works its way into the tissues of your reason.
It's immortal. With a journey that borders boundaries but is never inhibit by one. Confusing. There is no expiration date. No metabolism, yet its substance is the airwaves. It lies. Hibernating peacefully. Until stumbled upon, it waits to inhale; to consume its next victim. And it sprouts. It grows and blossoms. It creates; and spreads; and teaches us how to live fully.
How has music impacted your experience of or think about life?
ReplyDeleteI am natural not very musical. I guess some of that comes from the fact that I did not put as much time into developing my singing or piano skills as I did playing with my soccer team. The quote from Woody Allen in the reading about how he practices every day to be "as bad as he is" made me realize if I put more effort into music that I might have been better.
However, even though I do not play an instrument and I don't like to sing in front of others, I always have a song in my head. Every time I am happy, sad, angry, or any other emotion you can think of, I am listening to music. Looking back on my life, I can think of a song that fit into every stage of my life from Taylor Swift's songs about love that came out when I was 13 too all the worship music that I have learned during the good and bad times in my life. My dad likes to play a game with me when we are on long road trips where someone comes up with a word and we go back and forth singing songs that have that word in it until someone cannot do it in the 10 second time limit. It usually takes a long time before someone wins since we both remember almost every song we have heard. So even though I do not know an instrument, because I think in songs and remember events and emotions through music, I feel that music has had a profound positive impact on my life by allowing to channel my feelings into something as simple as singing a song about them.
I don't know if I would say that music is the key to success, but I believe it certainly does play a role in it. Music has been present throughout my life and I believe that it shows. I've been playing different instruments since I was nine, and have enjoyed each more than the last. To this day, I still can't get over how much a song can effect a person emotionally. Just listening to a song can completely change your mood and I find that amazing. From my experience, learning music enables you to think in a different way. It does this by making you pay more attention and listen to your surroundings, focus on not only the present, but also the future almost simultaneously. These are both fantastic skills that one picks up whenever one studies music. As stated in the article we were given, “It helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view – and most important, to take pleasure in listening”. I couldn't agree more with this statement by Lipman, and even believe it can sharpen your collaboration, creativity, and discipline. These definitely sound like elements one would need to be successful in life. So while I'm not saying it is directly a key to success, the studying a music will help develop skills many deem necessary for that goal.
ReplyDeleteMusic has impacted my experience of thinking of life in a positive way. I remember seeing a picture of myself when I was a toddler sitting on top of a boom box and my mom telling me that I would always turn the radio on, sit on top of the boom box and pretend like I could sing along to the songs. I also remember watching home videos of my sister and I making up songs about random things and my mom recording them. So I think it is fair to say that I have always loved music since I was a baby. Whether I am cleaning, in the shower, doing homework, studying or simply driving in the car, I listen to music. When reading "Is Music the Key to Success" by Joanne Lipman I felt as though many points she touched on, I was able to relate. She stated that music, "helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening." I completely agreed with this specific statement because I truly believe that music can put you in a different mind set or mood and your brain then works differently. There are times were I have had some bad days and if I turn on the worship song station on Pandora and listen to a few songs, I feel so much better. I also agree with Lipman’s point of being able to process different points of view as listening to music has helped me while studying. Many times when I have feel stressed out while studying, I turn on my musical spa and relaxation station and I quickly feel relieved. Once I feel relaxed and continue listening to this specific genre of music, I can better understand the material that I am studying and no longer feel confused. I know it may sound crazy but for some reason that works for me which is why I can really understand this point that she made. When I was in elementary school I had a teacher that would always play classical music when we were reading, taking tests or working on projects and I noticed it really has helped my process of thinking. With that being said, I feel like music has helped me channel a creative, relaxed and a part of me where I can express myself in different areas of my life through music even if it means just listening to it and not actually playing an instrument or singing. If it weren't for music I probably would look at life in a more stressful and negative point of view. Music allows for me to experience feelings of happiness, sadness, triumph and discouragement while listening to different genres and makes me feel like I can have something to relate too while enjoying what I am listening to at the same time.
ReplyDeleteMusic is most certainly a different language. I played the clarinet for nine years before I gave up when I got into CSUB. Music brings many positive outcomes for children because it teaches them many things that are not taught in an every day classroom. I believe that music rehearsals should be incorporated in an elementary classroom for various reasons. It requires time and commitment to be able to play a piece of music. Like mentioned above, playing music once is not going to make perfection, it takes practice. I remember the struggle of not being able to play musical phrase. I spent countless hours outside of school rehearsal practicing my music to make it better. The results are very rewarding. Music also challenges us to work as a team with the rest of the band. One has to listen to the other musicians to make sure that our sound is not over powering another instrument. Music also requires younger children to use some mathematical skills. In music, there are notes that have to played out longer than others. For example, a quarter note is only played for one beat while a half note is played out for two beats. I believe it is incredible what one person can do with an instrument in his/ her hand.
ReplyDeleteIs Music the Key to Success?
ReplyDeleteIn this article, Joanne Lipman tells readers about how music may contribute to a person's success story. Music affects people differently. For example, Paul Allen, a programmer for Microsoft and past violinist and guitarist says, "something is pushing you to look beyond what currently exists and express yourself in a new way.” Music is used as a motivation to express himself and push himself towards success. Another example is Mr. Todd, who did a solo audition when he was 17 responds to his success as, "There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.” Mr. Todd believes that if you work hard towards something with practice and hard work you can get there. Each and every person may use past music experiences or impacts that contributed to who they are today. Music may inevitable be a key to success. It provides collaboration, listening abilities, new ways of creative thinking, provides different point of views, and discipline. Many have used these concepts and skills to help them succeed throughout their own lives.
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ReplyDeleteHow has music impacted your experience of or think about life?
ReplyDeleteMusic has always had a positive impact in my life. Like most, I have experienced times in my life where I am angry, sad, happy, or in love. There has always been a category of music for each of these emotions. I believe that people begin to love and appreciate music because it is a form of expression that some of us have a hard time showing. For example, if I am feeling sad or negative about certain circumstances, all I need to do is turn on my Christian or country music to feel more positive about the problem. It’s like music encourages us through words that we need to hear the most.
I have never really reflected on music in my life. Now that I think of it, music is present wherever I am. When I get ready for school, take a shower, work out at the gym, or drive my car, music is always there. It is a form of escape and a sense of hope. In our reading Mr. Wolfensohn states “music provides balance.” I agree in which music helps us regulate our moods and cope with our feelings.
Ray Charles, a famous and inspirational singer, songwriter, and musician, once said, “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.”
ReplyDeleteMusic, I believe, impacts everyone at some point in his or her lives. With some many different genres and forms of music, a person is bound to have a favorite type of music. This prompt is really personal for me because I have seen and have been inspired by the effects of music. When I was younger, I came across a student in middle school that was deaf. He had an assistant translate for him that was provided by the school and, because of it, always had to sit up front. It was not until he was in my music class that I became curious as to how he interacted with other students. I don’t remember the device, but I came to learn that he was able to sense the rhythm of music through vibrations. Every single day that I entered the class, I saw how happy he was and that really moved me. Some songs I thought were absolutely boring, but to him, it was really profound and he smiled every single session. From this, I learned how important music was in this world. People can say that it inspires them or moves them, but to me music delivers happiness to all those who listen to it. Whether its rock, pop, classical, or through vibrations, music has the ability to make people smile and I think that’s ultimately what’s important.
Is music the key to success?
ReplyDeleteII truly don't believe that music is the key to make someone successful. I do belive it can help with the success, but making it a key essential to success is a belief. Which brings me to how music has impcted my life.
Music has positively impacted my life in different aspects. Music helps people express themselves. Many songs help you feel emotions in a way that you couldn't express but the artist and the lyrics do the job. Everytime I'm feeling happy, sad, or inspirational, there is always a song that I can relate too. Music is what moves people i believe, it changes the way we feel about certain things. One example is, in high school i played volleyball, during warm up before a game we played music to pump us up or get us going. The music gave us adrenaline to start the match off strong and our outcome was always winning. One day before a match the music box was not working, we did everything to try to make it work because my teammates and myself knew how important it was but still no luck. We started the warm up without the music, and the mood, the adrenaline already felt different. The outcome of that game was horrible, we lost and we were all very disappointed. We all knew that we couoldn't blame the music but we realized that music is what got us going. Music is important because it can make you feel a certain type of way most of the time in a postive manner. It has always positively impacted my life, which is why i feel it has a big impotance.
I believe that music is the key to success. I went to Cesar E. Chavez High School all four years and was involved in dance. All my peirs who were in band, dance, choir, or color guard had the highest gpa's in their class. Music brings everyone together and I personally believe that music requires everyone to work together. All the students who were involved in band, dance, and choir were the most successful and most involved. Whether your dancing, singing, or playing music you must practice and work with others. Music teaches how to contribute and listen to others. I don't believe students can learn this is a regular classroom. In regular classrooms students do work with others, but they only do group work for a day and move on. I would encourage and stress for students to be involved in music so they can learn the skill of working with others. Music requires countless hours of practice and every members effort to become successful.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that music is the key to success. I believe that it definitely can help, but I don't think it is the key to it. Music is a big part of my life. I think that music helps in all kinds of ways. When you are stressed out it can help you relax and when you are sad or scared music will make it better. Music can help you focus on certain tasks and help you do them better than if you weren't listening to it. When you clean your house, when you listen to music you are more motivated to do then you would if you weren't. When I was little, my parents used to fight all the time before they finally got divorced. However, when they would fight I would just put my headphones on and try to drown out the yelling and screaming. Music is what got me through all of that, and it really impacted my life. That is when I really fell in love with music and started to listen to it all the time to figure out what I liked. Music is important and can make you feel a certain emotions, most of the time make you feel happier and more positive.
ReplyDeleteHow has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
ReplyDeleteMusic has impacted my experience of life because many songs have a true meaning to what they say. Lipman said “many high achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking”. This is true, I feel as if some of the ideas from songs open up my creativity when thinking. This helps me come up with new ideas on how to approach situations, how to do things, and how to expand on my ideas. Music is not all about the rhythm but also about the meaning of the song. All the good songs have a significance because they portray a meaningful event, situation, actions, or emotions. Music works for me either when I’m happy, stressed, sad, or frustrated. Music is a great reliever that works sort of like a stress ball. Music brings joy and life to a party because people enjoy listening to it and getting their groove on. For example at my family’s parties there is always music and people dancing. I feel as if it’s more like a tradition that we have music at parties because we are just so used to the ambiance with music. Music impacts my life in many ways such as sharing time with my family at a gathering, listening to it while doing homework, while doing chores, or even while driving. Music is more like a necessity in my life because like the song says “I’m so addicted to this”. Music producers are someone who I would certainly connect to because I know it takes time to come up with some lyrics or a song. Therefore it’s just like writing a ten page paper its difficult for me to write but eventually I’ll finish it after so many tries. Therefore music impacts individuals in many different ways.
Music has impacted my life in many ways. Music is part of our culture and our society. We include music in our everyday life, when we are sad, happy, angry, or celebrating a special event. Without music, our life would be boring. Music is necessary for everyone because it makes us enjoy life and connect with others. In my personal life, many songs have impacted me because they have been part of special events that have influenced me to become who I am. Certain music for example children songs relate to my childhood, alternative rock and metal music reminds me of my adolescent years, and the current music now represents my generation and me. For example, when I hear a certain song that reminds me of a personal event, that change my life, I often wonder if things could of being different, or how I could of handle the situation during that part of my life. Sometimes when I hear a happy cheerful or happy song, I just want to dance and not care about what others think or say about me.
ReplyDeleteMusic is very important to me because whenever I feel sad or stress, I turn on the radio because I know music will make me happy and forget about my problems. I think music is essential for every person because it represents who we are and who want to become in society. Music has impacted me in many ways that it has become part of my everyday life.
There are many ways in which music has impacted my life. I have always liked singing ever since I was small. Although I have never played an instrument besides the flutophone in third grade, I have sang most of my life. I used to sing in the church choir and in high school I was in choir all four years. I really enjoy singing because it allows one to be creative and experiment with different pitches of voices and sounds. Also the lyrics can be very powerful and influence ones mood. Sometimes when I'm feeling down or blue I play upbeat music and it gets my mood up making me feel so much better and happy. I agree with the many positive points this article says about music such as it providing a balance and relating to one's professional achievements. Music has made a great impact in my life it has taught me to think outside the box, to be outgoing and freely express my thoughts and feelings.
ReplyDeleteIs music the key to success?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article I don’t think that music is the complete key or reason for success. I do think however, that a talented musician may be given many opportunities to become more “successful” but in more of a famed way. Last year, I took a music 310 course and I was definitely surprised on how much of an impact music can have on a child, especially in an academic setting. The author mentions that she too is surprised by how “music training sharpens other qualities: Collaboration. The ability to listen. A way of thinking that weaves together disparate ideas. The power to focus on the present and the future simultaneously.”
I also agree with Paul Allen how music can lift your confidence and your power to create. In the music class, I witnessed elementary students create complete feelings and scenarios based off of melodies and rhythms they listened to. These students could barely write sentences, yet they could draw and create a complete location, scenario, or story.
This is why I believe that music can definitely create qualities for individuals that will help them become successful, weather it is in the music industry or not. And I think that the author sums of this idea perfectly with her conclusion that, “Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.”
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have not heard about the link between music and future success, it makes sense. Music is a language, its read, and interpreted through those who can make out the symbols. Only those who practice and practice can do so, this is can also be improvements in learning processes and, therefore, possibly creates academic improvements in other areas of education.
I remember a friend from high school who was talented in music and drawing. He would always practice with his other band members or practice drawing talent. I admired his willingness to practice for improvements in areas that did not need improvements. This shows that music may have an influence in the willingness to study or practice in areas that need improvements. If not that, than the dedication for improvements.
If music has a high significance in a connection among students that result in better grades, why is that many schools who are an economic downfall, first choose to cut music programs? There is a lot of work that is put into learning music that there are positive effects on brain development. Better memorization techniques, reading ability, and communication skills. Now that I have read this subject, I also think that music may give stronger communication skills to those musical-students because, music is “diverse.” People with different cultures may enjoy practicing the same instruments, they will eventually connect due to common interests.
I do believe there is a strong connection between music and success. I personally love listening to Peter Bradley and Colbie Caillat. Music opens a different world, in my opinion.
When I was in the 5th grade, I had the opportunity to play the flute. Partly, I just wanted the chance to skip class once a week. I was so excited for my first session. I bought my own flute instead of renting because I truly thought I would be the next big musician. When I had my first lesson, I left in tears. 10 year old me was not used to not being perfect at things on the first try. Achieving top scores and understanding things quickly came naturally to me. I had never encountered something that stumped me as much as learning how to read sheet music. After endlessly pouring over musical notations, I was ready to involve the actual playing of the flute. This confused me even further. How does one breathe in specific patterns and move their fingers in patterns that are even more specific at the same time? I could not rub my belly and pat my head, needless to say. I became so frustrated, I begged my mother to take me out of the classes. She would not allow it because of how much money they put into buying me a flute instead of renting it upon my request. After an endless bout of pouting, I returned to my lessons. I worked extremely hard to understand and perfect the techniques. I would not look like a fool. Yes, I was a very stubborn and sometimes cocky young girl. Before I knew it, it was time to play in front of the entire school and their families. I sat in the front row and played Mary Had a Little Lamb without even looking down at my sheet music. I didn’t mess up once, and I was so happy I think I may have ran to my mom and cried after. In the end, I gave up on the flute, but the flute taught me to not give up on myself. I may have been 10, but I think I had an epiphany that day. Things don’t always come easy in life. Sometimes you have to work, and the work could be really tough. When you finally get on the stage and nail it, you realize how much it was worth it.
ReplyDeleteHow has music impacted your experience of or thinking about life?
ReplyDeleteAs Lipman states in the article “Is Music the Key to Success?,” music “helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view.” I certainly notice this in my own life. I can listen to country, hip hop, classic rock, and heavy metal all on one electronic device, and by doing this I can immerse myself in several cultures. Most songs hold some kind of message in their lyrics, messages that I can relate to my life. Whatever mood I’m in, I can find a song to match it. Recently, I started listening to folk music, which is something I’ve never done before. Although I love the poetry behind many song lyrics, it is pretty nice to listen to music in another language. The song can then be whatever I want it to be. I can create my own image. This has an application for the way I think about life: I thrive on structure, but I can still be whoever I want. Music is a universal language, one that can connect people from all walks of life. My experiences will be vastly different when I feel that I can connect with others.