Music Education is Really Very Important

by Jill
(Anderson)

I am not a teacher and I have not had very much training in the music field, however everything I know, I have taught myself, despite the few guitar lessons I have had.

I have played guitar now for five years, and have been in lots of bands.

I've found that my school work has changed a lot since I started to play. The creativity that I began to feel after being able to play an instrument was incredible. I began to think more "outside the box" when doing projects in school. I noticed that my creativity level was at a high.

Music allowed me to share my feelings without having to talk about them. I was finally able to express the ways I was feeling through my music, and when I began to write songs and record them it was the greatest feeling in the world. Sometimes I find it hard to get my mind off music and the all it's possibilities!!

A little while after I started playing guitar, I decided that I wanted to learn more and so I took up the piano. I had seen my mom play a few pieces and it looked like so much fun. So I started messing around, and eventually learned some songs, including the Entertainer. I have played the piano for 3 years now and enjoy it so much, I get home and have to decide between the guitar and the piano and what I would like to practice first. Sometimes I wish I could practice both at the same time!

Since I started playing guitar and piano, I have picked up on a few other instruments, including drums, violin, and bass. I wish I could learn how to play every instrument in the world!