Here is one of many articles that The Creativity
Institute has reviewed and reprinted on nurturing creativity in
children and on educational toys. Infants, toddlers, preschoolers
and school age children can all benefit from the right educational
toys and musical opportunities, even on the toy piano.
The Case Against Traditional Piano Lessons
By Edward Weiss
How would you like to spend 4 years in a University
learning how to play other peoples music? If you think this is
ridiculous, you're right! Because that's what thousands of piano
music students do each day.
They sit in front of their piano or keyboard
with sheet music of a dead composer in front of them. Then they
are told to "play it right." Have you ever heard of
such nonsense? Imagine a budding writer forced to copy another
novelists work? In essence, this is what classical piano students
do. They copy.
Although many think this is a creative act,
it is not. It is a re-creative one. It's purpose? To give people
who are told how to listen to music a chance to hear what is considered
"good" music. Only in classical music is there such
pomposity. And it exists because a very few people wish to hear
the classics.
Let me tell you something. I love classical
music. But I don't spend my time trying to recreate what has already
been created. No. Instead, I want to connect with my own source
and allow the music that is inside me to come out. I want to be
creative too! And my philosophy is that anyone can be "a
composer."
All it takes is the desire to create - to want
to hear ones authentic self expressed through music. Difficult?
Not at all! It's as easy as putting fingers to keys and playing.
Hard to believe but true. You see, music students have been cheated
from the get go by an academic snobbism that destroys the spirit
and the will to create.
The suggestion is that the best music has already
been created so why bother. The answer is crucial to our own well
being. We bother because it makes us feel good. That is all that
is required and that is all that is needed to make music.
About the Author:
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster
of Quiescence Music's online piano lessons. He has been helping
students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over
14 years! Visit us now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html
for a FREE piano lesson!
Source: www.isnare.com
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