Day 26: music

I love music. I love listening to it. I love playing music myself on the piano. I love to hear other people play the piano. I'm amazed at how quickly music can affect our emotions. Happy, lively music makes us want to dance. Scary music makes us feel uncomfortable. If you ever watch a scary movie, you'll notice that it's the music you hear that clues you in on when something bad is about to happen. Take the movie Jaws for example: 

duh nuh....     duh nuh..... duh nuh.. duh nuh duh nuh DUH NUH DUH NUH DUHNUH!!!

Or think of Psycho. REE! REE! REE! 

Take the music away, and scary movies lose a lot of suspense and scariness. Although, it's still pretty scary to see someone stabbed in the shower.

I feel like I'm getting off track here.........  I love how HAPPY music can make us. I love this time of year when listening to Christmas music makes us feel nostalgic and remember how magical Christmas is.

I'm thankful that I know how to play the piano and the organ. I'm so glad that my parents had me take piano lessons and encouraged me to practice. I'm grateful for my wonderful teachers who helped me develop this talent. I love that I get to teach piano lessons now to 6 great kids. Sometimes I wonder why I do it; my life is certainly busy enough as a full-time mom and wife of a grad student. But I love seeing my students learn new things. I love hearing them stumble through a song only to come back a week later to hear it played perfectly. Practicing really does help! I love to hear them get excited about music. When they tell me, "I heard a song this week and I think it was in a minor key!", my music heart just melts.

I enjoy preparing little games/activities for my students to do that reinforce theory or terms we just learned.

I wish I could say that I come up with all of them myself, but most of my ideas come from other music bloggers or my Pinterest board.

I'm thankful that I get to teach my boys about music. I can already see their interest in it.

(This picture was taken over a year and a half ago when I first started teaching. Dallin looks so young here! Well, mostly the same size but his cheeks are less chubby now.)

I'm thankful for music, for how much it's blessed my life and allowed me to bless others.