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25/12/2024

When you have skilled long and strong fingers …

Keep Living the Music‼️🎹😊

13/12/2024

It's proven time and again that music is a universal language that can be shared by all ...

Keep Living the Music‼🎹😊

12/12/2024

😂🤣😂 … only if the computer is Windows … or one wouldn’t resonate with or understand this … (🖥️🍎user who has experience using PCs running🪟and/or surrounded by their tones❗️😜)

Regardless, just keep up the other keyboard/piano-playing 😜, and Keep Living the Music‼️🎹😊

11/12/2024

Cute❗️

Be animated, and Keep Living the Music‼️🎹😊

08/12/2024

This.

That’s why we get into the FUNdaMENTALs❗️🎶😉😅

Keep Living the Music‼️🎹😊

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce writes. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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06/12/2024

Being somewhat of a fan of David Mitchell meant that I had to watch this new TV series of his. What is even more exciting is that it's in my favourite genre -- murder mystery, with a tinge of comedy❗And the icing on the cake was, of course, the music -- the musical pieces playing in the background, enhancing the scenes are all inspired by Beethoven's musical genius.

A must-watch, if not for Mitchell and a whodunnit style drama, at least for the musical references to the music of one of the greatest classical composers bridging the Classical and Romantic periods.

Let's always Do IT W.E.L.L. ~ Watch, Enjoy, Listen & Learn, and Keep Living the Music, Piano Riffers‼🎹😊

Ludwig is a must-watch on the small screen and it is littered with references to Beethoven, but what are they? We find out…

06/12/2024

How poignant for a musician — always wandering, always challenging oneself to the highest level of one’s craft❗️

Keep Living the Music, Piano Riffers & fellow musicians‼️🎹😊