Why we should stop thinking of music as a special talent given to only a few and start treating it as an essential part of the human experience
is prominent in young people’s initial immersion into organized music participation. It can be an important motivational factor for many kids, especially in taking music lessons and participating in school music activities. As I have written elsewhere:
But feeling special can be a double-edged sword. When the newness of the experience has worn off and praise is not as easily collected, when practice time is required to learn to play the assigned music and still there seems to be students who are better performers than you, then the feeling of specialness may fade .
With either of these two paths, the sense of being special can fade. With those who never learn to give the necessary effort to keep growing musically, they do not keep pace with the accomplishments of those who do and, as a result, may come to believe that they were not so special after all. With those who enter a committed life as a musician, they usually realize that most everybody in their musical world is talented and that talent alone does not account for those who accomplish the most.
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