Zolai Yang
Music 9
Dr. Miles Ishigaki
1 November 2015
Music Lessons
Music can be a hobby for some people or it can be a fresh start for someone who wants to learn something new. It is not too late to try something new or go back to an old hobby. Courtney Crappell the author of the article “Making Music Lessons Attractive Again” discusses the three main ideas to make music lessons eye-catching for current and potential students. The three main points that he elaborated on is “Making Piano Lesson Essential”, “Designing Encouraging Lessons and Practice Sessions”, and “Preparing for Encouraging Public Performances”. Crappell found a light to make music enlighten by presenting coherence evidence and example. I agree with Crappell in some cases, …show more content…
With the intention of doing this, the music teacher need to understand the fundamental technique that video game designers used to attract their customer. The question is what strategies can the music teacher design to make music lesson addicted as playing video game. It is all about having the right challenge or lesson that fit into each student level. Crappell carefully explain this idea by providing an example of a tennis player. He stated …show more content…
Crappell stated “Proper preparation consistently pays off in public performance…to plan carefully for performance is to cycle repertoire so students are not always performing freshly learned pieces in high-pressure scenarios” (11). By doing this, the student can show their potential as a musician thru having the opportunity to play this master piece throughout the semester or year. It will give them confident on stage to perform something that they have known it from the heart. This evidence was one of the article strength because the goal is to make the student perform so they can feel like a musician. Once they have that exciting experience and connection to music they will continue to play music throughout their life without being