Charlie Beale

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This is why music education is so important

Music is especially amazing because it involves every type of human knowledge. It integrates, for example, feeling, understanding and doing into a single activity. While you are doing music, you are also doing math(s), languages, history and science. Musicians have to work in teams, be a soloists, lead, follow, collaborate, show empathy and connect with others, sometimes all in a single performance. And all of this is being expressed through the body, so musicians are engaging all of those physical skills too. When you sing a song or play an instrument, you are also expressing yourself, articulating who you are to others with great freedom, developing self-awareness, self-confidence, and at the same time showing self-discipline. For more, knowledge nerds can look up Blooms taxonomy.

My only problem with this video - why is the musician pictured a bass player?! :)