My Power Point Presentation!

So for my Unleashing Your Voice class I had to give a power point presentation. Thought I'd share it with you!

I love music. I especially love playing the piano. It is one of my favorite things to do. It is a rare day when I don't sit down and play. I don't always play what I'm assigned by my teacher, but I'm usually on the piano for at least an hour or two every day. Some mothers have to tell their kids to go practice the piano, while my mom has to tell me to get off the piano and go do something else.

I've been playing the piano since I was five. I'm on my fourth teacher. There have been times when I wanted to quit. My mom wouldn't let me quit until I could play every hymn in the hymnbook. She didn’t mean the simplified one, either. I can probably play all of them now, with some practice. But now, you couldn't pay me to quit.

For me, music is not just playing an instrument. It's really an emotional release. When I play the piano, I express my feelings through it. It's like an emotional amplifier. Albert Einstein said, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” And that is definitely how it is for me. Although I'm definitely not a physicist. When I'm frustrated or sad, I go play the piano. When I'm happy, or excited, I go play the piano. And what I play usually reflects my mood. Sometimes my mom judges how I’m feeling by what I’ve been playing that day.

I've used music to make other people happy, too. When my sisters, Sydney and Sabrina, and also my brother, Spencer, were really little, I used to hold them on my lap while I played piano, if my mom wasn't right there to take care of them. Playing the piano usually helped to calm them down.

I've also played music in church. Playing religious music is another way to share my testimony. One thing I like to do on the piano is create medleys and mash-ups of different hymns. One of my favorite medleys, not written by me, is the EFY medley. It is 'As Sisters In Zion' and 'We'll Bring The World His Truth' put together in a beautiful combination.

Someday I would like to be a professional songwriter, and share one of the things that brings me most joy. While I also like drawing, and painting and such, typically the more aesthetic form of art, my preferred medium uses sound. Some people use pencils, or paintbrushes, I use the piano. Leopold Stokowski said, “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”