The Importance of Music in M Life

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“The importance of music in my life” When I first saw the title of this essay I thought “finally something I want to write about, something I have a passion for”. I couldn’t wait to put pen to paper. Music is an immensely powerful thing. It has the ability to create all feelings within a person, be it happy, sad or even motivating. People easily forget about music or not even notice that it’s there, but not me. Music is one of the most important things in my life. It is impossible to even imagine my life without it. My first real introduction to music was fairly ordinary. Like most other Irish children in primary school I started off with the good old “Feadóg Stáin” as we used to call it. I loved it. Everyone else would be nearly in tears on a Tuesday morning knowing Mr. Nesbitt was on his way. While I would always be sitting at the top of the class anticipating the moment he walked through the door , tin whistle in hand. At the beginning only cats could hear the noises I was making. But as time went on and I got better it captivated me. I never went to bed until I played all my songs perfectly. I was a child who wasn’t able to sit still doing the one thing for long but with the tin whistle I could’ve sat there for hours on end playing the one song over and over again. The feeling of playing it and listening to the music I was making always calmed me down, it always made me happier and it hasn’t lost its power since. It was my earliest memory of music and it had already become a huge part of my life. I was only six years old and little did I know I had already decided what I was going to do for the rest of my life. A couple of months after getting my first tin whistle I decided I wanted to play the piano. Still only six years old my mother didn’t know what to think. I still to this day remember my very first lesson. I walked into my teacher’s

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