I have zero foundation and want to learn music, where should I start?

“A person with a musical dream should also have a noble soul. Even if he is poor, even if he is down and out, even if he is a naked wanderer, he can still stand tall in front of the king. Raise the middle finger - except for dreams, no one can make me bow my head and surrender.

- Cheng Hao's "Standing on the Edge of Two Worlds"

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I saw a question on a post: "I have no basic skills but have a music dream. Should I give up or persist?" The post owner wrote a long paragraph to describe his confusion. The editor excerpted a short paragraph from it:

Confession of the poster:

I am a freshman at a comprehensive university in the United States. I have had many musical dreams since I was a child. I dreamed of being a singer, lyricist, and composer... I didn’t persist in learning piano when I was a child. He only knows a little guitar and is a KTV tycoon when it comes to singing. He doesn’t have any compositions and he hasn’t even finished studying music theory. Since I entered high school, I have begun to regret that I did not study music well when I was a child and did not take the exam for the high school attached to the Conservatory of Music. I feel that music is my only hobby. I want to write songs, record my life with music, and write songs that make others sing...

Everyone has a dream in their heart, What is the dream? It is the goal of life and an imagination of the future. Every dream is beautiful, and everyone works hard to realize their dreams and turn them into reality. The editor wants to say: If you have a dream, you must persist. What if you see a ghost?

The French writer Hugo said that human wisdom holds three keys, one to unlock numbers, one to unlock letters, and one to unlock notes. Knowledge, thoughts, fantasies are there! This sentence fully illustrates the importance of music in the process of growing up. Therefore, if you love music, you must persist. So what are the benefits of learning music?

1. Learning music can improve your temperament and quality of life

The most common evaluation of people who study music in society is that they have temperament and taste, because music is also an art form. Original to life but higher than life. It is the essence of real life. The improvement of the aesthetic and appreciation ability of art will naturally feed back into daily life. Therefore, it is often seen that people who study art, especially music, often exude a noble temperament. Demonstrate the taste and value of art in every aspect of life.

2. Learning music can improve imagination

Music is the art of sound expression, and there is infinite meaning behind the performance of its notes. This provides unlimited space for music students’ imagination, logical thinking ability and jumping thinking. Playing music itself is the practice and development of various aspects of the brain. The cooperation of the left and right brains, hands, eyes, and the entire body is an exercise and test of one's own reflection and coordination abilities.

3. Learning music can enhance memory

Music greatly helps the human brain’s memory. I don’t know much about the more specific scientific data, but based on reality, I can truly feel that the effect of music on developing and enhancing memory is significant and amazing. A very complex piece of music can be played word for word without reading the score. Come out, this in itself is a good exercise for your memory.

4. Music can cultivate temperament and make people healthier physically and mentally

Science has proven that music has a great effect on reducing physical pain and treating mental illness. In the process of music learning, it can increase the contact, exchange and communication between students and teachers and students; students can express their special emotions through music and vent their bad emotions.

5. Learning music is a basic need for human survival

Music is not a luxury, it is not a superfluous thing that we only consume when our wallets are full. Music is not a pastime or entertainment. Music is a basic need for human survival and one of the ways to make human life meaningful.