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iBangYourFace
A solid blowing on someone else's flute can get you probably a raise.
Feedmenoms
Fine motor skills and coordination? Dunno.
VegardSat
It prepared you for the general meaningless tasks you'd be doing later in life
everycommentissavage
savage
blackGlovesMcCrazyBeard
School isn't a job training program. Music, art, p.e., shop, home economics, even recess are all vital parts of a well rounded education.
Camiam85
Music taught you to use your mind not force feed it.
Barrett94
I bet you learned the basic 4 count using this.
eatyourmeat
And how to play a fucking instrument. Whaaaaa. My brain is so full of memes how could i have wasted room on an instrument
Xaldyn
Recorders can actually sound fucking amazing if utilized properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UFJu74-qU
BenMcNabb
Listen, as a musician... I have no fucking idea.
thattrexfromKungFury
There's a kid at my school, and if you pay him a dollar he'll play a song in someone's face for you on the recorder
Rhubarbara
http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/14/91/cd/1491cd0b-20a4-0802-2e8b-cd3eee2968c9/screen320x480.jpeg
benisoyylmao
oh come on fam, no link?
Fishticuffs
It gave the real teachers time to have lunch.
Theoldredeyes
It showed me how mad my parents get when you lose the recorder parts.
Beelsebooob
Rhythm and tone are important concepts that stimulate similar areas of the brain to maths, the two are pretty strongly linked.
MnemonicMonkeys
It also exercises the creative parts of your mind, making it easier to come up with new solutions. Source: I'm an engineer and play sax
Flyndaran
Their talens are related genetically, but I do quite well with math but don't give a shit about music. And that's fine.
kurtist04
Is it really that hard to grasp that the purpose of education is to teach you how to think? Reading and playing music works your brain.
MnemonicMonkeys
Thank you
accipiter
I could argue trigonometry was useless since I don't use it, but it helped me think in ways I wouldn't have otherwise.
ddpv
To give you a full education, giving you a basic taste of everything civilization has to offer which you can then explore more on your own.
ddpv
In OP's case it failed but if we tailored education for the failures in this world, it would be a very bad thing indeed.
SinfireTitan
It helped teach me how to play an ocarina. A real one.
theartofselfdefense
It taught you complex hand coordination, the value of practice, trained your hearing, sense of rhythm, tonality, etc.
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MrChuckletrousers
Samesies.
capthammerreynolds
Hell, I got most of that from paying video games.
RhetoricalRobot
Ah yes, the American "Osmosis Theory of Learning" which is disproven religious nonsense.
theartofselfdefense
LOL
theartofselfdefense
If you took nothing away from it, that's because you're a shitty learner and, in the past, would be destined to plow a field your whole life
CorneliusCornwall
Its a joke. Calm the fuck down
Flyndaran
Wow. I don't like music, so obviously I'm shitty and an idiot. Fuck you, you judgmental cunt.
theartofselfdefense
c:
Twigzz
Found the music teacher lol
theartofselfdefense
Nah, just tired of retarded 20-somethings going on about "why did I learn algebra in school shits useless in real life omfg"
TheBlackWindHowls
I think I had a singing class instead of a recorder class. All I really learned is that I'm a terrible singer.
itsabooper
Plowing a field sounds a whole lot more useful than playing an instrument.
theartofselfdefense
Enjoy your squalid life of meaningless manual labor.
itsabooper
Once again, plowing a field has a meaning, called not starving to death. Go eat your music.
Superfly1021
It taught you the basics of reading notes, the idea that a note on paper means you put your fingers on certain holes.
Xaldyn
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narwhalsies
I learned the ukulele instead.
HerrBisch
Fuck off. Music is just about the best thing kids do in schools.
HerrBisch
We just need better music teachers, TBH.
Foreskindisabled
Idk why you're getting downvoted, it's one of the only things that they aren't teaching to the test for.
Flyndaran
I hated it as a waste of my time. It may have been the one bright spot for others, but definitely not for me.
accipiter
Math was a waste of time for me, but I still took it because it's necessary for a well-rounded education.
RealVersionsOfStories
How did learning music help you in school? Probably significantly.
AdorableTinyKitties
Taught me I hate wind instruments and I went running to the violin and guitar. BEST CHOICE EVER.
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
Yeah man! Fuck teaching kids music!
bewise54
I saw a guy at a renfair today that makes a living playing the recorder.
AyoSis
Proper recorders are quite nice
yourpretendgirlfriend
So much of this. Children learn on the descant recorder because it's small enough for their hands to play. The larger ones can sound lovely.
keaoli
I bought one of these for my baby nephew, plan backfired, his dad is a music teacher, now he can actually play this P.O.S
dbqpdbqp
This is the type of shit that people on facebook talk about when they do nothing with their lives. Find value in everything you do 1/2
dbqpdbqp
instead of pointing out things you've taken nothing away from.
ArsonMurderandJaywalking
Motivated me to learn a proper instrument.
yourpretendgirlfriend
Same.I started learning recorder at 5, and piano at 7. I went on to study music at university and most of my favourite memories are musical.
kishinlemming
Same. My life's been so rich with joy the past twenty years.
ChickenVegetas
I think that's the whole purpose is to encourage children to learn an instrument.
Flymolo30
I wanted to learn how to play the opening of "Adam's Song" on guitar
nzey
This is the only thing i ever learned and can still play it (just the intro part)
erischilde
music = math, history, culture, international studies... the loss of it's study is a sad thing...
Flyndaran
Music and math talents often coincide, but that's not saying they're magically the same thing.
erischilde
Wat? Music is vibrations in air. Chords are all division and math. It is exactly math.
nixame
no, just no
Flyndaran
I hated music class as dumb and a waste of my time. It should be an option but not mandatory.
Slagurth
Or did you learn to play 3 blind mice?
hooktail419
Three blind mice, my dick!
DeepBlueNothing
Kids be quiet now, it's time to practice our screeching noise makers for the next 45 minutes.
cousteau
toooooot... toooooooot... TOOOOOOOOT... tooooot... TOOOOOOOOOOT...
KoRplussomeletters
"Our next hymn will be Morning has Broken, with accompaniment from the recorder class."
asickpanda
And then take them home to annoy everyone else
MyNamesMace
I cried when my brother brought his home for the first time. And everytime after that
DeepBlueNothing
Wait people actually practiced those at home? I just used mine as a sword.
asickpanda
I didn't say practice at home. Just annoy siblings and parents.
umpbumpfizz
I... I did. We learned Ode to Joy though, not Hot Cross Buns.
Brewster101
It introduces children to music and teaches them how to read it. Personally didn't like it but I see the purpose
Taxicat
They kinda skipped over the "how to read music" at my school...
Canofminus
Really? My music teacher went on a tirade when a fellow student's mom wrote down the notes on top of the sheet music.
Taxicat
Yeah, I don't recall learning anything about reading music until I started playing the clarinet (grudgingly).
Flyndaran
I hated music classes as a waste of my time, and really wish I spent that time learing something fun like more math and science.
auntpegasus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics
Brewster101
That's what high school is for. Elementary is meant to introduce all children to a variety of subjects. But I also had shop in grade 7 on
Frogsarethebestest
There is research out there showing that kids learning music do better in school.