Do We Need Music in Our Live?
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During COVID-19 Pandemic, in March 2020 Indonesia implemented and issued a policy to enact it (PSSB). This PSSB requires every Indonesian citizen to keep a distance or better known as physical distancing and all activities are carried out at home, even work, and study from home. Therefore, many popular activities that people can do in this PSBB situasion. One of the activitiy is learning music.
Music has many benefits. When we are at home, the activities that are carried out continuously at home and the absence of interaction with other people make us bored and tend to make us feel lonely and can interfere with our efficiency in doing work and doing lessons.
The benefits of music are as follows:
The first thing we get from music is that by playing music, people can stimulate the brain to increase abstract abilities.
The second thing, by listening music we can reduce our stress. We also can drift into our imagination and can increase a sense of positivity and confidence because we have new abilities.
After that, music can increase patience and our discipline too, because we have to take the time to practice, we also learn to take care of the musical instruments we have because we are responsible for the musical instruments we have.
Then, by playing music we can be creative because we are encouraged to be able to play music with our own characteristics and style, not only that music can also improve our brain memory.
Not only that, the other thing that we can get from music are listening skills will improve because we should learn to recognize chord structure, tonality, tone, scales, and many other musical techniques that the average person will not care about. In this way, we can value and appreciate music more deeply.
Last but not least we can get from music is we can our mood. When the songs we listen to and play according to the feelings of the heart. That way we can increase enthusiasm and motivation in carrying out activities.
Did you know that with the COVID -19 pandemic, people can learn music independently using the application, no longer need to take courses, only learn through the applications available on the Playstore and Appstore, they can learn.
To sum up, playing music has many advantages during this pandemic, such as improve your mood. Maybe you have a hidden talent in music. So, there is a good choice if during this pandemic we try to find new activities such as playing music
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