When you sit before a piano or take up your guitar, do you think about why you play music?
The students at Belding Middle school in Michigan, US, think that you do it to express yourself. They learned about this from a professional guitarist Joel Mabus.
The school invited Mabus to give a 1 to more than 50 seventh-grade students on March 27. The students have 2 taken or are taking a guitar class at the school. Mabus performed a number of short pieces. He also taught the students several skills for playing the guitar.
But more 3 , his show taught students that playing the guitar can "take you anywhere you can imagine", said the school's guitar class teacher George Rousseau.
"Sometimes students get upset. . . They don't see 4 we do certain things in the class, and then they see Mr Mabus perform and know that the work will pay off, " Rousseau told The Daily News.
Mabus began playing at around the same age as the students. "To have an outlet(发泄方法), after a bad day or good day, is always nice, "he said. "Music gives you a way to show your 5 . "
Seventh-grader Cooper Hewitt, 12, has been playing the guitar for several years.
He said Mabus 6 him.
"I really enjoyed the folk music(民间音乐). Most of my family enjoys old music like that, "he said. "I will try to use music to express myself. "
