You can hardly find a more effective panacea than music when you are confronted with emotional problems arising from the stressful and competitive atmosphere in which we live nowadays. Are you fed up with aggressiveness, rudeness or drudgery at your workplace? Try a Mozart piano sonata or, if you have time, an entire piano concerto, preferably played by Clara Haskil, when you come home in the evening, and all your tension will be gone. The fragility, innocence and joyfulness of the sounds will make you optimistic again, and the sheer beauty will counterbalance all the ugliness and nuisances around.
Your professional activity is heavily taxing your brains or hands and you feel like relaxing actively, in an intelligent manner? Well, a piano concerto by Shostakovitch or Prokofiev can put you at ease, a really winning combination of irony and coolness, and the pressure you regularly work under will be soon forgotten.
Are you trying to put the romance back into your marriage? What about a romantic dinner in your summer house, accompanied by some Chopin waltz, with its tumultuous yet delicate passion, performed by Dinu Lipatti, or, if you are rather modernly than classically-minded, accompanied by Joan Baez singing 'The Queen of Hearts', with its heartbreaking sadness? Or, maybe, you are having a whirlwind or holiday romance. Wouldn't the same singing 'Love for a Stranger' be perfectly in tune with it?
Are you the cultured or religious type and you need filling your life with some pure beauty or transcendence, even if just temporarily, for getting stronger by communion with perfection? Well, listening to the elevated Bach, whether to his 'The Musical Offering' or some harpsichord piece will surely help you achieve that. Or, are you, on the contrary, the wild and eternally young type, looking for another kind of transcendence, that given by bodily pleasures, freedom and communion with the others? Whether are 'Cream', 'Black Sabbath' or 'Guns N' Roses' the ones that make you feel limitless, it's still the same spirit of music at work. So, whether for relieving your anxiety, for relaxation, romance, elevation or communion, music is here for you, whatever the instrument or the vocal range of the singer.
Imagine then your happiness, if you were able to play it yourself! What if someone told you that there was an easy and fast way to learn piano, for instance, without previous knowledge, lots of effort for deciphering the sheets and spending long years on the piano stool before daring to perform a song in front of an audience? Just by using a technique based on numbers and colors, helping you to identify patterns and assimilate them in no time? Wouldn't that be thrilling and worth trying? Well, the good news is that's feasible now.
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