Hello!!

 

                Hi, and welcome to my corner of the Internet. 

      

                My name is Sarahbeth, and I am a middle-aged beginning musician. This blog will chronicle my joys and challenges {mostly joys} of being a middle-aged music student with some special needs. 

   I was born with a condition where the right and left hemispheres of my brain do not communicate with each other. I was delivered from my mother's womb with forceps, and it was {likely} during delivery that I suffered a brain injury

 Piano is one of the few instruments that engages both halves of the brain together. 

  I've been studying piano with an experienced teacher for two years, and I can already see improvements in the fine motor skills in my upper extremities.  However, I would be remiss if I did not mention that there are social, emotional, and even spiritual benefits of playing a musical instrument. 

  Will I ever be a piano virtuoso? No. I know this, and my teacher knows this fact, too. Yet I am not at all discouraged from learning to be the best pianist that I'm capable of becoming. 

   Will piano continue to make my life healthier? Absolutely! 

   My hope is that these stories will encourage others with some special needs to consider taking music lessons-- especially in piano. 

   Peace, love and music....

   Sarahbeth