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Hello everybody
I don't know how to do introductions

I'm 31, I'm male and I'm a musical pedagogue with a focus on gerontology.
At work, I usually animate people around the age of 80+ to play instruments or learn new ones, sing songs from their childhood or youth, etc. I also work a lot with different types of dementia.


I don't really remember when I started playing music, somewhere around the age of 6 or 7 I started playing the piano. When I was a young teenager around 14 I wanted to play the bass, but my parents forbade me from playing it when they were home, so I snatched one of my father's guitars, a beautiful western guitar, which since has been my dearest treasure. I own it now, fair and square!

In my early 20s I traveled around western Europe, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal in a bus with my then-gf and lived on street performing.

I love all genres of music. I know many people say that, but I truly do.
One day I feel like Hip Hop, the other it's Tech Death Metal, the next it's Beethoven's Tempest in repeat. I don't think there are bad genres, just bad artists

I hope this was understandable, since English is not my native language

That's cool as fuck.

Probably easier to answer than your favourite artists or genres: what have you been listening to lately?

Thanks, I'm glad to be working the job, and I can really help people a lot. Music is something that reaches almost anyone at such a profound level. Very beautiful to see in people with dementia that couldn't tell you their name or what the difference between yesterday and tomorrow is, but they will still know the lyrics to their childhood songs and it makes them happy and gives them a sense of grounding.

right now I'm a bit boring, listening to Swan Lake. But I've been studying Italian with music and have been listening to many Italian songs lately, any genre really. Love Celentano though

What do you like?

Welcome to MB, Danzaburou :wavey:

That's a very interesting profile of your relationship to music over the years, and congrats on doing such a worthwhile job. It must require a lot of patience and empathy.

I thought I liked quite a wide range of music, but apparently not: I would give a "thumbs down" to the ones you mention, I'm afraid, as I don't care for HipHop, Metal or Classical. Still, as you will discover, on MB there's room - and usually a thread - for every type of music on the planet.

Thank you. It can be a very testing job, but I get a lot back too

They were really just examples, hehe - I would just as well enjoy some Iron Maiden or Pink Floyd, Beatles, Billy Holiday or Michael Jackson. Thanks, I'll look around the forums :)

Fair play cha for the work you do, and welcome to MB! :beer:
This is not only such a great statement you make, but almost a life/music philosophy one could follow. And very true. Every genre has something to offer. Doesn't mean you'll like everything in it, but chances are you may get into something.

Thanks :) very friendly people here it seems

I feel the same. Just because, for example I dislike endless rehashing of chord progressions in a big chunk of modern pop music. that doesn't mean there isn't amazing pop music out there, especially the 80s have a lot to offer there

I think we should at least give each genre a chance, there's always a few gem musicians that think or thought outside of the box.

Music is music, no?

i feel like working with old people is like working with babies is this true ..???

no I wouldn't say so, unless they're in severe stages of dementia

I have and had many very wise patients that I could have endless philosophical discussions with.
Or this lady who was 96 and kicked my butt at chess. And I'm not that bad, around 1600

A lot of seniors feel quite invisible, but they have so many interesting things to say :)
it's not "back in our day garble garble garble!" at all

well sometimes..

I listen to a bit of everything as well. Lately I've been really into old soul, jazz fusion, delta blues, experimental hip hop (lotta billy woods and Company Flow, in particular), dub, and post-hardcore.

Do you have any recommendations for Italian music for people who don't speak the language?