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Nobu, a Mayflower student, entrepreneur, and sanshin player, talks about the importance of music in his life!
Hello everyone! My name’s Nobu.
I’m friends with Ted, one of Mayflower’s directors. He and I studied entrepreneurship at business school together. I decided to join Mayflower because I would like to support Ted’s taking a step forward, towards his dream. I also sympathize with Mayflower’s educational policy, one important aspect of which challenges me to study entrepreneurship through English.
Quite simply, I must improve my English, because I am involved in a business which requires me to use English. Through my studies here at Mayflower, I am gradually becoming more interested in English culture. Right now, I cannot say what I feel freely in English, but this is changing slowly.
OK, now let’s get down to business!
Have you seen Michael Jackson’s movie “THIS IS IT”? Well, I did! And I was knocked out by Michael’s performance! So today, I would like to share my fascination of music with you through my own performance. I know what you’re thinking…I may not look like the King of Pop, or even a musician, but actually, I like playing the piano and writing songs, and I always want to share my compositions with others.
Although there are good services such as MySpace, which give amateurs an opportunity to introduce their songs to the world, I thought it was too late in my life for me to make a band, and that I couldn’t make music by myself.
Well, last year, I was asked out of the blue by an old friend from high school to play together (piano and guitar) at a music event in Kanda which took place on a shopping street. Now I’ve already done that kind of performance three times since the end of last year. Amazing!
Through those musical performances, I gradually began to enjoy having a relationship with people through music.
Of course, my first performance was not quite as sweet as I pictured it would be. I couldn’t keep the tempo, and I forgot to play some parts. In fact, I was really disappointed at my performance. And that’s not all, the atmosphere of audience looked a little too heavy, because I failed to capture their attention with my floundering.
But did I give up? Not on your life! Let me tell you what I did to overcome my problem.
I realized that confidence and relaxation are a must! So I arranged a cover song in a way that was easier than the original, and I composed a simple song of my own using a similar chord progression on the “A section”, and the main phrases. Then, I learned it by heart.
Well, because of my efforts, I believe I had some kind of breakthrough at the second performance, because the organizer told me and my friend that our performance had improved, and some audience even clapped their hands during the performance. That felt great!
At that time, I understood that I feel more relaxed if somebody helps me or supports me. So I invited 10 friends of mine to the third performance, which turned out to be around half of the audience!
Through my performances, I realized that getting some feedback about my compositions from my friends is a really satisfying feeling. They said lots of great, supportive things — that I could make fresh pop songs like YUZU, and that my main phrases were catchy — so because of those comments, I slowly started to have confidence in my skill as a composer.
On top of that, doing more performances meant having more opportunities to have relationship swith people through music. For example, other performers invited us to perform together with them in the future, and my friend invited me to join an event that he was holding featuring sansin performances.
Don’t you think its exciting when what you love creates bigger chances to work with others? In this case, taking a step forward means boldly knocking on a door that you have never opened before.
I encourage all of you to try doing what you want, and try say what you like! Life is all about introducing new worlds, and new experiences to each other! And I think that’s exactly what we are doing together here at Mayflower.
Thank you for your attention!
[After the Q&A session, Nobu gave the Mayflower audience a fun performance on his sanshin! Thanks, Nobu.]
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