Your Music, Song, and Dance Bucket List

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77 Ideas for Your Music, Song, and Dance Bucket List

How can music be missing from your bucket list? Is there an instrument you would like to learn to play? Have you always wanted to sing opera? Do you have a list of CD's you would like to own? Is "dance tango in Argentina" on your bucket list?

Here is a list of ideas for you to consider adding to your Music, Song, and Dance Bucket List.

(Music Is My Religion is courtesy of nati).

Music Appreciation Bucket List

1. Build a classical music library.

2. Become an expert in your favorite music genre.

3. Enroll in a music appreciation class.

4. Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Liszt, Rimski-Korsakov, Respighi, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikosvsky, Verdi (this was taken from John Goddard's Life List, known as the #1 goal setter in the world, and the modern day Indiana Jones).

5. Be certified as a music therapist.

Musical Instruments Bucket List

6. Learn to play the harmonica.

7. Learn to play an instrument by ear.

8. Learn to play the drums.

9. Learn to play your favorite song on the guitar.

10. Learn to play three brass instruments.

11. Learn to play Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21".

12. Learn to play Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" on the organ.

13. Play in an orchestra.

14. Conduct an orchestra.

15. Form a band.

16. Join a string quartet.

17. Perform as a street musician.

18. Learn to play an obscure musical instrument, such as The Hang.

19. Teach a child to play a musical instrument.

20. Play the saxophone with President Bill Clinton.

21. Play the cello with Yo-Yo Ma.

22. Learn to play the violin using the Suzuki Method.

(Enjoying the moment by notsogoodphotography)

23. Play the giant piano at FAO Schwartz

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Singing Bucket List

24. Take singing lessons.

25. Learn to sing in perfect pitch.

26. Learn to yodel.

27. Compose a song.

28. Sing karaoke.

29. Sing the national anthem in front of a large crowd.

30. Release an album.

31. Join the church choir.

32. Learn to sing opera.

33. Join a barbershop harmony quartet.

34. Sing a duet with your favorite singer.

35. Compose a jingle for a commercial.

(Karaoke star is courtesy of derekgavey)

36. Audition for American Idol

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Music to Listen to Bucket List

37. Go to the Havana International Jazz Festival.

38. Go to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

39. Go to a real blues bar in Chicago.

40. Go to a jazz club in New Orleans' French Quarter.

41. Hear Joshua Bell play the violin.

42. Listen to your favorite band play in concert.

43. Watch Lady Gaga perform, live.

44. Go to a Celine Dion concert.

45. Watch Tony Bennett in concert.

46. See Taylor Swift in concert.

47. See Shakira in concert.

48. Follow your favorite band around the country on their tour.

49. Own every album Il Divo has put out.

50. Listen to every piece composed by Frederic Chopin.

51. Listen to the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Center.

52. Go to a concert of Tuvan throat singers.

53. Get a great stereo system.

54. Take the Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg, Austria.

55. Have someone famous sing at your 50th birthday party.

(Il Divo)

56. Hear Andrea Bocelli singing opera in Milan.

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57. Make a List of the 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Look through this list and see if you agree.

Nine of the Best Classical Pieces of All Time

I. Beethoven's 5th Symphony
II. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21
III. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
IV. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
V. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
VI. Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
VII. Pachelbel's Canon in D
VIII. Debussy's "Claire de Lune"
IX. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2
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Dances You Would Like to Try Before You Die

58. Rhumba

59. Merengue

60. Cha-cha-cha

61. Tango

62. Ballroom

63. Waltz

64. Foxtrot

65. Belly Dance

66. Ballet

67. Tap Dance

68. Hip hop

69. Flamenco

70. Square Dancing

71. Irish Stepdance

72. Krumping

73. Salsa

74. Pole Dance

75. Learn to dance Bollywood-style

76. Join a dance group.

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77. Learn African Healing Dance

Wyoma: African Healing Dance

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African Healing Dance, with lead dancer Wyoma and the dancers and drummers of the Damballa dance troupe, is a step-by-step dance course on healing traditions and spiritual movements that are special to the African dance heritage. This course is suited for beginning to advanced dancers, students of dance, instructors, and choreographers studying and/or performing African dance.

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