I believe that the groove is the most important element of music. What is the groove? The groove is something you feel, not hear. Groove is a combination of many elements, especially the rhythm, sound and feel of the music. We must find and feel the groove when we play, especially when playing with other people. It doesn’t matter how well we are playing individually, if we don’t play in the groove it won’t sound good. Conversely, if we play with the groove, we will sound much better even if we aren’t playing something amazing.
Principle 2: Music is a Language- Learning Music Like We Learned as Kids
This course is largely organized around the basic fact that music is a language. All over the world, natural language learning is highly successful in enabling young children to easily and successfully learn their native language.
In this course we will approach learning music in this same natural way. If we follow the natural learning approach with music we can learn it just like we learned our first language as children- quickly, easily, without stress and to a high degree of mastery.
Principle 1: Begin with the “Why?”
The first step to success in music is discovering the real reasons why we want to play. If our “Why?” is in harmony with our real reasons for playing, learning will be a joy.
You Too Can Play Music!
You Too Can Play Music! The Ten Principles of Learning Music That Most Teachers Don’t Teach This course will teach you how to learn to play music the natural, easy and fun way! Music is a language! Therefore we should learn music in the same way that we learned our first language. Music is actually quite easy …