Music as a Language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRMbH36HRE
Music as a Language
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cool stuff. I really like some of the Ted talks, you guys should check out some of their other stuff, there's talks on all sorts of subjects: https://www.ted.com/index.php
I can honestly say, what this video says is true. I picked up reading music at five and six years old because I lived in a family of musicians and because my piano teachers (both my professional piano teacher and my sister) were great at doing exactly what this video says, they let me make mistakes, they listened to me as a player and a student, and they let me mess around and have fun once in awhile, which, I think, is one of the most important things you can do when you're working with young kids...it can't be work all the time or they'll start to lose interest and they'll be overwhelmed easily. Even adults can get overwhelmed easily as beginners.
As a post-script, that version of Amazing Grace was very cool.
I can honestly say, what this video says is true. I picked up reading music at five and six years old because I lived in a family of musicians and because my piano teachers (both my professional piano teacher and my sister) were great at doing exactly what this video says, they let me make mistakes, they listened to me as a player and a student, and they let me mess around and have fun once in awhile, which, I think, is one of the most important things you can do when you're working with young kids...it can't be work all the time or they'll start to lose interest and they'll be overwhelmed easily. Even adults can get overwhelmed easily as beginners.
As a post-script, that version of Amazing Grace was very cool.
"My bass feels seaworthy"
I've been using the language analogy for a while. I really helps simplify things. Our music language has a 12-letter alphabet. That's IT. 12 notes. Then, we've got 12 major, 12 minor, 12 augmented, and 12 diminished chords, so we've got about 48 'words'. When we get into things like 7ths and 9ths, we're just conjugating.