Learning how to compose and improvise is not just for composers and improvisers…
Learning how to compose and improvise teaches you how music works… and is therefore the foundation for any artistic performance even of written music.
Learning how to compose and improvise teaches you that…
- An enormous diversity of music can be made by using just a small number of simple Patterns combined in interesting ways.
- Music is a unique Language with its own vocabulary and grammar.
- Composition is like written language.
- Improvisation is like spoken language.
- Musical Patterns (form, meter, rhythm, harmony, melody, scales, chords, chord progressions, embellishments, etc.) should not be conceived as nouns, but as VERBS. In other words, it is not about what a musical pattern is called, but by what that musical pattern does.
- “One-note-at-a-time” is not the way that musicians compose, improvise, and perform written music anymore than fluent English speakers speak one-syll-able-at-a-time.
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How Music Works: Music is a Language
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