If Yogi Berra were a musician he would have said: “You can hear a lot just by listening”…
Category Archive: Music Theory & Ear Training
Three aural comprehension skills: Sight Singing, Playing by Ear, & Dictation…
Isn’t it so much more fun, natural, and satisfying to play what you are hearing and feeling than to play what you are merely thinking?
Aural Comprehension is the process of integrating the way we think about the music (theory) with the way we experience (hear & feel) the music…
Let’s explore the variety of ways that an expert musician might perceive and conceive of the music…
Let’s pretend that our teacher puts the following music in front of us and asks us to play…
Did you know… that expert music-reading is a highly learn-able skill?
Unfortunately, most people start and end their musical lives by being taught the abstract, left-brain subject of music notation without ever experiencing the concrete right-brain reality of music.
Why learn to read music? The answer is simple…
Welcome to a series of lessons that will open your eyes to what it means to read and comprehend written music like a musician, not a robot…