Do
you have music in your blood?
I believe musical skills are inherent in every human being. This is the foundation to my approach in teaching.
When I begin working with someone, I first establish where he or she is on the musical skills spectrum. What does he know about musical styles? Has she ever sung in a choir? What does he believe about his musical potential?
Many adults wanting to learn an instrument have put it off because they believed they were not talented. Somewhere in life, they were told they just weren't musical. Yes, there are some people out there who were born gifted. However, the Mozarts of the world are rare indeed. But every person is born knowing rhythm and pitch. They just don't call it that.
That's all music is; rhythm and pitch. A baby crawls across a room to his own internal rhythm. The first sounds she makes have pitch, melody and timbre. Adults reinforce the child's musical expression with their own lilting, melodious speech.
Music is in us and around us all the time. Feel the rhythm on your morning jog. Listen to the train's persistent chuga-chuga through town. Feel rhythm in the wind. Hear melodies in the birds as well as in conversations at the local java hut.
We each express ourselves musically on a daily basis using the same instrument we have had since birth. Playing the sax or clarinet is an extension to that instrument. And we can do it at any age.
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