Category: Blog
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When the Map Doesn’t Fit the Music in You
What If the Map You Were Given Wasn’t Meant for You? If you’ve ever taken music lessons, chances are you were handed a certain roadmap.It might’ve looked something like this: For some people, that path works just fine.But it didn’t work for me when I took my first music lessons, and maybe it didn’t work…
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The Creative Power of the Subconscious Mind
Learning Through Sound, Not Symbols Music, in ancient cultures, was passed down through the oral tradition. No sheet music. No charts. Just sound, vibration, memory, and human connection. That way of learning music reaches us in a different place. It speaks more directly to the part of us that knows—not because it read it somewhere,…
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Say it, then play it
Say it, then play it One of the most important principles I come back to again and again in my teaching is something I call “say it, then play it.” I didn’t make it up. I learned it from several of my own musical mentors over the years—each of them coming from very different musical…