Musical Thoughts In Part 2 of this blog I discussed context vs content. Now I’ll get into some of the differences between my approach and traditional music education. Whole Music Learning vs traditional music education For many years my experiences as a performer and teacher led me to question how I was taught and, in turn, how …
Musical Thoughts In Part 1, I discussed how for many years I was aware of all sorts of gaps in my understanding of music, but didn’t know how to remedy it. This changed almost overnight after I began to study with Dr. Gordon and several of his proteges. First, I came to understand how music …
Musical Thoughts Whole Music Learning is the name I’ve given to my version of music learning that uses a logical whole-part-whole sequence. Whole-part-whole simply means we learn a song as a whole first, break it down into the parts necessary to understand and play it with understanding, then put it back together again into a …