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Join our inclusive online community 

Find support in a safe, judgement free zone

Explore your questions and share experiences learning music & your instrument

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Do any of these resonate?

  • I want to understand music, not just memorize stuff
  • How do I improv with music and others?
  • I recently returned to my instrument after years of not playing
  • I want a better understanding of musical theory (the structure of music)
  • I feel like there’s just so much to learn, it’s overwhelming
  • How do I overcome the anxiety I feel associated with music/performing
  •  I want to learn a song by just hearing it…
  • How can I just play with others without already knowing the song?
  • I want to make my own music but I don’t really know how…
  • I just want to enjoy playing music with others
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We meet over Zoom most Thursdays at 7pm (Mountain/UTC-6)

We have been meeting on Mondays, however with the school year resuming, we are shifting to Thursdays as of August 20, 2026. 

A community for music, shaped continually by each of us, together

Come with your questions, ideas, and requests for support
-we’ll address them during sessions. 

OUR GOAL

Provide a resource for those developing their skills and relationship with music and their instrument, where all approaches and methods, learning styles, and ideas are welcome.

Our Vision

Music can weave our stories into existence, contain them, and preserve them indefinitely. Music is for connection, expression, and appreciation. You'll find an authentic opportunity to explore and develop your own way with the piano and music in the spaces we create with one another.

Join a Session (Always Free)

Kindness, patience, and genuine welcome are at the heart of these sessions. Each participant is respected and encouraged, whatever their background or experience. All can explore and enjoy learning and creating music at a comfortable pace, with support and a sense of safety, free from pressure or judgment. Here, music is for everyone, just as they are.

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Our vision is to create a reality where music learning and expression is accessible to everyone. Our sessions are open to all, and free to join. We are funded through the support of those who know why this matters – click to learn more.

Perfect and Absolute Pitch

Perfect and Absolute Pitch

Energy’s Voice

Energy’s Voice

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Harmony

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Harmony

Dismantling Anxiety

Dismantling Anxiety

Performance Anxiety Dismantling

Performance Anxiety Dismantling

Intervals: The Spaces In Between

Intervals: The Spaces In Between

Piano Fluency Inclusive Community

Piano Fluency Inclusive Community

Bridging Convention & Fluency

Bridging Convention & Fluency

Somatic Musical Intelligence | Body-Music Connection

Somatic Musical Intelligence | Body-Music Connection

Music is Being

Music is Being

Roll the Dice

Roll the Dice

Online Musical Fluency Community

Online Musical Fluency Community

The Key to the Recipe

The Key to the Recipe

Shifting Music’s Paradigm | Trauma

Shifting Music’s Paradigm | Trauma

HoH | Quartz Explorations

HoH | Quartz Explorations

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Sacred Pulse

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Sacred Pulse

Fluency in Music

Fluency in Music

Communicate

Communicate

The Color of Sound

The Color of Sound

Deconstructing the Gatekeeping of Music

Deconstructing the Gatekeeping of Music

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Attuned Place

Fluency Project | Hands on History CO | Attuned Place

Somatic Musical Intelligence

Somatic Musical Intelligence

Perfect Harmony : Consonance, Dissonance, & the Value of Each

Perfect Harmony : Consonance, Dissonance, & the Value of Each

Dismantling Anxiety – Processing

Dismantling Anxiety – Processing

Inclusive Piano Community – Register

Inclusive Piano Community – Register

Implementing Fluency

Implementing Fluency

The Fluency Project

The Fluency Project

Inclusive Music Community – Register

Inclusive Music Community – Register

Music, in a Circle

Music, in a Circle

Music’s Intelligence

Music’s Intelligence

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Fluency in Music

Fluency in Music Project - Join free sessions online and in person

Online Sessions

In Person Sessions

 We create opportunities for musicians to gather, share with one another, gain insight from each other’s experiences, and share a conversation in music.

REACH OUT FOR THE SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING ONLINE SESSIONS

Hear a new tune, pick up your instrument & join the conversation!

ROTATING SESSIONS

Pitch, Rhythm, Harmony, Communication

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Some of the conversations you might find happening during open studio sessions include: 

  • Using the Circle of Music to Build Melody & Stories in Sound
  • Exploring the beauty and power of musical entropy using various creative resources, including musical dice, geometry, wave theory, and color
  • Playing with music/songs that you’ve never heard before, and some that you have (developing improv, accompanying, and soloing skills)

In Person Sessions 1st & 3rd Fridays, 3pm-6pm @
~ The Church Project Community Arts Center ~

Come with a question that is currently relevant to your experience with music.
We’ll explore your questions together, and weave them into the session.

256 S Broadway Street, Monte Vista
Upper floor Atrium
Come and go as you like, bring an instrument if you would enjoy exploring or playing with others, simply observe, join in the  discussion, learn, create, chill

  • ~ Continued discussion on how music works
  • ~ Refining use of fundamental concepts of harmonic intervals to create an enjoyable improv session with the whole group
  • ~ Spontaneouse Play: Improving the skills which allow you to play with any music, without having to first learn and/or have the dots

You’re encouraged to bring an instrument if you’d like. If you’re just learning, or if you’re a pro, you’re welcome just as you are. We collaboratively support each other, learn from one another, and create the open space, welcoming and embracing us all. 

Music is a part of everything and everyone

Our hope is to encourage everyone to dance with their instruments, learn to express fluently in music, and relish the energy unique to creating music in a supportive and accepting group

The Value of Fluency: Improv, Composition, Jamming, Re-creation, Appreciation

Fluency allows us to play without the dots, or having to learn the piece ahead of time
 
Learning to speak Music fluently is most successfully achieved in the same way a new human acquires spoken language. The thing is, we all understand music intuitively; it’s humanity’s first language. Some of us just got so focused on learning our second language (spoken word) that music stepped back for a while.
 
Like our spoken languages, music is comprised of frequency in sound, and we label those sounds just like we do in spoken language
  • Music’s words are tones. Tones are specific frequencies: sounds.
    When we bring those tones together in various combinations, we get sentences (melodic sequences).
  • Connected thoughts are simply, harmonic. When we create a sequence of harmonies, we get a complete thought. When we string these thoughts together, ideas emerge, and sometimes we call those ideas songs.
  • Songs (melodic sequences) can discover and share a concept, and weave details of feeling into understanding.
When we communicate in music, we spin our stories with melodic threads, sharing our experiences of life, across time and space. 

Interested in joining the conversation?

Come make music with us!

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Deconstructing the Gatekeeping of Music

Without a firm understanding of harmonic chord progressions, triads that match a chord, rhythm, rests, major and minor pentatonic scales, it takes many years to improvise (self-directed noodling) convincingly.

With respect, we acknowledge this perspective, and with compassion, disagree.

Pattern recognition (which can be achieved in a variety of manners suited to the individual), and curiosity, are the indicators of the option for one to experience a deeply satisfying, and significantly functional fluency of the language of music, and its use. This experience can be immediately realized with a small amount of shared insight (sometimes nothing more than access to sound making devices-including hands and voices), and when one wishes to, they can play with it as much as their curiosity encourages.

Cause, effect, analysis, reflect, repeat.

Play.

 

When we work with children who hold no awareness or training of the following for example, AND when requirements and conditional approval are not present:

    • harmonic chord progressions
    • triads (though they might have discovered the enjoyment of them tonally)
    • notes that match a chord, or rather that work within the framework the chord offers,
    • rhythm (I have not yet met a human absent a relationship with rhythm)
    • rests (I also don’t know any humans that really require “educating” in terms of rest-we all breathe)
    • major and minor pentatonic scales, or any scales for that matter…
…amazingly, they create music. They speak in music to one another, all by themselves. They even let me join the conversation.
It’s glorious!

Our approach with music does not conform to, nor confirm the ideas that promote the exclusivity that surrounds music in our society. We see no value in the gatekeeping that robs humans of the language in which we all can communicate, and creates so much trauma that would otherwise be joy and awe. Our preference is to offer a safe, open, and connected space that can generate the capacity within the individual to  own and celebrate their own process. 

No longer reliant on external delivery of a commodified “method” NOR external approval, this perspective intends to deconstruct the exclusionary, transactive, and prescriptive mindsets that we have devised for ourselves surrounding music creation, production, and even appreciation.

August 10, 2021 | By

The Key to the Recipe

Music is a language, and just like all language, there is structure, pattern, and expression. In Music, we have recipes, just like in life. Music is a language, and...
February 15, 2023 | By

Roll the Dice

Music is a language, and just like all language, there is structure, pattern, and expression. In Music, we have recipes, just like in life. Music is a language, and...

We host free online, monthly fluency in music sessions that explore a variety of concepts

Curious?

You are invited to join us!

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Communicate

The language of melody, the sensuality of harmony, and the complexity of stories, coalescing in a pulse that resonates across all of time. Create.

Energy’s Voice

Authenticity, Curiosity, Empathy

Music is Energy's Voice
- and we all are, simply, energy

In the moment the edges unfurl, there is the opportunity to discover the else, and music is found. 

 Fluency is freedom to exist-within, without, among, beyond, in form, and in unform

It allows, and persists, in expansion.
It is in motion.
Unstagnant.

Fluency is flow, whether one has any conscious idea what they are doing.
It is the freedom to be part of the unfolding, beyond what can be named or planned.

  • Fluency is the experience of effortless flow, not the mastery of rules
  • Fluency is to participate fully, with or without conscious understanding
It is energy in intent. Consciousness.
It is the current. It is the force.
It is the genesis of the flow.
…and to share the story, we have music.

“Wow, this is for everyone.” Music is for everyone. There’s no line between “I’m a musician; I’m qualified” and “You’re a person; you’re not qualified” that doesn’t exist. All people need is to feel part of a group, part of a community, and just be given permission to give it a try.

Jacob Collier

Can you sense the moment you remembered it was ok to trust your own impulse to create?

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