Fluency in Music Project - Join sessions now for free while we are developing this project
We’re creating 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 SESSIONS
Hear a new tune, pick up your instrument & join the conversation!
ROTATING SESSIONS
Pitch, Rhythm, Harmony, Communication
- 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
- Playing with music/songs that you’ve never heard before, and some that you have (developing improv, accompanying, and soloing skills)
In Person Sessions To Be Announced @
~ 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
Enter at the white door on the south side,
we’ll be upstairs in the Atrium.
Come a few minutes early to get setup
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~ Continued discussion on how the Circle of Music is built, and why it matters
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~ Refining use of fundamental concepts of harmonic intervals to create an enjoyable improv session with the whole group
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~ Spontaneouse Play: Improving the skills which allow you to play with any music, without having to first learn and/or have the dots
We tailor the focus of the how and what to encourage spontaneous group play, establishing chordal foundation, harmony, and then add improv’d melody
How can I play without having the sheet music, or already knowing the song?
Our hope is to encourage everyone to dance with their instruments, express through Music fluently, and relish the energy unique to music in a group
The Value of Improv
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!