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Musically Fluent has 7 levels. Click here
to see them. At each level, students take a set of musical elements to
internalise. These musical language elements are set out clearly and incrementally
so that the “language” builds. They will...
- Become
familiar with and internalise the current set of musical elements
and play with good physial technique
- Use
those elements to improvise music
- Learn
studies and exercises composed of those elements. Play them from memory,
in all keys
- Do
games and exercises to increase awareness of the rhythmic matrix and
the body mapping and tagging of the elements they are using
- Practise
reading the pieces they have learned from musical notation and perhaps
compose their own music using the newly internalised elements
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Work
to gain complete fluency! So move at your own pace and no matter
what your level of playing or even of fluency, start at Level 1. That
way you will have no gaps in your musicianship. Many people are partially
fluent but this can cause them to hit a wall in their training and
experience frustration. The key to success is to be patient and playful.
Simply enjoy playing the music you can play fluently now. Fluent playing
that is tuned into the rhythmic matrix is a joy to play and listen
to.
Focus
your attention on the rhythmic matrix and body mapping! Combine physical
mapping of the keyboard with rhythm and the result is fluency. Failure
to activate and train these two basic awarenesses - that form easily
in the brain of a child aged less than five years but meet with resistance
in the linear, relational adult brain - results in stiff and awkward
playing. Playing the piano can be as natural as walking. Not that
there is some trick to it! You don't "just relax and it all falls
into place". The process requires discipline but it is more meditative
than cognitive in nature. It is all a question of attention or awareness. |
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