Showing posts with label beginners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beginners. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Musical Scales

All that practicing lays down the foundation patterns for playing any music in any key.

The part I loved were the etudes that took me through every permutation of a fingering pattern in every key. They were delightful and challenging puzzles that fully engaged the mind and fingers.

Since the early ’80’s I have been envisioning a transparent sphere big enough for a person to step inside with colored lines of light that connect all the keys and harmonic progressions together. They light up as they occur in the music.

I was the only one of my “group” who truly loved music theory. Now, I am preparing materials that will allow anyone, absolutely anyone, from the very most basic beginner onward, to lay down that foundation to enjoy how music all fits together.