Music As a Language : http://ed.ted.com/lessons/victor-wooten-music-as-a-language
TED Ed Video Lesson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvjW9arAZ0
Learning Musical Language as a BABY learns to speak.
Why do we treat Mother Tongue differently from Music as a Language:
1) Regimented learning with a teacher a few times a week.
2) It takes too long and
3) Many times the complex rules confuse the learner
4) This confusion doesn't do too much good for the learners confidence.
How did you as a baby learn to speak NATURALLY :
1) Babies are ALLOWED to PLAY and MAKE MISTAKES.
2) The MORE THE MISTAKES, MORE THE SMILES of parents.
3) Baby Jams with proficient speakers Parents not just with other babies.
4) Baby in a musical family becomes really good just by exposure to really proficient speakers of MUSIC.
A few key things to try out:
1) Play around with the instrument
2) PLAY more than Practise.
3) Play in the company of proficient musicians.
4) More they play, more they'll practise on their own (self-driven and not externally enforced)
5) Musician is more important than the instrument
6) "Language works best when you have something important to say".
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Q) How did you learn the first language you spoke? Were you allowed to make mistakes? How do you think those mistakes helped you learn the language? How do you think that relates to learning to play a musical instrument?
A)
At different stages of physical and mental development.
1) First came Single sounds like vowels - a, e, i, o, u
2) Next came consonants like ka, ga, etc.
Teeth, tongue, lips were used and slowly brought under control.
3) Learned by trial-and-error. More "mistake" earlier on but encouraged with smiles from parents who appreciated the effort rather than the accuracy.
4) LOTS of encouragement, hugs and kisses from parents at EVERY stage.
5) Repetitive Double syllable "words" like "ka,ka" "ga,ga" "pa-pa"
That's why Mama and Papa/Dada are basically repititions of same syllable in ALL languages.
6) Double syllable baby-words with Mixing of syllables "Da-I, Da-I", "KaL, KaL"
7) Triple and Quadruple syllable baby-words like "pa-pa-pa" "da-da-da-da"
8) Parents would often imitate the baby talk and smile and kiss and hug the baby.
As time progressed mistakes were gently corrected at pronunciation of words. 2, 3 and 4 word Phrases followed.
Later different turns-of-phrase were introduced depending on what I was wanting to express/convey.
So it seems that the natural way to learn an instrument is follow the same process.
The earliest musicians would have learnt similarly.
Even today there are naturally talented musicians who are self-taught.
They must have explored and gone with the flow rather than setting a fixed curriculum.
"Fooling around" or "Playing around" seems to be the best way to learn.
====
Q) Wooten says that beginning musicians should play more than they practice. Do you agree? Why or why not?
A)
Like a baby trying out it's vocal chords with different sounds and trying different combinations a beginner musician gets a feel for the instrument what it can do, what it can't and how to play around with it.
Combinations of sounds are produced either from the throat or from instrument. Practise is repetition of a specific sound or sequence of sounds. It comes AFTER the playing around with basic syllables. It also needs more motivation which we get when we practise with proficient people. We try to imitate them. Succeed and fail and try again to imitate them better.
Also when you're alone practising you can try improvising on different ways of saying something or playing it. Finally you need to find what it is that you want to EXPRESS. This comes from exploring the various shades of your own emotion at different times and ages.
====
Victor Wooten websites :
http://www.victorwooten.com/
http://vixcamps.com/
See Also:
+ Shafqat Amanat Ali Interview Bila Taqalluf on musical training in early years and his sons training (11:50 to 15:40) : http://youtu.be/84I-2ic8qwQ?t=11m50s
+ Shafqat Amanat Ali Interview on LokSabha TV Shaqsiyat : http://youtu.be/j6nBCRZx5sk?t=24m10s
+ Hacking your musical brain : http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music
+ 6 Month Old Babies Can Sign Language Before they can Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcm3AMzo1nI
+ The Linguistic Genius of Babies : http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
+ The Birth of a Word : http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word
+ Your Brain on Improvization : http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv
+ What We Learn Before We're Born : http://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born
+ Human Nature is NOT a Blank Slate : http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_blank_slate
+ What do Babies Think : http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
+ How we Read Other's Minds : http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments
+ Are you "Beat Deaf" : http://www.npr.org/2014/06/24/323710682/think-before-you-clap-you-could-be-beat-deaf
+ Music and the Brain (allegedly debunking the fake products) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfVsFxJXms
TED Ed Video Lesson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvjW9arAZ0
Learning Musical Language as a BABY learns to speak.
Why do we treat Mother Tongue differently from Music as a Language:
1) Regimented learning with a teacher a few times a week.
2) It takes too long and
3) Many times the complex rules confuse the learner
4) This confusion doesn't do too much good for the learners confidence.
How did you as a baby learn to speak NATURALLY :
1) Babies are ALLOWED to PLAY and MAKE MISTAKES.
2) The MORE THE MISTAKES, MORE THE SMILES of parents.
3) Baby Jams with proficient speakers Parents not just with other babies.
4) Baby in a musical family becomes really good just by exposure to really proficient speakers of MUSIC.
A few key things to try out:
1) Play around with the instrument
2) PLAY more than Practise.
3) Play in the company of proficient musicians.
4) More they play, more they'll practise on their own (self-driven and not externally enforced)
5) Musician is more important than the instrument
6) "Language works best when you have something important to say".
========
Q) How did you learn the first language you spoke? Were you allowed to make mistakes? How do you think those mistakes helped you learn the language? How do you think that relates to learning to play a musical instrument?
A)
At different stages of physical and mental development.
1) First came Single sounds like vowels - a, e, i, o, u
2) Next came consonants like ka, ga, etc.
Teeth, tongue, lips were used and slowly brought under control.
3) Learned by trial-and-error. More "mistake" earlier on but encouraged with smiles from parents who appreciated the effort rather than the accuracy.
4) LOTS of encouragement, hugs and kisses from parents at EVERY stage.
5) Repetitive Double syllable "words" like "ka,ka" "ga,ga" "pa-pa"
That's why Mama and Papa/Dada are basically repititions of same syllable in ALL languages.
6) Double syllable baby-words with Mixing of syllables "Da-I, Da-I", "KaL, KaL"
7) Triple and Quadruple syllable baby-words like "pa-pa-pa" "da-da-da-da"
8) Parents would often imitate the baby talk and smile and kiss and hug the baby.
As time progressed mistakes were gently corrected at pronunciation of words. 2, 3 and 4 word Phrases followed.
Later different turns-of-phrase were introduced depending on what I was wanting to express/convey.
So it seems that the natural way to learn an instrument is follow the same process.
The earliest musicians would have learnt similarly.
Even today there are naturally talented musicians who are self-taught.
They must have explored and gone with the flow rather than setting a fixed curriculum.
"Fooling around" or "Playing around" seems to be the best way to learn.
====
Q) Wooten says that beginning musicians should play more than they practice. Do you agree? Why or why not?
A)
Like a baby trying out it's vocal chords with different sounds and trying different combinations a beginner musician gets a feel for the instrument what it can do, what it can't and how to play around with it.
Combinations of sounds are produced either from the throat or from instrument. Practise is repetition of a specific sound or sequence of sounds. It comes AFTER the playing around with basic syllables. It also needs more motivation which we get when we practise with proficient people. We try to imitate them. Succeed and fail and try again to imitate them better.
Also when you're alone practising you can try improvising on different ways of saying something or playing it. Finally you need to find what it is that you want to EXPRESS. This comes from exploring the various shades of your own emotion at different times and ages.
====
Victor Wooten websites :
http://www.victorwooten.com/
http://vixcamps.com/
See Also:
+ Shafqat Amanat Ali Interview Bila Taqalluf on musical training in early years and his sons training (11:50 to 15:40) : http://youtu.be/84I-2ic8qwQ?t=11m50s
+ Shafqat Amanat Ali Interview on LokSabha TV Shaqsiyat : http://youtu.be/j6nBCRZx5sk?t=24m10s
+ Hacking your musical brain : http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music
+ 6 Month Old Babies Can Sign Language Before they can Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcm3AMzo1nI
+ The Linguistic Genius of Babies : http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies
+ The Birth of a Word : http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word
+ Your Brain on Improvization : http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv
+ What We Learn Before We're Born : http://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born
+ Human Nature is NOT a Blank Slate : http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_blank_slate
+ What do Babies Think : http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
+ How we Read Other's Minds : http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments
+ Are you "Beat Deaf" : http://www.npr.org/2014/06/24/323710682/think-before-you-clap-you-could-be-beat-deaf
+ Music and the Brain (allegedly debunking the fake products) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfVsFxJXms
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