What makes Musically Fluent training so different from other learning methods?
Most music training works on teaching set patterns and pieces. Many people are taught to play the notes correctly; to recite the piece by rote. Expression is then added afterwards. Even when language components like keys and chords are drilled in exercises, it is often done in a way that is mere recitation. The fluency that is achieved is only partial. Theory is often studied but it is a rare music student who can transfer theory into genuine expressive fluency. Such students are already fluent. This is because an intellectual grasp of harmony, for example is not really what drives the genuinely fluent musician s ability to think up chords. Imagine knowing a language only in terms of passages of recited words and phrases! Don t be fooled into thinking that this is how we communicate fluently. We understand and express spontaneously. Any decoding or encoding that happens really occurs on a subconscious level and communication is effortless. In reality the concepts associated with the so
