The musical competence

The music education, from the rhythmic experience that we can experiment in our body in motion, proceeding with its applications in vocal and instrumental eventually, leads as a result to a progressive development of musical competence.

First, the same rhythmic ability can develop from simple to more complex procedures, in which the overlap of different events can be practiced by one person, or by more people in interaction.

Vocality can develop from monody to polyphony, ie the superimposition of many voices in mutual independence.

The musical competence will develop later in the discovery of the wealth of harmonic procedures, in the variety of musical forms (in analogy with literary forms, until the discovery of the autonomy of the musical language), in the knowledge of scales and modes that do not necessarily correspond to those more familiar to the dominant cultural context. We will then arrive to grasp the historicity of musical language and to take a critical relationship with the contemporary.

It will also come to understand that some contemporary phenomena, that the market wants to impose as a "genius", are not even remotely comparable in artistic quality and skill level, with other personalities, also contemporary to us, who are other things caliber.

Certainly, music education, as every human competence, is favored if it develops from childhood. But the fact remains that the musical competence can develop in every person, and in all stages of life. Surely also count attitudes, the bent; but I would not put too much emphasis on these aspects, which can become a convenient alibi for both the teacher hurried, both for the lazy learner. What interests me more stress the potential that each person can grow, at any time of life, for their own welfare; a being that, again, involves the body, emotions, intellect and spirituality, all vital functions harmoniously stimulated by this wonderful experience.

Preliminary piano lesson

Here is a video that presents the lesson in a few minutes preliminary to start playing the piano: a beneficial activity for the body and for the whole person.

In the video are explained in a simple way the fundamentals of proper approach to the instrument.

It clarifies that a state of muscle relaxation is functional with the proper performance. The rhythmic pulse is the basis of our coordinated movements and everything corresponds precisely to the physiology of our natural breathing, in the two phases inhaling and exhaling.

From the very nature of our body comes the music!

The rhythm and the body

Every musical experience begins from the experience of rhythm, because it is the physiological basis of music, is the link that connects the perception of music with the deep experience of our body to be in motion. And our body, we all know well, can not in any way be separate and distinct from our emotions and our rational life.

Adults can also take an immediate perception of rhythmic structures, from simple regularity of the pulse and its possible organization in binary form (a strong accent, a weak one) or ternary (a strong accent, two weak). The regularity of the pulse of the wrist is always cited as the first form of rhythmic experience that can be felt by every human being.

Breathing in its binary alternation of inspiration and expiration, is the physiological context in which it can be easily experienced a simple process of regular rhythmic organization.

Any other experience of the body, from walking to the alternation in the movement of the arms, can be used for the detection of a rhythmic structure elementary.

From this it can develop all kinds of complex skill, and already the ternary structure may seem more difficult (this happens to a lot of music students!), but the limits of learning ability can never be defined in a rigid way.