Music is very distracting. It's hard for the hearing actually to try and hear speech and music at once. Also some music is stress producing for some people, piano, drums, etc.

I liked the music :) s'groovey

This horse is already trained. Try a horse that is green, or traditionally trained. More than 8 short days for that work. I've been there. Spent 500 on clinics. 400 on equipment. 300 for a weekend just to go watch. And after 7 years, I did not have the money or support to graduate level 1. So I found a cowboy. Who got me riding long trail rides in another 7 days. Same horse. She was well done in ground work. And I got a great Foundation. But at the time. The system did not allow trail riding before level 2. So I had to drop it. I'm a little bitter about the cost prohibition, because I was doing well. I still improve, but on my own.

You don't know much about natural horsemanship, do you? If you try to hold your horse there and keep it from running that will just freak it out and make it more prone to flight responses in the future.

Wrong, if you prevent a horse from escaping it will stop the flight response and make it less prone to flight responses in the future. What do you mean by freak out? If you are holding or leading a horse and it attempts to flee do you release it?

Then you need to re-watch the very first videos of Lesson 1 where Pat explains how to stay safe with your horse and build their trust/teach them that you are not a predator. He clearly says not to try to keep hold of the rope when a horse is fleeing. I would link you the exact video with the words straight from his mouth, but since this video is from Parelli Connect and you have to be a paying member of Parelli, it does not allow me to copy the URL.

if you don't ever get the horse to the point of needing to flee in some big escape you never need gloves ... I have worked wild horses without rope burns. I am not a PNH fan though ... so

also if you properly halter train a horse and teach it to manage itself it will respect the pressure ...