What kind of music is best for training fluent musicianship?

[@peteypablo2081]

Love this! Becoming more and more fluent by the day :) Talk soon Phil!

[@PhilBestMusic]

Thanks, Peter!

[@robertmichalscheck3072]

I believe any music you want to play can make you fluent in what you enjoy playing,

[@PhilBestMusic]

When I talk of fluency in the language of music, I'm referring to the ability to "say" music to express yourself accurately and spontaneously without any need for rehearsing practice, and also the ability to grasp rhythmic and tonal vocabulary accurately as you hear it, so it can be reproduced. Obviously, you mean something else. Most musicians are not fluent in the way I mean, even very accomplished ones. And of course, there's nothing wrong with not being fluent. It's just a different approach to making music from the one I use and teach.

[@jw5461]

Keep up the great work Phil!!

[@PhilBestMusic]

Thanks!

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Thanks for posting your thoughts. I think essentially I have the same attitude towards learning / teaching music. Although I must say that I'm neither a good musician (in terms of perfomance skills and virtuosity) nor can I ever be a teacher. I was raised in a household where music/art was not appreciated at all. But I felt always intensely attracted to music. So I began as a child to teach myself by "exploring" objects which produce sound. Not knowing anything about standard (western) notation I even developed my own way to jot down rythms and melodies to better memorize and reproduce rythms and melodies which I enjoyed during my improvisations. This led to a very deep relation / love with music. But it also caused a new problem: Growing up I tried several approaches to "correctly" learn music through attending music classes and workshops. But I always failed. It seems that I don't have the ability to pick up (at least quickly) when teachers present a certain musical skill or concept. I always have to "explore" everything myself. Sometimes I even have the feeling that I need "to invent myself" any aspect of music before I can learn/adapt to it. The latter may sound romantic and when I play my "own" music I cannot feel any closer to my soul and to the "music as an expression of the eternal spiritual universe". But the lack of beeing rooted in the cultural way music is taught and percieved makes me sort of a "hermit". As most other musicians learned music the traditional way (either with music lessons or by watching and imitating other musicians) they share the same "conversation space". And I now do miss that skill / background because I also would like to be part of the "musician-family".

[@PhilBestMusic]

I'm lucky in that I have both my own approach which I teach and through intense exposure to the conventional approach, I can get them to talk to each other. Ultimately, I do think we have to discover things for ourselves although in reality, there is always a response to the culture in which we grow up. Good luck with your continued exploration!

[@PASHKULI]

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[@PhilBestMusic]

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