Musically Fluent

Music is the language of feeling. It explores and reveals our inner consciousness. With rigorous training, using a simple, common-sense model, you can become fluent in this language and understand its structural principles with absolute mental clarity and deep embodied awareness.

Rhythm has an underlying matrix structure - a stable but elastic groove: this is the ground of music. A vocabulary of 12 rhythm cells unfold within this flexible matrix to produce an apparent infinity of rhythmic patterns. These rhythm cells weave through tonal blocks that nest and interlock together to form a tonal matrix represented by the keyboard map with its perfect symmetry. This reveals all the harmonic and melodic shapes that form the vocabulary of music.

With strict, Zen-like meditation, you can learn to focus on this model and abandon familiar mimetic and decoding approaches to connect with the pure, deep simplicity at the heart of music. This requires dedication and discipline.

The course is being developed and will be available here soon. If you can’t wait, you might like to visit PlayPianoFluently.com which offers practice materials based on these principles.