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Try to play / practice at least 20 minutes a day, per instrument, or sing, - with enjoyment, and socially some of the time. Explore in your playing music-making communicatively, e.g. a grandmother plays 'Pop goes the weasel' on her violin and her 5 year granddaughter plays the 'pop' sound on her own little violin, and hears this, makes music and loves it; extend this.
Try to play / practice at least 20 minutes a day, per instrument, or sing, - with enjoyment, and socially some of the time. Explore in your playing music-making communicatively, e.g. a grandmother plays 'Pop goes the weasel' on her violin and her 5 year granddaughter plays the 'pop' sound on her own little violin, plucking a strings, and hears this, makes music and loves it; extend this.




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Use the word playing, vis-a-vis playfulness, to transform the negative connotations of the word practicing, linguistically?
Use the word 'playing,' vis-a-vis playfulness, to transform the negative connotations of the word practicing, linguistically?


sociocultural context ... if people are making music all around, with a lot of good models, and people to play with, the learning of technique, which can take hours, can be part of a conversation. Create an immersive milieu, by playing yourselves, where there's so much music around to 'converse' with, that your children pick up music freely, and learn by playing with.
Sociocultural context ... if people are making music all around, with a lot of good models, and people to play with, the learning of technique, which can take hours, can be part of a conversation. Also, create an immersive milieu, by playing yourselves, where there's so much music around to 'converse' with, that your children pick up music freely, and learn by playing with.


I think playing / practicing a musical instrument is more fun socially, than independently and facilitating open and free 'Music Playing Spaces' in a Google Hangout in group video chat - for contact information, email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com and see: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/music-playing-spaces-on-wednesdays-and.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/black-buck-free-musical-education-at.html - where everyone plays their own instrument, muting ourselves ... (any e.g. bagpipe, voice, guitar ... play the instrument with which you want to develop 'flow' experiences with :) Let me know if you're interested ... This will help further the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. (S.M.)
I think playing / practicing a musical instrument is more fun socially than independently, and facilitating open and free 'Music Playing Spaces' in a Google + Hangout in group video chat online, can makes this possible in new ways. If you'd like to try this, email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com or simply join one when it's happening on the worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com G+ page. See, too ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/music-playing-spaces-on-wednesdays-and.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/black-buck-free-musical-education-at.html ... where everyone plays their own instrument, muting ourselves ... (any e.g. bagpipe, voice, guitar ... play the instrument with which you want to develop 'flow' experiences with :). Let me know if you're interested ... This will help further the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. (S.M.)




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How to make regular playing / practices, in a rock band, pipe band, acapella singing group or chamber music group, really fun, getting to 'space,' for example, like the Grateful Dead did? What's the 'structure' of regular, most-fun music-playing together (in the beginning of music-making, and for experienced musicians)?
How to make regular playing / practices, in a rock band, pipe band, a capella singing group or chamber music group, really fun, getting to 'space,' for example, like the Grateful Dead did? What's the 'structure' of regular, most-fun music-playing together (in the beginning of music-making, and for experienced musicians)?


ideas: ... listen, relax, let musicians choose their own music, keep the group small, regularly make time to explore improvisation, with a musician facilitating this with the other musicians, begin with the blues. J.S. Bach or similarly moving, and accessible, music, listen to good, related CDs, mp3s, in Music-playing Spaces in a Google + Group Video chat hangout ...
ideas: ... listen, relax, let musicians choose their own music, keep the group small, regularly make time to explore improvisation, with a musician facilitating this with the other musicians, begin with the blues. J.S. Bach or similarly moving, and accessible, music, listen to good, related CDs, mp3s, in Music-playing Spaces in a Google + Group Video chat hangout ...