Practicing - Playing a Musical Instrument: Difference between revisions

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.

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

socioculturalSociocultural 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. CreateAlso, 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 -online, forcan makes this possible in new ways. If you'd like to contacttry informationthis, email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com andor simply join one when it's happening on the worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com G+ page. See, too ... 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.)

How to make regular playing / practices, in a rock band, pipe band, acapellaa 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)?