The Basics of Music

The basics of music is a video series where I freely explore and share with you the abilities that make the difference between a great musician and an ordinary musician.

A great musician and an ordinary musician can be found in both amateur and professional levels. That is, what you will find out is that to be a great musician you don’t need to be able to play really fast and fancy, or know all about complex musical theory. Rather, you will find out that an extraordinary musician is one that has developed a set of skills that are almost always forgotten in musical teaching.

So…. Enough of that! What are these skills?

The skills of a great musician are as follows:

1. Deep listening: The art of silence and simplicity
2. Rhythm in the body, rhythm in the bones
3. Singing: Tone, melody, and harmony.   
4. The body-mind connection: Breath and coordination
5. Balance. Balancing thinking, feeling, and doing. Imagination, inspiration and intuition.
6. Connection with others

And of course a great sense of humor.

In this video series I will explore all of these themes and provide different practices to develop each of these.

If you decide to join “The Path” we will go even further into these and I will guide you so that you do not make the mistake of ‘skipping steps’! A very common mistake, and the downfall of many.  I will also teach you different exercises that will take you further into ‘The basics of music’, which we might also call, ‘the essence of the musical human being’

Thanks for reading this far! And See you soon!

Alejandro Jenné