It may look like it to you right now, but my musician Basics Elective is not all math. Let’s talk instead about patterns. The first thing I think you need to do to get comfortable with the language of music is to understand song form.
The music is entirely made up of repeating patterns. If you can’t identify those patterns, the underlying structures are meaningless. Let me give you an example.
This long string of numbers isn’t as complicated as you might think, and it’s easy to remember because it’s really just the six times tables. Six, 12, 18, 24. When you listen to a song and you don’t know where one section ends and the next one begins, all you’re hearing is a long string of chords.
You’re listening to it like this instead of like this. The musician Basics Elective meets over the chorus of 12 hours. There are small classes conducted over Zoom.
We stop, we ask questions, they’re not recorded. The chorus is free to members. It’s $300 to guests, but I only put eight people in a group.
Hope to see you there.
