The skills I would say are the top of the list are:
Learning by ear—a person can literally learn anything they want, without notation.
Creativity—a person can create their own music, again, without notation.
Another is learning to read other, more widely accessible notational systems that can be found online for FREE or make music learning and making more accessible. (TUBS, NNS, Tab, Chromatic Colour System, chord and lyric sheets)
I would never advocate for anyone NOT to learn to read the staff, but I would say that perhaps it is not the most important musical skill going forward.
One problem is that the general public and #musiceducation as a whole put a lot of emphasis on it, because somehow it "legitimizes" music learning.
Music in School: A New Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsigOnPJTtA
Shoreditch School 1969
#musEd #musicEducation #experimentalMusic
@experimentalmusic
(😅 )
Engaging more boys in your program is as easy as offering authentic opportunities for exploring the rock/metal/grunge genre.
Distorted guitars, heavy drums, hi-gain bass, and harsh vocals.
#musiced #popmused #musiceducation #rockcoach #grunge #harshvox #mused
He tells me of the flaxen crescent
dipped low on the twilight sky,
and I remember him,
above me, hair aflame,
as the pallid sun greeted day,
and I wonder if I will ever be the same.
Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect
Sometimes your poetry
seeps under my skin.
Other times, each drop
oxygenates this waterlogged body.
Then there are the wild surges
water cresting, wave crashing
doubt clearing, part drowning
relentless
And I am left breathless
For you, and your
tummy-dropping
honey-dripping
lips-spilling
poetry for me.
(It's really more of a positive feedback loop than a ripple effect.)
@wordsmith
#poetry #call-and-response #mused #water
Steve Giddings
Games for Music wiki / G4M
John “Mastodon“ O’Briant
NotThtDavidBell
Damia Ray