The Method | Becoming a good musician

Masters love patterns.
Real playing, before the theory.
How do we learn music, beyond songs or exercises? Read on.

Songs or other fixed pieces have advantages.
Clear results, useful end product. Not abstract, concrete defined goal.
Measure progress easily: “The first time I played these are the mistakes. Next round I corrected them so. It is not yet there, I can hear the difference from how it is meant to be”
Generic exercises don’t have these advantages.

While learning songs, you learn the real skills: how to correct notes, connect the notes, sustain the sound stream, are you playing slides well, if not how.
You can use them for you next song and the next till infinity.
We play music. Not force. Songs you know and like are fun to play.

What if your skills are not yet there? Starting with simple exercise to get familiar with striking and pressing. We make variation of song that matches your skill level – challenging, not overwhelming.

With the second song, reuse the playing methods and principles, affirming them in slightly different context, but within the same skill range, similar goals.

After you have learnt 2 or 3 songs, you can compare and learn – what is different, what is common? Research about teaching and learning shows that this kind of slightly different perspectives, helps learning. We can compare the patterns. Instead of spoon feeding, we can derive the scales, patterns, methods of playing.