Re: two hand independence and interdependence
Hi Randy,I am working with the essential ideas of what you are talking about and believe that there is an alternative approach for people who have seeming blocks to traditional learning and reading music notation.
I teach yoga and it becomes obvious that some peoples bodies i.e. bone structure will
not allow them to do poses that other people can do with ease. So there are modifications
but they are still doing yoga.
It is the same with music; I believe there are similar neurological processing
pathways that enable skills on an instrument. Simply some approaches work better for some people than others and there are reasons that are as hard wired in the brain as the bones in the body .
Music notation is a standard approach but a lot of musicians just don't get it. It's like a mountain you are
supposed to climb.
But I think what happens when people climb that mountain by forcing themselves to
do it and then don't reach there musical potential because they get stuck along the way.
This short coming is usually chalked up to "not trying hard enough" or feeling inadequate.
But what if there was "a new path to the waterfall"? Nothing would be excluded. This is not
being against but being inclusive. So including NLP, including "the inner game of music",
including technology, software, live computer interfacing, Mirror practicing, looping,
video self analysis.
There is some new collection of techniques and approaches
that has not fully emerged but i think that it will in the future. It would be helpful to "regular
musicians" as another way of going about it that would be liberating but revelatory to musicians who find themselves up against an invisible boundary that masks itself as
lack of talent or willfulness when what it really is; is that their brains work differently
and they need another set of guidelines.
Just some of my thoughts.
jrj