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A Musical Way: How Non-Traditionally Trained Musicians Really Learn Music by Max Harrick Shenk (Paperback / softback, 2014)

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They were all terrible sight readers in (Duke Ellington's) band. Ellington's sidemen didn't learn Ellington's music by reading it. They got it by playing every night. Billy May, jazz arranger Q: How did you learn to play the saxophone? Lester Young: Just picked up the m-----f---er and started playing it!A lot of the boys didn't read music, but they had a good mind-- we called it a good ear. All we wanted to kw was how did it sound... wasn't thing written down. Louis Armstrong Many of the greatest musicians of the last hundred years learned music outside of the academy:with little or formal training, musicians like John Lenn, Merle Haggard, Burt Bacharach, Paul Simon, and others became greater than many musicians who took lessons their whole lives. How did these and other n-traditionally trained musicians learn music? Are there common ways that n-traditionally-trained musicians follow to become proficient as players, singers and composers in spite of their lack of formal training? And can those ways be formalized into a musical pedagogy that could, in fact, be a more effective method of mentoring musicians than the traditional academic approach of lessons, theory and study? In A Musical Way, Max Harrick Shenk explores the ways that we learn music in spite of formal training, reflecting on his own experiences as a listener, songwriter and musician, and drawing on the experiences of musicians who t only learned music without lessons or schooling, but often didn't even realize that they were learning. Shenk takes those experiences and proposes a musical way that a teacher could use to help a musically-interested student express his or her musical ideas, without getting hung up or stuck on technique, theory or an uninteresting, uninspiring repertoire. I realized I was free to play music any way I wanted to, he writes about one of the many breakthrough moments in his own informal musical education. Fostering and encouraging that freedom in students is Shenk's musical way. Interwoven with quotes, anecdotes and even excerpts from Shenk's own fiction, A Musical Way will help listeners, players and teachers understand the ways that we learn music, and inspire and encourage them to t only teach others, but to make music of their own.

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1495382710
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9781495382710
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Max Harrick Shenk
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Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
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English
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Education & Teaching

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Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/02/2014
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United States

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