About Simply Music

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About Simply Music

The Simply Music method is taking music education in a new direction. It presents a philosophy and methodology that profoundly differs from the more common and traditional approaches that, although modernized over the years, are still basically the same as they have been for generations.

"Oh come on," you might be saying. "How could it really be that different from what's readily available already?"

For centuries, music teachers have required their students to learn to read music as the means of learning how to play. The problem with that approach is that reading music is much more complicated than playing music, and has resulted in a whole population of people, generation after generation, who have quit lessons and believe they are unmusical. Those who stick with it never feel as though they experience much freedom with regard to their playing ability, remaining dependent on the printed page. If a traditional student doesn't master the intricacies of reading music, they will never be able to play the music they really want to play. This approach can accurately be called a 'reading-based' approach.

The Simply Music program is 'playing-based'.  Like most of the things that we learned throughout our lives and now do on a daily basis – tying our shoe laces, brushing our teeth and driving a car etc., – we learned by doing those things, experiencing them directly and not by studying the ‘theory’ of the subject or referring to notes. Similarly, Simply Music teaches students to play the piano by immersing them in the actual process of playing, and providing a subtle balance between guidance, discovery and direct ‘hands-on’ experience.

Simply Music actively ignores the myths about learning music, and bases its program on the premise that every single human being, without exception, is deeply and naturally musical.

Each day, every one of us expresses this in a thousand ways - through our body’s instinctive rhythms, our heartbeat, our breathing, our movements. Our innate musicality is precisely what gives us the ability to walk and to talk!

Simply Music draws on and feeds this natural sense of music we all possess, and places highest priority on the fun and sheer pleasure of playing music – immediately – from the very first lessons.

Simply Music teachers are trained to tap into and utilize students’ existing visual, aural and physical skills, combine these with their natural sense of music, and subsequently achieve unprecedented results. The bottom line is that Simply Music students get to experience the absolute joy and satisfaction that comes from immediately acquiring a huge repertoire of great-sounding music.

Unlike learning by rote, this program is tactile, experiential and multi-sensory, with students being physically, visually and aurally absorbed. After building a repertoire of 35 to 50 pieces covering a broad range of musical styles, students go on to learn Simply Music’s unique approach to reading music, as well as develop a powerful foundation for learning the more formal aspects of music education.

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