Musical Fluency
Table of Content
Intro: The Method of Musical Fluency
Chapter 1: Music in 3-D
Chapter 2: The Metryx
Chapter 3: Rhythmic Counterpoint & Groove
Chapter 4: Tonality
Chapter 5:Modal Pattern
Chapter 6:Chord Progression: the Couplet
Chapter 7:Melody
Chapter 8:The Exercises: Intro
Chapter 9:The Exercises
Singer Bios
Glossary
“Creative motions can be
systematically practiced so they
become the language of our
spontaneous expression.”
About the Book
Imagine Keith Jarret or Bobby McFerrin going out on stage and making up music on the spot. That’s musical fluency.
It’s like linguistic fluency; a creative, expressive command of the musical language.
It’s not recitation, like playing a piece by Mozart, but niether is it “improvisation” as we think of it in a jazz context.
Musical fluency is the ability to create the entire structure of meter, tonalty and chord progression in real time.
Creative musical thought and expression are reflexive and integrated, just like thinking and talking.
Book I includes
- 30 notated call-response exercises for the 3-2, 4-2 and 5-2 Metryx
- 30 a cappella audio guides to accompany the exercises
- 114 audio files designed to import into iTunes and looping apps
- Bonus audio files from “Circle Songs: The Method”