I played piano all growing up. I got really good, too–but all I could ever do was read music. I’d always wanted to learn to improvise, but that wasn’t the way that any of my teachers taught me. Eventually I stopped playing (just got busy with life), but every few years I always pick up a book or try to create a curriculum for myself to learn improvisation, and the musical theory foundations that I somehow never got. This book essentially is what I was trying to create… written by a neuroscientist musician, no less! I thought I’d just reread the book, use the notes and create the curriculum from there, but then I realized that the author already did it for me (the book is in that way kind of a pointer to his online courses, which is quite clever). But so far I’m impressed with that too, as I purchased it: the videos are short and sweet, very much like the “Duolingo” app for learning languages. A great and inspiring read.
My rating: *****
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