Teaching Mind and Body
This is a podcast about teaching, but it’s also about neuroscience, psychology and body movement as it relates to how music is taught and played. One of the many goals is to provide food for thought; to challenge current thinking, to expand horizons for furthering our understanding of how we acquire and conceptualize music. We have sought to bring a wide range of diverse perspectives from extraordinary professionals and legendary musicians from around the world. Many of whom I have personally gained enormous amounts of insight from over the years. Our goal is to provide teachers, musicians and students access to information, musical knowledge and wisdom that they might not normally have. Please join us on our exploration of better music education.
Teaching Mind and Body
Episode 15: Conductor Kenneth Woods part 2
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This is part 2 of my interview with conductor Kenneth Woods. if you haven’t listened to part one you might want to go back and listen to it first. Partly because this part starts rather abruptly and it is continuing things from the previous part. In this part we talk about how playing electric guitar and for me playing electric bass was beneficial to both of our growth as musicians. We address the concept of groove, and how we can bring it to the classical world. We talk about the benefits of just playing for fun. How a health problem created an epiphany and a profound understanding of rhythm . We briefly address Social and moral obligations as musicians and being true to history. We end talking about score study, building rhythmic vocabulary as well Ken's thoughts on musical interpretation and tempo relationships.
