To learn and grow you need to be humble

Someone wrote to me recently asking if I thought my workshops would be suitable for them.

They had struggled at a recent community workshop because the teaching wasn’t based on reading music or understanding music theory.

Why getting it wrong is the best way to learn

A couple of things this week reminded me how important mistakes are when learning something new.

photo by N i c o l a

One was performer, song leader and composer Brendan Taaffe’s substack: The most important thing you can do is fail”, and the other was a workshop I attended on Voice, Body and Rhythm with Helen Chadwick and Tania Bosak.