Music is less than what we think it is

Music is less than what we think it is.

It doesn’t automatically require lessons, tutoring, expensive instruments, singing in tune, production studios, bands and ensembles, production or performance.

Music is clapping, music is humming, music is swaying and singing to your baby and having an ear worm on repeat in your head and singing to the radio in the supermarket.

Music is even being in an audience jumping up and down, dancing and tapping our feet.

The audience is equally as musical as the performer, because music is an experience, not a skill.

The skill, should you develop one, is a bonus, not an essential. So in any performance the ones on the stage and the ones in the audience are equal. Equally enmeshed in the musical moment. And THAT is what music is. An experience.

Music is less than what we think it is because it can be small, a moment in time, an intimate thing, not heard by others or documented or recorded.

It’s less that what we think it is because we can all do it. We all have it! It’s a part of us actually. To be human is to be musical.

Music is our birthright. It costs nothing and it excludes no one.

Yet it is one of our brains best friends, a soother of our nervous system and a sould filling, emotional and heart warming gift.

The best kind of gift.