What is music?

Music is an umbrella term for a sum of all it’s musical parts. Melody, rhythm, tempo, volume, frequency, vibration, silence, harmony and more…

And our brain responds to all of these musical elements in different ways.

We don’t need to incorporate all of these musical elements at the same time to experience music, using them individually is equally as powerful.

This means clapping is music - rhythm.
Humming is music - melody.
Walking is music - tempo.
Even speaking is music - vocalising.

But it’s the simplest of musical elements that the brain responds to most favourably. The Brain prefers simple melody (which is why we sing nursery rhymes to children), it feels safest when we use our own voice (regardless of how it sounds), it likes to move in time to the resting heart rate (slowly). And no one needs music lessons for that!

This makes music the perfect tool for supporting our brain to do the things we want/need it to do so that it can feel in control, our nervous system can be soothed and our body can feel safe.

When we experience by music, by making it, listening to it or even thinking about it, more of our brain becomes active all at the same time than when we experience ANYTHING else.

The biggest factor that prevents people from ‘being musical’ is that they don’t believe they are musical. This so because many of us misunderstand what music is and believes it requires lessons, instruments or singing in tune to a western scale.

Music is such a cracker. Honestly. It’s proper brain care, it’s regulatory, it’s emotional, it’s physical, psychological and it’s available all around, inside us, and out.

Did you get your dose of music today?