When we experience music…

When we experience 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.

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 systems can be soothed and our body can feel safe.

Music is an umbrella term for a sum of all its 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).

The biggest factor that prevents people from ‘being musica'l’ is that they don’t believe they ARE musical.

This is because so many of us misunderstand what music is and believe it requires lessons, instruments or singing in tune to a western scale.

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!