Author: Facundo Alvarez, Percussion teacher and Facilitator
Are you interested in starting to play music?.
Do you want to learn to play a musical instrument, but don’t know which one or how to start?.
Great! Today is your lucky day and you´re in the right place.
In this post I´m going to tell you the reasons why percussion is your best choice to learn to play and make music.
Along with my experience as a musician and teacher, I have found that everyone can learn and play percussion. For more than 20 years I´ve been working as percussion facilitator with people of all ages and musical backgrounds, from little kids to seniors, and I´ve verified that the ability to play percussion instruments is in our DNA, waiting to be stimulated and awakened.
Rhythm is our natural connection with music and percussion is the most immediate way to channel our musicality.
So that´s make percussion the best option to begin your learning path in music and have a first positive learning experience, because “Percussion is for everybody and everybody can learn to play percussion”.
Basically, percussion facilitates music learning to anyone how want it, no matter their age, their skills or their musical background.
Being the percussion instruments so many and diverse, makes it possible for each one of us to find the instrument that best suits our skills and lets us learn and play music.
Besides, percussion is also an infinite source of instruments, rhythms and music to learn and play, that make your learning path fun and challenging, because there’s always new things to learn in percussion.
Natural bond that we have with music is through the rhythm, which is organic and omnipresent in our life.
Rhythm is something that happens naturally in us and that facilitates our learning process, because it is something organic to us. We don’t have to think about it, it’s part of our nature.
In that way percussion is the bridge between our ability to express musically and our ability to learn music, allowing knowledge and musical ideas to flow between them and improving our chances of developing ourselves as musicians and instrument players.
In the Online Percussion Classes, I offers individual and face to face classes for you to start learn to play percussion from scratch and learn to play and make music with the percussion instrument you like – Bongó, Cajón, Conga, Djembé or Timbal Brasilero.
In the Online Percussion Courses I offer you different options for you to start to play percussion from scratch, develope as percussionist and learn to play and make music with the percussion instrument that you like: Bongo, Cajón, Conga, Djembé or Timbal Brasilero
Unlike most people think, learning to play percussion involves an integral musical training similar to most musical instruments.
By learning to play a percussion instrument you will acquire numerous skills specifically related to music, to which are added other more general ones related to the development of your body and mental skills such as body management, memory, reflexes, coordination, among others.
First, the rhythmic training you develop by learning to play percussion It´s an extremely valuable resource that you can apply to any other musical instrument you want to play.
Second, when you learn to play percussion you get use to play in a specific musical context named “Percussion Ensemble” in which you play along several players and different percussion instruments.
Third, when we play percussion we involve our whole body in order to play a particular rhythm.
Last, improvisation is a key element in playing percussion. Inside of the percussion ensemble you are going to play different roles, sometimes you´ll be part of the rhythm base and others you ´ll be able to play a solo and in that way freely express your musicality.
In conclusion, all these abilities are going to be fundamental in your learning path in percussion and also are going to facilitate your learning path in any other musical instrument you choose to learn and play music.
Music is meant to be made and shared with others. And percussion is the ideal musical instrument for that to happen, because it allows everybody to participate, no matter their age or musical skills.
Each one can contribute their own to the collective symphony.
In addition, the collective music creation experience through percussion, generates grupal energy and power that no other musical instrument can give us.
As you can see, they´re a lot benefits that you can get from learning to play percussion.
So, if you want to start playing music percussion is the best option for you.
Don´t hesitate to try it, because you won´t regret it.
Thanks for reading the article.
See you soon!
For 20 years I´ve dedicated myself to develope educational and recreational materials and experiences, with the goal of facilitate access to percussion learning to people of all ages
In all the projects I work motivated by the premise that "Percussion is for everybody" and that "Everyone can learn to play percussion".
My main goal is to help, as many people as I can, to live the unique experience of making music with percussion instruments.