Why The Path You Take Matters (Brainjo Bite)
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I'm blown away by this episode. Even though I've been following your advice for years, I think I just experienced a greater paradigm shift. I'll be returning to your school soon!
Learned clawhammer with you from the ground up. Thank you for keeping the old time traditions alive for the next generations to find joy in! I certainly have!
That’s great! And my pleasure. Thanks so much for your comments.
Your insights are very engaging for a critical thinker. Learning to play the banjo in my relative maturity (59) is a great experiment in cognitive processes & neuroplasticity, at times as fascinating as the musical aspect. The analogy with language learning bears thinking about doesn't it
This makes total sense to me. I took six years of piano lessons when I was a kid. When I decided to learn guitar (before there was such thing as the internet), I was told the names of the strings, and that each fret was a semitone. Nobody ever showed me how to play a chord; I figured them out from scratch.
I remember seeing a kid in my school playing barre chords and being so excited because I noticed that he was actually holding an E chord and using his index finger as a new "nut" that could move around the fretboard. When I said this to him, he had no idea what I was talking about, because he was just playing barre chords the way his teacher had shown him. My way of learning was probably harder, but it gave me the building blocks for all the other stringed instruments I've learned since.
Interesting, makes good sense.
Wow. You're truly amazing. Gold nuggets for sure man. Keep it up!!
Thanks Dimitri!
On the subject of learning to read, however, an interesting paradox emerges when children who learn it in a classroom are compared with children who teach themselves to read. Even though phonics turns out to be the superior teaching method in a compulsion-based school setting, kids teach themselves to read through a process resembling the whole-word method. I refer you to Peter Gray's article "The Reading Wars: Why Natural Learning Fails in Classrooms" for Psychology Today. (But anyway, your point about reading is meant to draw an analogy to learning to play music, and the analogy makes good sense.)
I hope you’ll elaborate more on how to apply this to learning an instrument in future videos. What are the best foundation steps for learning to play an instrument? Thanks, Josh. I love you Brainjo Bites.
Thanks, Beth! The specifics are going to very by instrument. For the Brainjo courses (banjo, fiddle, and soon to be a few more), the application is baked into the instruction.
@@ClawhammerBanjo That’s interesting. I would have thought that basics would span instruments. Former banjo player here. Hurt my shoulder and shifted to ukulele a few years ago. The instruments are different, but the transition wasn’t difficult - notes, chords, theory carried over.
The principles are the same (which are discussed here and in the Laws of Brainjo), but the specifics like the fundamental building blocks are going to be instrument and style specific.
@@ClawhammerBanjo My copy of The Laws of Brainjo arrived yesterday. I’m half way through it. It is both filling in gaps and also explaining and solidifying what I’ve heard before. Outstanding!
I became a teacher during the whole brain approach…I always felt it was ridiculous to totally drop the phonics aspect of instruction, then a few years later, it was all-or-nothing phonics_😅 Interesting to hear your realistic analysis.
Thank you for putting this video together. I have been playing Scruggs-style banjo for a little over a year, but I have been focusing on practicing rolls more than working on songs. I think what you are saying is that maybe I should have maybe just worked on songs instead of learning/practicing the rolls?
Hum...🤔, but at some point you are going to need to learn rolls, as isn't it the the basis of bluegrass banjo? Also, couldn't rolls be considered "bunching" as you explained in a previous video? 🙂
Actually, no. You can find all sorts of patterns in any piece of music - that doesn’t mean that the performer explicitly learned those patterns. They’re an emergent phenomenon. In other words, you’ll find roll patterns on banjo playing regardless of whether a player ever explicitly learned them.
The most famous example is Scruggs himself - patterns were identified in his playing and then labeled as “rolls,” even though Earl didn’t think in those terms (which should’ve been a big clue!). So the mistake has been in seeing those emergent patterns and teaching them as the foundation.
It’s this very idea that they’re the “basis of bluegrass banjo” that makes bluegrass banjo needlessly harder to learn.