Just got The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

by Victor Wooten and it’s amazing.  I heard about the book in June and again recently from George Young.

I wish I had read this book earlier.

One of the first things Victor Wooten does is show how his teacher, Michael, broke down how music is not all about notes.

Notes are important, but they are only an element of the equation.

Groove, Feel, Rhythm, etc are equally important and as a group are much more important than just notes.

You can still have music without notes- think of Brazillian rhythms that are played on drums and percussion.

There was some interesting stuff about vibrations too- like how rhythm is just notes slowed way down.  An A 440 vibrates at 440 times per second and if you slow things down, eventually you get to rhtyhms that are closer to one per second.  Or a few more in fast bebop.