Darwyn told me that when you are reading notation sometimes you think you are playing music but what you really are doing is playing a relay race. Playing symbols for notes sometimes so swiftly it’s forgotten that they are symbols. Like speaking language, every word is a symbol for something, “chair” isn’t a chair but a way to use words to represent a chair. We do it all so swiftly we rarely experience the confusion of this system unless we are learning a new language. He thought there was a certain advantage for the person who remembered that and he brought it up often in the hopes his students would find something else about playing music by looking at it this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"