Why audiation?

Creating a new norm for music learning

It can be a little daunting changing to a radically different style of learning, and it can often take quite a while for the fruits of learning to show themselves.

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Since I've taught with Music Learning Theory in mind, I've generally found more student engagement and more natural musical interactions, from moving and singing to creating and improvising pieces of music to hearing whether a series of patterns is in major, minor or dorian tonalities and duple, triple or uneven metres.

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MLT is centred around audiation, and approaching learning music in a similar way to how we learn language, through acculturation, babble, imitation, pattern recognition, improvisation and play, associating the new with the old and building up listening, speaking, reading and writing vocabularies.