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• rzzzt 4y ago
  The lady quoted in the article agrees with you but also seems to support why I thought of Kodály in the first place: > "Eleven years of piano lessons taught me something about playing the piano > but almost nothing about music," she has said. "I was skating on the > surface. If a child is shown a written crotchet they have no physical > understanding what’s behind that. Kodály musicianship puts petrol in the > tank in that it gives them a profound experience of music-making, through > the voice, building up a repertoire of songs and giving them the > unconscious knowledge of pitch-matching, walking the pulse, rhythm, > phrasing and improvising – before making it conscious." So you will not be touching the piano before all of this takes place and you will be learning the fundamentals and theory, even if in a playful way.