Getting the ear engaged should be the point of any music instruction. Alas, all too often it is not.
That is because it is not easy to engage the ear of anyone living in a culture in which sound is mostly noise, in other words unwanted, therefore blocked out.
When I say I offer instruction in Music Inside and Out I am amazed at how difficult it is to arouse awareness of that inside part, so busy are we trying to mask what is outside of our ears most of the time.
