Music as language not performance

When we fully internalise the elements of musical language, we can experience music not as something performed that happens outside us, but as a profound message or communication that emanates from - or touches - our innermost being. This way, music can be a source of life force.

Tone & Groove provides a route for accessing this deep understanding of music, unlocking its extraordinary power to help you make sense of life, to generate transformation and inner growth. Using the voice, clapping or simple percussion and the magical design of the piano keyboard, you will practise playfully to acquire a crystal clear sense of the fractalesque formation of music, how it unfolds to create meaningful shapes and patterns of relationships.

A special kind training in using or creating music for meditation

You will start very simply, developing and attuning your innate skills and awareness; then you will learn how tonality and rhythm function, using elements of musical language with a childlike state of wonder, purely for the expression and understanding of your inner feelings, without ego. All this is possible using very simple practices without any need for conventional music theory or technique training. Traditional musicianship training involves cognitive effort, but because we all possess an intuitive connection to the principles and elements that Tone & Groove explores, the effort involved is meditative — pure moment-by-moment focus.

Extraordinary benefits

We can do this wonderful practice alone for personal growth or in groups as a way to create powerful bonds, perhaps sharing it with our children. The life force, or deep inner feeling, that music expresses, is experienced in the body and soul rather than the mind. The Tone & Groove approach enables you to use music as a direct connection to life force. Music when practised with true fluency has the power to access deep feeling consciousness within the body's system of chakras — centres of specific energy located in specific areas — in a practical, common-sense way. Music can then become the perfect channel for transcending the ego to access trance states. It becomes an ecstatic source of boundless bliss.