Those first three chords, how they fit together, all the songs I could play with them — that moment opened up everything in my life: Music, connection, the experience of being able to play for others – being useful AND creative at the same time, collaboration, partnership, how to lead, how to follow, community – everything that gave solid foundation to my life.
It opened the beauty of engaging with a partner – an instrument – that gave harmony to my voice – and a connection to singing with other people. It gave me a tool to expand my human voice: a resonance to make happiness into joyful noise, to make sadness into lament, to transform love into serenade, to turn heartache into a gutbucket of tears.
And it was soooooo mind-bogglingly simple.
I couldn’t imagine how to teach it without being embarrassed. I imagined everyone in the class saying, “But that’s NOTHING! Where’s the real stuff???”
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