Victor Wooten: Music Should Be Learned Like a Language
TEDx Talks · Talk · 19 min · 2013 · YouTube title: Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
Why it's here
HN commenters point to it when discussing how to teach children or beginners, as a language-like alternative to formal instruction.
What it covers
Bassist Victor Wooten argues that music should be learned the way children learn their first language: by immersion and play, without early correction or rigid academic instruction. He draws on how babies pick up speech from the people around them.