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Transcript: The DaCapo Approach To be a successful instrumentalist, you must treat your instrument as an extension of your voice. Just as when you sing, the noise that is produced from your instrument is the product of a complex and precise movement of a collection of muscles, co-ordinated by your brain in response to a single musical instruction from your mind When reading music, it is important to be able to "hear" the music before you play it in order for your brain to send those precise instructions to the muscles controlling your instrument. With the use of solfa, stick notation, singing, reduced stave, etc., this is something that the DaCapo approach aims to promote in students DaCapo also aims to promote a strong sense of rhythm, pulse and structure in its students by encouraging movement in response to music by methods such as Dalcroze "Jazz" at DaCapo Why Jazz Improvisation? In short, jazz improvisation requires the strong sense of pulse, rhythmic and structural understanding and 'mind's ear' that DaCapo aims to encourage and develop in it's students Terminology: "mind's ear" - maybe a word or phrase such as "mind's ear" should be used in order to describe the music you hear in your head as you give the instructions to your instrument to play music