NA 3 – Teaching Music Through Nature with Victor Wooten Part 2 of 3

“Nature is one of the best things we can do for ourselves. In all aspects of life, nature is connected to everything. So it makes sense to understand, appreciate, and protect it.”

— Victor Wooten

 

Victor L. Wooten is an American bass player, composer, producer, and five-time Grammy Award winner, as well as an original member of the jazz and bluegrass band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He is the author of the parable The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. His latest book The Spirit of Music is due out by spring 2021.  Among other things, he is a loving husband and father of four, a skilled naturalist and teacher, a magician and acrobat, and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist. In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassists of ALL TIME.

 

Your Key Takeaways

Victor Wooten’s earth-shattering moment was when he realized that as Tom Brown discussed nature and tracking, and awareness, he was actually teaching music. Victor Wooten’s Center for Music and Nature, and how it blends a unique mix of nature studies to help each student realize and reclaim their “naturalness,” not only in music but also in life. How nature can allow up to catapult forward and understand ourselves better

 

How can you create intentional moments to tune into your own human nature?

 

Resources

Victor Wooten’s Website

Victor Wooten Center for Music and Nature

 

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Victor Wooten’s Books

 

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