Making Martial Arts Music

Much like the way many of my musician friends teach their students how to play a musical instrument, the same similar basic principals of learning to advance in Martial Arts may still apply.

First, you’ll have to overcome the strenuous and unnatural positioning of your hands and fingers thru hours of repetition and practice. Realigning posture or stances to accommodate continuity and overall feeling. Then you’ll struggle with simple timing signatures and rhythms while trying to give it proper form and structure.

You’ll need to achieve at least a basic understanding of music theory itself to gain true insight. Then you’ll have to remember and recall all this new information until it finally begins to feel less mechanical and a bit more natural.

After much more practice, now you’re able to form a series of simple chords in sequences with enough knowledge and ability to mimic patterns that sound a lot more like real music!

By methodically studying lessons and examples, before long you should be playing songs or executing techniques with a certain amount of confidence. You now have a well-rounded understanding of music or Self-defense and a good grasp on your own abilities.

You’re now playing to your own beat! Suddenly you can improvise just like Jazz! Now you begin to write your own music. You find yourself in touch with your mind and body at a higher level. Almost in a subconscious state, you exude the type of individual creativity some are never lucky enough to experience.

Without thinking, you should soon be able to teach others what you’ve learned… to make Martial Arts like beautiful music!

The similarities between learning to make music and building a foundation in Martial Arts are nearly parallel.