We've Come A Long Way! Listen To The Start Of A 1,000 Years - Ut Queant Laxis = Do Re Me! From 1026 to the upcoming 2026 Millennium of Music Making Innovation & Inclusivity Inspire MoMMii - Inspired, Instigated, Innovated by Guido D'Arezzo - The hero of The Micrologus yet the unsung hero of Multi-SENsory,, Multi-Modal, Multi-Coloured & Multi-Lingual Music Making Theory & Practice. Time to update his music making to The Micrologus2.0!
Welcome - From Me [email protected] - The Dynamic, Dyscalculic, Dysmusic Dyslexic and my creation Happy Do - The Ionian Solfege Smiley!
It's 1,000 years (nearly) since the publication by Guido D'Arezzo of his ground-breaking 'Micrologus' that changed music making - forever.
What does the next Millennia hold??
So here's me- Creator of The DysMusical Me! MultiSENsory System of Happy Do's Family of Fixed or Moveable Do Pattern Playing Do Re Memodjis and the Picture Picking Classroom Colors of the ABCDEmoji Musical Alphabet!
Author - The Employee Revolution, Managing Your Internal Customers, Emotional Capital, Passion At Work, The Company Culture Cookbook. Hon. Prof. Birmingham University, Former Fellow CIM, IABC Worldwide Executive Board. LinkedIn
Myers Briggs Qualified - The Dynamic Dyslexic - The ENTP - 'Loose Cannon'.
Dysmusical Me Innovator -This project started with rainbow spectrum coloured dots on my guitar fretboard and piano keyboard in 2012 - to help me out of my (unknown) Dysmusia - formerly thought of as 'Musical Dyslexia'. It has led me down the awesome path of discovering a Millennia of music innovation - which all started with Guido D'Arezzo or Guido Monaco (= monk). He may not have know the words 'Multi-Sensory' or Multi-Modal' Teaching and Learning. He may not have known the acronym SEN-D for Special Educational Needs - Difficulties or Difficulties but the three 'key!' changes he made incorporated ALL of them.
- The Color Coded Staff with the F & C Lines Red & Yellow - for ease of knowing where the notes lay of the 'Whole Gamut'
- Solfeggio Notation - Ut Queant Laxis Ut Re Mi Fa So La Si which became Do Re Me. This both gave names and words to the Hexachord Scale - later to be an Octave of notes. We'd call that a Verbal & Vocal Mnemonic today.
- The Guidonian Hand - so his Choristers could point to the whole of the 'Gamut' staff on all their fingers and palm. We'd call that Kinaesthetic learning!
Dysmusia - Who Me?? Or just JTFD - Just Too Flippin' Difficult?! In terms of all this Multi-Sensory & Multi-Modal language, you may be asking what's Dysmusia and why www.dysmusical.me! I've got it - dysmusia - but didn't know it and that's why I've spent a decade trying to overcome it.
Well, I'm more that delighted to say that following the creation of the words 'Developmental Dysmusia' in 2000 by Neil Gordon MD FRCP we now have a PhD study by Meganne Woronchak in 2022 of what dysmusia is - from an academic point of view.....
The 2022 PhD - Making The Dysmusia Phenomenon Real! Here's an interview/podcast next...and here's the PHD itself LINK. In an evolving field of Music Psychological Research - such as Carol Krumhansl awesome work on what I call 'root based Do' + Anita Collins work on 'Music and The Brain' - which are both the foundation of my approach to Dysmusical Me innovation- we still have a lot to learn.
The Millennium of Innovative SEN-D Solutions - Let's add in all the amazing innovation of the last millennia - from Sarah Glover's Do Re Me Norwich System to Kodaly method and a lot more. Let's throw in CHATgpt and the next millennium and we are at a crossroad of music pedagogy, psychology, inclusivity and technology that is going to change the next 1,000 years of Guido D'Arezzo's incredible legacy - a legacy of multi-sensory, multi-modal and multi- lingual revolution - if he but knew it!!
Let's get going!!
'FAST! LEARNING - The DYSMUSiCOMPASS & Test = Fun + Accessible + Simple + Teachable! I What I knew 'intuitively' being dyslexic & dyscalculic & now realising (with Meares/Irlens and more, that I am, and always have been 'dysmusic' is there is/wasn't a way to asses it. Inspired by a section in Dysmusia Phenomenon - and wanting to make it 'FAST!' Test = Fun + Accessible + Simple + Teachable! I propose something like the 'DYSMUSiCOMPASS below.
Are you Squiggle or Box Learner - Does your Teacher Know??? Having done the test let's let's start at the end of VAKMT with what's your 'Type'? The MUSiCONNECTest is taken from 'The Company Culture Cookbook', with an added Fast & Slow Thinking Pair. Here's my 5 Personality Pairs Yellow + Squiggle + Triangle + Red + Fast Thinking. But with the stress of learning music I go from 'Yellow Squiggle' into 'Black Box!'. (Myers Briggs Qualified so ENTP to ISFJ - But bad at it!)
The 60 Second Test Musical Me! App is soon to be launched for Music Learning & Teaching as The MSCTi - The Musical MultiSENsory Communication Type indicator - 16 Music Teaching & Learning Personalities - By Design!.
DysMusical.Me has been in the making for my whole life since starting piano lessons at the age of 5 and giving up at the age of 12. I now know why! Because of Meares-Irlens Syndrome (Visual Stress) on top of undiagnosed dyslexia and dyscalculia plus ADHD!!
Meares Irlens - You too? You can't Sight Read if the Notes 'jiggle' on the page. Irlens Syndrome is an SEN-D affecting up to 20% of us - that few know about. Add that to other SEN-D Special Educational Needs -Difficulties & Disabilities and your get what I'm calling Dysmusical Dyslexia!!
And more? Yep! - Dysmusical Dyslexia!! includes what I call Musical JTFD Syndrome - Just Too Flippin' (or other F*! words) Difficult - see YouGov Benchmark below.
Over the last 7 years, when I decided to 'do something about it' i.e SEN-D and music education. Not just for myself - struggling to learn over 50 years - but for all like me. But here's the thing......
The 20/80 Rule of SEN-D Music Education!
If you get it RIGHT for the 20% of us who have SEN-D needs - the WOW! You REALLY GET IT RIGHT for the 80% with no needs (except perhaps JTFD!)
This is why I've been passionate (obsessive!) about a M.E. (Music Education) Revolution.
The UK Patent Application & Prior Art Research = So, after a peer review of SEN-D Patents, my own 25,000 words (and designs) UK Patent Application plus a YouGov UK Benchmark of Music Making & Difficulties the background work was started.
Now, after 7 years of music pedagogical innovation and re-imagining the last Millennia of music innovators (from Guido D'Arrezzo to Sarah Glover to Kodaly) I'm nearly ready to launch DysMusical.Me..
I'm close to being ready to go live with the The Guidojian Hand & The Musical Well-Beings Circle of 5's' - The MultiSENsory 5 Musical Ways of Wellbeing, Well Connecting & Well Educating.
The 5 Ways To Musical Wellbeing UK YouGov Benchmark - In the meantime here's the YouGov Survey UK Benchmark 2018 & UK Patent Application.
The awesome thing about Music MAKING not just music listening is that it is THE best route to both Wellbeing & Brain Building. So, when applied to Music Education we believe the 5 Musical Ways of Wellbeing Wisdom creates a unique new framework to Energise, to Engage, to Educate - putting wellbeing at the heart of music making - for life. How? Your Music Making - Your Way!
I hope to CONNECT with you soon!
Kevin M Thomson
The UK YouGov Benchmark Music Education & Well-Beings
My UK Patent Application & Global Patent Review of Musical SEN-D Patents & Innovation