If I'm not at all aware of how my thoughts are treating me, I'll be a ball bouncing between the thoughts as they please. I then leave my state of mind at any given time in the hands of my thoughts. Do I want to do that?

Pop, rock, jazz, -many of these other music genres use chords more than the written out music we find in sheet music.

I'm going to skip ahead a little bit today, and talk about what you can expect if you want to join an orchestra.

'What to play?'

is the topic of this episode, now that we have

1) our intention in order

2) everything we need to get started

3) a cello teacher

4) an idea of how to practice