The Musical Living Starter Kit includes videos, PDFs, and mini-courses that you can use to get a better sense of what my work with I Am Sound is all about. The various resources are broken out into 3 main areas:

1) Different perspective, Enduring results,
2) A compass and a portal, and
3) The Journey,
4) (8 interviews of 30) from the Your Music, Your Way Summit in 2020 , and
5) Does this resonate?

Playing the Fields

Welcome.
I’m glad you’re here.

Playing the Fields is a simple and surprisingly powerful way to meet the piano.

This is not a collection of songs.
Not a theory-heavy curriculum.
Not a performance-driven program.

It’s about orientation.

Instead of teaching you what to play, this course shows you how the keyboard is organized, so you can begin to move with clarity and confidence.

By the end of this mini-course, you’ll:

• See the keyboard as a set of clear, repeating patterns
• Feel less overwhelmed by the 88 keys
• Discover that making music is far more accessible than you were led to believe

This approach is uncommon.
I’ve never encountered another piano method that begins quite this way.

But once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
And once you feel it, the instrument opens.

What You’ll Experience

As you move through the modules, you can expect:

Clarity

The complexity of the keyboard reduces to simple, repeating geometric relationships.

Agency

You won’t be copying songs or chasing correctness.
You’ll be exploring and discovering.

Surprising Musicality

Even early on, you may find yourself making music that feels real rather than mechanical.

How to Get the Most From This Course

A few simple guidelines:

Go slowly.
There is no race. Let the patterns settle into your hands.

Touch the piano.
Watching helps. Playing transforms.

Stay curious.
If something feels confusing, explore it rather than judging it.

You’re Part of Something Bigger

Many of us were taught to approach music through pressure, comparison, and performance.

This is different.

Here, we begin with listening.
We begin with pattern.
We begin with you.

If at any point you find yourself thinking,
“I didn’t know this was possible…”

Let that question linger:

What else might be possible?

May what you discover at the piano ripple outward into the rest of your life.

The Sound Us Journey is a radically new approach to mindful awareness and creative expression.

You will engage with the piano in an entirely new way than you likely ever have before.  Instead of approaching it as an instrument for performing or "achieving" something, we will be using it as a way of learning how to renegotiate your relationship with your deep nature, with music, with your thoughts and inner voices, and with the piano, too.

In the process, you will regain your own sense of clarity and agency for experiencing yourself as you are deep down, and as a creative instrument on your own terms.  From this new vantage point of your own authentic self, you can experience everything you come across in new ways.

This program is a 6-month program that includes the 2 quarterly courses.

These 2 courses comprise the 1st half of a yearlong framework grounded in the 4 seasons, the 4 directions of many indigenous traditions (incl the Cherokee here in North Carolina), and the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality (laid out by Matthew Fox).

By incorporating these spiritual traditions along with many perspectives on personal, social, and political points of view, this program offers a way for you to T.A.P. the Flow of your own deep connection so you can bring your unique gifts more clearly, creatively, and courageously to this world that needs them so much.

Sounding What’s Present is an invitation to meet yourself through rhythm and listening.

With one drum and very few choices, attention shifts away from thinking and toward sensation, impulse, and timing. You’re not asked to make music or develop patterns, but to let sound arise in response to what’s here — and to stop when it completes.

In this simple field, rhythm reveals its natural intelligence. A change in intensity, a pause, a repetition — even the most minimal pulse — can carry meaning. You may experience how sound moves through you and how it is received by others, without explanation or performance.

No musical background is needed. Only a willingness to listen and let what’s present find its voice.