In our music camp in the hills of Hunterdon County in Lebanon, New Jersey, everyone works as a team to create music. Whether you are a beginner or advanced musician, you come to see that the whole is greater than the parts. It’s a special kind of synergy.
In lessons you learn to new skills and your technique and mastery of your instrument grows, but that is just part of making music. The other part is working together in bands with others on a project, creating and learning new music for the end of the week concert. What happens in that process? You build friendships with your fellow musicians. Your awareness goes up, in what you are playing and what others are playing. You build trust in your fellow musicians, and you work together to constantly make the music better and better.
In addition to teamwork, musicians come to understand the joy of expressing yourself with sound. We are all used to that happening with words and the written page, but that expression takes on another dimension when it happens in music, as well as the visual arts, dance, and theater.
Here is a great video that dives into how music is a language from bassist Victor Wooten.