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Victor Wooten spent a decade studying and practicing the skills needed to live in harmony with Nature as our ancestors once did. In learning these Native American, African, and Aboriginal skills, Wooten noticed that there were rarely any Native American, African, and Aboriginal people learning along side him.
In this talk, Wooten raises questions and proposes answers as to why certain individuals, kids, and even whole races of people seem to avoid and even fear nature, as well as, how we can all reconnect with the naturalness that surrounds us. Join in a stimulating discussion that can help bridge the ever-growing gap and possibly save us from being destroyed by our planet.
Wooten says, “Whether we know it or not, our quest to become natural at whatever we do is actually a quest to become more like nature. Excluding nature, as many musicians do, is a big mistake.”
In the early 90s, while studying with Tom Brown Jr., a world-renowned naturalist and tracker, Wooten recognized a vital connection between music and nature. Immediately, the world took note and began asking Wooten to shares his ideas.
Spoken in a way that makes even the non-musician feel capable of producing good music, Wooten inspires all by showing how following the laws of nature can bring us closer to everything.
“Even the dictionary tells us that the word natural means both, ‘having the characteristics of nature’ and ‘without sharps or flats.’ Once a person has succeeded at following the laws of nature, he/she enters into the elite club of being called a natural.”
As a child, Victor Wooten learned Music at the same time and in the same manner as he learned English. Wooten also studied with various teachers in the native arts and sciences of tracking, bird language, and living with the land. Wooten shares insights into alternate ways of teaching that can help teachers reach their students more thoroughly.
Topics may include:
Showing and sharing rather than teaching
Coyote teaching • tricking your students into learning more than they’ve asked for
Becoming the student • tricking your students into teaching you how to do what they’ve asked to learn
Understanding your students
Nature as a classroom and role model
Relating information to things the student is naturally familiar with
Victor offers an appealing approach by showing how to use aspects of music to help improve one’s quality of life (and vice versa). This talk is both inspiring and educational and appeals to people of all ages • musicians and non-musicians alike.
Topics may include:
Practice and preparation
Being in tune
Harmonics in music and in life
Working together
Focus and non-focus
Listening and seeing in different octaves
Raising the level of those around you
The youngest of five musical brothers, Victor Wooten was literally born into a band. Recruited at birth as a bassist by his four older brothers, Wooten says, “I learned to speak Music at the same time and in the same manner as I learned to speak English.” Explained in an inspiring and easily understandable way, Wooten shares his thoughts and life inspired stories on how he was both “taught” and “not taught” music and how the same natural methods used to learn our first language can speed up and enhance the learning of any subject. Victor Wooten’s two TED talks on the subject can be viewed in the video section of this page.
Victor Wooten is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Back to Nature, Music and Nature, Teaching the Natural Way, Music as a Lifestyle and Music as a Language. The estimated speaking fee range to book Victor Wooten for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Victor Wooten generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Allison Russell, Japanese Breakfast, Barrett Martin, Ron Lawrence and Michelle Zauner. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Victor Wooten for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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