To explain better my idea about the importance of improvisation in music, allow me to shortly compare language and music learning. Children learn talking by imitation. Initially sounds, then first words, finally structured simple sentences. At the end they go to school to learn how to read and write. Conversely, how usually children are trained in music? Regardless the widely range of useful methods, children often begin their music studies through notes reading, often with the aid of the metronome, and teachers focus mostly on accuracy and mathematical duration of notes, without any attention to quality of sound and meaning of music. Among several disadvantages, in such way children consider the metronomic performance the only point in music, and they ignore how and why notes are combined together in that specific way. Moreover, music “words” and “sentences” are totally neglected. While in the language studies we usually deal with reading, writing and conversation, in traditional music teaching there is extreme attention on reading, very few on writing and none in "conversation". I do consider the improvisation as important as conversation in music learning, Improvisation, like conversation, force us to think. Given that it is not be possible to

speak without thinking, in the same way it is not possible to improvise without thinking-in-music.