Most teaching styles teach theory as separate from the practical and performance side of an instrument. In this method a student often memorizes seemingly complex theoretical principles without ever learning how to apply these principles to their craft: What good is the knowledge of how to build a minor diminished flat five chord if the artist does not know how to apply it?

The Spaulding Method ensures the learning of theory is not only fun and interactive but proves useful to the student on a daily performance or compositional base. Quite often a student perceives their theoretical learning as almost an "accident" of learning their instrument.

Through the Spaulding Method even very young students conceptualize, internalize and utilize even university level theoretical principles.

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