When Your Child Wants to Play an Instrument – What to Consider Are you considering having your child learn to play a musical instrument? Many feel that music is an important part of a child’s development...
Adjust and Improve Your Reeds with This Technique Did you ever open a box of clarinet or saxophone reeds only to find out that some of those premium reeds don’t play up...
Timeless Music: Why Does a Song Become Timeless? We have all heard the expression that certain music is timeless. While this may be true, there are many different reasons. The oldest “timeless”...
Time Traveling Through Music Most people at one time or other have imagined themselves time traveling in a telephone booth or bath tub. Let’s face it, real life...
Empathy in Music: Where Does it Fit in? Do you know what empathy is? Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else...
What Makes Music Aesthetically Pleasing? It Can Be the Setting What makes music aesthetically pleasing? I’m sure every time you listen to a musical performance whether it be live or recorded. Every sound you...
What Inspired My Lifelong Journey of Music If you speak to many non musicians, they will say “I wish I took music lessons when I was a kid”. There are many...
When and How Does It All End? How a Wind Instrument Musician Successfully Ends a Note When students go on the journey to become a wind instrument musician, most tutors make a sincere effort to introduce the many concepts required...
Is it Easier to Play Music Fast or Slow? Which do you think is easier to play,……. fast,…… or slow music? On the surface it seems to be a “no-brainer”. Slow should be...
Why Music Teachers Should Learn Accompaniment Techniques for Elementary School Band I’m sure there are different ways to enhance your music programs in elementary schools like accompanying singing groups with piano, but what about band...
How The Revolutionary War Fife Inspired Me To Write The Yankee Collection The six holed, traverse, primitive flute called the fife had a profound effect on me. Having six holes sounds simple enough, but it has...
How Teaching Music Taught Me To Play Better I learned my bad habits religiously through many hours of practicing what my tutor instructed me to do. Not only do we learn through...