By For Publisher on December 20, 2011
Benefits of Music Education Shown to Include Leadership and Teamwork Skills
Besides being a sure way to become the life of the party, learning to play an instrument can make your children smarter, better adjusted, and better equipped to adopt a position of leadership in a diverse world. Some of the benefits of music education include [...]
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By For Publisher on December 20, 2011
Are you frustrated when you try to explain your taste in music? Fortunately, one of the benefits of learning a musical instrument is a better understanding of your own musical taste. Learn to play an instrument, and soon you will be able to discuss what works or doesn’t work for you, in music.
Learn to [...]
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By For Publisher on December 19, 2011
Improvisation (also known as improvising) is the act of making something up as you go along — an act with which we all have a little experience.
Remember playing House or Doctor as a child, letting the game go wherever your mind would take you? That was improvisation. No rules, no boundaries, just the limitless potential [...]
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By For Publisher on December 7, 2011
Mp3 music is an audio file that has been digitally encoded and compressed to make the amount of data smaller without compromising the overall sound quality. It’s a revolutionary technique with incredibly good results; music delivered this way is frequently indistinguishable from music found on a CD (though some audiophiles with very sensitive ears dispute [...]
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By For Publisher on November 22, 2011
Piano improvising and arranging is an art but definitely not a science. It is all based on chords and chord progressions. There aren’t any steadfast rules for creating an arrangement, nothing to dictate the limitless potential of your imagination. Musicians learn to arrange by simply arranging and improvise by improvising — over and over again. [...]
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By For Publisher on November 20, 2011
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” ~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US Patent Office in 1899.
“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” ~ Socrates
Why is popular music so bad today? I mean, I’m not that old, but jeez, the music of today, with [...]
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