Do music lessons help your brain function better? It’s a question that has interested parents and musicians alike since Daniel Levitin’s best-seller, This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sachs’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain came out … Continue reading →
How To Make Your Piano Playing More Interesting Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to talk about using dynamics and rubato in your piano playing. Rubato is a kind of a stopping and start piano playing style … Continue reading →
Seven Reasons To Learn To Play Music Sometimes it’s useful to take a step back and look at just why we are planning to do something, in this case, learning to play piano. So I thought I would review some … Continue reading →
Have You Thought of Doing This With Your Tax Refund Check? The tax season is ending. If it hasn’t already, the IRS will soon send you the refund you’ve anxiously awaited. You have some big plans for it too. Maybe … Continue reading →
Years ago when I was in college I came across a book in the school library by Leonard Bernstein titled “The Joy Of Music” in which Bernstein has a conversation between himself and several imaginary people about various aspects of … Continue reading →
Want better Spatial Reasoning skills? Study Music & Listen To Music! Both sides are guilty, if we’re honest. One side would have you believe that those who study music at a young age will be brilliant Rhodes Scholars ready to … Continue reading →
Head towards the internet and do a search for Arnold Shoenberg. Listen to some of his music and other composers who use the twelve tone composition technique and you will instantly have opinions. If you’re like many, your opinion will … Continue reading →
It is very easy to locate the key of a song
Continue reading →Music can be so complex and multi-faceted that it’s no wonder that the average person is lost when it comes to a basic understanding of what music is.
Continue reading →Music can be so complex and multi-faceted that it’s no wonder that the average person is lost
when it comes to a basic understanding of what music is.
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