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Thrive in the Music Education New Paradigm

David Reed — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:00:32 +0000

A 3 part series on Why Music Education is Changing – Part 3 of 3 How You Can Thrive in the New Paradigm Right now, millions of young people are genuinely excited about learning music as an opportunity for enjoyment and personal growth. They see music as a way to “develop their creative side” and [...]

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The New Paradigm: Musician as Person

David Reed — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:55:42 +0000

A 3 part series on Why music Education is Changing – Part 2 of 3 Our entire world has changed. For the vast majority of young music students, earning a salary is the farthest thing from their minds. Today’s music student is not a humble employee hoping to sell his services to wealthy audiences for [...]

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Why Music Education is Changing

David Reed — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:19 +0000

A 3 part series on Why music Education is Changing – Part 1 of 3 This series of articles talks about the needs and desires of today’s music student, which are entirely different from the needs that our music education system was designed to satisfy. This fundamental disconnect is already causing profound changes, and these [...]

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Holiday Music Study

Brad_C — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:16:34 +0000

Performing Holiday music has always been an issue for me. It seems that I wait until it’s almost to late to learn a song and polish it up for big get together. This year is no exception. I’ve been playing around with more improvisation that anything else. I’ll likely try to share some of those [...]

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Understanding Any Piece of Music by Ear

David Reed — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:04:27 +0000

Most people assume that only a musical genius could listen to a piece of music and instantly know how to play it in any key. In this article David Reed explains that this "genius" is available to all of us.

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3 Time Saving Practice Tips

Jordan Stevens - Chief Noisemaker — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:31 +0000

Practicing music is vital to becoming an expert or a least enjoying what music has to offer, however, you may not hove 4 or 5 hours a day to practice music. In order to get the most out of your practice sessions you need to think efficiency. By doing this you will eliminate wasted time. [...]

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What Musical Emotions Do You Convey

Brad_C — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Continuing on the theme of musical emotion, I want to further explore the type of emotion conveyed. Again I’m considering the ideas of Victor Wooten in his book "The Music Lesson". The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Price: $10.88 (71 customer reviews) 83 used & new available from $7.80 What Musical [...]

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Adding Emotion to Music

Brad_C — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:07:00 +0000

Music emotion has been my subject of interest lately and has made me reflect on over the past years of how the musician adds emotion to the music. As expressed before this reflection has been coming form my reading of "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through [...]

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Music Emotion and Blending

Brad_C — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:51:00 +0000

The mysterious idea of music emotion comes up from time to time when musicians and teachers talk about playing music for an audience. his is intriguing, when I was learning to express my music during my classical study time we were talked a lot about the feel of the music and interpretation of the melody or artist's intent.

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How Long to Learn Music?

Brad_C — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:00:41 +0000

Recently I got some very difficult questions on learning music and it was hard to give a direct answers. Today I'll share a little of that with you. My impression is that the age of instant gratification is creating a frustration with the new generation of musicians that have yet to understand that music is a life long journey.

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