Today we’re announcing, in cooperation with the Waterloo Region District School Board, a number of awards and bursaries for students graduating from WRDSB schools. For more information see MuzicTrain Bursaries.
Today we’re announcing, in cooperation with the Waterloo Region District School Board, a number of awards and bursaries for students graduating from WRDSB schools. For more information see MuzicTrain Bursaries.
It is unfortunate that music education is being offered less and less in quite a few of our school systems in North America. As education budgets get squeezed, some schools are taking music from their curriculum to create room for other subjects. But the truth is, music education and involvement can be very important to
A crash course for teaching brand new guitar players how to play the instrument would strip away all the talk and get right to the basics. It would focus on getting the student to play melodies (and eventually chords) as quickly as possible. It would also teach just enough “theory” to allow the student to progress to the next
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Do you play a trumpet or a cornet. Chances are you don’t know the difference. They are both members of the “brass” family of instruments. They are fingered the same way, and they both use the same type of mouthpiece, although there are important differences between a trumpet and a cornet mouthpiece. On both of
Want to publish something in one of our blogs? If you blog about teaching or learning music, or if you have a website about teaching music, learning a musical instrument, or any aspect of music theory, why don’t you submit something for publishing in this blog. It’s a great way to get personal exposure as
New guitar players will tend to develop or discover a preferred strum pattern. I remember when I was first learning to play, a friend of mine and fellow musician used the same predictable strum pattern for every song. It drove me crazy. “There it is…” I would think to myself “…that same old strum!” Ever
When I work with a new student who is learning guitar from scratch we start out playing 4 string versions of G, C and D because they are a bit easier to play. It is also good to learn to be disciplined enough to start your strum on the correct string. In the case of
As I have said elsewhere, learning the fretboard is difficult when it is divorced from playing songs and exercises actually using the fretboard positions you are trying the learn. So playing the notes in question is very important. That’s why learning the fretboard goes hand in hand with knowing how to read traditional music, at
