Music 101 (part 1)
If you want to take up guitar seriously, but don’t know what’s involved, this series hopefully will help you. These are NOT le...
If you want to take up guitar seriously, but don’t know what’s involved, this series hopefully will help you. These are NOT le...
Last time, we looked at effective learning with directed practice and recall. Remember, this is not a lesson. It’s giving you some b...
Last time, we looked at the concepts of pitch, octave, and semitone. This time, we’ll take a high-level look at rhythm, melody, and ph...
Last time, we looked at the concepts of rhythm, melody and phrasing This time, we’ll take a high-level look at harmony , scale, chord,...
If you are embarking on skiing lessons, you’ll never have experienced skiing before. In this sense, you’re a complete beginner. But, hav...
This is the follow up to How musical is a novice? A chord is made up of a bunch of notes separated by various distances, and that overall co...
If you’ve read the last couple of posts on “how musical is a beginner“, they may make you realise at a conscious level how...
Here are insights that are relevant to using digital technology, standalone or as an adjunct to other methods, to help students understand m...
Introduction Rhythm is all about organising the occurrence of musical sounds in time. With great music, it’s not long before you sta...
Introduction Now we’ll look at a few examples of 4/4, with 4 bars, using a mix of whole, half, and quarter notes with rests. What you ...