After over 25 years of playing music I’m 100% convinced that the thing lacking from a lot of peoples musical training is the art of singing and vocalizing what they are playing. At one time most kids had experience singing, either in school, a particular…
Category: Classical Music
Over the next few months I plan to release some elementary/beginning sight-reading exercises for the banjo. *PDF located at the bottom* After years of teaching students banjo and noticing that while TAB is great for some things, it’s not producing students that can name the notes up…
I will be making a series of posts detailing the form and structure of some Classical/Concert pieces over the next month. One of my favorite pieces is “In a Summer Garden” by Delius. The score is below with the harmonic devices marked. …
As you go forth in your practicing or writing, understand that what you currently working on is NOT the Final Product. What you are doing is the ROUGH DRAFT. With this said, go ahead and give yourself permission to change ideas, to fix and edit…