Five Creativity Challenges for Artists of All Ages This February Here in Chicagoland, February is one bitterly cold, sometimes...

Announcing the Holiday Special 2020! What are your favorite holiday memories? Baking cookies, finding the perfect gift for your loved...

Inventor and Composer In previous posts, we've focused on the instruments played in the conventional Western orchestra, some instruments...

Music for Remembrance We've reached Fall 2020, a year that will no doubt be remembered as a year of transition and mourning. This past...

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More Than "Just A Singer" – Voices As Instruments In the last post, I introduced the four main voice types, as well as additional...

Classifying the Voice There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.

If you are an educator, you may wonder how you can communicate effectively in the virtual space. And, if you are a learner, you may have a d

What images pop into your heard when you hear the word "texture"? Soft or hard? Dry or wet? Alive or inanimate? Slimy? Sticky? Fur, skin,...

There are many music method books as well as philosophies and ideas about music education. Large academic libraries are full of...

Just as DNA is made up of the building blocks (nucleotides) that tell cells how to make up organisms, there are building blocks that make...

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What says, "summer" more than a parade? And, what says, "parade" more than a marching band? Music has been the flint to strike up the fire o

Meet your new friend, Mike So far, on our study of "What Is Music Production?" We have discussed the various professionals roles that...

What do you think of what you hear someone is going "in the studio?" Do you think of the famed recording studios of the past—the hallowed mu

In today's world, a Digital Audio Workstation or a DAW is a software application (or a hardware device) used for recording, editing, and cr

In today's musical world, there are more options open to musicians than ever before. We have access to DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) whe

Summer Special for high school and college students!

When you imagine a musical performance, a variety of places such as coffee houses, recital halls, college campuses, bars and restaurants, o

Some detractors of music theory say that studying it limits musicians. However, this is false. Simply because we know the rules does not lim