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The Number One Film For Family Gatherings? The Sound Of Music
As we approach the holiday season, families start looking for activities to do together, and many families choose to watch movies. If you’re looking for a musical film that the whole family can watch together, there may be no better choice than The Sound Of Music.
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Rehearsal Preparation, Part Two: No Time For Practicing?
While it’s important for musicians to consider whether they have enough time for practicing before accepting a gig, there will be moments when there isn’t enough time to adequately prepare for a first rehearsal. How can you ensure that you don’t waste your fellow musicians’ time in rehearsal?
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Rehearsal Preparation, Part One: What To Prepare?
What do you need to prepare for a group rehearsal? In this introductory article, we’ll tackle how to succeed with your equipment, music, schedule, and attitude.
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Eight
There’s one step left to conquer perfectionism: addressing the troops. Perfectionists may address themselves – and must learn to do this as advanced students – but for beginners, a trusted team member will need to complete this job.
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Seven
The best way to win the war with perfectionism is to win every battle. Let’s take a look at how to fight, and win, your battle!
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Six
In the training phase, you learned to view perfectionism as the enemy and assembled your team. Now it’s time to complete basic training: pack your provisions, run drills, and practice maneuvers.
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Five
Once you’ve decided to wage war on perfectionism monster, you’ll need to assemble your team.
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Four
The first step to fighting perfectionism is to identify your enemy. Start thinking of perfectionism as your enemy by trying five techniques.
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Three
While studying music, you are likely to come in contact with perfectionism. What types of students are susceptible to perfectionism?
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Toward Perfectionism, Part Two
Our desire to “get it right” can cause us frustration while we practice, but isn’t it also what actually helps us to get it right? If perfectionism is helpful, why fight it?
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Fighting A Musician’s Tendency Towards Perfectionism
As musicians, we are trained to be detail-oriented. Pressure from deadlines can lead to over-zealousness in pursuit of perfection, and this in turn can lead to frustration, failure, and burn-out. How do we prevent this? How can we fight perfectionism?
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How To Listen To Music At An Expert Level
This article on the expert level of listening provides 16 additional questions students can answer to improve their active listening skills.
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How To Listen To Music At An Advanced Level
Questions at an advanced level to improve music students’ active listening skills requires more abstract thinking, more knowledge of music theory and history, and also some musical skill.
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How To Listen To Music At An Intermediate Level
In part one, we discussed what active listening is and how you can begin practicing it. This week we’ll move on to the intermediate active listening level.
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How To Listen To Music
We hear music all the time, but how well do we listen? For the music student, learning to listen carefully is crucial. In this article, we’ll focus on using active listening to improve your ability to really listen to music.
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Piano: The Ultimate Preparatory Instrument
When choosing your first musical instrument, make sure to consider the ultimate preparatory instrument: the piano.
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7 Considerations When Choosing Your First Musical Instrument, Part 3
If you want to learn a musical instrument, but don’t know what instrument to choose, there are seven things you’ll need to consider. In this third part, we’ll look at the final two considerations: the student’s body, and preparatory instruments.
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7 Considerations When Choosing Your First Musical Instrument, Part 2
If you want to learn a musical instrument, but don’t know what instrument to choose, there are seven things you’ll need to consider. This week we’ll add two more considerations: availability and budget.
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7 Considerations When Choosing Your First Musical Instrument
Now that you’re ready to start music, how do you know what musical instrument to choose? There are seven important things you should consider.
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Feel This Moment
Now it’s time to discuss how nerves can affect you while performing, and what steps should be taken after performing. The most important thing to combat stage fright while performing is to remain in the moment.
