My background is in music and linguistics, and I want your children to learn music more naturally and easily, like they learned their first language. Here are some simple music concepts and tools to share with your children. For those of you who have little or no...
OK, that was fun. Seriously, there is a real path to learning music through modeling or mimicking. We are visual creatures and it plays to that strength. My background is in music and linguistics, but I am fascinated by how people learn, and convinced that music can...
Motivational speaker Pauline Victoria, born with no arms or legs, and her son (age 3) playing Piano Wizard together, proving that anyone can play the piano with Piano Wizard. We were deeply inspired when we saw this. With a little effort, we can all overcome life's...
Arianna was born with severe birth defects but that has not stopped her great and shining spirit, and here she shows it off using the Piano Wizard Academy music video game system to play piano after about 45 minutes. This is far beyond what we ever imagined would be...
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IDCKCDLbxDo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Part 3-From Special Needs Family to "Almost Normal" In this video May describes Jed's former mental abilities, and...
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eHDakXv5WKo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Part 2-Puzzles In this video May describes Jed's former mental abilities, and how after bringing Piano Wizard Academy...
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/f7YMoUFDyRs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Part 1-The Crack in the Walnut In this video May describes Jed's former mental abilities, and how after bringing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4NIZlYKyo This series of lectures by John Crooks is both extremely interesting and a bit nerdy. Music notation, conventions and theory evolved over the last 2000 years, but was largely lost for almost a thousand of those years,...