One day I was in a seminar class on planning, with one of my mentors, Meir Ezra, and he laid out his system, in a kind of refined Gantt chart, and I realized I was looking at a sort of planning symphony, with harmonic elements in parallel, melodic elements in...
One of my life long fascinations has been with the essence of things, and while I loved music, I did not study it as a child. In college when I approached it I was given a full dose of conventional music training as I audited college level music courses to satisfy my...
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...
The Chromatic Scale is a great exercise for developing fingering strength, dexterity, and practicing the thumb under technique. Here is a 2 octave practice excercise for the right hand. The pattern is simple: 1-3-1-3-1-2-3-1-3-1-3-1-2 (1 is your right thumb, and...
"Counting Stars" is a song by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their third studio album, Native (2013). The song was written by lead singer Ryan Tedder, and produced by Tedder and Noel Zancanella. Musically, it is a pop song with strong elements of folk music....
Obviously the challenge is feedback. Online videos abound on Youtube, not necessarily teaching you what you want but teaching "something". The challenge is the lack of feedback and interactivity with the process. One of the biggest challenges is practice, i.e., how do...
