“I used to be quite haphazard with my practice routines, until I tried using a diary.”
How does your practice routine look? You get down with your instrument when you feel like it, open up the page of some piece you want to play and start playing? Do you just grab that guitar and start jamming about scales?
1. Press the button
2. Listen
Sure, that sounds easy enough. Unfortunately, most people get Step 2 wrong. And god forbid I’ve met people who get Step 1 wrong as well, but that’s a different story.
Don’t deprive your children of the so-called “Mozart-Effect“. Engaging in music activates your brain like almost no other activity, studies say. Harness this power and encourage your children to learn music.
But many parents go about in a very wrong way. After 10 years of playing experience, I can tell what should’ve been better in my kiddy days. Points to consider when introducing your child to music:
1. Implement the 5 Pillars of Good Musicians
Don’t just make him or her play an instrument. Show them the different aspects of music, build on the 5 pillars and explain to them how it’s …read more
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Why does the slamming of a door sound different than the pluck of a guitar string?
Before we dive into things lie music notation, chords, scale systems and the likes, we should understand the basic nature of music. When does a tone become a musical tone? The answer: When we perceive a sound as a regular, smooth pitch.
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Catch a pen and paper. Jot down 5 musical bands or artists, from any genre, in no specific order, however they come to your mind.
Let me show you mine:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Louis Armstrong
Britney Spears
John Lennon
Mark Knopfler
Pretty strange mix there. I don’t even listen to all of them, and yet they populate some part of my mind.
That question isn’t answered as simply as you think. A music instrument amazes me everytime I hear it. Someone actually had the time to discover a way to create physical sound. And all of it in a system that works together with others.
Music. It moves us all, and some of us enjoy creating and recreating it. Many of us are young, and dream of storming the stages like on American Idol, others are thinking f digging out that old dusty saxophone or western guitar and give it a spin again. Worlds separate amateurs and professionals. What makes a musician more than just another musician? Why is Bob Dylan so good? Why is Yo-Yo Ma such a famous cellist? Here are five aspects that shape every musician.
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