…imagine serving as Secretary of State and still putting together a beautiful performance of the Dvorak Piano Quintet like Condoleezza Rice did for the Aspen Music Festival last August! (I’m feeling like I should beef up my practicing now!) Part One: Part Two: HT: Collaborative Piano Blog
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Music Creation Using Audacity
Two of the most popular posts here on Music Matters Blog are the ones that discuss how to set up a recording “studio” using the free Audacity audio recording software (you can read these here and here). I’ve used Audacity for numerous projects, but I know I still haven’t even come close to tapping into […]
Review of Modern Harmony Methodology
Michael Griffin, author of Music and Keyboard in the Classroom and developer of the helpful website Music Education World has produced another great resource for music teachers and students. His newest book, Modern Harmony Methodology, describes itself as being “of value to all students of composition and musical arrangement, and also to classically trained pianists […]
Monday Mailbag – Creating Worksheets
Which program do you use to create such cool worksheets? I created this worksheet in MS Word, using Finale for the scale and key signature snippets, and then importing them into MS Word. This was actually my first time using the export feature in Finale, but I had a visual in mind of how I […]
Piano house in Huainan, Anhui
I just had to post a picture of this very cool piano house!
Group Class Travels to Italy
As it turns out, I came down sick last week and had to take off the whole week of teaching, so I got one week behind. I finished up our theme of Feeling the Pulse this week, and will start on the Key Signature theme next week with the Key Signature – Scale Matchup Worksheets. […]
