Here’s another little gem I came across recently: GNU Solfege. It’s a free music education software, specifically designed to “train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills.” It includes interval recognition, interval singing, rhythmic dictation, chord singing, scales, and harmonic progressions. I’ve downloaded it and started using it a little bit, and it seems like […]
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Review and Giveaway of The Savvy Musician!
Whether you’re looking for inspiration or practical ideas, this book will deliver! Dozens of charts and lists provide handy references, and over 150 vignettes highlighting the efforts of musicians and organizations give you an idea of how an entrepreneurial mindset can play out in the real world. Author David Cutler has done a fabulous job […]
Music Teacher’s Helper – Sign Up Now!
Anyone who has been reading here for any length of time knows that I’m a huge fan of Music Teacher’s Helper. It has streamlined my bookkeeping like I never imagined was possible! I posted my first review of it after signing up for the free trial version four years ago. Although I was hesitant to […]
Getting Ready for Another Year (or…random ramblings)
For quite a few years now I’ve been taking off teaching for the month of August to give myself time to travel, come up with a practice incentive theme for the next year, catch up on other projects, do lesson planning, and hopefully feel put together by the time my students return for another year […]
And the Winner Is…Everyone!
I couldn’t stand it growing up when we would be playing a game or doing a competition that involved subjective criteria and the adult/judge would conclude that it was a tie and everyone was a winner. My competitive nature wanted there to be a real winner (preferably me, of course :-)). But I digress. I […]
One More Day to Enter!
If you haven’t yet done so, you have one final day to enter the drawing to win a free copy of Music Ace Maestro (worth $127.95). Just go to the original post and leave a comment and you’ll be entered in the drawing! The drawing will be held tomorrow at noon.
