“At the Dallas School of Music [DSM] we’re finding more and more adults are wanting to learn music,” says DSM President Dr. Bob Lawrence, “It appears to be a combination of parents who want to learn along with their kids and older adults who are remembering how much fun they had in school band, choir, and orchestra.”
I started writing Revolution three and a half years ago. I made a story outline and wrote songs into that skeleton. I either wrote some from scratch or modified some recent ones I had written to suit the story.
Since its inception in 1980, the nonprofit, located in San Diego, California, has grown to serve more than 600 children and adults touched by special needs every day. TERI’s pioneering array of life span services are recognized and emulated on state and federal levels, as well as internationall
Have you ever played a song or a piece with a marking in the middle stating♩=♪ or something similar? If this puzzling marking left you scratching your head, you’re not alone! After all, since our days in elementary school music class, we’ve been taught that whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and so on, all have distinct rhythmic values.
As part of a research initiative by the AHRC ResearchCentre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, a collaboration between Cambridge and Oxford universities, researcher John Rink asked musicians about when inspiration most often struck them. He discovered that fairly mundane activities that didn’t involve playing their own instruments often led to new insight, knowledge, and means of expression
The Galaxy AS-900 in-ear minitor is a great entry-level wireless in-ear monitor. End the clutter of monitor speakers at your feet. Hear your monitor mix directly in your ear and block out extraneous noise. This system features an 80mW receiver output and has an RF and low battery indicator. The transmitter has L/R level display, stereo XLR and quarter-inch inputs, and a headphone output with volume control. The Galaxy AS-900 is a single channel, fixed frequency unit.
Cort Guitars Earth 300V acoustic features a solid Adirondack spruce top with Adirondack bracing, solid mahogany back and sides, black body binding, teardrop tortoise pick guard, genuine bone saddle, and sunburst finish. The mahogany neck is topped with a rosewood fretboard and features Grover vintage tuners. The Earth 300VF adds a Fishman Sonitone EQ and Sonicore pickup system.
Many local music stores bring musicians together by creating highly successful in-store programs. They give back to their musical communities by interacting with them in new and innovative ways.
Setting Up a Band: It’s All About Communication Are you thinking about setting up a new band, or already trying to manage one? Being in a band is like being married to three or four people at the same time. It’s important to choose wisely and then your communication skills will need to at least equal […]
The MackieDL1608 iPad Digital Mixer redefines live mixing by combining the proven power of a full-featured digital mixer with the unmatched ease and mobility of an iPad.