No Sweat Music Matters

22/06/2016

One of the problems today's music teachers face ...

One of the problems today's music teachers face. - Hoyt

24/01/2016

Fascinating!

Before electronic amplification, instrument makers and musicians had to find newer and better ways to make themselves heard among ensembles and orchestras and above the din of crowds.

25/09/2015

Q: What do you call someone that follows musicians around and tries to hang with them after the show?
A: Drummers.

18/09/2015

If music had personalities.

11/09/2015

Communicating with music.

09/09/2015

Yup! We can "relate" to this!

03/09/2015

The piece 4'33, composed by John Cage, is a piece that consists of a performer coming on stage, and not playing a note for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. In other words, the entire piece consists of silence.

A performance by William Marx of John Cage's 4'33. Filmed at McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA. Composer John Adams wrote the following in The New York Times...

01/09/2015

I was 6 when I had my first piano lesson, and my tutor made me draw treble clefs at the end of the lesson (W-H-Y?!?)!

It must have been a traumatic experience as I remember no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t figure out how to draw this weird-looking clef. I drew and erased ... re-drew and erased ... over and over again ... till I made a HOLE in the page!

Then I cried ... :-)

Today, I can draw the treble clef in one second – but who needs that when there’s Sibelius?!?

28/08/2015

So my neighbour knocked on my door at 3am.
3AM! Can you believe that?
Luckily I was still playing my drum kit.

24/08/2015

So true!

Better person, better musician.

22/08/2015

Q: How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 13 - one to do it, and twelve to stand around and say, "Phhhwt! I can do that!"

13/08/2015

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-different-way-to-visualize-rhythm-john-varney In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. ...