Sacred Violin - Darrell Conrad

10/11/2019

When your student hasn't practiced in so long a spider makes a web on their instrument (just kidding they did great today)

08/16/2019

My new video game string quartet is having it's first rehearsal tomorrow! Please follow the page if you haven't already for some sample videos coming soon!

Tomorrow is a big day for us, do you know why? It is our first rehearsal ever! Be sure to follow our posts for some sample videos coming soon (expect some Castlevania)!

08/02/2019

This master class is really worth watching! Really great principles to apply.

"If you're not changing somebody's life, you're wasting your time."

Interpretations of Music: Lessons for Life with Benjamin Zander Series 3, Class 5 Gerald Karni, viola For more classes like this one, please visit the Benjam...

06/22/2019

"Perhaps even more famous than the literature references are the many ways in which cartoons introduced children to the world of classical music, including both instrumental and operatic selections, one of which is the famous Rabbit of Saville. American film critic Leonard Maltin describes the situation well:

“An enormous amount of my musical education came at the hands of [Warner Bros. composer] Carl Stalling, only I didn’t realize it, I wasn’t aware, it just seeped into my brain all those years I was watching Warner’s cartoons day after day after day. I learned Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody because of the Warner Bros. cartoons, they used it so often, famously when Friz Freleng had a skyscraper built to it in Rhapsody and Rivets.”

But Maltin wasn’t the only one learning from these classical music forays. In fact, as the famous pianist Lang Lang testifies, it was Tom and Jerry’s rendition of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody in The Cat Concerto which first inspired him to start piano at age two."

The cartoons from our parents' and grandparents' generations weren't mind-numbing - they were an important pathway to knowledge.

04/24/2019

Why those piano lessons were such a good idea. —Alan

04/06/2019

While researching violin duets I came across the rare F double # (instead of open G). I remember how much I panicked when I first had to sight read one!

03/27/2019

02/01/2019

I remember the time when people used to say "Video game music is not real music."

Take this!

My cello cover of the Hyrule Castle theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo! If you like it, please share it!

01/06/2019