Whether you’re just beginning to learn music or you’re looking to polish your skills, learning how to memorize music is a vital part of your musical journey.
Learning to memorize music can be more challenging than learning to speak a new language, since you’re not responding in a conversation, but memorizing to perform and practice a piece of music.
Thankfully, we’ve compiled these five easy steps and strategies to help you learn to memorize music.
Having one’s own child learn to play music is an achievement pursued by many parents. Whether to guide the child in one’s own footsteps, or to give the child a gift that oneself never obtained, nurturing a son or daughter with music is immensely useful, if not for a career path then for a skill to impress friends and peers with. Few things are more fulfilling than mastering a song is, but hearing a child perform in recital might be one. [Read more…]
The modern day, with its rapid progress, constant flood of thought (online and off), commercial noise, and digital glow, refuses to leave a mindful person be, perennially calling functioning members of society to stay active, helpful, clean, and efficient, while expecting them to keep up with popular trends, experience the latest entertainment, and enjoy social interaction.
Faster than ever, today offers little respite to any worker, even amidst the safety and comfort that technology offers.
Sincere effort with faulty results is not always applauded, and the most dependable individuals can be mocked if an error is made. [Read more…]
When thinking of today’s popular singers and musical artists, traditional lyrical content, meticulousness over theoretical soundness, and inventive four-part harmony do not seem likely to come to mind.
This era of quick information-gathering, transportation, and communication, wherein gratification must be easily attainable to satisfy the needs of work-engulfed consumer-producers, has brought about art that adheres to cultural standards. [Read more…]
January 2016 started with some pretty unfriendly travel experiences for at least 2 classical musicians that had planned on flying with their instruments.
Cellist Nathan Chan was recently booked on a flight with American Airlines from Vancouver to New York through Toronto, and WestJet was handling the first part of his flight.
Although he had purchased a ticket for himself and one for his cello, when he got to the WestJet flight, they told him that he couldn’t bring his cello on board the plane; even though had had already paid for the ticket.