An excellent article from Jason Haaheim about how art and arts orgs are more important now than ever.
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If you’re reading this from anywhere in America, you’ve probably been caught up one way or another in the protests across the country about the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and most recently, David McAtee at the hands of the police. Compared to these tragedies, I […]
A Little Hope
In a previous blog entry I talked about some projects that I and others are using to fill up the time due to the cancellation of all upcoming performances and most teaching. In that blog entry (which you can find here), I talked about going through several technique books that […]
Warm-up (and learn to practice) with Solo Training
SmartScore is WIndows software designed to convert and edit sheet music to digital PDFs.
ScanScore Review: Scan and Edit Your Digital Music
This year, pay more attention to what you listen to.
You Are What (and Who) You Listen To
Telling a student to memorize something is not the same as telling them to memorize it. Seth Godin explains.
Memorizing =/= Learning
While this almost certainly belongs on the tech part of my website, rather than the music portion, I just really love the phrase, probability-based drummer. I can think of a few probability-based musicians I’ve known in my life, and I think I’m going to start using that phrase instead of […]
It’s not just a punchline – the “Probability-Based Drummer” is ...
It’s no secret that the increasing development and research into sports psychology has trickled down into the performing arts fields. Books from authors like Don Greene, Timothy Gallwey and Barry Green have brought many aspects of the mental preparation done by elite athletes (and others in high-stress jobs) into the […]