Every week in Brooklyn during the summer are live music events called ‘The Pool Party’. Its actually really cool, and turns into a huge event. The downside this week was that it rained (started during …

Silence is the most powerful and important part in conversation, presentations, and even music. Too many times I see people walking down the street with their iPods or mp3 players. I feel its important that …

Learning scales can be difficult. There are a few tricks to going about and speeding up the process.
Understand that there are also Modes, too. You’ll be happy to learn that all the chords you know, …

Tapping is a lot of fun. This technique allows you to stretch and hit notes that would other wise not be possible to reach with only your fret hand. The idea is the grasp your …

This video was the idea of Rana. She’s amazing
So basically, we took cupcakes and drew different music durations notes throughout. Then we used duck tape to make a treble clef on my …

Sibelius 6 has a lot of cool updates. Unboxings are when you open up a product for the first time and video tape it for others to see.
Here we have a number of Sibelius …

Jimmy Goss is hilarious. Here we discuss practicing, power chords, and have a good time. I can’t stop laughing watching this.
He was new to the whole online video idea! We discuss a few things, and …

Sforzando = when an attack hits hard, diminuendos, and then crescendos… all in one attack
Crescendos = making the music increasingly louder
Tremolos = rapidly attacking the note
Dynamics = mezzo forte, forte, piano, mezzo piano. Indicating how …

Sibelius 6 is the latest installment of the best music engraver around. There are a bunch of new features in this one that my older version didn’t have.
One of them is “Panoramic View”, which allows …

You throw down the chords, and I’ll play them. Cool idea. Here’s Week #1 attempt.

We’ll do more stuff like this. Everyone said it was alot of fun. Music is supposed to be fun, so I’m …

Grace Notes in music represent a note that is played so fast that it doesn’t get a beat. Think of it as a blur.
Some times they’re used in order to allow the sheet music to …

Repeats in music allow you so not have to write the same section of music multiple times. It allows the musician to simply memorize one section and rather than turn a page or continue reading, …

Looks like I’m going to start teaching music while I’m walking the streets. Which is Awesome!
I’m so excited that I finally own the newest iPhone 3gs release from Apple. I have been amazed by this …

I always enjoy going to these events and seeing what kind of cool music goes on. I also like to see how the bands are set up, etc.
This particular parade was great for that, because …