Here’s Part One of the video series Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music. Get the course for 50% off!Or, get a copy of the best-selling book.
Category: Music Theory
50% off Audiobook: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music (2 days!)
50% off or FREE for 1st-Time Listeners. Since 2001, one of the most popular books to help you learn to read music. Chapters are short and simple, always friendly and sometimes funny. Get it. Used by the LA Film School, colleges around the US, as well as middle schools, high schools, home schools, and others interested…
Chords As Explained by Snowmen
One of many smart, sweet, and funny comics from Classic Jenny. (embiggened by psuedon)
3 Music Bestsellers 81% Off for 24 hours! (10-28-18)
$1.99 for 24 Hours Now that everybody’s pretty well settled and back to school, I thought it’d be a good time to offer up my 3 bestsellers for $1.99 each. That’s 81% off the cover price! Each is frequently the #1 book in its category on Amazon.com. The $1.99 deal is only good for 24 hours,…
3 Bestsellers: 99¢ for 24 hours! (10-27-18)
99¢ for 24 Hours Now that everybody’s pretty well settled and back to school, I thought it’d be a good time to offer up my 3 bestsellers for ¢99 each. That’s 91% off the cover price! Each is frequently the #1 book in its category on Amazon.com. The ¢99 deal is only good for 24 hours, starting at…
What Makes Bach So Great?
Also check out: What Bach and Charlie Parker had in common: (hint: Octave displacement)
Free Audiobook: How to Read Music
Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music is now in audiobook format!
If you’re new to Audible, you can listen to the book for free.
How to Use the Piano to Explore Harmony
Ted Nash of the JLCO gives some superb advice on using the piano to explore harmony.
“Part of practicing is putting yourself in a position where you’re going to discover something new.” – Ted Nash
Check it out.
How to Practice Trumpet: Trumpet How-To 4th Edition Is #1 New Release on Amazon (+free video lessons)
I’m super excited to announce a new edition of Sound the Trumpet: How to Blow Your Own Horn. The book is frequently a #1 best-seller in its category, and 2 days after publication it’s the #1 New Release in Trumpets and Cornets on Amazon. Check the link to free video lessons.
Great Introduction to the Pipe Organ
A little more basic than the usual fare here, but it’s a nice performance, with rhyme, music, and knowledge. What’s not to like?
Michel Blows a Serpent (Practice Playing In Tune)
Want to learn to play in tune? You should. Read on. Playing in tune is a skill often overlooked in practice. Here’s a great example of playing in tune: Michel Godard playing a serpent. The serpent is an ancient low-voiced instrument similar to the Medieval cornetto, and it produces a mesmerizing sound in the hands of a master like Godard (see the vid below or listen to the mp3).
SoundSlice: YouTube Learning Goodness
If you’re like me, you get a lot of learning done on YouTube, but isolating a passage and repeating it, let alone notating it in some way, is difficult if not impossible. Not any more! Check out SoundSlice.
SoundSlice is a fantastically useful tool geared towards guitarists, but it’s useful for anybody who learns by watching video. Adrian’s done many cool things as a programmer (check his site), and has an album out of his most popular fingerstyle tunes here, most of which you can also find on SoundSlice, like the Beatles tune, Yesterday. Check out the link to Yesterday for a good example of how the site works.
The Practice of Practice 