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)
Free Printable, Customizable Guitar Sheets
A superb resource for guitarists and teachers: Source: Printable Guitar Sheets | Hub Guitar | Hub Guitar
Get the Most Out of Your Practice
Learn more at Sol Ut and The Practice of Practice. High-rez, printable PDF HERE
TonalEnergy Tuner Review (Just Go Get It Already)
TonalEnergy Tuner is the best app I’ve seen in a decade. So many features. Just go get it. Then watch these tutorials and reviews. While I researched The Practice of Practice, tuba virtuoso Rex Martin showed me the program he used, Spectre, that did some of these functions. Although that program is, IMO, more powerful, this…
Musical training could improve executive function – Music Education Works
The results of a new study in the USA suggests that musical training can improve a person’s ability to solve problems and think in an abstract way. Source: Musical training could improve executive function – Music Education Works
Yep:
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Practice Hacks
Learn more at Sol Ut Press get the high-resolution printable PDF
Free Poster for Your Practice Room (corrected)
Below is a link to the free printable poster that sums up how your belief in whether talent is “natural” or a result of effort impacts your practice. A typo in the original has been corrected. (thanks, Bruce). This comes from chapter 6 in The Practice of Practice. (high-rez printable PDF)
Ideas In Cars, Honking (and Tom Waits)
Tom [Waits], for most of his life, he was pretty much the embodiment of the tormented contemporary modern artist, trying to control and manage and dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses that were totally internalized. But then he got older, he got calmer, and one day he was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles, and this is when it…
