Why you need a website, and how to get one…
A website is an absolute necessity for the modern musician. With a website you can reach out to an audience of people throughout the world and let them know just how great you are. If you are willing to put in a little effort and persevere with your time a website can offer you a ton of possibilities. Even with a very simple website you will be able to play your music worldwide, tell everyone about yourself, display photos, list concert dates and perhaps most importantly for the professional musician, you will be easily found through Google so that your adoring fans can get in contact and concert
Improve your playing…fast.
In my lessons with the undergraduate students here at Yale I find myself repeating a few core ideas many times. Perhaps one of the most common suggestions I make to students is to... slow down. Young musicians seem to have a fascination with playing things fast. I must admit that I too went through my phase... ok. several phases, of obsessing over my speed. However, I have found in my teaching and my own studies that the best way to improve control, accuracy and even speed is to slow everything down. There are three types of slowing down that I would like to talk about here. (I do admit,
Creating MP3s with Audacity
If you have just downloaded Audacity and are wondering how to export your file as an Mp3, wonder no longer... Audacity does not export files to Mp3 format without the LAME encoder. This encoder is also free to the public and can be downloaded here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ Once you have downloaded the files place them in your Audacity folder and open up the program. Now you should be able to open up the File menu and Export as Mp3 Easy! How do I change the quality of my Mp3 in Audacity? Changing the quality of your Mp3 file will make the size of the file larger. For general purposes,
For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
A memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance. Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:50 AM ET Content provided by Bruce Bower, Science News THE GIST Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. Having a strong ability to remember pieces of relevant information while performing a task aids sight-reading. The best sight readers combined strong working memories with tens of thousands of hours of piano practice. Here's a harsh piano lesson: Years of tickling the ivories
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For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
A memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance. Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:50 AM ET Content provided by Bruce Bower, Science News THE GIST Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. … [Read More...]
String Quartet Competition
Swiss Global announces their competition for use of "The Evangelists" St John St Mark St Matthew St Luke "No dents!" Laurent Marfaing remembers noticing when he was first presented with St Matthew in April 2008. The description was perhaps fitting, as the viola had been … [Read More...]
