I am sure this story rings true with many of us in the teaching profession. There is a small segment of our students that always seem to be over programmed by their parents.They have no time to practice, or are always cancelling their lessons because of conflicts with other extracurricular activities
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How Many Activities should your Child be In?
Most studio managers and music school owners always look forward to some series of workshops, seminars and training to acquire the necessary inputs and skills they need in managing the finances and expenses of their own music school. However, these also require much of their time, effort and money. To resolve the issue, they settle for some innovations like investing into some music school billing software to help them achieve their goals and maintain better management in all aspects
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Music School Billing Software for Better Financial Management
Have you ever wondered why we use letter names in musical notation before? I have to confess that I had never really thought of it much until a friend asked me the other day how the music letter names were named and why the alphabet was used to name them. Here are a few ideas and
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Letter Names in Musical Notation
DEADLINE for ALL applications – Friday, February 5th – don’t delay! ————————————————————————– VWMS 2010 SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION FOR VOICE Applications must be received by Friday, February 5th The first 20 eligible applicants are automatically entered into the competition. A minimum of $4000.00 to be awarded
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VWMS 2010 Scholarship Competition for Voice
I was recently invited by King Tech personally to appear on the new Wake Up Show anthem. After my appearance on the Wake Up Show , King Tech, a west coast veteran, has been a huge supporter of my music. It’s an honor for me because being on the show was one of my dreams as a youngster.
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Kam Moye, RZA, Ras Kass, B-Real, and more
For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can’t
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What Makes a Great Teacher?
So why do tunes in a major key, such as Singin’ in the Rain, sound cheerful, while those in minor keys – Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, say – sound gloomy and depressing? The answer – in part – seems to be that the patterns of pitches in major keys mirror those of excited speech, whereas minor keys parallel subdued speech
As some of you may remember, I did a 6-song album breakdown/interview a few months ago with Reyn from Potholesinmyblog ( click to preview ). Well, This time I had a chance to do a full album breakdown (song by song) for Splitting Image with my homie L-Rox (of Red Secta Mastering) who did the mastering for my album
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‘Splitting Image’ Album Breakdown (Pt 1)
It’s so easy to think when buying student instruments that cheaper is better! But is it?……… This is simply NOT true and here are some reasons why you should not always go for the cheapest model or price available to you rather than a better known model range. Reason1: Tuning: some of the lesser priced brands can
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What are the Benefits Of Choosing A Quality Musical Instrument?
2009 will always be a very special year for Recreational Music Center . Aside from the fact that it was our first year of business, more importantly it was a year that saw a small after hours venture become a legitimate music school teaching students of all ages, all levels, and on just about every instrument. There is no way that Leslie and I could have imagined when we first opened our doors on January 5, 2009 that here on December 28, 2009 we would have grown so quickly
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Best of 2009 – RMC Edition
“The global recession is expected to reduce revenues for cultural enterprises by approximately $3.1 billion in 2009″. This is one of the findings of “The Effect of the Global Economic Recession on Canada’s Creative Economy in 2009″, a report prepared by The Conference Board of Canada for the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) that measures the impact of the current recession on the
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Camada’s cultural revenue down 3.9 B in 2009
I’ve just written a long convoluted email to one of the advisers at the Berklee School of Music . I am thinking of studying some papers on their online school, given that I live in New Zealand and they are in the USA. The gist of the email is that I feel their courses and degrees are largely focussed at the performing songwriter, aka singer songwriter
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Stepping up as a songwriter
Introducing the Printable Music Lesson Plans Great Composers Module Here at the Fun Music Company this month, we are very excited and proud to announce the launch of a brand new product to aid in teaching music history. it all started About a year ago, when a music teacher asked us if we had any materials available
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Are you teaching Music history in 2010?
By Paul Thornton MINISTERS are being urged to investigate a top fee paying school after a THIRD sex scandal hit the academy in a year. A male teacher at Edinburgh’s St Mary’s Music School was this week struck-off following his conviction over a nine-month sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy
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Call for probe into school sex scandals
I just received some great news that my music video for Let’s Be Honest was nominated as part of the Freshmen 5 on MTVu ’s show, The Freshmen . The show spotlights emerging artists on air and online, with the chance for one of the videos to get an automatic add into rotation on the channel the following week. Fans can vote on these videos online, starting Monday, December 14, 2009, and votes will end on Friday at 2:00 PM (EST) and be tabulated
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Vote for Let’s Be Honest video on MTVu
Tod Cohen in a recent artlicle points out that from recent studies in the US, it seems that many charities are behind the times when using digital means for fundraising and giving. For instance a new study conducted by Forrester’s Technographics for online provider Convio estimates online giving in the U.S
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Charities and Digital Giving
From Business in Vancouver online magazine: It’s hard to understand what the BC Liberals were thinking when they chose arts and culture to take such a huge hit in the struggle to keep the province on track financially. Artists talking to businesspeople feel compelled to make the economic case for what they do
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Liberal-arts cuts are bad for B.C.’s economy
Recently released Statistics Canada data regarding government spending on culture in 2006-07 reveals some very interesting analysis. In BC Cities and municipalities are responsible for a greater share of the cultural tab compared to rest of Canada
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BC lowest province in Canada in terms of Arts Funding.
BC Arts Council Executive Director Jeremy Long will retire from the BC Public Service early in the New Year, Council Chair Jane Danzo announced Monday.. “Jeremy Long has served the people of British Columbia for more than 20 years,” Danzo said. “He has been eligible for retirement for the past two years, but chose to stay on to help oversee the completion of the Council’s strategic planning
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Jeremy Long retires from BC Arts Council
This should be of some interest to new music and world music fans: Geoff Smith believes he has come up with the first multicultural acoustic piano – what he has trademarked as a fluid piano – which allows players to alter the tuning of notes either before or during a performance. Instead of a pianist having a fixed sound, 88 notes from 88 keys, Smith’s piano has sliders allowing them access to
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Fine-tuning: composer reinvents the piano