Reading Music By Ear – Part 1
The scene in Peter Shaffer’s Oscar-winning film Amadeus, where Mozart is able to play by ear the march Salieri had written for him, after hearing it played only once, is…
The scene in Peter Shaffer’s Oscar-winning film Amadeus, where Mozart is able to play by ear the march Salieri had written for him, after hearing it played only once, is…
If you're going to call yourself a professional musician, it's a good idea to learn at least the basics of reading and writing music. Free programs like Musescore make writing…
Let's put to rest the single most troublesome and pervasive misconception about learning a musical instrument. It’s a myth that you have to read music to learn to play piano,…
The Teaching Music series on the HoustonGuitar Blog is to help students navigate some of the obstacles to learning to play an instrument, especially guitar, piano and bass. Some of…