As a young child, I am a little embarrassed to admit that I had private one-on-one recorder lessons. These progressed to private clarinet lessons….but I was always watching the saxophones in the school concert band. Then when I was 14 years old I got my first saxophone. It was a ch...
The number one way to sound better as a beginner ukulele player is to tune your ukulele.Your audience will thank you for it and you’ll be inspired and even surprised by the beautiful sound you create!A lot of new ukulele players don’t realize the ukulele has to be tuned frequently to...
Um, is that when my colleague Jonathan Gunn, great clarinet player, used to be principal clarinet Cincinnati Symphony, just wonderful artist and lovely teacher playing this little etude. And, uh, the first thing he did is he played it, all the way through with inflection. You know, he pla...
While a wind instrument such as clarinet or trumpet may only need to be able to read treble clef notations, a pianist or someone who plays a low-toned instrument such as tuba or cello will need to learn bass clef notation. sharpner / Shutterstock Musicians and vocalists use the treble cl...
(She’d been playing piano since age 5 or 6) We tried one, and she had excellent tone and rhythm, but she didn’t quite have enough arm strength to hold up the instrument for long periods of time. We switched her to the lighter clarinet for a few years, and now at 11, she is ...
Personally, in my development as a Raqs sharqi dancer, I only heard this term after I had been taking lessons for about three years and I find that it is not one of the first concepts you may come across as a beginner. Yet, dancing totaqsimis an experience that can help you grow a...
(She’d been playing piano since age 5 or 6) We tried one, and she had excellent tone and rhythm, but she didn’t quite have enough arm strength to hold up the instrument for long periods of time. We switched her to the lighter clarinet for a few years, and now at 11, she is ...