Hear the Difference: Timbre, Texture, and Tone
Understanding the differences and relationships between timbre, texture, and tone in music is a big part of playing an instrument. Read on to learn more.
Understanding the differences and relationships between timbre, texture, and tone in music is a big part of playing an instrument. Read on to learn more.
Classical Era composers – like Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven – packed balanced, symmetrical musical forms with emotional range, contrast, and catchy tunes.
Hans Hansen of “The Music Arrangers Page” explains the listening skills and sound judgements that went into this arrangement of the jazz standard “Jordu”.
Music reading is often taught first. But when we learn first by ear, our musicality emerges much more easily. Singing connects listening with music-making.
How often have you heard a guitar and wondered “How do they make that noise?!” These are the top techniques used to produce those strange and wonderful sounds.
Your voice has multiple registers and learning to use each effectively will improve your voice and fix those “problem notes” in the middle of your range.
What is a cappella ear training and why should you be using a cappella music for your own ear training even if you don’t sing? Find out in this article.
We think that the theme of a track just means its melody. But in fact theme is a much bigger concept and you should know all your options when writing music.
All song writers get stuck sometimes, but we all have a secret weapon we can put to use: our favourite songs! Learn how to use songs you love to inspire you.
Inexpensive digital sampling technology and the never-ending quest for new sounds has opened up the world of music to any and all sounds in our environment.
Taught, tight and disciplined, funk guitarists do more with less. Learn about the style that makes the funk guitar greats tick and inspire your own playing.