The "Big 5" Skills of Modern Musicianship, with Dr. Chad West (Interview)
Find out music educator Dr. Chad West’s thoughts on how musicianship is taught today, and how we can improve this process for children and adults alike.
Find out music educator Dr. Chad West’s thoughts on how musicianship is taught today, and how we can improve this process for children and adults alike.
Audiation is a powerful musical skill that lets you imagine music in your head with rich, vivid detail, and relate it directly to notes on the page or music you hear in the real world.
Take your rhythm counting to the next level and learn how to count syncopated rhythms using the Kodály method. With example audio clips and score notation.
After mastering the blues learn how to improvise jazz on the saxophone! Using simple scales and chord progressions experiment with rhythm and tempo.
Beginning improvisers often lose their way in the form. Stefan Hall shares his teaching about listening to the rhythm section to keep your solo on track.
Here are the top tips, tricks and advice to help with interval ear training. Learn to recognise intervals more easily and reliably in the music you hear.
Get a free set of intermediate-level practice exercises to take your solfa sight-singing skills to the next level so you can easily sing from written music.
When you look at music notation can you immediately hear the notes in your head? This is essential for sight-singing and these solfa exercises make it easy.
Work through these exercises to be able to transcribe short melodies using the notes of the pentatonic scale and solfa syllables you have internalised.
Learning these five skills of musicianship and you will be well on your way to becoming a complete and versatile musician in the modern world.
10 practical tips to help you plan music goals, practice time and progress tracking. With links to helpful apps, podcasts, and online music communities.