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Since You’ve Been Gone: 11 Post-Breakup Songs To Help You Make It Through

Since You’ve Been Gone: 11 Post-Breakup Songs To Help You Make It Through

by Charlotte A. F. Farley | Feb 13, 2017 | Song Writing, Genres

Does Valentine’s Day have you crying on your pillow? Here is one title for 11 great break-up songs from tragic to comic and from confused to celebratory.

6 Ways Exercise Can Help You Be a Better Musician

6 Ways Exercise Can Help You Be a Better Musician

by Musical U Team | Feb 7, 2017 | Practice, General, Planning and Goals | 0 comments

Exercise is an important part of living a healthy life, no matter who you are. As a musician, physical movement can help you with more than you may realize.

10 Inspiring Quotes about Musical Improvisation

10 Inspiring Quotes about Musical Improvisation

by Musical U Team | Jan 31, 2017 | Improvisation, General, Jazz | 0 comments

You don’t have to be a musical whiz to be good at improvisation. You just need to practice. Here’s what some of music’s biggest names have to say about it.

Discovering Pentatonic Solfa: From Pentatonic to Diatonic

Discovering Pentatonic Solfa: From Pentatonic to Diatonic

by Ramona Cojocaru | Jan 30, 2017 | Pentatonic, Melodies, Music Theory, Playing By Ear, Solfa

Five notes to seven: two notes expand our solfa skills to embrace so much music! Grow your skills with these fun exercises, and expand them into real music.

Vocal Technique: Putting it All Together

Vocal Technique: Putting it All Together

by Marisa Balistreri | Jan 26, 2017 | Singing, Career, Planning and Goals

With a strong vocal foundation and making space, a singer can produce amazing effects. What’s more, good technique can help you keep singing for a lifetime.

Open Your Ears to the Blues

Open Your Ears to the Blues

by Sabrina Peña Young | Jan 23, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening

While not currently a chart-topping genre in it’s own right, blues saturate the roots of rock, pop, hip-hop, R & B and nearly every popular music worldwide.

Deconstructing Technical Metal Riffs by Ear

Deconstructing Technical Metal Riffs by Ear

by Guest Expert | Jan 18, 2017 | Transcription

Technical metal challenges the bravest transcriber. Yet armed with a little music theory and common software, the most daunting riffs are within your grasp.

Discovering Pentatonic Solfa, Part 1: Exercises

Discovering Pentatonic Solfa, Part 1: Exercises

by Ramona Cojocaru | Jan 16, 2017 | Pentatonic, Music Theory, Playing By Ear, Solfa

The Pentatonic Scale is the most popular scale in human history. Learn how to hear, transcribe and play pentatonic melodies with solfa with fun exercises.

3 Solid Investments You Can Make as a Musician

3 Solid Investments You Can Make as a Musician

by Musical U Team | Jan 10, 2017 | Planning and Goals, General, Practice | 0 comments

As a musician, you may wonder where you should spend your hard-earned cash and where it’s okay to go cheap. Here are 3 places to invest your music money.

Open Your Ears to Pop

Open Your Ears to Pop

by Sabrina Peña Young | Jan 9, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening, Melodies

What makes pop pop? While drawing from several other genres, like rock, hip-hop, country, and R & B, pop music has its own musical and cultural qualities.

3 Simple Ways Musicians Can Nurture Their Inner Businessperson

3 Simple Ways Musicians Can Nurture Their Inner Businessperson

by Guest Expert | Jan 5, 2017 | Career, General, Planning and Goals

In today’s world, a successful musician is often a successful businessperson. Find out how both these aspects of yourself can create together in harmony.

Improve Your Improv: Listen to the Rhythm Section, with Stefan Hall

Improve Your Improv: Listen to the Rhythm Section, with Stefan Hall

by Marisa Balistreri | Jan 4, 2017 | Improvisation, Audiation, Interviews, Jazz

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.

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