Open Your Ears to Rock Music
Spanning a half-century of musical mayhem, rock genres range from Surf to Heavy Metal to Punk, Grunge and beyond. Find out what makes rock, well, rock.
Why You’re Not Making Progress On Your Instrument… and How To Fix It
Why does it feel like you lose so much progress on your musical instrument? You practice for hours, then forget most of it. Here’s a new way to practice that can solve your problem.
Falling in Love with Tango, with Charlotte Dupuis of Nuevo Nocturna
From the moment Charlotte Dupuis first heard tango music, she was in love. This love lead her to form the successful original tango band Nuevo Nocturna.
5 Ways to Improve Your Sight Reading Skills
Sight reading is an important part of learning to play an instrument. Here are 5 ways to strengthen your skills and improve your overall musicality.
The 5 Fundamentals for Success in Music
Musical success is no mystery! Take these five simple steps and you’ll be miles ahead on your journey to becoming the musician you always dreamed of being.
Turn a card, write a song: Easy as Ace, Two, Three!
It’s easy to feel stuck or intimidated when writing a new song. Try using this fun song-writing game to loosen up your creativity!
Songwriter's Secret: Delaying the Tonic, with Michael Mingoia
Remember that one kid back in the junior high choir room who would run over to the piano and play all the notes in a C Major scale except for last note and then he’d walk away from the piano? You would sit there and wait and wait until finally you or someone just had...
5 Key Skills to be Musical
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.
Learning Jazz Improvisation, with Bob Habersat and Paul Levy
Learning jazz improvisation can be overwhelming. For great results, break it down into manageable chunks with these new online resources over at The Shed.
3 Professional Musicians Reveal Their All-Time Favourite Song (and Why)
We all have our “go-to jams” – even today’s biggest stars! Influence and inspiration comes from all kinds of places. These artists explain their favourites.
Review: Hooktheory Book II, "the next level of chords and melodies"
Hooktheory Book II is a superb modern way to learn advanced music theory for recognising chord progressions and writing songs. Learn more in this review.
Igniting Your Future in Music, with Susan de Weger
IgniteLab infuses entrepreneurial spirit into conservatory education, changing the old tradition of cutthroat competition into limitless new opportunity.
