Musical U Member Spotlight: ZSonic
Learn all about Musical U member ZSonic’s unique turntable-based music practice, and how Musical U has helped him practice smarter and grow his musicality.
About Playing Like Singing
Learn about how your singing voice and the language and inflection it contains can help you become a better, more expressive instrumentalist.
Why Mistakes and Failure Are Essential for Music Learning
Learn why mistakes and failure are necessary evils in your musical journey, and how to use them to improve rather than allowing them to impede your success.
Musical Storytelling and the Art of Cabaret, with Fiona-Jane Weston
Musical U sits down with acclaimed cabaret performer Fiona-Jane Weston to discuss storytelling through song and the power of connecting to your audience.
Singing Basslines to Improve Musicianship
Understanding harmony is an incredibly useful skill to have as a musician. Learn how singing basslines can help you elucidate a song’s harmonic structure.
Getting Under the Hood, with Leila Viss
88 Piano Keys’ Leila Viss discusses how to explore creativity in music, and the value of “stealing” ideas you love and applying them to your practice.
About Playing Multiple Instruments
Learning a second (or third, or fourth) instrument is one of the best things you can do to grow your musicality – learn why!
Taking Control, with Emily Dolan Davies
Even after great stage success with high-profile bands, drummer Emily Dolan Davies realized that for true happiness, she had to put herself on the throne.
Folk, Frameworks, and Fun, with David Row
Musical U interviews Make Moments Matter’s David Row on the Orff approach, an educational framework that centers the student’s musicality and creativity.
Singing and Science: Busting Myths with Allan Hubert-Wright
Le Chanteur Moderne founder Allan Hubert-Wright busts some pervasive singing myths, and gives you the facts on correct breathing, vocal support, and more.
Musicality Means: Playing More Than One Instrument
Learning a new instrument greatly benefits to your musicality: collaboration, deeper understandings, and lots more fun. It’s not as hard as you may think!
Finding, Recovering and Maintaining Motivation, with David Brown
We talk to Piano Cub’s David Asher Brown about how to maintain a strong commitment to your musical practice – especially in self-directed learning!
