021: About Chord Tones
Learning and understanding chord tones will help you create memorable melodies with tension and release and solo over existing progressions. This in turn will help you play by ear, improvise, and writ...
9 Nov 201710min
020: How to Sing Smarter, with Meghan Nixon
Today we're joined by Meghan Nixon, of HowToSingSmarter.com. You may be confused by the title: singers want to sing louder, higher, stronger, more confidently - but "smarter"? As you're going to dis...
7 Nov 201736min
019: About Recovering from Mistakes
Though you may be tempted to panic or freeze up after playing a bad note during your performance, your mistake is not the end of the world - far from it! Learn four tips and tricks that will get you...
2 Nov 201711min
018: Getting "Off Book", with Melody Payne
On this episode, we are joined by Melody Payne, a.k.a. "The Plucky Pianista". Melody has been writing online since 2012, sharing innovative and forward-thinking ideas for teaching music more effective...
31 Okt 201746min
017: About the Ear Training Trap
The ear training journey is a long, yet immensely rewarding one. Along the way, there's a trap that 90% of students will fall into, leading them to think they aren't making progress and causing them t...
26 Okt 20176min
016: An Ear for Jazz, with Brent Vaartstra (Learn Jazz Standards)
On the show today we're talking to Brent Vaartstra from LearnJazzStandards.com, one of the leading websites for people to learn to play jazz. Now if you're not into jazz you might already be thinkin...
24 Okt 201743min
015: About Pentascales
Pentascales are a common type of scale used by pianists and singers but they can be interesting and useful to all musicians. Discover what a pentascale is, how it's different to a pentatonic scale, an...
20 Okt 20178min
014: Finding the notes yourself, with Sara Campbell (Sara's Music Studio)
Have you wished you could play music without needing to look at notes on a page? In this conversation with Sara Campbell, the Resident Pro for piano at Musical U, we explore a variety of ways you can ...
17 Okt 201755min
