How to Recognize Chords Faster
Being able to recognize chords, tonalities and intervals quickly can help improve your ability to perform, improvise, write and arrange music.
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The Pocket Queen: Wrist Techniques and Endurance Training for Drummers
In this new video lesson from The Pocket Queen’s new course on Soundfly, she teaches wrist and stick techniques to help drumming stamina.
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Kiefer: The Unspoken Magic of “Time Feel” in Jazz (Video)
Courtesy of his acclaimed course on Soundfly, Kiefer shares a lesson on how to improve your touch and time feel using jazz solos.
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The Pocket Queen: What Is Pocket? (Video)
In this exclusive video lesson from The Pocket Queen’s new course on Soundfly, Taylor walks us through her definition of the term “pocket.”
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Using Tensions for Lush Chord Voicings (Video)
Courtesy of his acclaimed course on Soundfly, Kiefer shares a lesson on using varieties of chord extensions to create lush sounding voicings.
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How Do Fear, Anxiety, and Other Negative Emotions Affect the Learning Process?
This guest post looks at research linking emotional mind-states with blocks in information retention, and how that might affect musicians.
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What Songs Are Gateways Into Enjoying Jazz?
Ep. 30 of Themes and Variation features Peter Martin, jazz pianist and composer, educator, and founder of the e-learning site, Open Studio.
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Why Improvisation Should Be Part of Every Young Musician’s Training
Based on neuroscience research, improvisation can deactivate the self-judgment in your brain, and help you engage more creatively with music.
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How to Let Your Notes “Breathe” in Improvisation
In this excerpted lesson from Soundfly’s The Improviser’s Toolkit, Mahea Lee explains why it’s important to let your notes “breathe” a bit.
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Songs to Inspire Change (with Speech and Keenan The First)
We’re talking about inspiring change in Episode 13 of our podcast, “Themes and Variation” with guests Speech Thomas and Keenan The First.
