Metronome Games: How to Improve Your Time While Having Fun
Most musicians associate the metronome with boring practice exercises, but here are 3 ways you can improve your timing that are actually fun!
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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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Breaking Down Sonny Rollins’ Catchiest Tune
A personal OpEd on one of Sonny Rollins’ most classic melodies, and a reframed way to improvise within blues-infused modern jazz.
