Look to your past and find your musical genealogy Knowing and understanding our past helps us in the present. Making sense of moments in world history, we learn from humanity’s past mistakes and strive to do better or, just differently, in the future. We can also learn from the successes and continue that which was [...]
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What’s your musical genealogy?
Posted by Mary Ellen on February 10, 2010
http://gracenotesmusic.org/blog/2010/02/10/whats-your-musical-genealogy/
Improvisation – It’s Not Just For Jazzers Anymore
The idea of improvisation scares the beejeezus out of many musicians, especially those who learned to play their instrument side by side with learning how to read music. Knowing how to read music is a valuable skill. But when you stop and think about how you learned to speak your native language, you will realize [...]
Posted by Mary Ellen on January 27, 2010
http://gracenotesmusic.org/blog/2010/01/27/improvisation-its-not-just-for-jazzers-anymore/
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand… Notes!
What if each pixel in an image corresponded to a specific pitch? What if the brightness level of a pixel determined the length of the note? What if the RGB value of each pixel created three-part harmony? Seeing Music In Color Music has many mathematical elements contained therein. The idea to apply pitch to pixels [...]
Posted by Mary Ellen on January 13, 2010
http://gracenotesmusic.org/blog/2010/01/13/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-notes/
What Makes A Memory?
What Makes A Memory? Once Upon A Time… Once upon a time there lived an instrumental music teacher who had recently joined and sung in a choral group for the first time in her musical life. It was an exciting time for her! She enjoyed learning a new instrument (voice) and the experience of making [...]
Posted by Mary Ellen on December 10, 2009
http://gracenotesmusic.org/blog/2009/12/10/what-makes-a-memory/