The Costs of Making Music

In today’s CBTS episode, we spoke about the following: Financing your keyboard Layawaying your keyboard Trading in your keyboard Upgrading your keyboard Saving up for a better keyboard Adding on to your keyboard Investing in piano methods Buying cables for your keyboard Selling your keyboard Repairing your keyboard Buying keyboard/piano books Purchasing a keyboard vs. […]

Music Making & Wellness Thxgiving

When you make your own music, you can play songs that are happy and songs that are sad. You can play songs that can shift your mood. Making your own music can be very personal, or it can include others. …active music making is a way to promote wellness and help to manage stress. Thank […]

Coffee Culture & Music Homework

As promised!–Your coffee culture and music homework assignment is here. We took a walk with you around New York City on our early Saturday morning podcast. Your job is to find music that inspires you. When you walk into a coffee shop…what do you hear? Do you hear songs that you wish to learn to […]

A Special Episode on Syncopation

Hi there!–Did you hear our special episode on syncopation. We talked about the emergence of ragtime music, one of the precursors of jazz. Accenting a note which would normally be unaccented is called syncopation. Syncopated rhythms are felt to go against a regular pattern of strong and weak beats (as indicated by the time signature). […]

Accidentals Not Accidents

Sonatina in G – G.F. Handel Romanze – W.A. Mozart German Dance in B Flat – Beethoven Polish Song (Polinisches Lied) – Ferdinand Hiller March of the Wooden Soldiers (Marche des soldats de bois) – P.I. Tchaikovsky Clowns – D.B. Kabalevsky The Day is Ended (Der Tag ist vergangen) – N.P. Rakov Attitude! – Nicholas […]