by golfam | Jun 15, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott It’s common for budding musicians to begin their journey by learning how to read sheet music and play songs note for note. The methodology here is very straightforward (but certainly not easy!): learn one measure at a time, start slow, pick up speed,...
by golfam | May 26, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott Order and chaos. Yin and yang. Tradition and novelty. It’s the age-old human story. How do we walk the delicate tightrope between the two? The same question can be applied to the creation of music. When writing, composing, or arranging, a musician may...
by golfam | May 12, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott We live in an age where we have the expansive wealth of the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Could you imagine what might have been had Mozart, Bud Powell, or John Lennon been granted access to the internet? The 21st century is a golden age of...
by golfam | Apr 6, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott In the music world, we have this paradigm of practice as a very active endeavor. Practice to us often constitutes repeating passages, playing with a metronome, running scales, and doing the physical & mental legwork necessary to level up on your...
by musicadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott Do you want to succeed and push yourself to the next level, or do you just want to get it over with? These are the two prevailing attitudes I see in most of my students (and also within myself). The difference between how these mindsets affect growth...
by golfam | Mar 16, 2021 | Adult Music Lessons, Kids Music Lessons, Practice
By: Konner Scott Last week, I was hired to play a gig. They pulled me in last-minute because one of their instrumentalists had backed out. Originally they had asked me to play acoustic guitar, but the night before the show, I was switched over to electric. As if this...
