Improv Resource Packs, Wake Me Up, EDM, Songwriting: Inspired
Music is creative superpower. What power will you choose? Learn improvisation, worship songwriting, EDM, and creative covers with this week’s MU posts.
Musical U Team
The Musical U team features a range of world-class music education experts, specialising in musicality and the accelerated learning techniques referred to as "superlearning".
Current and past team members include:
- Christopher Sutton: Founder and Director
- Andrew Bishko: Head Educator
- Stewart Hilton: Community Conductor
- Zac Bailey: Head of Member Success
- Camilo Suárez: Next Level Coach
- Andy Portas: Next Level Coach
- Marisa Balistreri: Communications Manager
- Sabrina Peña Young:Contributing Author
- Nick Long: Contributing Author
- Thomas Evdokimoff: Contributing Author
- Charlotte Farley: Contributing Author
- Alexander Poe: Contributing Author
Posts by Musical U Team
Beginning Improvisation: Resource Pack Preview
In this month’s instrument Resource Packs for guitar, piano, bass and singing we explore beginning improvisation and getting creative.
Resident Pros, From Blues to Celtic, Career Skills, and Auditions
Musical U introduces Resident Pros, career and audition skills to help you grow, and Dave Bainbridge finds common ground in blues, gospel, and Celtic music.
Answers, Opportunity, Find Your Cover, Modal Trick
Opportunities to expand our musicality, careers, and creativity are everywhere – when we cultivate an open mind and learn where to find good answers.
Rap, Dubstep, Auditions, Career Skills
Looking for that magic? Break down genres (like rap and dubstep) into musical terms; career goals and audition preparation into real steps you can take.
The Rise of Dubstep
Learn about what makes dubstep dubstep, the rhythmic patterns involved, and the boundary-pushing musicians that helped bring it to the mainstream.
More Modernism, Bad Habits, Polyrhythm, Covering the Smiths
This week Musical U destroys the tonal system, simple rhythms, bad habits, and the Smiths all in one fell swoop. The result? New room for your new music!
Instrument Packs, Modernism, Pipe Dreams, and the Home Note
We musicians love a quest: seek the tonic or run from it, search for musical collaborators, and a import your ear training into your instrument skills.
How to Find the Tonic of Any Song in a Major Key
Learn how to find the tonic in any song in a major key using our intuitive tips and tricks. Then use it to your advantage to write music and play by ear!
Jazz, Covers, Two Years of Musical U, Infinite Possibility
To cover or not to cover? We all have our favorite songs by other artists. Yet we want to make our own original statement of the unique music welling up inside us. With the proper approach, covers can respect the original artist yet bring out our own creativity. Jazz...
Romantic Rock Stars, Passion for Percussion, Flamenco Love, You Can Compose
Romantic era composers cultivated a rock star image for marketing, but composing music is for everyone! Plus flamenco artist Juanito and percussionist Lior.
Make the Jump from Musician to Composer with Composer Boot Camp 101
Sabrina Peña Young sits down with Musical U to discuss her workbook Composer Bootcamp 101, a new resource for composers of all levels and backgrounds.
