Applying Solfa to Real Music
Solfa comes alive when you apply it to hearing real music. Soon you will see how quickly you will be able to play by ear and transcribe what you’re hearing.
The Shed: The Free Music Theory Resource for the Modern Musician
Originally a tool to help students with music theory, Bob Habersat and Paul Levy have built The Shed into a fantastic resource for all music learners.
Since You’ve Been Gone: 11 Post-Breakup Songs To Help You Make It Through
Does Valentine’s Day have you crying on your pillow? Here is one title for 11 great break-up songs from tragic to comic and from confused to celebratory.
The History of Recorded Music
The quest for recording and playing music – first mechanically, then electronically, now digitally – has been a wild ride, with some crazy detours.
Maestro Tango and his Bandoneon
Required to dance for a conducting gig, Alejandro Pinzón fell in love with tango. He learned bandoneon and now teaches, plays, and dances as Maestro Tango.
Exploring Classical Music: The Classical Era, Part 1
Classical Era composers – like Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven – packed balanced, symmetrical musical forms with emotional range, contrast, and catchy tunes.
What Makes Klezmer Sound Like That? With Paul Green
On first listen, Klezmer sounds oddly familiar. Learning the musical elements of this passionate, funky Jewish genre opens up new expressive possibilities.
Discovering Pentatonic Solfa: From Pentatonic to Diatonic
Five notes to seven: two notes expand our solfa skills to embrace so much music! Grow your skills with these fun exercises, and expand them into real music.
Open Your Ears to the Blues
While not currently a chart-topping genre in it’s own right, blues saturate the roots of rock, pop, hip-hop, R & B and nearly every popular music worldwide.
What’s the point of the Circle of Fifths?
Although it looks strange, the Circle of Fifths it is actually very relevant to your musical life. The trick is to learn the useful patterns hidden inside.
An Introduction to the Impressionist Era
Impressionism gave us more than whimsical, inspiring art. It introduced us to a whole new way to hear and play music. Learn more about this imaginative era.
Discovering Pentatonic Solfa, Part 1: Exercises
The Pentatonic Scale is the most popular scale in human history. Learn how to hear, transcribe and play pentatonic melodies with solfa with fun exercises.
