A Music Education Blog Collective

In recent months I have been using a looping pedal to have students explore the inner workings of music.  In my case I have been using a Line 6 Pedal, but others will do as good or a better job.  Artists like Tyondai Braxton use this technique in performance.
This is how it has worked for […]

I enjoyed listening to these three different arrangements of Sabre Dance. (My favorite is a video performance by the exuberant Marimba Ponies–independent young musicians performing as a small ensemble that has no need for a conductor–isn’t that a goal our students should reach?) Thank you to Alex Ross for finding these arrangements. There […]

The issue of young people and concert attendance was recently raised again by Greg Sandow on his blog. Coming at it from a music ed perspective, Jen previously posted on this topic and I posted on the other blog I write. The voices of young people, especially much younger people, are unfortunately left out […]

Seattle resident Trimpin has been creating and building his own instruments since childhood. “Trumpet was his instrument, and he wondered why it needed to be limited to playing one pitch at a time, and why that pitch had to fit into the system of conventional tuning,” Amy Rubin writes. “These questions led to his […]