Found this JazzTimes column from a post on the great NPR jazz blog, A Blog Supreme. Forty jazz-related things to do before you die. Trumpeter Ian Carey also had a humorous response to the bucket list on his blog. It…
Minor Pentatonic Tutorial
In this video, Paul Hanson breaks down three very easy to use minor pentatonic scales that sound great over a minor (dorian) mode. Minor pentatonics are built by the using scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, b7. The pentatonic scales…
In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back
The last decade has brought an explosion in dazzling technological advances — including enhancements in surround sound, high definition television and 3-D — that have transformed the fan’s experience. There are improvements in the quality of media everywhere — except…
Music lessons build brainpower
And yet across the country, if not on L.A.’s Westside, music and other arts instruction are often whacked or cut disproportionately when budgets are squeezed. They’re seen as appropriate luxuries in good times, but otherwise superfluous and expendable, despite evidence…
Music Improves Brain Function
For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra or even a rock band, the musical…
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