Give Music Lesson Gift Cards to your family and friends this Holiday Season! Music Lessons are the gift of education that will last through the years. Music Lesson Gift Cards Available for: Guitar Lessons, Vocal Lessons, Piano Lessons, Drum Lessons, Ukulele Lessons, Violin Lessons, Cello Lessons, Bass Lessons, Clarinet Lessons, Saxophone Lessons and Trumpet Lessons. […]
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3/4 Sized Acoustic Guitar for Beginners
Young guitar beginners will need an appropriate sized guitar in order to make steady progress. Children and even smaller adults will benefit from a 3/4 sized acoustic guitar. A 3/4 sized acoustic guitar has a smaller body and shorter neck making it possible to reach all of the notes easily. We have recommended the Yamaha […]
Piano Tuning in Metro Detroit
Routine piano tuning is essential to keeping it in top playing condition. Changes in weather affect the tension of the strings on the piano. Letting a piano fall out of tune will not only affect the sound, but can also cause other issues. Problems that arise for pianos that stay out of tune for a […]
Ukulele Starter Pack
Ukulele Starter Pack Do you want to get started playing the Ukulele? We have an excellent offer for you. Get the Hal Leonard Ukulele Starter pack plus 4 lessons at Grosse Pointe Music Academy for only 139.00 dollars. The Ukulele starter pack comes with a high quality Kahua Ukulele, a Ukulele Method Book, CD, DVD, […]
Made in Detroit: Guitars crafted from city ruins
Made in Detroit: Guitars crafted from city ruins cbsnews.com DETROIT — Detroit has more than 70,000 abandoned buildings. Among them is an old Cadillac plant that houses piles of wood. Where others see trash, Mark Wallace sees buried treasure. Wallace started making guitars out of Detroit’s reclaimed wood a year and a half ago. He […]
How to use Noteflight
How to use Noteflight Noteflight® is a very easy to use, and extremely convenient way to score music for playback or print. Compared to much more expensive programs, Noteflight® offers powerful music scoring features combined with the ability to share online. Noteflight® is compatible with any web browser! You can easily copy and paste links […]
3 String Guitars
Three-String Guitars What originated as a Kickstarter® campaign, the Loog guitar has now been put into production, and people around the world are experiencing the benefits of this simple but brilliant idea. The brilliance lies in the reduction of six strings to three so that beginners and experienced players alike can focus on a limited […]
Free Sheet Music on new Guitar Ensemble Site
I received an email today from a High School Music teacher who recently launched a new website called www.writtenforguitar.com. George Wanat has been teaching in a New York City public High School for the last 10 years. His new website and musical arrangements available on the site are his response to the “unsatisfying guitar music […]
Why Do We Remember Old Pop Songs But Forget Where Our Keys Are?
I’ve been posting quite a few things in the last few days about music and the human brain. If you have any interest in this subject whatsoever then you’ll certainly enjoy this video. Daniel Levitin, Neuroscientist and musician, gives some great example of how music is so absolutely important in our lives. The function of […]
Make music when practicing
The title of this blog comes from Mark Levine’s very popular Jazz Theory book. I think it is important for musicians practicing all styles to “make music when practicing” rather than just Jazz musicians. It’s common for people to think about playing those dreaded scales over and over again at the piano, guitar, or any […]
Band in a Box
Yesterday I talked for a bit about the mid-nineties device call the PMA-5 by Roland. The program on that little gadget is similar to what someone working with “Band in a Box” might experience today. Band in a Box is essentially a musical engine that generates music based on what you specify for the style, […]
Ukulele Christmas
Guitar Players, Piano Players, Violin players, and all instrumentalists have enjoyed picking up the Ukulele and learning to strum simple chord accompaniments. Relatively speaking, Ukulele is an easy instrument with only 4 strings. Everybody thinks that the ukulele came from Hawaii. Well, while it’s true that the word ukulele is a Hawaiian word (it means, […]
What should I do about poor rhythm?
The answer to this is so simple. It’s should be the easiest thing to do but it somehow perplexes people to the point of giving up on playing music all together. It’s really too bad because if most of the people baffled by rhythm had just been willing to SLOW DOWN then they wouldn’t have […]
Musical Intervals and their names
Musical intervals can be likened to measurements that we learn early in life like the inch, the foot, the yard and so on. Music notes are are also given names for the space that exists between two points. In the most basic way, intervals can be defined as the distance between two musical notes. Musicians […]
Gift Certificates for Music Lessons
Giving the gift of music lessons for the holidays can be a very rewarding gift for anyone with even just a little bit of musical interest. I hear from people all the time say things like “I’ve always wanted to play guitar” or “I’d love to play the piano, but I don’t have the time”. […]
The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook
Playing guitar with just the lyrics and the chords on a sheet of paper is a common practice of many guitar players. The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook is a collection of almost every Beatles song ever played and recorded by the Beatles. Using chord grids at the top of the page and chord symbols over […]
How to write creative music
Creative writing in music can happen in many different ways and begin from many different angles. If you’re a singer or just someone who thinks up songs and melodies, you might want to learn to play guitar or piano to provide accompaniment for your singing. In this method, the creative process will first begin with […]
The Theory of Jazz Music
In Mark Levine’s well known “Jazz Theory Book” he says that a great jazz solo consists of 1% magic and 99% stuff that is Explainable, Analyzable, Categorizable, and Doable. His book is all about the 99% part of it. In the introduction Levine goes on to say to say: ” There is no one single, […]
Spelling your scales
A scale is a series of notes that can be used to create chords and play melodies. When a musician first begins to understand scales and their purpose there are a number of ways to go about it. The process of learning the scales includes learning to write and identify notes on staff, playing the […]
Do I need to bother learning modes?
Modes are inversions of a particular series of notes. In music, notes are grouped into patterns called scales that are used commonly in songwriting. Major scales have 7 unique notes in them and thus have 7 modes. The key of C Major contains the following 7 notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. […]