Today’s guest post comes from Kristin Yost, founder and executive director of the Centre for Musical Minds in Frisco, Texas. You might also recognize her name from her popular workshop session entitled, “How I made $100,000 my first year as
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How To Compose A Good Melody In a recent Composition Corner post, I talked about 5 problems that students often have when writing melodies or writing pieces. Today, I would like to start to give you some general components how
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This excerpt from “Life after graduate school: The importance of a Mentor” is written by Kristin Yost (soon to be featured in a series of ComposeCreate posts on finances). Kristin is the founder and executive director of Centre for Musical
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Mona Rejino has a new book out that looks like just plain fun for everyone! The book is Just for Kids and features elementary pieces about all kinds of favorite activities of children. I think this is going to be
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Thank you again for inviting me to speak to your group on “Growing a More Musical Studio.” I have learned much in the last few years as I have strived to teach my students to play more musically and I
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Betsy, a teaching friend of mine, wrote to me recently and said that a student of hers played Twister at a winter recital and loved it. She said that it was a good piece for helping her learn to loosen
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Thank you to all my Facebook friends who answered the question, “How would you define the word “musical” to someone who is not a professional musician?” I appreciate you for helping me brainstorm definitions of “musical.” In my upcoming lecture,
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In the last Composition Corner post, I asked readers to comment on what they might say if a student came in to their lesson excited about their composition and played this: I have to say that I am thrilled with
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If you had asked me what songs were in my head last August, I would have sheepishly said that it was tunes sung by Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Train…just to name a few. Now lest I lose
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Don’t forget to tell us what you think in the breakout session for Composition Corner. The subject is finding something positive and you can tell me what you would tell a student with a given melody in this post. I’d
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Merry to Moody:
Holiday music for everyone!
Tired of the usual holiday music?This free webinar is just for you! Lots of new, original, and classic holiday, winter, and seasonal music will wow your students onto the bench! And you'll love the new audience participation piece as well!
