Emusictheory.com

Today I want to talk about a cool free web resource. This is perfect because in the last post, I posted an article talking about the benefits of learning to read music.

The website is emusictheory.com.

Emusictheory is site that has great drills that can really help in the process of learning to read music.  You will not have access to all of the resources for free, but you will have access to some really cool stuff. You can find the free drills here.  My personal favorites are Note Names, Paced Note Names, Guitar Frets, Rhythm Performance, and Chord functions.

Each drill will have a settings option.  Make sure you pick the treble clef since we are playing guitar. On most of them you can also adjust the difficulty and select or omit any notes you want to add or take away. For example, when you are first starting you might only pick natural notes.

I hope that you get a chance to check it out, I have found it to be very valuable!

Good luck on the musical journey!

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Music and Math?

Did you know learning to read music can actually help students with math?

"Now that the school year has kicked in full force, many parents look to November as back-to-school night when they meet their children's teachers for the first time and get an assessment of how well or poorly their little juniors are doing. Historically, the subject of math has provided ample cause for concern as many students lag in this subject and struggle. Yet one secret to better grades is quite simple: let your kids play music.

Yes that is correct. Let your kids play music. Let them take up a musical instrument. Whether they choose to learn violin or piano, or little rocker Johnny wants to be like Eddie Van Halen and rip through the Eruption solo, does not matter. The important thing is that they begin to learn some instrument. This will definitely improve their math grades because of the intimate relationship between music and mathematics.

Learning a musical instrument will expose your child to learn to read music. Beside strengthening hand-eye coordination, which is always a good thing, learning to read music will strongly improve your child's ability to work with fractions." 

You can read the rest of the article here

Pretty cool huh? - Steve

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The Legendary Wes Montgomery

Way ahead of his time!



and lets do another!



Hope you like! -Steve

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Interview/Quote with Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson interview from Guitar international magazine

Rick: Do you have any projects that you’ve dreamed of doing, but have just haven’t got around to yet?

Eric: I’d like to work with an orchestra some day. That would be a lot of fun! And I would like to learn more about music and cut some records that are different styles.

Rick: Are there any guitarists that you always go back and listen to for inspiration?

Eric: Wes Montgomery!

I love the fact that someone as amazing as Eric Johnson said that he would like to "learn more about music". That is awesome.  I think next post we should hear some Wes to see what all of the fuss is about! 

Good luck on the musical journey. -Steve

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Interview/Quote with Jack White

Do you see yourself as competitive with other musicians of your generation?

JW: No, I give up! [Laughs.] I surrender! I watch MTV, I listen to the radio, and I just give up. I don't know to record like that, I don't know how to be "current." Anytime I do something and it sounds "modern" to me, someone is quick to point out that it sounds like something from 30 or 40 years ago. You know, I give up! [Laughs.] That's never been a battle that I wanted to fight to begin with, but even the times I think about it, I think that even if I wanted to, I wouldn't even know the first thing to do.

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