Music Education I: The Suzuki Method

The Suzuki Method has always been of special significance to me as it is the way I began my piano studies. However my teachers though they had the best intensions were not trained Suzuki teachers. [That’s another story, my musical development].

I Love My Mac!!

I sent it on holiday to fix the mail issues and now it’s back! Works a treat, just like it did before it stopped. Reckon a certain person changed some settings and it malfunctioned.

But this post is not about why that happened. I want to tell you why I love my Mac! I really…

Deep In The Bowels of GarageBand

For the last few days I have been playing very intensively with GarageBand, Apple’s recording software. It’s been great fun manipulating myself and playing piano and keyboard strings and singing songs that I love.

Music Education II: The Kodaly Method

This method is a natural extension of being a folk music buff as the learning material is drawn, in the early years at least, from folksong.

When I was about 15, my singing teacher at the time introduced me to a method of writing called…

Music Education IV: The Dalcroze Method

Emile Jacques Dalcroze was a swiss music teacher in the early 20th century. He discovered that his University students had some skills lacking when it came to feeling a beat and counting.

What the…Another audio blogging site?

Everybody who is blind has been telling me about audio boo. It’s this thing on which you can record audio clips and it uploads ’em to the internet and keeps them on its servers.

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