You don’t need to be able to read music to know that some notes are long, some are short, and some are in-between. But music is a living, breathing thing, a story that’s never told in the same way twice, just like every conversation you will ever have. And this Read more…
Why singing or playing music on your own terms will always be more thrilling than trying to imitate everyone else I’m declaring 2024, here and now, as the year for colouring outside the lines, singing and playing music on your own terms, or hanging a giant T on your wall. Read more…
How a song can help shape how we look forwards and backwards Loud noises and firecrackers, the symbolic cleansing of your home just before midnight, the hanging of onions on doors, and the burning at midnight of effigies representing the bits of the past year you didn’t like? Just some Read more…
Just as Dorothy has her three companions in the Wizard of Oz, so, too, are there three main ways notes in a melody can move as it travels along its own Yellow Brick Road. To read the full post, go to: Travelling along the yellow brick road
A melody also creates a path, whether we’re singing/playing by ear (copying what you hear), ‘reading’ the notes, or simply listening. Instead of considering each note individually, think of them as being components of a path on a map moving from point A to B, and so on. To read Read more…