Curated Video
How Playing Music Helps Anxiety and Changes Your Brain
Playing a musical instrument is one of the best things you can do to exercise your mind and improve your overall mental state. Playing an instrument is very different from listening to music. Listening to pleasant music is great, but...
All Ears English
2002 - It's Just Par for the Course! How to Show What's Typical in English
If you live in New York City, walking everywhere is just par for the course! How can you say what is typical or expected in different life situations in English? Learn all of this and more today.
Brian McLogan
Simplify the logarithms with different bases
In this video we will discuss how to simplify logarithms when we have different bases. We can't apply logarithmic properties unless we get the base to be the same first. ⭐️ Evaluate using multiple logarithmic properties - • Evaluate...
Curated Video
Combining Sentences
Join us today as we learn how to combine simple sentences into longer, complex sentences. In this video, we review how to use dependent clauses, conjunctions, and appositives to help piece together short sentences into a looonngg, smooth...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is A Melody?
This video is answering the question of what is a melody.
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is A Harmony?
This video is answering the question of what is a harmony.
Music Matters
What to Do With the Rule of the Octave - Music Composition
This music composition lesson follows on from an earlier video about the rule of the octave and you may well want to watch our other video first. In this lesson we examine the linear implications for part writing using the chord scheme...
Music Matters
Interpreting Schubert's Impromptu in A-flat Major D.935 for Piano - Piano Interpretation
Understanding and interpreting your piano music allows you to bring your own unique flair and personality to a piece. Here we explore the famous Ab Impromptu by Schubert, considering the key elements of interpretation. An overview is...
Music Matters
What Can You Write Before an Diminished 7th Chord - Music Composition
Which are the most common approach chords? Learn how to form a diminished 7th chord, how to key reference a diminished 7th, and how to locate inversions of diminished 7ths. This music composition lesson then explores the most commonly...
Music Matters
Using Too Many Non-Chord Tones - Music Composition
This music composition lesson explores the embellishment of music with non-chord tones/ inessential notes, including a reminder of what are the most common inessential notes. We then consider the implication of using too many non-chord...
Music Matters
Interpreting Debussy's Arabesque No.1 for Piano - Piano Interpretation
Understanding and interpreting your piano music allows you to bring your own unique flair and personality to a piece. Here we investigate this famous Arabesque written by Debussy during his early career and explore the hints of the...
Music Matters
Canon by Diminution - Writing Canon
Learn how to write a canon by diminution. In a canon by diminution one part begins then the second part follows on several beats or bars behind using the same pitch as the first part but presented in notes of half the value. This lesson...
Music Matters
Writing Two-Part Canon - Writing Canon
Learn how to go about composing a strict canon at the unison or the octave in two parts. This lesson explains the most useful technique for constructing a strict canon bar by bar, in such a way that the melodic line has shape and...
Music Matters
Writing a Canon by Augmentation - Writing Canon
Learn how to write a canon by augmentation. In a canon by augmentation one part begins then the second part follows on several beats or bars behind using the same pitch as the first part but presented in notes of twice the value. This...
Music Matters
What Can You Write After an Augmented 6th Chord? - Music Composition
This music composition lesson begins with a reminder of how to form an augmented 6th chord with its three variants, the Italian French and German 6ths. The video goes on to explain which are the most common resolution chords, considering...
Music Matters
Two-Part Canon by Inversion - Writing Canon
Learn how to go about composing a strict canon by inversion. This lesson explains the most useful technique for constructing a strict canon by inversion bar by bar, in such a way that the melodic line has shape and direction, while...
Music Matters
Two-Part Canon at the 5th - Writing Canon
Learn how to go about composing a strict canon at the 5th in two parts. This lesson explains the most useful technique for constructing a strict canon bar by bar, in such a way that the melodic line has shape and direction, while...
Music Matters
How to Harmonize Repeated Notes in Both the Top and Bottom Parts - Music Composition
This music composition lesson presents four bars of repeated notes at the top and bottom of the texture. He then explains how to harmonise all the repeated notes, generating an engaging range of harmonic colour and well structured...
Music Matters
Can You Hear Four-Part Harmony and Write It Down? - Ear Training
Have you ever had the frustrating experience of hearing a musical idea you want to work with as a player or as a composer but have struggled with being able to write it down? This lesson is an exercise in hearing a passage of four part...
Music Matters
Can You Hear a Melody and Write It Down? - Ear Training
Have you ever had the frustrating experience of hearing a musical idea you want to work with as a player or as a composer but have struggled with being able to write it down? This lesson is an exercise in hearing a melodic line and being...
Music Matters
How to Harmonize a Fast Moving Melody - Music Composition
Discover how to harmonise a fast moving melody with chords. The temptation is to harmonise every note, resulting in a harmonic rhythm that moves too quickly. We explore how to determine which notes are harmony notes / chord tones and...
Music Matters
Harmonic Sequences - Music Composition
How to write simple harmonic sequences over a bass line that is derived from the pattern of the circle of 5ths. By alternating intervals of the 4th and the 5th in the bass a descending bass line is created above which a systematic chord...
Odd Quartet
How to Import MIDI to MuseScore
MIDI can be a powerful tool that you can use to import music into your music notation software like MuseScore. First we will make a MIDI file in a DAW, then import it into MuseScore. We will also look at importing a larger piece of music...