Curated Video
7+ IELTS Part 3 Vocabulary Advertising
Use these words and phrases to impress the examiner in Speaking Part 3. For many students, informal slang and idioms are harder to learn than academic, formal vocabulary. So-called high-level vocabulary you can find in textbooks....
All Ears English
AEE Podcast 1615: How to Give the Gift of Confidence to Someone Asking a Question in English
About All Ears English: Are you feeling stuck with your English? Many people study English but don’t actually learn it. We created a better way to learn English to help you move from stuck to fearless to fluent in English. Throw away...
Curated Video
Adding Absolute Phrases to Enhance Descriptive Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use absolute phrases to enhance their writing by focusing the reader's attention on specific images. The teacher provides examples and guides students in adding absolute phrases to...
Music Matters
Chromatic Chord Alterations - Music Composition
Improve your music writing and harmony with these three chromatic chord alteration tricks. Many composers, arrangers, and improvisers get fed up with being stuck using the same basic chords all the time. This music composition lesson...
Music Matters
Writing & Developing a Melody Line - Music Composition
How to develop a melodic idea and write more interesting music. You may have some good melodic ideas but you’re not sure how to develop them or you may be preparing for a music theory exam in which you need to extend a given opening into...
Curated Video
Developing a Topic: Using Direct Quotes in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using direct quotes from other texts to develop a topic effectively. They provide examples and guide the students through the process of paraphrasing and quoting, emphasizing the need...
Curated Video
Deep Learning with Python (Video 17)
Deep learning is currently one of the best providers of solutions regarding problems in image recognition, speech recognition, object recognition, and natural language with its increasing number of libraries that are available in Python....
Math Fortress
Algebra I: Translating Words Into Symbols (Level 1 of 2)
This video shows you how to translate mathematical phrases written in words and translating them into variable expressions. Common phrases involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are covered. In addition, the video...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Concise Communication
Learn concise communication skills training in this 5-part Professional Communication Skills course.
Religion for Breakfast
Ceremonial Deism: The Religion of the Supreme Court
In this episode we examine the topic: Ceremonial Deism: The Religion of the Supreme Court
Music Matters
Schumanns Simple Musical Structures Composer Insights
Music analysis and exploration of the simple structure of the first movement of Schumann’s kinderszenen. Having explained how the external structure works, the internal phrase structure is unpacked. We then go on to examine how the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jesse Schell - Schell Games
Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pennsylvania's largest video-game studio, Schell Games, and the former chairman of...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Amy Caroline
Discover Dobson’s poignant reflection on her grandmother, Amy Caroline. Dobson offers a lively and quirky description of Amy Caroline. She always had time for others and loved caring for the birds and flowers. But life hasn’t always been...
Music Matters
How to Compose a Melody from a Chord Scheme - Music Composition
Learn how to write a melody over a chord progression. Have you got a great set of chords that need a melody to fit with them? In this music composition lesson we learn how to compose or improvise a melody that fits with a given chord...
Odd Quartet
How Style and Instrumentation Affect Chord Progressions
Today we will look at a chord progression, but we will look at it in two different ways. First, as an 18th century piano composition. Then, as a 1950s American dance music. The trick is that we will use the same chord progression for...
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Zirkus - Namika: German Grammar Lyrical Analysis
What can Namika's song "Zirkus" teach you about German grammar? In this lesson I dissect the song lyrics to find all of the best grammar lessons. The topics explained in this video include: present tense conjugation (including...
Two Minute Music Theory
Why Eric Whitacre's Clusterchords Work
Today we're looking at the 14-part clusterchord from Water Night by Eric Whitacre, how it is constructed, and how it all works - thanks to a good preparation of voicing and voice-leading.
Curated Video
The Speech-to-Song Illusion
When you listen to the same line of speech over and over again, it can start to sound like a song. This is know as the Speech-to-Song Illusion. Learn who came up with the name for this phenomenon and why it happens.
Music Matters
The Best Chords to Follow Chord IV (in Major Keys) - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord IV what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...
Music Matters
Anticipation Notes (Non-Harmonic Tones) - Music Theory
Improve your melody writing and learn all about anticipation notes and non-harmonic tones. When melody notes fit the prevailing chord we refer to them as harmony notes. When they do not fit the chord they should belong to one of the...
Music Matters
Using Scalic Bass Lines - Inside the Mind of Bach
Bach loves to use scalic bass lines within his chorales as a solid foundation for building the harmonic structure. Often the bass lines interact with the other parts within the texture to create a conversational type of movement. Let's...
All Ears English
Common American Idiom - All Ears English Podcast Bonus: A Special Group Episode
Common American Idiom - All Ears English Podcast Bonus: A Special Group Episode
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Explores: Irish Language
Britannica editor Jeff Wallenfeldt provides an overview of the Irish language.