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...
Kids Learning Videos
Learn the Farm Animal Sounds for Kids
Learn the Sounds of the Animals for Kids and Toddlers. This video shows a large number of different animals and teaches you the sounds that the animals make. There is even a fun game to play where you guess which animal is making the...
Weird History
The Dark History of 'Wonderbread'
Let's dive into the History of Wonder Bread. Until the mid-19th century, your average loaf of bread was grainy, heavy, and dark. With innovations like mechanical slicers and refined flour, however, bread became white, fluffy, and shaped...
Music Matters
The Best Chords to Follow Chord V (in Major Keys) - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord V what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
David Weinstein - When Banks Fail, the Case of Japan
What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question. While in the US you will find data on banks and data on firms separately, in Japan there's data that...
Science360
Listener fatigue prompts research and in-ear headphone redesign
A novel device with rock 'n' roll roots may protect listeners from potential dangers of personal listening devices and hearing aids. Engineers investigating "listener fatigue"--the discomfort and pain some people experience while using...
Oxford Online English
English Contractions - Improve Your Pronunciation of Contractions in English
English contractions are important for listening, as well as for your fluency in spoken English. Learn about English contractions and how to pronounce them. Do you use contractions like 'isn’t', 'I’m' or 'he’d'? Many English learners...
Curated Video
Using Plural Nouns to Make Writing Precise
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use plural nouns to show more than one person, place, or thing. The students are guided through examples and given practice exercises to make their writing more precise by adding an S to...
Music Matters
What are Messiaens Modes of Limited Transposition: Music Theory
Learn about the 7 modes of limited transposition used by Olivier Messiaen in his music. The difference between these and more common modes is explained, along with an explanation of how each mode has a particular number of possible...
Bill Carmody
The Onion's CCO on the Growth of Content Marketing
In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Rick Hammond, the Chief Creative Officer of the Onion, about the changing landscape of the advertising industry. They discuss the shift from traditional interruption advertising to more engaging and...
Music Matters
False Relation - Music Theory
Learn all about false relation and the two ways in which it commonly occurs. A false relation comes about when there are two notes of the same letter but with differing accidentals that either occur simultaneously or between one chord...
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
Using 6-4 5-3 Chord Progressions - Music Composition
Teaching you the best ways to deal with second inversion chords. The second inversion chord is explained along with its unstable characteristics and the video goes on to illustrate the most convincing musical contexts for using the chord...
Rock 'N Learn
Animals - Animals and thier Behaviours Part 2
Here is the fun and easy way to learn to read with Rock 'N Learn English. Enjoy learning with fun, catchy, engaging songs based on the English language.
Music Matters
Romantic Waltz Style - Composing for the Piano
In this episode of composing for the piano we take the Music Matters theme and present it as a Waltz in Romantic style. The Music Matters theme was originally written in 4 time. By converting it into 3 time with some rhythmic...
Music Matters
Orchestration & Writing for Woodwind - The Oboe
A look at how to write for the oboe in detail. During this orchestration video you will discover the range of the Oboe, the clef it uses, how it functions as a double reed non-transposing instrument, and how to write for it in such a way...
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...
Kids Learning Videos
Animal Sounds Songs for Children
Animal Sounds Songs - Collection of the Best Animal Sounds Songs. Let's go to the farm and let's go to the Zoo. We can figure out which animals are there by listening to the sounds the animals make. Children and kids will love to watch...
Kids Learning Videos
Learning Animals for Children - Animal Sounds | Kids Learning Videos
Learning Animals - A video for Kids and Children. Toddlers and kids can learn animal sounds by watching this video of different animals and listening to their sounds. While watching the animal video, kids can make the animal noises along...
Oxford Comma
Poetic Devices Explained: ALLITERATION (Definitions, Examples, and How to Use Them).
The second video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at repetition at the start of words: alliteration. By using examples from famous poets as well as the breakfast aisle, we'll look at how to identify and use...
Fun Robotics
Teachable Machine
Explore different types of Machine Learning and experiment with Teachable Machine
Music Matters
How to Improve your Piano Accompaniments - Music Performance
How to improve your piano accompaniments. This music performance lesson explores how to bring piano accompaniments to life when you simply have a set of chords to read. When piano and other keyboard players read a melody from a lead...