We have hit the 100 video mark in our instructional video area. We have recently added a new category called ‘masterclasses’ where you can watch videos of the finest teachers and master students and gain some insight. This is especially useful to all professional musicians. For beginners, we now offer 10 different [...]

This week I have been teaching a beginner guitar camp and had a bit of a revelation when teaching chords. Since it is difficult to teach to switch positions quickly when you are first starting out with chords, have one half of the your class be the ‘E chords’ and the other half be [...]

Footprints by Wayne Shorter is a great jazz standard by a great jazz musician. Tonight, enjoy this live performance of the Miles Davis Quintet effortlessly improvising on this tune. If you want to know more about Wayne Shorter, check out the book: Footprints.Enjoy!

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve redesigned ilearnmusic.com to look a little more sleek and web 2.0ish. Hope you like it. We’ve also added a section in the member area called ilearnmusic LIVE! where students can arrange live private lessons with teachers all across the globe. So far, we only offer trumpet and [...]

A fantastic video found on YouTube of Aaron Copland’s music and an interview dated July 1980. Wonderful for your classroom! Enjoy.

Here’s a useful website for yourself, or for your music classroom. Radiotime.com allows you to listen to radio stations nationwide free over the internet - so you can find any style of music at anytime and also many times talk radio shows being replayed at different times. Hear NPR from Boston, while you [...]

My friend Mark was bored - so he made this somewhat pointless Youtube video with some cool original music - Enjoy!

Having trouble getting your administrator or school board to understand the value of music. For this Friday, here are some great quotes by important people about the value of music education:
Music Advocacy’s Top Ten Quotes
1. “During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it brought [...]

Every Sunday, I’m going to try and put a link to some inspirational jazz. Here is young jazz prodigy Eldar Djangirov with his trio playing live in Amsterdam. I’m so on cloud 9 right now as the Red Sox swept the Yankees and this jazz is just sweet. Click here to buy his [...]