Learning the Right Notes

President-Elect Obama had to postpone his plans, due to Chicago’s Midwest Music Education clinic.  Anyone ever gone?

It’s not every day you get a chance to tell one of the most powerful people in the world to step aside. CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole met some young musicians who managed to pull that off.
Chicagoland is Obamaland and no matter [...]

Just more proof in case you really need any that music lessons improve overall quality of life and therefore where the rubber meets the road – test scores. The thing that intrigued me about this article is how they focused on teaching free lessons to those who qualified for free lunch.  Anyone else know of [...]

Does anyone ever get a certain ‘chill’ when a performance lines up just right? I mean something beyond just the notes being right and everything being completely in tune. I believe that sometimes there is an unexplainable spiritual element to music that connects the audience and all those involved in performing. I [...]

Hey everyone,
Since this has come up a lot in questions on youtube, I wanted to make it clear that piano lesson 1.5 will be released this month.  This video will contain a lesson on scales and instruction for another simple song.  I know – not the most eye-grabbing topic, but a very important element to [...]

This is definitely something that I’ve been waiting for:

From Alesis:
High Quality Stereo Digital Recorder for iPod Features Professional Inputs
Cumberland, RI, USA – June 20, 2008. Alesis, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional audio equipment and studio electronics, is proud to introduce ProTrack, the world’s first professional handheld digital stereo recorder for iPod.
ProTrack provides convenient, direct-to-iPod [...]

YouTube viewers can vote for their favorite pianist.
Van Cliburn Foundation holds a talent search on YouTube.
By Diane Haithman
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 3, 2008
If you’re a classical music aficionado envious of the “American Idol” viewers who get to vote on their favorite contestants, your time has come.
Inspired not by “Idol” but by Popsearch 2007, an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]