In Music Theory Basics (Part 1), we discussed the musical staff, clefs, and note names. Today, we will cover the basics of rhythm and note duration. There are lots of charts in this one! The term rhythm has come to mean several different things in today’s culture, but for our purposes, we will use the …
Tag Archive: holiday music
Nov 14
Holiday traditions: roasting (and listening to) lovely chestnuts
I’m going to jump on the holiday bandwagon here and encourage everyone to not only have your own holiday family concerts, as Heather wrote about last week, but to also go out and take advantage of the seasonal offerings in your community. Concerts, holiday celebrations, bazaars, charity events, food drives – they all tend to …
Nov 08
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Some might say that it’s too early to be thinking about Christmas, but this is the best time for everyone to dig out all of the Christmas music and get prepared for this year’s festivities! Make it a family activity and “wow” everyone at the family, work, or neighborhood gathering! Everyone in my family plays …