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New Apps Can Give Your Recordings a Professional Sound
What an age we live in! Audio recording and mixing capabilities that only a decade or two ago were limited to multi-million dollar studios are now available as mobile apps. So why does that awesome...
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PolyNome: Reinventing the Metronome, with Joe Crabtree
We were awed when we recently discovered the way-beyond-the-metronome app, PolyNome. We looked up its creator, drummer Joe Crabtree, and he filled us in on how it all came about and the mind-boggling...
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Ask anything music: Musicpreneur Hub has the answer
Tommy Darker is thinking big. He set out to invent a whole new genre of Greek fusion music with his Kenophania project. And he has been tirelessly working to help musicians take the reins of their own...
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Free Jazz Lessons, with Steve Nixon
Pianist Steve Nixon has toured the world with a who’s who of blues and jazz greats – B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Lonnie Brooks, to name a few. You would think regular gigs like that would be enough for...
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5 Best Practices for Online Song Collaboration
Collaboration among musicians is nothing new to the business. The Beatles, for one, were formed as a result of several individuals deciding to work together as a group, all the way back in the late...
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Stay In. Play On!
If you’re reading this then you’re well aware of the current situation with the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19. Like most of the community at Musical U, you may be faced with the prospect of staying...
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Jazz Improvisation and Fixed-Key Ear Training with Julian Bradley (The...
Want to get amazing ears for improvising jazz music? We recently published an experts guide to starting jazz improvisation ear training and today we’re going in-depth with one of the contributors:...
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3 Keys to Fast Ear Training Success from Scott Edwards (Ear Training HQ)
When you first start exploring the world of musical ear training, it’s easy to get lost in all the different approaches and conflicting advice out there. From the classical “aural skills” tests (e.g....
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Ear Training Site Profile: DLP Music Program
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… We’ve covered the Dallas School of Music‘s innovative “Discover, Learn and Play” online training program here on the site before, including a...
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How to Learn Intervals
All great musicians rely on their sense of what’s called “relative pitch” to play and understand music. “Relative pitch” is the ability to accurately hear the distances between notes. The core skill of...
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