Ready for a little Christmas challenge?If you, or someone you know, dreams of getting started with playing and instrument, then here is an ideal Christmas challenge for you. 🎄 Learn to play an entire song over the Christmas Holidays! Even if you have never picked up an instrument before, we bet that you can learn …
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We have some exciting news for you! We have recently partnered up with the dedicated team at The Online Recording Studio “We are delighted to be working with Joe and the team at the Online Recording Studio. For us, the opportunity to share our passion for world class music education with a diverse and international audience is really …
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As humans, we navigate our lives with a mixture of strategies and ideals. We adapt, plan, dream, imagine, re-imagine, react, drift and happen upon events which thereafter we can turn into some semblance of narrative. The Hollywood biopic “turning point”, the Sliding Doors, tangible “moment”, where everything changes, these are rare indeed. Perhaps when we …
Dealing with mental health struggles is a prevailing and much discussed issue. Songwriter SK Shlomo opens up about his story and shares a story how music creation eased his anxiety.
Not everyone wants to go to a large festival like Glastonbury or Reading. Presented in this article are five excellent niche U.K. music festivals, and a look at three exciting artists playing at each. The festivals are sorted by date, and the first one features artists who you are unlikely to see at any other …
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The line-ups for the various summer festivals are pretty much complete, and so we take you on a quick trip through five of the biggest music festivals to grace the UK this summer. The festivals in this article are sorted by date, and the first one is for everyone who likes their music loud, heavy …
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The evolution of the species is essentially based in survival. Can music contribute to survival? And if not, how has it become such a meaningful part of our daily lives? By Amanda Valbøll Jensen (Translated by John O’Sullivan) Welcome to yet another article about the origins of music and it’s importance. Further reading: The Origin of Music: We Play Music Because We …
How can it be that we are able to hear something and instantly recognize and categorize it as “music”? This is because music is a product of our culture and biology on equal footing with language. By Amanda Valbøll Jensen (Translated from Danish by John O’Sullivan) Everything around us produces sound: The car driving down …
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Not everyone enjoys music in the same way: according to neurologist Kjeld Fredens, your brain will react differently depending on whether you’re a casual listener or a trained musician. Picture this – you turn on the radio, tune in to a station you like and hear a tune you love. Meanwhile, your friend beside you …
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