How to Sight-Read Music: 5 Steps to Mastering Sight-Reading. A reader recently asked: At my college, to get into the lab bands you have to be a really great sight-reader.
What are some ways to become a great reader besides just saying “read whatever you can.” I am decent at sight-reading, but I want to take it to that next level. How do I go about doing this? It goes without saying that sight-reading is an important skill to have as a musician. This is a great question, but it’s also one that often gets answered with the vague, apathetic answers that you mentioned. Sight-reading, like many other techniques that we develop as musicians, is a skill – a skill that can be learned and continually improved upon. It’s Sight-Reading Somehow, we’ve all had this idea put into our heads that sight-reading is this completely new skill that we must learn, separated from the other aspects of our musicianship. When you take an honest look at it, sight-reading is simply your ability to read music.
I. II. This Is What Playing An Instrument Does To Your Brain. iRock Jazz. Enhancing Your Music Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Press Kits for Musicians. As a musician, you wear many hats.
I would argue that one of the most important hats you wear isn’t your musicianship hat. Even though playing live is probably the most fun you will do, that’s not the most important hat you wear. It’s your marketing hat. You see, marketing your music has become such an important part of this new music business we’ve found ourselves in that anyone gigging regularly and working as a successful musician must become amazing at promoting themselves. And at the center of your marketing process is your press kit. The Musician’s Press Kit A press kit is the musician’s résumé. They might love your music later down the line, but everybody is always thinking: “What’s In It For Me?” Your Press Kit needs to answer this question. Michael League: The Rise of Snarky Puppy. “Snarky Puppy” is a pretty hard name to forget.
But it was not too long ago that the mysterious title of the Brooklyn-based band was only being thrown around amongst its fervent cult following. That all changed in December when the collective was nominated for a Grammy Award in the “Best R&B Performance” category. What to some may seem like overnight success, has been, in actuality, a long time coming. Coming together nearly a decade ago, at the acclaimed University of North Texas, Snarky Puppy was but an assemblage of young talent, each member bringing with them a cavalcade of sounds and experiences. In those early days, Snarky Puppy embodied the “struggling musician” motif, a storyline that found band quite literally demanding an audience wherever they landed.
Recently, iRock Jazz sat down with Snarky Puppy founder Michael League to discuss the bands steady journey, from basement jams to Grammy nominations and everything in between. iRJ: How did the band come together? Billy Martin & Wil Blades "Mae Mae" (7/5/12) Manchester, CT [6 Camera] Photos du journal. The PEAK Performance Project - News. Will Sessions (featuring Rickey Calloway) - Jump Back. Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead. There is something oddly reassuring about the fact that Steve Reich lives in precisely the kind of house you might expect Steve Reich to live in.
The cab journey to Pound Ridge, the tiny town on the New York-Connecticut border that the composer has called home since 2006, passes a lot of rather grand homes built in various classic styles, from colonial to arts and crafts. Reich, by contrast, lives in what appears to be one of the area's few examples of modernism. Inside, the rooms are huge and white. There is beautiful mid-20th-century furniture. It is clearly the home of someone of refined taste. On one of the walls, there is a framed score of Clapping Music, Reich's 1972 attempt to apply his phasing technique – in which two instruments playing the same part gradually shift out of unison – to music that "needed no instruments beyond the human body".
"Well, I take the Chuck Berry approach," he smiles. Reading this on mobile? Reading this on mobile? Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation [2005] Subtítulos en español. Dan Mangan performs "Rows of Houses" in Studio Q. Change. The Waldorf Hotel is being forced to close due to the unexpected sale to condo developers.
The loss of this cultural hub will greatly impact the Downtown Eastside. With the recent loss of many cultural institutions to condo and commercial development, the City of Vancouver is quickly losing the arts, culture and creative vibe that once dominated the city. With the loss of the Waldorf, The Ridge, Richard's on Richards, W2, to name a few, the city is losing its heart and soul to condo development. The site is currently zoned for mixed-use commercial, so there is a great opportunity to prevent rezoning to residential. Mayor Robertson has spoken out in support of the Waldorf, so let's tell him loud and clear that he must act to save this important cultural institution.
Scout Magazine says it best: East Vancouver’s cultural institution the Waldorf Hotel has been sold to real estate development company forcing imminent closure. The Waldorf will be vacated on Sunday, January 20, 2013. Update.