Archive for June, 2010

There is a lot of advice for music students to get the most from their music lessons in the Music Lessons blog archive here on the Molto Music site.  Today’s post adds one more tip: Always leave today’s music lesson with your next lesson scheduled. For many students, lessons are scheduled weekly at exactly the [...]

Today is the summer solstice, the first official day of summer.   It’s a good time to put your summer music goals in place. Here’s an easy way to set up your summer music goals: First, make a big list of all the music you’d like to learn this summer and all the new techniques [...]

Making sure students know the exact expectations of their music teachers is one of the top priorities at music lessons.  If a student leaves the lesson unclear on what to do at home, disaster can strike.  At best, their practicing will be unfocused and maybe even nonexistent.  The worst case scenario is they actually practice something [...]

Two more apps aimed at musicians are now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Planet Waves, a maker of accessories and software applications primarily for guitar, has released the ProTune tuner application and the ProTempo metronome application. ProTune is aimed at string musicians, with tuning modes specifically dedicated to guitar, violin/mandolin, viola/mandola, cello/mandocello, bass/mandobass, [...]

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
--Duke Snider