Lessonface turns three years old in February 2016. With our birthday on the horizon and the brand new year dawning, I hope you will join us in celebrating the amazing community of music learning that has come together at Lessonface.com. I went through our stats yesterday, and wanted to share some of the more interesting ones.
1. Set your metronome to 50, cancel the accented beat and count the beats as 2 and 4. Play Ex A+B and make sure you stay on time and the beats are well defined and clean. Subdivide the bars on Ex A for 1+2+3+4+ (1/8 notes) and Ex B 1e+a 2e+a 3e+a 4e+a (1/16 notes)
2. Set your metronome to 50, cancel the accented beat and count the beats as 2. Play Ex A+B and make sure you stay on time and the beats are well defined and clean. Subdivide the bars on Ex A for 1+2+3+4+ (1/8 notes) and Ex B 1e+a 2e+a 3e+a 4e+a (1/16 notes)
Artist development coach Nikiya Exantus demonstrates exercises for learning to sing with power and strength without tiring out or straining your voice in this eight minute video.
Filmed at Moon Lab Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Are there any tricks to learn a song super-fast? What should I do to master complicated and fast solos? What steps can I follow to be able to play anything I want? Those are very common question that I get from students. Today we are going to talk about some tactics to better pick and learn songs on the guitar.
'Tis the season of new guitars! Thousands of children are about to wake up Christmas morning to a guitar-shaped box under the tree. Whether your child has been begging for the guitar for months or is about to be surprised, you are probably hoping that this first guitar will help fuel a life-long love of music and that he or she will reap the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of playing an instrument.
Here are some tips on how to keep that Christmas guitar in your child's hands for years to come.
'Tis the season of new guitars! Thousands of children are about to wake up Christmas morning to a guitar-shaped box under the tree. Whether your child has been begging for the guitar for months or is about to be surprised, you are probably hoping that this first guitar will help fuel a life-long love of music and that he or she will reap the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of playing an instrument.
Here are some tips on how to keep that Christmas guitar in your child's hands for years to come.
This week we have been in the studio shooting some new videos covering vocal exercises, piano dexterity and strength development, bass rhythm, and audition prep for music schools with the phenomenal teachers Nikiya Exantus (pictured above) and Yonit Spiegelman.
The videos will be released over the next two months. So if you have not already joined the party over at our Youtube channel you should subscribe now.
Nowadays there are many tools and gadgets related with guitar and if we add an unprepared shopper with a skilled sales person the final bill can easily reach the one thousand dollar mark during the first trip to the store.
I always tell students that before spending a lot of cash on guitars and amplifiers, first you should experience playing and studying guitar a bit. All of our favorite players make it look so easy that sometimes we get the illusion that we will play like them right away, especially if we buy that same Gibson gold top 1957 for ten thousand dollars.
