Percussion Fun! Everybody loves to make some noise.  One year, just to see what would happen, I put a conga in the hallway leading to the classrooms.  I wanted to see if anyone could walk [...]

Stringed Instruments You May Not Know One of the things we like to impress upon our students, is that once you have learned to play one instrument in a family, such as the strings, you [...]

Instruments that are Played in Unusual Ways Part of teaching our students about music is to introduce them to a wide variety of instruments, no matter what they are studying.  We do, of course, cover [...]

Reed Instruments When we think about reed instruments, we usually consider the most common ones … the sax, the clarinet, the oboe, all of which use cane reeds.  But there are some, more unusual, instruments [...]

In this final installment of setting up your own home studio, we want to give you a quick overview of what you need, and what you should look for when choosing your gear.  There’s a [...]

Whether you want to set up your own home studio, or you just want to dampen the sound from the practice room, sound absorption panels are a must. When we first built the school, sound [...]