Blog: Catalysts & Connections

Did you know that MENC  has been creating and archiving podcasts called “Notes from the Clef”? Several webinars  are also planned to start in 2007. Why not check them out and let people know what you think?

Track 1 – Have any of your students asked you to be more like Sunny Bridges ? Read reviews of Class of 3000 created by Andre 3000 of Outkast starring him as a music teacher. Track 2 – Here’s a great collection of blogs that contain opera mp3s. Track 3 – This online program tests your ability to hear and recall musical phrases to determine if they are the same or different. It might be interesting to have students record… Read More »A Music Education Mixtape V5

While music sites on Myspace have become ubiquitous there are many other interesting models for musicians who want a web presence and a way to distribute their music without dealing with large labels. Besides being a phenomenal trumpet player, Dave Douglas brings a visionary outlook of distributing live performances via his label greenleaf music. Douglas is performing for several days at the Jazz Standard in New York City and releasing each live set almost immediately in mp3 format for a… Read More »Live performances in digital format

How long will it be before we refer to instruments, not as electric, but as digital? The Gibson digital guitar maybe the start of the trend. The fact that the guitar is digital is interesting, but the possibilities that exist due to its design are more so. If students were to begin using digital guitars in the music classroom how would we shift our teaching to take full advantage of the digital design? Joe Abramo recently posed some interesting questions… Read More »Evolutions in electronic instruments: the Digital Guitar