Musical symbols are tricky, and they take some time to learn.  As a music teacher, a friend to many band directors, and a spouse to one, I know one of the hardest symbols for people when they...

Little music signs always throw people off.  There are so many out there; it's tough to know what every single one means.  One day, I was playing in a band when the musician next to...

I love music, and I'm weird in that I love sight-reading, but I know there are a lot of terms out there most people won't recognize right off the bat.  One of these is "a tempo." If you're in...

Learning piano is a dream most people want to realize. It's one of the top New Year's resolutions every year, and as a musician, not learning an instrument is one of the regrets I hear the most...

One of the most shocking things about the sax to the average person is all the types in its family.  Most people only know the sax by its last name, the saxophone.  In reality, there...

One of my favorite resources to use as songs for my classroom is camp songs, and when a camp song and an echo song come together, I'm all for it!  The Other Day I Met A Bear is one of my...