You can't have jazz without thinking about the saxophone. The two have been intertwined since the advent of the genre. As such, there are no shortage of amazing saxophonists who...
Posts by Zach VanderGraaff
I always enjoy listening to Classical Music. There's so much out there; it'll take a lifetime to listen to it all! With this in mind, I decided to compile a list of the best...
As a society, we've fallen out of the habit of buying our teachers' gifts. And I know both as a teacher, parent, and husband to a teacher, how hard teachers work! If you care about...
Partner songs are a great way to get students to sing harmony without having to teach individual parts. It's one of the earliest steps in teaching harmony to any group (earlier steps being...
Building playlists or a theme around a specific idea with songs is always fun. One of the ones I'm asked about all the time is songs with "baby" in the title. I had a few jotted down, but as...
In the elementary music classroom, we tend to call all barred instruments either Orff instruments or xylophones. But this isn't strictly true. There are three main variations we...