December is the month for the arpeggio challenge in my piano studio. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so canva comes in handy to compensate for my lack of artistic skills!
I love to create visuals to post on my bulleting board to make the learning more memorable and pique the interest of students as they come each week.
A few years ago, I discovered Marshall McDonald's Simply Sacred Arrangements of hymns from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which you can hear samples of in my previous post.
Thanksgiving is not here yet, but I've already pulled out his Simply Sacred Christmas book this season. It has some of my favorite arrangements that calm my soul and a few that energize me, too.
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
What do you do when you see something "sus" in your music????
I'm not talking about a spider crawling across the page or suspicious coloring scribbles from your little brother!
SUS is an abbreviation often written in lead sheet chords and refers to suspended chords.
If you are "suspended" from school you are temporarily removed. In Sus chords, often the 3rd of the chord is temporarily removed and replaced with the note a 2nd or 4th above the root instead of the normal 3rd.
Cadences are like the punctuation marks in music. Pairing chords in a certain order can create a feeling of tension, questioning, surprise or peaceful resolution.
Watch this Short-ish Explanation of Cadences to learn more.
Click Teoria.com Cadences to listen to the samples of different types of cadences.
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