Tweet I have 5 spots available for saxophone students who would like to study via Skype. I specialize in helping students who want to: Produce a beautiful, professional saxophone tone Get more out of their practice time Develop greater facility Clean up their technique Learn music theory and apply it to the saxophone Transcribe [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in News, Technology
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Also tagged classical, Eddie Rich, instruction, internet, jazz, lessons, online, Pop, Saxophone, Skype, student, study, teacher
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TweetI love reading books about music! It’s so nice to have that access to someone else’s perspective and insights. Here are a couple that really influenced how I think about music and how I work at music. 1. The Talent Code – Author Daniel Coyle has spent most of his career writing about sports. There [...]
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Tweet The beginning of a new year is always a time of reflection and renewal. Many people are making resolutions and striving to create habits or break old ones. Just like everyone else, I’ve been thinking about what I want to accomplish this year and how to go about it. With that in [...]
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Tweet In my last post about Seventh String’s free online metronome, I mentioned that they also make the great Transcribe! software. You can use it to open music files and manipulate them in different ways. You can highlight areas, as in the picture above, and loop them, slow them down, speed them up, adjust the [...]
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Tweet While having a conversation with a fellow musician the other day, the topic of practicing flute came up. I have recently increased the time I spend working on my flute playing and when I mentioned this, my colleague asked what I was [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in practicing, Technique, tools
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Also tagged Band, Improvement, Maintenance, Orchestra, Practice, Recreation, Saxophone, Talent Code, Uninformed Influence
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Tweet It’s been a few weeks since I posted my 1st ear training exercise and a variation on it. I’ve been working on them and have been making some improvements. I’ve just began working on a new exercise. It uses the same tools as the 1st exercise, flash cards and a piano/keyboard, but is a [...]
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Tweet It’s always good to try different approaches on an exercise when possible. It allows you to discover connections/associations you may not have been known about, or it can help you to solidify your understanding of concepts you kind of know, but you’d have to think about to apply. The development of skill in music [...]
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Tweet I just watched an interesting show on PBS called The Artists’ Table. It featured cooking and conversation with Jacques Pépin and Ithzak Perlman. I really love to cook and it was great to see two masters sit down and talk about their respective crafts. There are a lot of parallels that can be drawn [...]
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