Yes. We believe that we have THE most effective method for reading music in the world! Most people find reading music a mystery: we make it as easy as ABC. We teach you how to read REAL music that is ubiquitous and all around us. We want to provide our students with the necessary skills to be able read normal music, so that our students can access the massive array of published music from Beethoven to the Beatles and beyond.

Seriously, I just do animals. If you are interested in a bit of explanation on this, read the FAQ above regarding Telephathy and what are Psychics, etc. Oh - "Fletch" is the title character of one of my all-time favorites comedies, stars Chevy Chase.)

The instruction you will receive at the Scratch DJ Academy is not genre specific. We teach the fundamentals that apply to every genre. Our students spin all types of music, from hip hop to house to rock.

Yes, we do. We encourage all our student to learn basic music fundamentals like music reading and theory.

an Islamically faith-based school we carefully check all subjects by the guidelines of the Qur'an and Sunnah. It is for this reason that we do not promote learning through music. Do your children draw pictures of living animals? We endeavour to avoid this. Where it is unavoidable we try to use 'stick-images' or delete facial features on images.

this time, your music and/or music videos can be bought in the stores and services TuneCore delivered your music to. However, your music/videos cannot be bought at TuneCore itself, nor does TuneCore sell or distribute physical copies of your music. Back to top

You betcha! All musicians should be able to read standard musical notation for their instruments. This is not to say that you must become a super sight-reader, just be able to tell what's happening on the page. Lord knows, I'm certainly not a session-caliber sight reader -- anything fancier than a dotted-eighth-and-sixteenth note figure makes my eyes go all blurry -- but that's enough for me to do most of what I need to do.

No, not at all, and you do not have to learn that skill to play Strumstick. We provide a number notation that is very simple to use. About reading music: people played lots of music before anyone invented a way to write it down. Written music is a great invention, and has made it possible for very complex music to be created and communicated. It is not a necessary skill for learning to play folk music, and pop music, and rock and roll. Very handy for jazz, standards, and classical though.

The number of subscribers who receive ZENIT services by e-mail has grown from 4,000 in December 1997 to 450,000 at the end of 2006. Considering the varied profiles of these media organizations, it is impossible to know just how many people receive information from ZENIT.

Blindness and visual impairment most often occur later in life when diminished tactile sensitivity makes learning braille difficult. For persons who have been unable to read print from an early age, however, braille is a very important key to literacy. Among this population, the use of braille is very common.

I read a lot of literature for my job which doesn't interest me too much. It is appropriate material for students in adolescence, but as adults we should strive for more and challenge ourselves - really push the envelope. I don't dislike what my students read. But I would not be reading it on my own. Still, I bet it is better than a lot of the cheap thrillers and romances what I see in the aisles at the supermarket.

It's easier to learn language skills at a higher level earlier in life than it is later in life. Babies and toddlers learn to understand language and speak naturally simply by listening to language. When babies hear a second language, they learn to understand and speak the language naturally without an effort if they hear the language frequently enough. If babies are allowed to see the language, they can also learn written language just as naturally.

All styles. You tell me what music you like, and that's what we'll learn! Once the basics have been covered, I encourage and support all styles of music and every lesson is tailored to you personally. My own tastes are many and varied, so I'm sure we'll be playing music we both enjoy!

A I can teach classical or modern, whichever is preferred. The most important thing is to play what you enjoy and so the choice is yours.

I don't know an easy answer to this one, mainly because music theory is, frankly, really difficult - hard to understand, hard to learn and hard to explain! I am seriously considering trying to write an eBook on it myself. The most common theory texts in the UK are The AB Guide to Music Theory Vol.1 and Vol.2 by Eric Taylor, published by the Associated Board. They are thorough but by no means easy to read and learn.

Yes. You can take Popular Music Performance in up to three years, depending on your progress. Instruments offered include electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, keyboard and pop vocals. If you do not have Grade 8 on this, you will need to be auditioned.

Yes. Year 3 students have an option in 'Scoring for Film' available to them. Composition and/or Computer Composition can also be taken through the three years; while these are not specifically aimed at creating music for screen, they would equip any budding film composer with high level skills in both acoustic and computer-based compositional methods. Year 2 students can opt for 'Music and the Moving Image', which focuses on film scores and allows scoring options as part of its assessment.

Our teachers come from a wide variety of different musical backgrounds. If you are an intermediate-advanced student that desires to learn a specific style, please let us know. We can direct you to the teacher best suited to your stylistic preferences. All teachers are qualified to teach a well rounded curriculum of basic music to beginners.

Yes we do. In fact, you will learn more about HOW music is put together than almost any other school you would attend. We love to show our students the logical and common sense nature of music through our program.

Yes. Each time you submit a song you can add information about it that will help users find your music. The more information you provide, the better your music can be searched.

In Saskatchewan school, the arts are taught by both generalist classroom teachers and by specialists. The curriculum, then, must be of use for both. The curriculum has been written to give classroom teachers information to assist in teaching music in the classroom. The specialist may wish to develop the music program directly from the foundational objectives while the classroom teacher may wish to refer more closely to the suggested activities outlined in the guide.

It takes some practice to become a good reader of Braille, just as it does with print. We learn Braille by feeling the different dots in each Braille "cell" and memorizing what the different combinations of dots stand for. It is best to learn Braille when you are young, even if you can still read some print. That way, you have had many years of practice and experience to develop good Braille skills by the time you are an adult.

No. It is rude and unethical in my opinion. When I am somewhere in public I ask only to be alerted to information directly relevant to me. I also believe that when you read someone without his or her permission you are reading through a dense filter...your own ego, and it impacts the quality of the information.

First, let's consider how people learn to speak, read, and write their native language. By the time a person begins to learn to read, they've usually amassed a vocabulary of thousands of words, mastered the structure of their language (syntax, grammar, case, tense, etc.), and spent several years interpreting the utterances of other people and improvising utterances of their own.

No...but it sure saves time and money. Music is a language. Learning a language by rote can be done, but is repetitive, boring, without depth, and slow. We can explain the basics of reading music in the first two lessons. It's really not that hard.

All Childbloom educators must be literate musicians. Familiarity with both the art music and pop music traditions of the guitar is valuable, also.