Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! 1) 3 Ways to Reduce Online Noise and Get More Done – a [...]
Imagine walking thru the hallways of a hotel conference center and around every corner is live jazz. Imagine people of all walks of life – students to the jazz greats and everything in between milling the halls, chatting with one another, smiling. Imagine having your choice of clinics to attend – technology, promotion, practicing, etc. [...]
Copyright © 2011 maxplanation.com From Monica Shriver, aka saxymoni, the founder and director of Doublers Collective Doublers Collective is trying to raise some money. Wanna know why? This whole fundraising idea may seem a little out of the ordinary to a lot of people. Truthfully it’s all new to me too. I [...]
Inspired by this post from my fellow doubler Bret Pimentel What instruments do you play in your profession, and in what capacity do you play them? I play piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor and bari saxophone professionally in jazz combos, big bands, rock bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras, as a soloist, and in [...]
I love to read. I’ve always got at least 2 books going at the same time and I follow a number of blogs and magazines. Probably too many in fact. But I just find it all so interesting! On a recent trip to Nashville, I brought this book along to read. (I have an [...]
Last week I did an interview for a podcast called Train Wreck in Progress. TWiP for short. Website: http://twippodcast.com Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Train-Wreck-in-Progress-Podcast/187180824630198 It was the first time I’d ever done an interview like that. Honestly, I was a little nervous at first – wondering “what if” and panicking about forgetting someone’s name [...]
About 2 years ago, a friend of mine recommended that I read Derek Siver’s e-book to get some ideas on how to promote and connect with an audience. The e-book sent me down a new path in my professional life. Not only did I get a lot out of that e-book, but I signed up [...]
One of my favorite time killers when I worked in the music library in college (aside from intensely studying and rubber band wars) was to play games online. This was before the age of smart phones and Angry Birds. Text Twist was one of my favorites. I love word games and I’m especially adept at [...]
I recently went to jam session for the first time in over a year. In an effort to face my own fears, I’m going to share them with you… in detail. The jam session was on a Sunday afternoon. I think I stressed thru most of Friday and Saturday, trying to find a tune [...]
Subtitled: How I Finally Learned, Really Learned, My Diminished Scales. Diminished scales were always that elusive sound that I wanted to try to understand but could never get my head around. Actually that was my problem. I could think my way through it, but I really didn’t have it under my fingers. My brain kept [...]
First a little background: I have a little bit of of a RPG background (Role Playing Game) thanks to various ex-boyfriends and over the years I have collected some of my own dice. During my second year of classroom teaching, I was giving a test on major scales. Because the students were supposed to know [...]
Tetrachords – the little pieces to a rather large puzzle A couple of years ago, a colleague told me that she teaches major scales to young students using tetrachords. This approach was eye opening for me and prompted me to try teaching this method to my 2nd level class for a couple of years. [...]
I’ve never really considered myself a techie but somehow in the last year or so I became not only that person that colleagues come to for computer advice, but someone who has created and maintains 3 websites, 3 Twitter accounts, spends more time on her iPad that the computer (and not just playing games), and [...]
All music is played by ear. This statement is very profound to me. For many years I let myself believe that I had “bad ears” and there was nothing I could do about it. From an early age I was able to “think” fast enough to get by, making good choices often enough that [...]
It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by. I know that everyone talks about forgetting about the past and moving on to the New Year, but for me 2010 was quite a year. Unfortunately, I have done a terrible job of documenting it on this blog. I know this this and I am [...]
