While tabs are a great way to get started playing music, oftentimes you’ll need sheet music to truly learn a song. This is especially true for classical music, as well as some popular music.
Learning to play a cover song is a great way to become tight as a band or to add fun to an album or live show. It breaks up the monotony, allows you to showcase your personality and tastes, and takes away the stress of having to write the perfect song.
Practicing music isn’t always easy. You oftentimes have to deal with keeping the noise level down while simultaneously keeping the passion level high, and finding the time for practice can be a challenge - although one definitely worth overcoming. This article will focus on creating the perfect music practice space by looking at two options: renting a studio and soundproofing.
Billy Norris is a 25-year-old professional musician who tours the world as the guitarist and musical director for superstar Gavin DeGraw, and we are extremely excited that Billy also offers live online guitar lessons through Lessonface. Since 2008, Billy has toured and recorded both in the U.S. and abroad as the guitarist and musical director for DeGraw, as well as S-Curve artist Andy Grammer, and Universal Republic artist Colbie Caillat.
Thomas West teaches 17 instruments on Lessonface, as well as voice, beatboxing, and theory lessons. That’s right, he teaches over 20 categories. Thomas is an experienced director of marching bands, concert bands, choral groups, and orchestras, a jazz improvisation and private instructor, as well as a marching drill writer.
In most pursuits, the better you are at something, the more you enjoy doing it. This is true no matter whether you’re in elementary school or navigating retirement. Then, because you enjoy what you’re doing, you get better at it, and this virtuous cycle continues on and on.
Raised on the smooth sounds of ‘60s rock, Brian Barnes has become a world-class teacher of just about anything that has strings on it. Barnes teaches the acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, and ukulele. He started gigging at just 15 years old in his native Kentucky, and since then has roamed the country and the globe - from coast to coast and in 15 countries around the map.
So, you’re probably either looking into studying music on Lessonface or you’ve already made the excellent decision to take lessons with a LessonFace teacher and hopefully have had several wonderful meetings so far. Here are several comments and questions I’ve heard from students (of all ages) that can stop a lesson in its tracks (yikes!) as well as some solutions to guarantee your continued success.
Desmond Spann, AKA DLux The Light, is a rapper, poet, keyboardist, and rap and lyrics teacher from Oregon. He’s the creator of Emcee Mind, a website with a great YouTube channel that offers methods and tips for improving your rap and lyrical abilities - especially through freestyle rapping.
