There are some great tips in this book that all music teachers can use. I took extensive notes as I read it and want to share some of them with you here. Smash Gender Stereotypes. Some people erroneously think certain instruments or professions  are better suited to certain genders. We can help teach students that…

This is really cool. Ms. Marvel playing the violin. I think I’m in love. She also can play the Doctor Who theme. It’s really cool to see how creative people can be on YouTube. The split screen allows her to basically play a duet with herself. It’s a great sound and maybe it can inspire…

Chasing Content is a feature on Silent Cacophony that has us looking back at the best posts of the month that was. Today, we travel back to 2008 to see what was happening here on the blog five years ago. You can read all of the posts from January 2008 . . .  or just…

I was better off when I thought this was merely fiction. It’s hard to imagine that poverty exists to this extent. The timing of this is also something because just today I blogged about that book and then I come across this video. Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill.…

“The music business was built around five pillars: Free radio promotion  A limited number of competing music labels The high cost of production, requiring musicians to get financing from labels The Top 40 hits-based focus of the baby boomer generation A high margin, nonreproducible medium (the LP) One by one, each of these five pillars…

I never seen a snowman do a handstand, or a police car smile at me. Hey, that’s snow door. I mean, that’s no door. Sorry about this post. It’s no art . . . or is it Snow Art? All images courtesy of Tumblr.

I think the moment you realize that something isn’t working for you, that’s when you should resolve to change it. You shouldn’t wait till New Year’s Eve. Last year, I decided to make a few goals instead of resolutions. I made the mistake of only writing them down on the blog and letting them get buried…

At the very start of this year, I decided to set a few goals for myself. Now that it is the final day of the year, it’s time to look back and see how I have done. GOAL 1 – Release Know Your History Episodes on Time I released the episodes to the radio and…

I started this tradition three years ago with the Top 9 albums of ’09 and continued it the following years with the Top 10 Albums of 2010 and the Top 11 of 2011. One thing I like about these year-end lists is that I often discover music I missed out on all year long. I often…

Chasing Content is a monthly feature that has us looking back at the month that was. Today, let’s travel back five years, and see what was happening right here on this blog at that time. Read all of the posts from December 2007 . . .  or just these favs . . . Rap Music…