Choose Your Home (Key Center) Composition focus: Establish tonality. Pick one note to be home. This note should feel stable, like the music could stop there and feel complete. Example: Home note = C Play or write a short idea that starts and ends on C Example notes: C – E – G – E – C Don’t worry about rhythm yet. Just make home feel obvious.

Something I am going to try here starting today. For those that are into composition each day I am going to walk through a basic process step by step with some examples. By the end of the seven days you will have written a short original composition piece that will help build skills and confidence. So let's give it a try together......

The technical grouping for an instrument that produces sound by using air is called an "Aerophone". Saxes fall into this category. This is just something that was brought to my attention by one of my students. Thought I'd share it here. 😆

How is everyone this monday morning? How was your weekend? Each week we work toward something, whether it be the weekend, completing a task/project, or really just surviving one more week. What is it that your working on this week?

Congratulations everyone, you made it to the end of another week! Anyone get anything accomplished this week? As a reminder we will be having another community drop in to just hang out! This will be tomorrow 4/10 at 9am EST. Hope to see you there!