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Top 10 Blog Posts on Steve’s Music Room for 2020

2020, of course, will be the year we all talk about as the year everything changed. This list of the 10 most popular blog posts on...

Winter and Christmas Concert Songs that Don’t Make Me Want to Rip My Ears Off!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas and I have enjoyed doing Christmas and winter concerts with my learners… once I moved away from...

13 Things You were Led to Believe are True in Music School that are Actually False

Bach is the epitome of composing. His methods are the only way. Sure, he’s good, but there lots of other ways to sound good, and his was...

Should we Learn by Ear Instead? Ear Training vs. Learning by Ear

(A portion of this blog post was approved for publication in Technology for Unleashing Creativity published by Oxford University Press,...

7 Cool Things You May Not Know about Song Maker

A version of this blog post has been republished in the book, Technology for Unleashing Creativity, from Oxford University Press (2022)....

The Flute is Not a Woodwind Instrument: Re-imagining and Challenging the Western Instrument Families

Ever wonder why flute is still a woodwind after all these years of, you know, not being made out of wood? And have you ever thought about...