Math Artistry = My Class

Why Math Artistry? Because:While solving mathematical (left brain) problems, students are also illustrating ideas and illustrating strategies (right brain) . Hence their whole brain is involved. Here are some examples:

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS

Redraw a face of your own on this design using your own colors. Transfer the image to the graph paper […]

WHY Learn Music? Why play an instrument?

Why? For one thing, because it’s really good for your brain.

The Brain: Wonderful and important parts of your brain turn on when you learn to play an instrument, so you can better absorb material and retain information. It is not unlike learning a new language.

More good news: Playing music is an […]

What Happened? 

Musicians Share Their Musical Beginnings: Part One

Think about spending most or all of your life playing, practicing and performing music. What is it that makes musicians do this? How does it all begin? Here are some of their stories:

Guitarist and guitar teacher, Neal Grandstaff says it all started with an uncontrollable connection to […]

The Guitar Players  in Ancient Greece 

It was the lyre, harp or the kithara that guitarists would be playing! These string instruments were widely used in ancient Greece. They were played by all the professional musicians. The lyre and kithara were portable harp-like instruments played primarily to accompany dances and epic recitations, rhapsodies, odes, and lyric songs. It was also played […]

An Argument for the Arts 

A great deal of distress is apparent concerning the future of music and the arts in America. Support for the arts has eroded to a dangerous extent and false images have replaced knowledge as to the true place and importance of the arts in the scheme of society. Most young people do not even know […]

Birdsong and Zoomusicology

What is zoomusicology? It is the study of the music of animals. An interesting subject. For instance, listen to the birds singing outside in summer and spring or right now! And you may wonder: Do birds really appreciate music, or do they just treat it like a collection of sounds? Hmmm. […]