Healing Sound & Music Articles
What if the sheet music on your stand is actually the biggest wall between you and your audience? A 2023 industry report involving 450 sound practitioners found that 72% feel trapped by their "scripts," which makes sessions feel more like a rehearsal than a deep, meditative journey. You've likely ...
When I work with students on composition, especially in the area of harmonic development, they can wrap their heads around the triad, build triads from a major scale and even try basic chord progressions. But, when the concept of suspended chords, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths and 13ths come into the picture, t...
When I coach up and coming producers in piano technique, they often want to explore ways to play through chord progressions with two hands. It's important for producers to have some basic piano skills, not only for understanding music theory, but also to perform or record their ideas with greater ea...
Drones are essentially sustained or continuous tones that establish a tonal center to accompany melodic instruments or voices. ย A drone can simply be the root note of a particular key, or a root and itโs octave.ย The fifth or fourth is often added to establish more harmonic content. The third of th...
