A different way to visualize Rhythm

In this video you can listen to different examples of beats and rhythmic patterns. The wheel is marked with different colored dots representing beats. In this case, green dots are used for main beats, orange dots for off beats, and white dots for secondary beats. Thus, John Varney uses the wheel method to take us on […]

Little Kids Rock

In this fantastic website, LittleKidsRock, you can find several Video lessons, very useful to learn the basics about the main Rock instruments. Take a look at some lessons clicking on this picture:  Then you could play the Beat Box game: Or perhaps you prefer to Build a Beat: There are also a lot of useful resources for Music teachers, like […]

Instruments families: videos

And getting back to the Orchestral Instruments bilingual resources, I share with you these fantastic videos from Classical MPR. With the help of this eccentric, outdated computer TOMMIS, the videos explain which instruments belong to each of the orchestra’s four families: strings, winds, percussion, and brass.

The benefits of a bilingual brain

It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex […]