SHOSYS ACADEMY 1 TEST: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Kelvin Sholar 1 Introduction To The Blog Series This blog series incorporates an easy music appreciation curriculum for adult beginners who are remote learning, or are self-taught. Lessons are posted on Mondays while Tests are posted on Saturdays. For more in depth and private guidance, I offer personal […]
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SHOSYS ACADEMY 1 LESSON: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Kelvin Sholar 1 Introduction To The Series Of Lessons And Tests This blog series incorporates an easy music appreciation curriculum for adult beginners who are remote learning, or are self-taught. Lessons are posted on Mondays while Tests are posted on Saturdays. For more in depth and private guidance,
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For Young Revolutionaries: Seven Easy Pieces For Piano And Voice Kelvin Sholar 1 Introduction Young musicians need solid educational material that help them master cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills. How can we teach young musicians to play in odd meters like 3/4, 5/4, 7/4 when most of western music is in even meters like
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Prelude: Kelvin Sholar: A LOT has been written about Black America in the last few weeks; mainly due to the Black Lives Matter Movement and various related events. For the record, I am a direct descendant of those Africans that were forcefully brought to America. I am also a direct descendent of the western
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Why Music Schools Must Change Now, Or Die! Music schools exist to address three basic problems: How can I learn music? How can I teach music? and How can I host musical education? These problems are directly addressed by music schools because they provide a curriculum or schedule of teaching, investigation and testing that relates
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Kelvin Sholar: Musician, Theorist I. The Need For Greater Positive Sense Of Self And Community If we do not develop a greater sense of both self and community, we are more likely to be violent and to feel insecure or powerless in the face of violence. We are more likely to imagine a limited set
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How Information And Redundancy Theory Could Help Musicians Grow Together My friend, a great jazz-classical pianist whom I deeply respect, recently alerted me to the meme above, (by Kevin Stafford), about ticket sales for concerts. I laughed until I heard that some people thought this was an anti-classical music meme. Then I stopped laughing. This
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