We ask kids as young as five to understand that what look like scribbles on a page are really symbols and that these stand for sounds, which correspond to letters, which make up words, which ...

Short, detached, jumpy notes are called staccato. Listen to the two examples below to hear how the same notes sound when played without and with accents. Listen to the two examples below to hear ...

These symbols are designed to inform a guitarist ... This is a hark-back to the days of jazz and blues, where the sound of this flattened 7th became standard. This also explains why we have ...