Jan. 24 (UPI) --A Massachusetts man with a baby raccoon shared a video of the pet practicing an unusual skill -- playing the piano. Bill Baker of Seekonk posted a video showing the baby raccoon his ...

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This is my practice routine for getting altered dominant (#5, #9 chords specifically) rootless closed-voicing chords, and diminished whole-tone scales (sometimes referred to as the 7th mode of the ...

Here’s my go-to practice routine for tackling altered dominant chords—especially those spicy #5/#9 voicings—and the diminished whole-tone scale (aka the 7th mode of the melodic minor). These sounds ...

All musicians have a different approach to becoming their very best, but whatever your practice, it will inevitably include some version of running scales. There is a great deal of tedium in being ...

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It’s a casual Thursday afternoon, and I’m trudging up the stairs of Braun Music Center in search of a place to practice piano. My backpack is made ridiculously heavy by the dozen or so music books ...

They're the bane of every young (and not so young) musicians' life. But why have scales become so key to music practice? Did you learn an instrument at school? If so it’s highly likely that your ...

If your parents forced you to practice your scales by saying it would "build character," they were onto something. The Washington Post reports that one of the largest scientific studies into music's ...