Home

Music Education Quotes

There are 370 quotes

"Music education isn't just about creating incredible musicians; it's about creating incredible humans."
"When it comes to soloing, this is a CAGED playbook for the arpeggios."
"Music school, I think for a lot of guitar players, is like the place where originality goes to die."
"I've been waiting to make a beginner guitar course for years and years and years, ever since I was a guitar teacher back in the mid '90s."
"What makes this song great videos are really not only teaching about this particular song but it's talking about music production, arrangement, parts, how songs are put together sonically."
"It's absolutely depressing how devalued music education is today in Western society."
"Schoolhouse Rock, the box set which had been released in 1996, was added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress."
"So, what's the point of learning the primary chords? Well, every other chord is the derivative of the primary chords."
"Jazz sets you up with a great basis to work from and gives you a good understanding of the language."
"Understanding music theory is the first step to unlocking the secrets behind music."
"Reading sheet music is only part of what it means to understand music theory."
"Learning music theory really, really helped me to write music, not just more music and more efficiently, but better and more interesting music."
"Thank you so much for watching. This has been Tedrow, your electronic music mentor."
"Don't try to learn all 12 scales at once. Pick one scale a week and drill that baby in."
"The composer and conductor leonard bernstein gave a series of lectures."
"Learning classical music is definitely the first step."
"Given we now offer film music as a principal study degree discipline, it made perfect sense for us to work together on this."
"Ear training... is one of the most important things you can have as a musician."
"It is absolutely insane to me that you can go through so many music departments and get a guide to break out a very complicated analysis of a whole [ __ ] piece but have no idea about pop music."
"If you want to get great at jazz, get just... you know, the world is at your fingertips right now. Go to YouTube and type in Miles Davis, listen to that, learn."
"Gifticality! - Woo! That means we're donating $1000 to the Grammy Music Education Coalition for Music in our schools month, to make sure kids have high quality and relevant music education throughout the nation."
"So yeah, I can teach you anything you want to know about music." - Emphasizing expertise and willingness to share knowledge.
"Music is absolutely front and center in all worldwide modern education curriculums."
"Learning to play an instrument develops skills applicable to any field, whether you're an astronaut or anybody trying to do anything."
"E shape connects to the D shape so then I hope you went to this shape and located these two roots on our fourth string and second string. Great job!"
"After A is our G shape so I hope you went right here and saw this shape and played those roots."
"I hope what you did was go to your C shape because remember it's that circle. It goes back from our D-shaped roots, those connect to our C-shaped roots."
"Students of Boulanger who visited her in Paris included Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Walter Piston, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones, and many more."
"Jack dropped in and gave me the most unbelievable piano lesson which just gave me the tools to think differently about learning piano."
"I was already interested in jazz from about the age of 10."
"The classical canon has always been political."
"One of the biggest problems with prioritizing the canon is that it means music students don't really learn about skills that are relevant to other repertoires."
"Our goal is to literally open up the world of music for you all to see."
"Build a playlist of songs you want to learn in lesson videos you find useful."
"What if Guitar Hero actually taught you how to play guitar?"
"Our results support the working hypothesis that executive functioning may be one of the mechanisms mediating the often reported link between musical training and heightened academic skills."
"The teachers are so great in the music that they pair with it also amazing."
"I have never met anybody who has been trained or who knows theory or who has a deep understanding of the inner workings of music who has regretted learning those things."
"Singing through a straw revolutionized how we train in voice."
"Rocksmith Plus: The most diverse song library ever seen in music learning software."
"Rick Biato is the definitive voice for modern music on YouTube."
"Not knowing music theory is like driving a car without a map. You can bump into some amazing places but you have to spend a long time finding out what you're looking for or remembering how you got there."
"Moving up the neck chords opens up new musical possibilities with chords you already know."
"Learn as many songs as you possibly can... learning songs is such an important thing."
"I've said it before but imslp org is a great resource if you just need sheet music to read it's a free repository of all sorts of out-of-print classical sheet music."
"I take great pleasure in teaching someone... just play anything, we're going to make this work... open your mind up."
"If you want your child to succeed, teach them an instrument because the skills you learn are something you can apply to everything in life."
"A delightful chord progression, a wonderful riff for beginners to learn."
"Understanding this harmonic analysis and chord substitution is extremely important for your ability to improvise and to make up chord progressions."
"When Rick Biato tells you to practice, you probably should."
"Arms are the best thing that's ever happened to this beautiful planet earth."
"You got me into Leo you got me in the harmonic major double harmonic major maybe those videos aren't popular but they sure make a difference man thank you Stuart."
"By using this number system you really allow so much more musical knowledge to accumulate and compound."
"Congratulations Jay, I'd like to thank drumeo, the entire drumeo community..."
"If you learn sheet music and all the scales, you're closer to learning any other instrument." - Recognizing the foundational skills in music education.
"Learn arpeggios, intervals, minor scales - use spelling drills for any musical material."
"With a nearly perfect rating, Maestro the master class is a free simulator that will make you a conductor of an orchestra utilizing actual hand tracking."
"Ear training and music theory cannot be separated."
"Impressed by our elementary Band and Strings concert, amazing performances."
"Start slow, learn well, then speed it up - that's the key to mastering Latin drumming."
"Learning by ear is fundamental. People feel your feeling through the music."
"Being able to listen to a song and pick out individual parts is valuable." - Advocating for orchestral listening as a key music literacy skill.
"It's often perfectly accurate but it's way more accurate to learn things from recordings."
"If we think about trumpet playing in a more of a simple manner than it's a lot easier to get good results."
"It's a way of introducing you to the turntablism and scratching world without breaking the bank."
"Rather than referring to the chord progression by specific notes, we can describe them abstracted from the key they're in."
"This is what these young kids, that's how we get rid of mumble rap. Yeah, teach them the mechanics, we teach them the art form, we teach them the ability, we teach them vernacular."
"We know the Bible and they know the Bible, but when Christ, through the Holy Spirit, wants to do signs, miracles, wonders, and healings in people's lives, and empower them with gifts, that's not emotionalism, that's freedom."
"You want to play gospel music? We teach it here, whether it's old school, new school, CCM, whatever it is."
"I eventually want to open up my own music school... I think it's important... especially for people who can't afford it."
"There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a beginner play their first song."
"Josh is a great bass player with a cool, light-hearted, and humorous approach to teaching."
"James presents regular bass lessons on all aspects of bass playing."
"Music theory might not be the most essential thing, but I think it definitely helped... I actually think it is essential."
"Learning how to play piano is one of the most beneficial things that anyone interested in music can learn how to do."
"You can teach anyone to play a song, but you can't teach them how to be an artist."
"Over 80% of American adults believe that children who study music are smarter."
"So, to ease the load of memorizing both the instruments and the notes, why not just add some way to see the pitch on the side of the block?"
"Rhythm is arguably the most important part of music and it's the hardest to talk about."
"I'm giving a very talented boy a full Year's worth of free piano lessons and all the sheet music he needs."
"You want me to learn 'Giant Steps'? That's going to have to be a hundred bucks."
"Our foundation basically donates to music programs in the Virgin Islands and music programs in Atlanta, Georgia, trying to get kids more involved in not just being in front of the camera but also behind the camera."
"So if you enjoyed today's tutorial, head on over to our site, contemporaryschoolofpiano.com and ask for our sight readers kit. It will have a couple of the wonderful resources we've covered today, and it'll really help you take those big bold next steps in your musical journey."
"Bootsy Collins's commitment to giving back extends to other charitable organizations such as the VH1 Save the Music Foundation which works to restore instrumental music education programs in American public schools and raise awareness about the importance of music education."
"If you're taking in music, if you're playing music as a child, it's second nature to you when you're an adult."
"Copying the players that you really like rather than just some random set of licks on the internet is the best way to learn vocabulary that speaks the way you want to speak."
"They didn't have a Berklee education and come out and just have all this classical Theory, they just like the music they were writing was the school that was their music school you can just tell."
"Music isn't just something you know you do if you have musical taste, no, musical education is basic, learning to sing beautiful words and to appreciate beautiful rhythms and sound is how a human being develops, it has to be fundamental."
"It's been the most fulfilling thing because the most important thing that I was after with this is getting guitars into the hands of little girls or little boys that really want to do that."
"...every musician should sort of know what comes next in a blues pattern and if you don't you should start listening listening to a little Blues just to do it you know just do it because I said do it."
"It's the diminished whole tone scale."
"They just want to sit down and play, they don't want to be glued to the sheet music or boxed in by constantly thinking about complex theory or chords."
"I want to show her all these things, and I volunteer at rock camp for girls. She's been coming since she was three."
"You're going to learn from the classical, the well-written pieces of music, to make you a better musician."
"All I really want to do is just help y'all become better drummers."
"I'm more optimistic because there's so many kids learning to play instruments."
"If you do not have a good method of counting fast rhythms or complex rhythms, you are making things very difficult for yourself."
"This kind of stuff is in my ear training course."
"Education in music and academic education is marvelous."
"Thanks so much for everybody joining in today here at the Building Blocks of Bass. Happy practicing."
"I'm David from Sunday Sounds, thanks for checking out this video, have a great day."
"I'm going to help you in this lesson by giving you some practical tips and some ear training exercises you can do to help you to be able to hear the key and train your ears to be faster so stay tuned."
"For young people who aren't acquainted with the Sun Houses of the world, who would you recommend or are there any records you'd recommend that young guitar players seek out or listen to and expose themselves to?"
"I teach young children piano using my 11 years of piano experience."
"You know Bernstein was designed to preach the gospel of music and teach it to all of us."
"Struggles with rhythm reading are a huge detriment to being able to read, so make rhythm practice and understanding a priority."
"We learned all about guitar, bass, piano, drums, and we even got to see all of those come together to make a song together, it was really cool."
"If you've ever been interested in music or learning about an instrument, this would be a fantastic place to learn."
"Just like music theory, the point of learning music theory is for the application of songwriting."
"We're tackling the six most common myths of grand versus upright pianos."
"Music is important to me and bass is important to me, so if I can help someone else be able to pick that up, that is something that I am more than happy to dedicate my time to."
"Learn how to play in all the keys."
"This concept is incredibly important for future things I want to talk about like the CAGED system, more about playing in between chords, songwriting, improvising, and even just connecting your brain to the fretboard."
"Being surrounded by such great musicians, such great faculty."
"He was sort of a child prodigy and had perfect pitch."
"How important is it to go to music school? It's as much if not more about the people you meet there, the people you play with, the connections you make than anything else."
"I get straight to the point and teach you just what you need to know to record your first piece of music."
"If you need to learn how to read music, I have plenty of lessons on the channel that you can learn way more about that."
"You're about to learn the simple system to be able to play any jazz chord with easy movable chord shapes."
"I've been really enjoying the course Music Theory: Exploring Sound, Rhythm, and Melody on the MIDI Grid by Fernando Aruda."
"Music students all over the world are often asked in exams to present a harmonisation of a chorale melody in the style of Bach."
"I am here to teach you everything that I know about modern jazz and improvisational piano."
"It's really important to support music education and programs in schools."
"Seek out help; there's plenty of people loving to start you on the journey of music."
"The more affluent your parents are, the more opportunities you'll have to study music."
"From about 1997 till today, how so many of my students back in the day had such an intense love for music."
"You learn more than just playing the instrument, you learn about the live aspect and the sound."
"We are opening up music schools, called Music is Medicine."
"Once I show you how to play one power chord, you're gonna know pretty much how to play them all, and that's powerful."
"Probably one of the most popular guitar songs ever, and for good reason as well."
"So today's lesson is geared towards people that are thinking about entering the world of extended range guitars."
"This piano actually teaches you how to play."
"I am extremely passionate about the education side of music."
"Not just teaching him the rules of music, but encouraging him to push against them."
"My goodness, what a great training ground for a young organist like myself and so many others."
"Jazz isn't just an oral language, it absolutely needs to be part of any jazz musician's practice routine."
"Learning to sing a solo is so important to getting the grammar of the music into your ear."
"Go through the steps in order, this is the order that I use with my students and it helps them develop their vibrato very quickly."
"Let's not underestimate that, guys—just getting how to stand and hold a guitar, it's really important."
"I'm going to show you some of the most useful and practical ways to practice that you may have ever seen."
"The basics you need to learn: the names of your open strings - it's E, A, D, G. Tada!"
"Now they're actually trying to memorize how to play instead of being screen dependent, and they're loving it."
"So that's your very first bass lesson: we've looked at the anatomy of the bass, how to hold it, tune it, and the basics of playing notes."
"Music outreach wants to give lessons to kids regardless of their ability to afford it."
"In today's session, I'm going to show you how to play the simple chord progressions and strumming patterns for the intro, verse, and chorus sections."
"You can still speak a language without being able to read it, and music's not really any different in that respect."
"All the different elements and learning methods all support each other to make your understanding of music stronger as a whole."
"Little and often is usually better than big long sessions with massive gaps between them."
"When I started reading music, my math scores got better. It helps fully develop you."
"I'm going to show you how to use this system to arrange any jazz standard you please."
"Delayed gratification can be taught in no better way than through the study of a musical instrument."
"It is just a wonderful vehicle to get started playing guitar solos and more importantly, improvising which means making it up on the spot."
"Learning how to write in minor keys is one of the most important skills we can develop."
"Guitar Super System has everything you possibly need to become a better guitar player and realize your voice on the instrument."
"With piano, you start learning the chord scale connection from day one."
"What would it have been like for me if I had a class that was like, 'Here's how you write a song, here's how you take what you feel and put it into something'."
"I had some really influential music teachers who were very positive and enthusiastic."
"Learning about the anatomy of a break will give you a deeper appreciation and understanding on how to use the different parts to create new phrases and sentences."
"Playing an instrument is a great skill for children to learn; it teaches them discipline, resilience, and it's something beautiful that they can always have with them even when they get older."
"These are the three parent minor scales: natural minor, melodic minor, and harmonic minor."
"Hello everybody, thanks for listening and I hope you guys enjoy the ride, learning a little bit of my drumming and life experiences."
"Save the music in our local schools."
"...David eventually breaks away from the family, gets to study at the Royal College of Music, and undergoes a pretty devastating mental and physical breakdown..."
"Go practice, go enjoy, have fun, and I'll see you in the next lesson."
"Take a seat, young padawans. We're gonna show you what a real '90s hit sounds like."
"The key to success in playing the guitar would be practice, lessons, discipline, and patience."
"In this video, we're going to look at how to expand the basic chord progression in flamenco."
"When do we change? Let's look at that first, and how many chords do we need."
"Every single pianist deserves to have the basics of note reading, rhythm understanding, hand position, weight distribution, sound production."
"The five pillars to becoming a well-rounded jazz pianist are scales, chords, voicings, lead sheets, and improvisation."
"Why learn music theory? Well, in a nutshell, it is the language of music."
"Hey guys, it is Carl Brown for guitarlessons365.com."
"If you're learning jazz, it's always good to go to the source and learn what made a song great in the first place."
"Thank you, troglodytes, for tuning in today and learning about these strange Jazzmaster baritone guitars from Fender Squier."
"Being able to say the notes as you play them is a fantastic way of learning the notes as well."
"Let's get into the first section now, talking about the layout and design of Yousician versus Simply Piano."
"Reading sheet music is really valuable because you can learn faster with it."
"It's part of an annual subscription I created to help teach music theory the fun way."
"He was such an angel to me when I was young and taught me so much about guitar tones, strings, anything that had to do with guitar."
"I was really lucky in the fact that I had a really cool guitar teacher."
"I'm a guitar instructor for students of all ages, most of them are either into country or rock. I've always had a tough time getting my students interested in jazz, any tips?"
"Humans are incredible learners, right? One of the things that's really cool is you give a five-year-old a cello and some decent instruction, and they will learn how to play cello if they spend enough time doing it."
"Learn your scales; they help you really understand the layout of these scales and what they look like on keys and what they look like on the keyboard."
"This is the show where you're going to learn about acoustic guitar gear, discover acoustic artists and get inspired to live your very best acoustic life."
"Bringing music back to schools is so important."
"There's a bunch of really crazy talented young musicians that are introduced to it and can study it."
"The poorest child is rich with musical training."
"Fluency in these five skills allows you to look at a song through a different lens and actually learn it much faster."
"In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to play Blackbird by the Beatles, which is an absolute fingerpicking classic."
"We'll have now a music scholarship courtesy of you guys, so thank you very much."
"It's an entire guitar tuition software, extremely thorough, detailed, and you can tell that it's made by guitarists for guitarists."
"I think one of the most important things about this music is the fact that it wasn't taught, that it is self-taught almost like a craft."
"Let's get to the lesson. It's drummer's tools to enhance musicality."
"Check out my phrasing playlist that has some really good lessons and exercises for how to get your phrasing sounding lyrical."
"If you've been wanting to learn an instrument, today I'm going to tell you why the piano was the right one to start with."
"Proceeds from America fund free music education."
"The most important thing you're going to learn in this stage is the names of all six guitar strings."
"I love you for being a music teacher, people like you gave me a reason to go to school."
"Puget Sound offers a robust music program without sacrificing a strong liberal arts education."
"If you're following along with my beginner course, you're probably coming toward the end of grade three now, which definitely puts you in an advancing beginner stage."