Online Music Lessons Featured on China Central TV
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 11:51am
Last week, China Central Television ran a story about an education trend that’s gaining popularity: online music lessons from ArtistWorks.
CCTV’s Mark Niu spoke with a student of Martin Taylor, who teaches fingerstyle guitar lessons online at ArtistWorks.
"It's just amazing." says Mike Wollenberg, in regards to learning how to play guitar from one of his heroes, Martin Taylor.
"[You can] look at him playing and dissect it…and with the overhead camera, [and] being able to slow it down, you can see exactly how his hand is moving."
"A Prairie Home Companion" features Howard Levy
Wed, 05/02/2012 - 2:45pm
Fresh off a long tour with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, harmonica teacher extraordinaire Howard Levy will be featured this Saturday, May 5th on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Howard is no stranger to the show having been a frequent guest for many years. Other musicians on the show will include Pop Wagner, Charlie Maguire, Tony Glover, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, Dean Magraw, and Andra Suchy.
Here’s Howard on an old Praire Home Companion playing a gypsy jazz tune, or more accurately, here’s a hand puppet playing along to Howard’s harmonica. Either way, it’s pretty impressive!
Coed Magazine Raves About ArtistWorks' Online Music Lessons
Fri, 04/20/2012 - 12:44pm
The SF Music Tech Summit brings together visionaries in the world of music and technology with journalists and investors. ArtistWorks Director of Global Business Development, James Taylor, attended last February’s Summit and had a chance to meet with author and journalist Harmon Leon, who writes for the Huffington Post and Coed Magazine (among others).
What We're Reading: Music Education as Therapy
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 5:25pm
We believe in the therapeutic benefits of lifelong music learning. So does Billy Cobham and best-selling author and Columbia professor of neurology Dr. Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks' book Musicophilia explores "how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer's or amnesia."
Legendary drummer and Billy Cobham puts Dr. Sacks' studies into practice. Mika Kaurismaki's film "Sonic Mirror" shows how Billy's performances with Okuta Percussion benefitted the autistic community in Bern, Switzerland.
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