Here’s a quick singing tip that will help singers of all experience levels! I do this simple exercise with all my students because it’s the easiest, most effective way I know of to learn diaphragmatic breathing. When we connect the power of our breath to our voice, singing instantly becomes more fun and natural.
Is this not the coolest thing ever? This is a real honest to God, heartfelt, blues improv, by a 2-year old!
The value of listening and responding unselfconciously – this is what we learn to do at Music for People, a fantastic organization devoted to improvising music. The guidebook for the program is called Return […]
Can you see how amazing it is what Bobby McFerrin is doing here? From his totally centered place in the middle of thousands of people, he is invites everybody to play with him. He doesn’t ask them if they can – he assumes they can – and of course they can! By sharing his own soulful music and […]
Everybody has music in them that wants to come out, and we can ALL make music together because music is a common language that everybody is born to speak. I swear it’s true!
This weekend I graduated from a 4-year training program with the most wonderful organization in the world (just saying), Music for People. […]
You know how when you get home from a workshop you’re all hyped up and excited? Well, that’s me today, and I want to share!
It’s so important for us to do what we really want to do. When an opportunity arises to support us in doing what we really want to do, even if it’s a […]
“For those who would ask, ‘… and just how does art benefit my business?’, I would offer, ‘If your business has important, pioneering work to do, then develop artful capabilities in your associates just as well as technical skills, else you’ll work at half-strength at best, and risk losing all the benefit of […]
Here’s a little movie to give you a sense of some of the different things that have happened during our Thursday night jams. If you’re in the area, please come join us! Email me at nancy@salwen.net to get directions!
I’m going to share a little movie that shows one of my students and I talking over Skype. She is located in Western Canada and I am in New Hampshire, so this is a little bit of a miracle.
When Rovena started she had a hard time singing more than one or two notes at a time […]
This is something we do: 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month we get together and improvise music together. We start Drum Circle style and then see where the magic takes us. You never know!
What’s really cool about this is that musicians, and people with absolutely NO musical experience can play together. The games and […]