Category: General

When you choose an instrument, choosing the material is going to affect the price and how long it will last, learn here to choose the perfect one for you.

How are instruments classify? and why? learn the connections between them here.

What does it mean, how many different versions are out there, and which one should you choose?

Most people don’t play as well if they haven’t warmed up, if you’re one of those people we will be explaining how to warm up most instruments and different styles, so you can choose the one you like the most. This post is aimed at beginners, since professionals already have a lot of dexterity (hopefully) […]

The way you hold an instrument may not seem important at first, but in the long time it may affect how tired you end, your posture and your ability to play correctly. If after a day of playing you feel like your back hurts and your hands are numb, it may be because of posture. […]

Let’s say you want to learn a song, you search for the music sheet and you find there are 2 or 3 different versions of it, one seems old or incomplete, another is for another instrument and the last has symbols in another language. In this article we will go over the different formats, what […]

Let’s say you’re going to buy an instrument, you want a trumpet, you already decide on the type of trumpet, it’s going to be a C trumpet and the brand, for this example Yamaha, because that’s the same brand of your recorder flute from school. So now you get to their website and find that […]

When you want to get an instrument, you usually get in the situation where you need to choose between an instrument in one pitch vs the same instrument in another pitch and that can be very confusing. For example a recorder flute vs a soprano flute, or maybe a Bb trumpet vs a C trumpet. […]

In this article we are going to go fast because understanding sheet music is not as hard as it may seem, the important terms are in bold letters so if you have trouble understanding any of them here you can look for an additional explanation elsewhere, but worry not, at the checkpoint we will explain […]

When you want to learn music, there’s always a common path to take: you learn music theory, then you put it into practice with a musical instrument and it makes sense, you can’t try to play a song if you don’t know what notes to play. The problem is obviously in the details, music theory […]

Let’s say you want to get an instrument but you don’t have enough money to buy one yourself, you may want to try one before buying it or you may even be the one that’s trying to get rid of the instrument, but it’s not sure how. In this article we’ll be going through some […]

When buying an instrument, you’ll often get to choose the material of your instrument and besides choosing the coolest looking one, but there’s more to it. This post is a beginner’s guide to people who want to know which materials exist, how they affect the instrument’s sound and if you should care at all. Let’s […]