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Friday Fave: iPhone Apps for Songwriting
Today's Friday Fave is actually a spin-off of yesterday's guest post at Time for Music, which is the second installment of my "Adventures in Songwriting" series. I mentioned that I use the voice memo app during the songwriting process, and Susan of the wonderful blog...
Adventures in Songwriting: My Process
Want to read Part 2 of my "Adventures in Songwriting" series? Well then you'll have to scoot on over to Wade Richards' blog, Time for Music! There you can read all about the process I use to write my songs -- and check out all of Wade's great articles and music...
Adventures in Songwriting: The Beginning
When people find out that I write my own music therapy songs, they usually have lots of questions. How did you start writing songs? Is it hard? Do you prefer using your own songs to others' songs? These questions came up again last week during a presentation for...
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is more than just a day off from school and work. It's an opportunity to honor a great man (as I mention in my January song) who did big things, and to observe how far our country has come as a result. I wish I could say that I have a song for this occasion to...
Sunday Singalong: A Cold Day Weather Song
There's only one way to describe central Illinois in January: COLD. And yes, the temperatures here merit capital letters. So when it came to choosing a song for this week's video, it was really a no-brainer. I've provided on-screen lyrics for the second week in a row,...
I Graduated…Now What?
When I revealed my blogging goal of 365 posts in 2011, I received an influx of topic requests. A suggestion that came up more than once: how do you put yourself out there in the music therapy world upon graduating? Being a new graduate is scary and overwhelming. But...
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Lately I've had quite a few readers ask about my work at The Hope Institute, a residential school for children with multiple disabilities where I've headed up the music therapy program for the last (almost) 4 years. I'll be writing about the program in more detail...
Sunday Singalong: There Was an Old Lady
This week's video is my first-ever to include the lyrics as subtitles! When a reader requested I add them so that her son could follow along, I thought to myself, "Duh!" Why didn't that occur to me before? It is called Sunday Singalong, after all. I introduced this...
A Lofty Goal for 2011
I spend a lot of time in this chair, at this desk, in front of this screen. But after divulging a little too much information in yesterday's post, it looks like that time is about to increase. I wrote my first blog post for Listen & Learn Music in September...