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How to Get Started as an ActorThere are a lot of sharks waiting to take advantage of aspiring actors. This is part I of a four part series on breaking into acting. Read what you need to know if you are thinking about it!- Hitting the Right Note with ImprovisationImprovisation can be fun and motivating for music students of all ages. And the teacher doesn't necessarily need to know jazz!
- Why Improvisation Enhances CreativityIt is a mistake to assume that creative works of Genius come into existence when people work in isolation. Beethoven's symphonies and Einstein's theory of relativity were products of social activity, not secluded contemplation.
- How to Improvise: A Guide to Improvisation on Musical InstrumentsA basic tutorial on how to successfully teach yourself to improvise.
- Comedy Improv Vs. Pure ImprovisationReflections on the benefits of pure improvisation and how it differs from comedy improv.
- Musical Improvisation: The Miracle of Spontaneous CompositionImprovisation is taught, studied, and practiced. When musicians improvise, they do not just pound on the keyboard. They perform within a recognizable musical language - keys, modes, chords, something. They compose spontaneously.
- Improvisation Tips and Techniques for Musicians: Part 7Learn how to use chords with multiple nomenclatures in your improvisation. Use these improvisation tips and techniques to improve your music improvisation skills.
- Improvisation Tips and Techniques for Musicians: Part 6Learn how to improvise using the pivotal chord in your chord progression. Embellish your music improvisation skills with the powerful pivotal chord in your chord progressions.
- Improvisation Tips and Techniques for Musicians: Part 4Learn how to use the very powerful IVmaj7#11 (major-seventh 4 sharp 11) chord in your (music) improvisation. As a musician, you will always use this chord in your chord progressions.
- Improvisation Tips and Techniques for Musicians: Part 2Improve your (music) improvisation skills with these tips and techniques. Learn how to improvise with these chord progressions and substitutions.
- Basics of Guitar ImprovisationYou've been playing guitar for awhile, learning techniques and songs, and maybe even writing some original work. Now comes the fun of improvisation.
- Improvisation Tips and Techniques for MusiciansFollow these tips and techniques to improve your (music) improvisation skills. Learn how to better improvise!
- How Do You Learn to Improvise and Compose at the Piano?The New Grove Dictionary of Musk and Musicians defines improvisation as: The creation of a musical work, or the final form of a musical work, as it is being performed.
- Contact Improvisation Dance - Move to Your Own RhythmA review on a new kind of dance, known as contact improvisation.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch's Free Play: Improvisation in Life and ArtUnderstanding the fundamentals of the creative process through an artist's perspective.
Electric Guitar: Learning to ImproviseComments, tips, and suggestions concerning the art of improvisation.- The Key to Successful ImprovTips for how to achieve successful improvisation and analysis of Inspiration and Times Flow in Stephen Nachmanovitch's Free Play.
- Dance Improvisation Exercises for Choreographers and DancersDance improvisation can be used to help stimulate ideas for choreography and movement.
- The Value of Acting Improvisation for Non-ActorsActing improvisation classes have benefits for other types of creative professionals and business people alike.
- Improvisational Acting Exercise - Improving Simple TasksImproving simple tasks is ideal for the actor who has never engaged in improvisation as he fully understands these tasks; however, the actor should delve deeper than the “simple” nature of these tasks, and place an emotion behind his movements.
- New Years Shame!For all the faithful followers of the reds, it was supposed to be a great day of football along another sold out crowd at Old Trafford.
- What’s Your Plan C?With more defaults, layoffs and cuts, we have entered the new norm of stagnation in some areas and slow growth in others for the most part. Reinvention and a view of fulfilling your dreams can create your Plan C.
- What’s Your Plan C?With more defaults, layoffs and cuts, we have entered the new norm of stagnation in some areas and slow growth in others for the most part. Reinvention and a view of fulfilling your dreams can create your Plan C.
- Improvisation of Your Photography SkillSo you want to improve your photography skills? Well, it is quite easy. You can achieve this feat by reading various books on photography, by working with a professional or by attending different kinds of workshops.
- Album Review: Faith by Gonzalo RubalcabaReview of pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's new album Faith
- Do Most Piano Teachers Have it Backwards?Do piano teachers have it backwards? They do if they start with the note-reading approach.
Drama Therapy: What is It?A look at the basics of drama therapy, also known as psychodrama therapy, and how it can help increase and maintain mental and emotional wellness.- We All Play it by EarWord of the day poetry about how life is about planning.
Business Signs in the MissionThe Mission has a no nonsense style when it comes to business signs.- Actors: Understanding the Importance of ImprovUsing improvisational tactics as a tool for an actor is essential. Here is a breakdown of how improv can be used and why it is important to have it handy.
- At the Garage in Greenwhich Village, NYC: French Cookin' Blues BandLess drums, more guitar in this batch of French Cookin'.
- Will the Last DropSave me from the radio junkie Cyclops.
Mellifluence of Mortality : an Improvisation Within ForethoughtWhen traveling within this realm called "reality". What we come to believe about our own amazing self-discovery and our contribution to Humanity.- "Freetown" by Jeremiah McLanean overview of the album "Freetown" by Jeremiah McLane
- Is Artistic Skill Learned or Natural?Is Artistic Skill something that is accessible to anyone?
- Lights Camera ActionA villanelle with a pushy director for a speaker.
Start a Revolution with Your Electric GuitarAn outside-the-box thinking lesson for breaking into a higher realm with your guitar playing.- Take a Drama Class to Land a JobHow dramatic techniques can help a young person find a job, and interview well.
Composition of Single-Shot PhotographyIn creative photography composition turns a photo into art . Composition depends on several factors . Photographer's job.- The Improvisation Piano ManifestoA manifesto regarding playing the piano as theater played by the pianist's fingers.
