Every serious music student has spent time in a practice room that felt less like a room and more like a mirror. A phrase is ...

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This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. Alex Zhang is shredding on the piano. He sits at a shiny black Steinway grand and rocks back and forth ...

Many musicians with a degree in music performance share their knowledge through private teaching. Unlike our colleagues with music education degrees, we do not study learning disabilities or the signs ...

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If you were fortunate enough to have music education in school, what were those classes like? Did you pick up an instrument—say, a recorder or violin, and learn how to play the scale and simple ...

A recent research study suggests that learning music doesn't make you smarter. For parents who have been encouraging their children to take music lessons, this could be a disconcerting message, but it ...

Growing up in China, I started playing piano when I was nine years old and learning English when I was 12. Later, when I was a college student, it struck me how similar language and music are to each ...

Humans have been making, listening, and dancing to music since time immemorial, and this art can easily soothe or amplify our emotions. New research explains what “chords” music strikes in the brain, ...

Whether it's singing do-re-mi or strumming a guitar, making music is one of the best ways to stimulate a young mind. Even if children abandon their music lessons when they hit their angsty teen years, ...