Sandy Connolly

July 30, 2021 4 Comments

Everyone Gets Into a Slump Having worked weekly with 15 – 30 musicians 45 weeks out of the year for over 20 years, I observe

July 22, 2021 5 Comments

This is the fourth and final post in a series on How to Identify the 15 Key Signatures. In order for this to be helpful,

July 15, 2021 8 Comments

Being able to draw the circle of 5ths from memory is a helpful skill to acquire when you want to memorize all 15 key signatures. Here’s how!

July 9, 2021 2 Comments

This is the second in a series of posts called How to Memorize the 15 Key Signatures. In my previous post, How to Spell the

June 25, 2021 3 Comments

This is the first in a series of posts called How to Memorize the 15 Key Signatures. Since different people absorb information in different ways,

June 16, 2021 7 Comments

I’ve been studying and teaching music for over 25 years, and I only got myself squared away with this topic after COVID hit. I needed

June 11, 2021 No Comments

What Is a Pickup? In music, a pickup is an unstressed lead-in note or group of notes that take place before the first accented note

June 4, 2021 5 Comments

Most singers deal with what many of us would call voice cracks. Here are a few tips on how to make them work for you.

May 28, 2021 5 Comments

Many people have trouble memorizing song lyrics. Here are ten steps to help you in your endeavors to memorize and become a better performer.

May 19, 2021 2 Comments

Musicians use all kinds of ways to communicate with each other about what notes to play from scribbles on a napkin to full-fledged orchestral scores,

Author: Sandy Connolly