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Halloween Music Activities for Your Ghouls and Goblins It’s no secret around here that we are a little obsessed with  Halloween . Luckily we’re not the only music education site that is! We’ve rounded up posts from some of our kindred “spirits” who love the festivities of Halloween as much as we do and have created plenty of eerie exercises for children to practice their ear training and rhythmic skills.

READ FULL ARTICLE:  7 Creepy Tricks and Treats for Writing Halloween Horror Music Halloween brings out the scary and creepy in music. Learning how to write music that is perfect for Halloween horror is easy and a lot of fun! Follow these seven simple tips about how you can use sound effects, instrumentation, harmony and more to create a convincing scary song this Halloween.

On a dark and very stormy night, Ofelia D'Jesus finds that her drive home determines her destiny in this retro Buffalo New York horror film by award-winning composer Sabrina Peña Young. Created for the Buffalo Movie and VIdeo Makers Annual "Shorty" Short film contest, hosted every October at the Screening Room in Amherst, Buffalo, New York.

READ FULL ARTICLE:  Rhythm, Sight-Reading, Can You Sing, and Halloween Treats Ever wished you had better natural rhythm? Or felt intimidated by sheet music and wished you could easily sight-read? Do you know your answer to the question “Can you sing?” Or perhaps you’re just looking for some new musical treats for Halloween. Whatever the case may be, read on! We’ve got you covered. There are so many music tutorial videos on YouTube, it’s an amazing resource. But it can also be hard to find really good useful videos to use. We rounded up the 5 best demonstrations of  3-chord songs  to help show how far you can get playing by ear with just a few chords.

DOWNLOAD  Free track: Halloween Sound FX, Synthesis, and Sci-Fi Free track: Halloween Sound FX, Synthesis, and Sci-Fi by  Sabrina Peña Young  |  Oct 24, 2011  |  Halloween  | Creating a zany science fiction retro feel in your music involves more than hiring a handful of cyborgs to man your Nord Modulator. Using the right synthesizers, Halloween sound effects, and melodic material can make your music sound straight out of the next millennium and spook even the Borg. Use the new  Unravelling Music  ear training track  Halloween Horror 3000  and the samples below to set you on your next space music voyage.

Very disturbing Halloween Stop Motion Animation Student Film from the students at Florida International University Fine Arts Department, Miami, Florida . ANIMATORS : Alfredo Carasa Giselle Garcia-Lavin Aysha Zouain Sabrina Pena Young MUSIC BY Sabrina Pena Young Related articles Halloween Wreaths Are A Thing Now, And They're Creepily Awesome Wood-Crate Bleacher of Terracotta Halloween Pumpkins The Top Halloween Costumes for Dogs this Year Halloween Bark Made With Halloween Oreos Halloween Bark Made With Halloween Oreos Theme parks bring in Hollywood producers and giant terror-filled mazes for Halloween 2016 DIY Halloween Makeup Ideas *Creeping into Halloween with great costumes Halloween Makeup Ideas: AWESOME Comic Book SFX Makeup for Music Youtube Video Free Sheet Music Download: Classical Music Flute Solo Airborn Sand by Composer Sabrina Pena Young

In this Buffalo based Halloween horror short film , the evil soul of the deceased Tia Maria Magdalena Garcia haunts her niece Josefina, who is in search of her aunt's precious pearl necklace. In the style of Alfred Hitchcock , Orson Welles , and other cult Horror film classics. Award-winning composer and Buffalo filmmaker Sabrina Pena Young created this campy horror film with her daughter, who was delighted to play the role of a scary ghost. Filmed in the course of a few days, The Pearl of Tia Maria Magdalena is a fun haunted flick for your Halloween. Enjoy! Original Soundtrack "Virelaan" by Sabrina Pena Young from the The Pearl of Tia Maria Magdalena Soundtrack Available at itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pearl-tia-maria-magdalena/id1161200222 Filmed in Buffalo, New York Created for the Buffalo Movie and Video Makers Annual Shorty Contest Halloween 2016 ABOUT THE FILM I had a great time creating this fun film with my daughter. We had to...