COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Musical U had an interview spotlight for my Composer Boot Camp 101: 50 Exercises for Educators, Students, and Music Professionals. You can read the Interview here: https://www.musical-u.com/learn/make-the-jump-from-musician-to-composer-with-composer-boot-camp-101/ This is an excellent resources for students of all ages (kindergarten to adult learner), music educators, and composers. You can Purchase Composer Boot Camp 101 at Amazon and Amazon Kindle here:  https://www.amazon.com/Composer-Boot-Camp-101-Professionals/dp/1530441064 If you are interested in having your students purchase the book for next semester, contact me directly for a special discount code and/or excerpt at spenayoung@gmail.com .  An excerpt from the Interview:  Getting Your Creative Juices Flowing The jump from musician to composer can be a scary one – how exactly does one begin to write music? According to Sabrina’s philosophy,  inspiration is the ...

Rhythm Boot Camp: Everyday Practice | Easy Ear Training Posted: May 10, 2016 in  opera Tags:  band ,  composer ,  composers ,  composition ,  drum ,  drummer ,  latin ,  latin music , Music ,  music ed ,  music edu ,  music education ,  musica ,  musical ,  musicality ,  musician , musik ,  musique ,  percussion ,  percussionists ,  rhythm ,  rhythmic ,  rhythmica ,  rock 0 Get some tips on how to incorporate rhythm practice into all your music activities. Includes rock and Latin practice tracks to improvise and jam with. Source:  Rhythm Boot Camp: Everyday Practice | Easy Ear Training "Throughout this series you have worked on audiation, rhythmic accuracy, music transitions, and soloing. You practiced using exercises and practice tracks that you can download and use at home. While reading through these articles can be helpful, it will take everyda...

Your young musician comes home after school band music rehearsal and excitedly tells you that they are playing the flugelhorn instrument for the fall concert. Unless you know music you probably don't know much about instruments or school band beyond the occasional marching band at a football game. No fear. You can easily speak the same language as your child with a short introduction to music instruments and the school band. Band Instruments Beginning school bands usually have a limited number of instruments available, sometimes because of budget cuts, sometimes because of limited musical ability. In any case, band instruments are split up into these instrument families: percussion, woodwinds, and brass. String players generally do not play in the band. Teach Your Music Student How to Write Music with 50 Easy Exercises Percussion instruments include drums, drum set, timpani (or kettle drums), xylophone, shakers, bass drum, congas, cymbals, and triangle. Essentia...

3 TIps You REALLY Need to Know about How to Be a Composer TODAY Part 1 Recently I have been thinking about why I chose the profession that I have, that of being a composer. Now I wear many hats, like many composers do today. On any day I could be a composer, a teacher, a writer, a sound engineer, a video editor, an animator, or...like most days...a parent and provider of questionably nutritious and strangely orange Mac-N-Cheese. And I suppose that I am wondering about my role as a composer more and more each day as I realize that really composing is only a small part of the media universe that I occupy. I have been writing music since high school, yet my career took off when I decided to mix my classical training with bizarre animation and electroacoustic music. Maybe it was the kid inside of me that still gets excited when she hears the familiar melody from Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind  or has her heart skip a beat when she hears John William 's soaring b...