Tag: Music Education
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4 year-olds, Instrument Drives, & Double Lipped Embouchure
If you don’t know what double lip embouchure is, here you go. When I first heard about double lip from Tom Ridenour in Dallas, I thought he was insane (what can I say? I was 19 and didn’t know anything). But years later I was sitting across the dinner table from Ricardo Morales, sharing a…
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Life after injury
For a long time I avoided serious playing for the same reason I avoid speaking Spanish now. I used to be fairly fluent. I read Cien años de soledad. After a summer in interior Mexico words rolled right off my tongue. It was a source of pride. Now when I speak, it’s as if I have…
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Music Ed and SXSW – Musicians of Lucero/Chuck Ragan Cedar Street Showcase
SXSW is obviously one of my favorite holidays. Not your average music festival – it completely inhabits every nook and cranny of the city I love for 4 straight days. I love the imperfection of it, from pop up shows with terrible sound to sweat-box venues where the musicians and fans alike leave completely soaked…
Julie A. Linder 