Mindfulness for Musicians Who Feel Tense While Practicing

Watch a short lesson excerpt on the basics musicians should understand before starting to edit their own performance videos.

Learn how to record audio in Logic with Gaby Castro. Set up your mic, adjust gain, and configure tempo and time signature for clean, professional results.

Learn how Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata reshaped the sonata form, in a short lesson excerpt from pianist Noah Alden Hardaway’s Sonatas: Genre Overview course.

Discover the foundations of species counterpoint with composer Trevor Bumgarner on tonebase. Learn how centuries of composers — from Palestrina to Bach — used this framework to craft elegant, expressive music.

Explore resonance and head-voice awareness with Heidi Vass in this tonebase lesson — perfect for beginning singers and curious musicians alike.

Discover how trumpet virtuoso Chris Coletti uses mindfulness to transform practice. Attention, body awareness, and clear intention can help any musician improve effortlessly. Watch the free lesson segment and download the workbook!

Dominic Cheli demonstrates how music theory can enhance everything from sight-reading and interpretation to phrasing and emotional expression — with examples from Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Mozart.

In this opening lesson, Barbara Wegher-Thompson explores the history and foundational principles of the Alexander Technique, introducing the discoveries of F. M. Alexander and how they revolutionized our understanding of movement, coordination, and awareness.

The contents of jazz music theory are vast, advanced, and can be extremely intimidating. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through all of the foundations of jazz music theory, from navigating lead sheets to swing, blues, and more.

This comprehensive music theory guide will take you through all of the music theory you need to know to get ahead on your instrument, from the circle of fifths to modes and more.