A new survey shows that parents overwhelmingly value music education yet we were disappointed how few families incorporate music making...

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If you’ve thought about taking lessons, you probably fall into one of three categories. It may seem strange that something that comes as...

NaturalHealth365 reports: Many tasks such as verbal skills or visual skills are clearly ‘left’ brain or ‘right’ brain; however listening...

DoSomething.org posted 11 Facts about Music Education: Children who study music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced...

Vocalist/pianist Anna Christine was the semi-finalist on The Voice.  At the time she was only 10 years old, but she possessed the vocal maturity of an adult and has been wowing audiences ever since. This video is of her performance in June 2013, when the Daily Caller reported she “stunned viewers across the nation performing “ The House of the Rising Sun ,” on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” The talented 10-year-old from Henderson, Nevada, debuted a surprisingly rich, deep vo

We all remember childhood songs that bonded us with our peers.  It might have been a song from camp, a song sung every school football...

This aired on PBS NewsHour on February 24, 2012; it was produced by the Learning Matters group, specifically Cat McGrath and John Merrow. It looks at the Harmony Program out of CUNY in NYC, which provides after-school music education to under-privileged children. That program is modeled off El Sistema, a famed Venezuelan program of the same nature. The Harmony program consists of a 2 hour after school group class on their instrument every day, plus practice on nights and wee

The hilarious classical comedy duo Igudesman and Joo perform a barely distinguishable version of Ticket to Ride in the guise of a silly soprano aria.  Hyung-ki Joo gives a wonderful performance as both the soprano voice and piano accompanist. Interested in lessons?   Learn more!   | Questions?   Contact us Music Junction offers private one-on-one music lessons with talented and caring music teachers at our music school in Burbank, CA. Study your choice of piano, voice, guita

As music opportunities in the schools systems dwindle, parents are taking matters into their own hands for their children’s music...

Going through a voice change can feel disconcerting and forlorn for young boys.  Singing Consultant Jenevora Williams published a great...

Barbershop.org published a great article outlining what the scientific and academic community have discovered about the benefits of...

Happy new year!🎉   We hope you enjoyed the holidays and are looking forward to a new year. As you know, this is the time of year when it...

Smule advertises their popular app Sing! as a “ Global Karaoke Party ,” which captures the way this app connects people across the world.  This is a wonderful concept that gives anyone the opportunity to sing with others, anytime, without leaving their house.  Singers can sing solos, duets, or group songs.  We like that this app encourages people to make music, and makes it a social experience as well. Often in our culture, we are encouraged not to sing by our family or peers

This comedy duo from Great Britain combines their incredible concert musician skills with a sense of humor, creating an amazing and impressive routine that makes classical music more accessible to audiences while entertaining the heck out of them.  This video is just an exceptional, amazing performance that personally makes me (Charissa) so happy!  Please make sure to watch it to the end because each segment gets bigger and more ridiculous.  Just when you think they can’t t

LINK: Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder with lyrics   Stevie Wonder has been performing wonderful holiday shows annually in Los Angeles for 18 years now to raise funds for the collection of toys for needy children in the Southland.  These holiday performances are a great musical event for families to attend, and always include special guest celebrities and well-known local talent to flesh out the fun program. For the 2013 show at the Nokia Center in LA, however, Stevie decided to do

This is a neat example of overtone singing – a special vocal placement that allows a singer to create a note that actually has a higher 2nd pitch, which is voiced simultaneously with the lower note.  When you listen to it – make sure to listen carefully for the higher note to hear the melody – the lower note never changes.  In this example, the singer, Yuichi Tuba, creates a lower note that stays constant, and then manipulates his inner mouth shape to change the higher note

This is an amazing video featuring a virtual choir made of prerecorded homemade videos from 3,746 people in 73 countries of the same song.  It’s a 3,746-person choir in this 3rd installment by Eric Whitacre (the 4th video features over 8,000).  Composer Eric Whitacre’s idea for a Virtual Choir featuring voices from all over the world began when a fan recorded herself singing one of his songs and shared it on YouTube. “Eric was deeply moved by the spirit of her performance

Sometimes the best music can happen inside a concert hall. And other times the best musical moments are unplanned. That’s what happened recently in Texas when an aspiring musician strumming his guitar outside a grocery store was joined by two strangers. A third stranger recorded their impromptu session and posted it on YouTube and Facebook. The rest is Internet history. The video has since gone viral, boosting the popularity of the three men so much that they  were flown to

After an adorable YouTube video went viral showing little 3-year-old Dustin was upset that he couldn’t sing a Nicky Minaj song because of the “bad” words, Ellen invites him to sing the “clean” version of his song on her show.  It is impressive that a 3yo has the language skills to keep up with a song with so many words.  He seems to have a sophisticated understanding of our culture and how to express himself – saying in his original video that he would like to sing the clean