As the school season resumes, your child's need for a creative outlet grows stronger. Science shows there's nothing that keeps their brain as fully engaged as learning about music. (Updated August ...

If you're looking for a hassle-free, more affordable way to start learning piano than in-person lessons, there are several iPhone apps that can teach you an instrument, not to mention must-have ...

Learning music is often seen as a hobby or an extra perk in school, but new research shows it’s much more than that. A growing body of evidence reveals that music learning is a powerful tool to ...

Get your guitar or ukulele (or even piano) in your hands and take a look at some of the easiest Jack Johnson songs to learn. The music of Jack Johnson can be characterized as soft acoustic rock ...

Anita Collins is a visiting fellow at the Music, Mind & Well-being institute at the University of Melbourne. Misty Adoniou receives funding from the ACT Education and Training Directorate to research ...

Some of us find it challenging to translate written musical notations into auditory signals and/or motor programming. Some cannot tell one tone apart from another. Some struggle with keeping up with ...

My son is a kindergarten Mandarin immersion student. One of the highlights of my day is dropping him off at school and staying to watch their first activity of the day: singing songs in Mandarin.

Scientists typically think of songbirds' vocal development in terms of how one circuit in the brain learns a song. But researchers have now investigated how zebra finches learn songs from a different ...

English Language Instructor, University of Cyprus, and PhD Graduate, Charles Sturt University Traditional approaches to adult language teaching often use resources such as textbooks and generic ...

To learn a song, young white-crowned sparrows don’t need to hear the entire tune straight through. Hearing it in two-phrase bits will do. If the order of phrases in a pair is reversed—BA and DC ...

Many musicians with a degree in music performance share their knowledge through private teaching. Unlike our colleagues with music education degrees, we do not study learning disabilities or the signs ...