Tai Cheri

On the piano you find white and black keys. 🎹 How do you navigate it all? Because just looking at them can make some people dizzy! Yes t...

The world is in grips with a virus that has halted civilization. Schools have been cancelled and many are unsure if they will ever get ba...

When we are really young we love to jump, climb, run, skip, move all over the place. Wait, what am I saying? I still love to do those thi...

I recently had a friend come to me asking for help with tuning her violin. She recently started playing it again and she was finding it h...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations, certain characteristics found in jazz do have t...

In 1817 New Orleans city council establishes "Congo Square" as an official site for slave music and dance.

The adage goes: Practice Makes Perfect. It’s literally an impossible task. Why? Because no one in this world is perfect. Philosophy aside...

When I am performing, I try and go all out. My father has always told me that you are only as good as your last performance. If anything ...

I get a lot of people that come up to me and ask what type of music I tend to play a lot of. They are a little surprised when I tell them...

Why do we do scales? For many adults that attended music lessons in their youth, they will tell you it was a torturous device that us mus...

Often times my students psych themselves out at our lessons. They have practiced all week and have worked really hard and then they get t...

Many people find that when they are playing an instrument, their ring finger tends to feel the weakest. Why is that? It is the way the te...

When you are playing music it is important to be healthy about your movements and technique. If you are not healthy and careful then you w...

Sometimes learning our notes can be a real pain in our brain. When I was younger my brain would get all confused...but that might be from...