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First days at the keyboard: progress shows on day two, not day one
A preprint from 6 October: 23 people with no experience practised short tone sequences on three days. Accuracy rose from day 2, and new material stayed slower than repeated material. Not yet peer reviewed, but it gives a usable rule for practice.
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Manon Mullener at the Bayerischer Hof on 13 October: Latin jazz with electric bass and two horns
The Swiss pianist plays on Tuesday 13 October at 8 pm in the Night Club of the Bayerischer Hof. Tickets are 35 euros in advance and 45 euros at the door, half price for pupils and students. Plus a listening task with five claps.
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Noten-Player for drums: 24 new pieces – grooves with fills, single fills, exercises
The Noten-Player now holds 40 drum pieces instead of 16. New: eight grooves from rock ’n’ roll to half-time, seven fills to practise on their own, and nine exercises for note values, rests and accents. Free, no sign-up.
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New: tuner and singing trainer in the browser
Tune your guitar, bass, violin, cello or ukulele — and use four short exercises to learn to hit a note with your voice and hold it. Free, no sign-up, in beta.
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A string quartet plays living Bavarian composers — Monday at the Steinway-Haus, free entry
On 5 October a quartet from Graz performs works by composers from Bavaria in the Rubinstein-Saal. An evening that shows the string quartet is not a closed chapter.
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Digitalanalog turns 25: two nights of music and video art at Muffatwerk, free entry
On 9 and 10 October, Munich bands play at Muffatwerk to video art made specifically for their sets. Free, starting at 8:30 pm — better suited to teenagers than to young children.
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Three new mini tools: Sheet Music Player, Fretboard Studio and Drum Studio
Load your own sheet music and practise in a loop, tap scales and chords onto the fretboard, set grooves in a grid. Free, no sign-up — and every setting can be sent as a link.
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HEDER 4 Nº1 “Pause” — our comic magazine is coming
24 pages, 12 of them comic: five kids start a band at an old Munich school. Music theory and ear training told as a story instead of a rulebook.
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Our sheet music library: 627 exercises and pieces, all playable in the browser
Phrases, licks and complete pieces for eight instruments — with audio, a tempo slider and a loop. All written by us or in the public domain, nothing transcribed.
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Beer garden jam session — looking back at August
On 18 August our students and teachers played together in a beer garden. Why we consider evenings like this the most important part of the lessons.
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