Daily Links

Kevin Gallagher has posted an excellent video lesson dealing with the popular guitar piece Lagrima by Francisco Tarrega.


Want to promote your symphony? The best way, it seems, is to use Guitar Hero. The Modesto Symphony Orchestra is doing just that to help promote a concert featuring guitar soloist Manuel Barrueco. Here is the article on the Guitar Hero competition from the Modesto Bee. Ron Spigelman wrote an interesting commentary on the subject.


Earlier this week MusicianWages.com posted a great article about Using Music Education.


Finally, this is an old video, but here is Branford Marsalis discussing what students are like today:





You can check out the documentary from which the video came here.