Noteworthy News

Blog share- Listen and Learn with Rachel Rambach

January 18, 2011

One of my songs, “It’s Cold Outside” is featured on Rachel Rambach website, Listen & Learn. She is a talented music therapist with a fantastic website full of song files and music therapy resources.  If you haven’t visited her site yet- please do!  It’s a treasure!  Keep an eye out in the near future for [...]

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Download your copy of “The Richards’ Modified Tuning for Guitar: An Approach to Guitar Instruction for Music Therapists and Music Educators”

January 16, 2011

Available now for download on “The Music Therapy Tween” website.  This new alternate tuning for guitar was designed to assist individuals with special needs play guitar using one- and two-fingered chords.  To order or get more information about the E-book visit The Music Therapy Tween. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe [...]

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Noteworthy News: My Top 5 Favorite iPad Apps

January 15, 2011

Here is a list of my favorite apps that I use over and over in my music therapy practice. The picture above is actually a screenshot of one of the pages on my iPad. Did you know the iPad can actually take screenshots?  Just press the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same [...]

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New Book Release:Richards’ Modified Tuning for Adapted Guitar

November 18, 2010

It’s here just in time for the 2010 AMTA conference, my new book!  I am so excited to have this specialized tuning out for other music therapists to use.  Only one or two fingers are need to execute a variety of basic and extended chords.  This book will be available for purchase through the Erfurt Music [...]

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Songwriter Profile Assessment- The Four Elements and the Four Quadrants of the Brain

August 1, 2010

For my upcoming CMTE course, “Songwriter’s Garden” at the AMTA Music Therapy Conference in Cleveland, I am developing a songwriter’s profile based on the four classical elements and the four quadrants of the brain.  If you would like to take the “teaser” assessment, you can download the directions and assessment here: Songwriting Assessment Song assessment [...]

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Song Shop Winner!: Michelle Episale

February 20, 2010

The winner of the free subscription to the “Song Shop” is Michelle Episale!  Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway.  Michelle is a friend from my high school days in Binghamton, New York.  One of Michelle’s children has a sensory disorder, so she is thrilled to have access to all of the songs in [...]

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This is so ME in the morning!

February 17, 2010

Steven Schick is the guest artist featured with the Eastman Percussion Ensemble this Thursday. For the past 30 years, Schick has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher by commissioning and premiering more than 100 new works for percussion. He was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York [...]

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Check out the new “Blog Beat”

February 12, 2010

“Blog Beat” is the new place to synchronize yourself with blog posts like Remarkable Resources, the Listening Loop, Noteworthy News, Podcast releases, Song Shop updates, and much more!  Share the new Blog Beat with friends and other music therapists! Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...]

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Organizing your songs on iTunes

February 11, 2010

One of the best things I have done with my iTunes account is to create different playlists for different moods/states.  I have selected songs for unsettled states, settled states, and energized states.  Judith Pinkerton is a music therapist that developed strategies for organizing music by these categories and calls it USE Music.  http://ccta.us/news/index.php I would [...]

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Eastman Wellness Presentation

February 10, 2010

I will be presenting today at Eastman on the basics of performance wellness.  Louise Montello and I will be providing a Level 1 workshop at the Hochstein School of Music & Dance in May.  There is early bird registration available.  Follow this link for my information: http://www.hochstein.org/programs20mainadults.htm Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about [...]

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