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Glossary of Musical Terms

Check out my new Glossary of Musical Terms!

It is an expanding list of musical and music-business related terms. It has brief, yet concise definitions of important words. Not everything will be here as we already have dictionaries for those terms.

There are often many definitions for a word and I will mainly list a musically-oriented, simple definition or two for each one. Sometimes simple is good! (As time goes on I will be adding more involved and more in-depth definitions that you can access by clicking on words that are hyper-linked.)

The main focus is musical terms that are commonly mis-understood, or should be known by anyone playing or studying music.

I just started this project in March or 2010 and it will be expanding over the next few months. If there is anything you need a definition for let me know.

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Am I Too Old to Learn an Instrument?

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Am I tool old to learn an instrument?

Have you ever said that? Many of my students and prospective students have said those exact words to me.

And my answer – no!

You can be too old to be a teen rock star and you can be too old or not good looking enough to be a sex-god or goddess, but never too old to learn an instrument.

I’ve had students ranging from nine to seventy-five. The main difference between learning when young and learning when older, is THINKING! Older people tend to think too much! Younger people tend to just dive in and do what they need to do. They have their weekly lesson and they go home and practice it. Since they invest themselves into the activity, they benefit from it and achieve their musical goals.
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