What It’s About Merriam Music has received three of our industry’s most cherished awards over the last 6 months. It’s a first for us, and we’re honoured to receive them. The awards are the Top 10 Retailers (North America) from Music Inc., the Top 100 Dealers Award (global) from NAMM, and the Top Dealer of […]
Do you recall how much your high school mixtape meant to you? I’m certain you remember that party anthem that blasted through the dorms at frosh week. What about that song you played 40 times on the summer road trip up to Montreal. Those songs became the soundtrack of some of the most formative years of […]
Am I too old to take music lessons? This is a question I am asked rather often. Simple answer- No. It is never too late to start, especially when you realize it is not about “catching up” to a level of playing where of people that started when they were very young. One of the […]
So NYC’s last classical sheet music store is soon to close. Is this the end of classical music as we know it? NO! There was more sheet music sold online than ever before. Sheet music has never been more accessible. Anyone that has access to a computer either at home or at the library and […]
The Boston Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music, announced on June 25th 2015 that were exploring a merger that could take effect as soon as next year. This could make for some massive changes in the current program. The combination of Berklee’s world renowned music education curriculum and tech resources with the Boston Conservatory’s dramatic […]
Kanye West VS Freddie Mercury: “Bohemian… by babykute-dhxd If you haven’t seen it. Kanye West just finished butchering Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody at Glastonbury. Its blown up online. It really could not have gone any worse. Its true, the performance was awful. However, I think (once again) Kanye has been misunderstood. He obviously knows that he has the […]
Bravura gigs don’t ordinarily warrant five stars in my book, but concerts by Michel Camilo – the Latin-jazz piano star from the Dominican Republic – are so astonishing that you abandon all aesthetic doubts and come out with your hands up. After his long single-set tour de force at the South Bank, and a […]
If you’re only as good as your tools… these should give you some potential! These tools will free up some brain power and time for you to focus more on the creative side of things. The tuner and metronome are essentials in my opinion, and the other apps are quite useful as well. […]
This article by Vice.com states a pretty big claim. Though the data is shocking the way it has been presented, it seems to be a bit skewed for shock value. Vice did not take accessibility into account when making their claims among other things. A pop fan has a massive amount of vendors to get […]
Watch out, A Great Big World, this man’s gorgeous cover of “Say Something” will stun you. A video uploaded to YouTube captures Michael McNamara performing on a Cobourg, Ontario, street piano in Canada. The piano, called “Foxgang Amadeus,” was painted and placed on the streets as part of Cobourg’s “Keys to Our Town” art initiative, […]