ArtistWorks' James Taylor (Director of Global Business Development) has written about the latest music schools to join our ever-expanding online music lessons. There's something big going on with online music education and all of us at ArtistWorks are excited to be at the forefront. 

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This weekend marks the twelfth annual Classical Guitar Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. This year’s featured guitarist is Jason Vieaux, who is Head of the Guitar Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM).  He recently spoke with Cleveland Radio Statio WCLV about this year’s events, as well as his enterprise with ArtistWorks teaching classical guitar lessons online.

Listen to the full interview with Jason Vieux here.

It's coming... It's coming... are you ready to ROCK?

Soon guitarists all over the world be able to take rock guitar lessons direct from legendary shredder Paul Gilbert. Although Paul has released countless instructional material, he’s especially excited about teaching how to play guitar online at ArtistWorks. 

 "I feel at this online school I have done the best job I ever have at choosing the right material and putting it in order...this is really methodical and systematic."  - Paul Gilbert

The SF Music Tech Summit brings together visionaries in the world of music and technology with journalists and investors.  ArtistWorks Director of Global Business Development, James Taylor, attended last February’s Summit and had a chance to meet with author and journalist Harmon Leon, who writes for the Huffington Post and Coed Magazine (among others).

Starting today, you can take percussion lessons from Grammy Award-winning, master percussionist Luis Conte using the ArtistWorks interactive Video Exchange Platform for as little as $20 per month. 

Best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin sees a revolution in the music industry. Here's how we're redefining what's possible in online music education.

Seth's Blog description of the "Perfect and Impossible" resonates with us:

"The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

"The music business was perfect. Radio, record chains, Rolling Stone magazine, the senior prom, limited access to recording studios, the replaceable nature of the LP, the baby boomers... it all added up to a business that seemed perfect, one that could run for ever and ever.

"The digital revolution destroyed this perfect business while enabling the seemingly impossible: easy access to the market by new musicians, a cosmic jukebox of just about every song ever recorded, music as a social connector...

Got percussion fever? Take percussion lessons online at the Luis Conte School of Percussion starting April 11.

Need another reason to get back to learning music? It's good for your brain.

Photo Courtesy of Northwestern University

"Just as we lift weights to build our biceps, playing music makes our nervous systems more efficient," said Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University and principal investigator of its Auditory Neuroscience Labrortory.

The Neural Encoding of Music project reports more efficient aural memory for both a younger group of musicians aged 18-32 as well as older musicians aged 45-65 compared to nonmusicians.

Director of global business development for ArtistWorks' music education online, James Taylor, talks with Slow Living Radio  about how our education technology can help you learn music online and get back to playing the music you love.

Next Wednesday, you can learn from master Luis Conte at his new ArtistWorks Drum Academy School of Percussion! Take percussion lessons on instruments like the shekere, or chekeré, as it's spelled in Luis's native Spanish. The chekeré is a gourd that has its routes in West African music.