The Playground

The first sound recording was reportedly captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860, nearly two decades before Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call (1876) or Thomas Edison’s phonograph (1877), Scott recorded the […]

• Written by Gretta Dunn on Oct 7, 2020
• History, invention, music, music education, music history, piano, recording, simply music, sound, sound recording, study, the playground

In the old days, music was an ephemeral thing – if you weren’t there at the performance, it was gone forever. Nowadays if you wanted to, you could chronicle your every moment at the instrument […]

• Written by Gordon Harvey on Apr 28, 2016
• audio, benefits, catalogue, develop, gordon harvey, library, listen, music, neil moore, playing, preserve, record, recording, simply music, the playground, video

  Amazing Grace is a beautiful song. And, as is apparent from Neil’s introduction of it in both the foundation materials (Levels 1 and 2) as well as in the variations, it’s also a wonderful […]

• Written by Guest Contributor on May 30, 2012
• amazing grace, arrangements, chords, groove, jennifer lee, learning, lessons, music, new, piano, recording, sheet music, simply music, the playground, tutorials, variation

The Accompaniment process is a unique, fun and vital component of the Simply Music curriculum. In this article we show those of you with just a little experience of Simply Music lessons how simple it is to create an accompaniment from the printable online version of this song made famous by Susan Boyle.

• Written by SM Admin on Apr 2, 2010
• britain's got talent, les miserables, lessons, method, music, piano, recording, simply music, susan boyle, the playground