Friday Five

Happy Friday to you! Here's the Friday 5. You can also check it out on the website to see videos, listen to the music, and comment if you'd like. You can also reply directly to this email and say hi :) GUITAR You know that cool melody at the beginning of Under the Sea (Little Mermaid)? You can totally play it. SONG Distance - Emily King BOOK Improvisation: Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students by Tony Wigram. This is a great book, I'm currently re-reading it.…

Greetings! It's Friday and I'm bringing back the Friday 5 weekly installment. It's an email that shares 5 cool things I'm using, thinking about, listening to, etc. So here we go! Instrument: Skoog music interface. I've been using this with patients who have limited mobility to work toward improving motor skills. It also provides for increased accessibility to creative expression. I love that I can adjust the sensitivity of the instrument in the software. App: Evernote. I'm currently typing in Evernote and it helps me organize almost everything. Photos, business…

Good day! I hope your 2nd week of 2016 was swell. Here’s what I’m digging this week: THOUGHT I was contemplating the chances of winning that huge Powerball, and the odds were pretty darn slim. I didn’t buy a ticket. But then I remembered a thought that I’ve had at various times since I was ten or eleven years old: what are the odds of me being born? I was about to get out my calculator and start planning an article, but thank goodness some other people have already done…

Happy New Year! It’s Friday, which means I’m posting 5 things I’m digging this week. If you know someone who might enjoy something listed here, please share this post with them! You can also get these delivered straight to your email inbox by clicking here. Take care and enjoy this holiday season! APP Way of Life. This is a simple habit-tracking app that lets you input things you would like to do (or not do) each day or a certain number of times per week. It sends you a reminder…

Season’s greetings! Here is the weekly installment of the Friday 5 - five things I’m excited about this week that I just have to share. If you know someone who might enjoy something listed here, please share this post with them! You can also get these delivered straight to your email inbox by clicking here. Take care and enjoy this holiday season! MUSIC I’m not going to do it! No holiday song recs here! I won’t give in! Instead, I’m going to share with you a song that I wish…

Happy Weekend! It’s time for another Friday 5! This is where I share 5 things I’m digging on each week. Some relate to music and music therapy, and some are just straight up random (but interesting, at least in my own humble opinion…). If you would like to have these delivered conveniently to your email inbox, please click here and subscribe! BOOK Getting Things Done - The art of stress-free productivity. GEAR String Swing - I like to display some of my guitars and keep them accessible for playing. But…

Hellooooo! It’s time for another Friday 5! For newcomers, this is where I share 5 things I’m digging on each week. Some relate to music and music therapy, and some are just kind of random (but interesting, at least in my own humble opinion…). Enjoy! BOOK The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg. The title says it all, and the implications for our personal and professional lives are fun to think about/put into practice. MUSIC I usually put newer music…

Aloha! It’s time for another Friday 5! This is where I share 5 things I’m digging on each week. Some relate to music and music therapy, and some are just straight up random (but interesting, at least in my own humble opinion…). If you would like to have these delivered conveniently to your email inbox, please click here and subscribe! BOOK The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler I just finished this and it’s the first book in a while that really drew me in. The author talks about flow…

Greetings! Happy almost-Halloween, and definitely happy Friday! It’s time for another Friday 5, where I share 5 things I'm digging on each week. Some relate to music and music therapy, and some are just straight up random (but interesting, at least in my own humble opinion…).  If you would like to have these delivered conveniently to your email inbox, please click here and subscribe! Enjoy! GUITAR It’s Barre Chord Week at Music Therapy Source. You’ve probably seen emails and Facebook ads from me. If they’ve been crowding your online space, worry…

Happy Friday! This is where I share 5 things I’m digging on each week. Some relate to music and music therapy, and some are just straight up random (but interesting, at least in my own humble opinion…). If you would like to have these delivered conveniently to your email inbox, please click here and subscribe! Thanks to those of you who have been emailing kind words and recommendations for the blog. I appreciate you! PRODUCTIVITY Earlier this week, Rachel, Michelle, Kimberly, and I released a new podcast on the Music…