Mini Mountain Publishing

28/07/2023

🎶⛰️ Introducing our FIRST original concert band piece: "Not All Heroes Wear Capes"! 🎺🎉

29/05/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-3ocMe8Or4&ab_channel=MiniMountainPublishing

🎺 New concert band piece from Mini Mountain Publishing 🎺

🎵Mini Mountain Publishing Store: https://www.minimountainpublishing.comNot All Heroes Wear Capes is a piece that blends the delicate beauty and courageous p...

09/04/2023

🎵Mini Mountain Publishing Store: https://www.minimountainpublishing.co...Choose Your Own Adventure is a piece for clarinet quartet with three difficulty lev...

09/04/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJpli2aYtg&ab_channel=Mr.CapriTeachesMusic

Choose Your Own Adventure is a piece for clarinet quartet with three difficulty levels.

🎵Mini Mountain Publishing Store: https://www.minimountainpublishing.co...

Recruit (Easy) comprises whole notes, half notes, and the first six notes of the Bb major scale.

Hot Shot (Medium) adds dotted half notes, the option to play a written B in the clarinet 1 part and some part independence.

Finally, Ace (Hard) adds 8th notes and some additional part independence.

🎵Mini Mountain Publishing Store: https://www.minimountainpublishing.co...Choose Your Own Adventure is a piece for clarinet quartet with three difficulty lev...

22/06/2022

Hey music teachers, here are some resources to review theory, famous musicians, and foods that start with the letter Q. 😂

Jeopardy - Music Theory
https://www.playfactile.com/l3vrty39o7

Kahoot - Music Theory
https://create.kahoot.it/share/music-theory/86e6615a-d487-49f7-81f4-01ffb15e4379

Kahoot - Famous Musicians
https://create.kahoot.it/share/who-dat/54c62062-033f-4886-87d5-c982864ae6b0

04/04/2022

We've made sheet music parts for a student favourite called Never Gonna Give You by Rick Astley. We've created two versions so students can either play in the original key of the song or an easier key. The sheet music can be found at:
https://www.joshuacapri.com/musiceducationresources

Also, play along tracks for the easy key version can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBNgaYwcfc&list=PLy5X8tbr0-OCv1JTks3CS47PPNPYrni94&ab_channel=Mr.CapriTeachesMusic

26/03/2022

Happy Spring Everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LiztfE1X7E&ab_channel=VoicesofMusic

The complete concerto, "La Primavera" (Spring), from the Four Seasons. Voices of Music, Alana Youssefian, baroque violin. The concerto is here presented in 4...

12/02/2022

The instruments of the percussion section!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lzzMHoi3r2w&feature=share

Had a blast playing these movie themes! Would love to know which ones you enjoyed and if I do a part 2, what movies to include! Cheers!👕MERCHANDISE: https:/...

25/10/2021

We've made some unison sheet music parts for a song that our students really love called "Sunday Best" by Surfaces.
https://www.joshuacapri.com/musiceducationresources
It's in the original key so the students can play along to the original recording. Check it out! Hope you like it!

02/05/2021

From dance to drama to drawing, children need an arts education now more than ever.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-from-dance-to-drama-to-drawing-children-need-an-arts-education-now/?fbclid=IwAR324AyKPijVGnha_hnHZpkETsH4VGx1Gq4ck0jtnVYZyAqUgKlQu9GHdEQ

Losing access to choirs, pottery classes or acting intensives takes away something children love and rely on just when they need it most

18/04/2021

“Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/11/oliver-sacks-musicophilia/

“Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”

05/04/2021

💥“...the relationship between humans and sound and the part of the brain that music goes to directly, that’s related to your deep emotions.”
🎷🎸🎺

https://youtu.be/re4WQgOxCuA

A short clip for educational purposes only of The Music Instinct: Science and Song from PBS.

29/03/2021

🤣 Harry Potter played on a washer/dryer! 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmltHR0uB9E&list=PLy5X8tbr0-OCJBF76UAOmBRYT_bU6gS65&index=1&t=12s&ab_channel=KurtHugoSchneider

Did we just waste hours learning how to play Harry Potter on the washing machine and dryer? Maybe... but I hope it puts a smile on your face! If it did subsc...

22/03/2021

🎺 Very cool to see the benefits of music education for not only development, but also well being! This article discusses music's effect on mental, physical, and emotional health. Super cool read. 🎺

The Impact of Music on Human Development and Well-Being.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315798/

01/03/2021

🎸 Free Sheet Music for Never Gonna Give You Up

🎸 FREE Never Gonna Give You Up Sheet Music https://www.joshuacapri.com/musiceducationresources

23/02/2021

Hello Music Teacher Friends!

I've posted a couple of covid safe lesson plans on my website. I've also posted a brief youtube video with a quick explanation.
Hopefully you find them useful. 🎺

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvsR-f751Oc&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=Mr.CapriTeachesMusic

Lesson Plans
https://www.joshuacapri.com/freelessonplans

Two free Lessons for Music TeachersLesson 1: What Do You Hear?Lesson 2: Zen & the Art of ListeningLesson Planshttps://www.joshuacapri.com/freelessonplansPlay...

15/02/2021

🎹 The great Chick Corea playing Armando's Rhumba @ the 2019 Monreaux Jazz Festival. Thanks Chick for all the years of inspiration!

https://youtu.be/5S0o7uuKJo8

Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band performing "Armando's Rhumba" at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2019. Chick Corea - PianoCarlitos Del Puerto - BassMarcus...

08/02/2021

More science in support of music education!

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit.html

The latest neuroscience shows that learning a musical instrument increases brain power.

24/01/2021

🎷Kenny G has the world record for the longest note ever held on a saxophone - 45 minutes! 😮 😄 Here's how he did it. 🎷

https://t.co/vMN9rNOohz

Kenny G Circular Breathing Lesson

05/12/2020

04/12/2020

The power of music in a stressful pandemic.

https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/the-power-of-music-in-a-stressful-pandemic-column/article_034cc37a-7aa7-11ea-af23-6b7600f1035d.html

Times like these can spur intense internal reflection about what is important in life. It also can lead to some questioning about whether what we do, whether at home or

25/11/2020

Music students do better in school than non-musical peers https://news.ubc.ca/2019/06/24/music-students-do-better-in-school-than-non-musical-peers/ via

High school students who take music courses score significantly better on math, science and English exams than their non-musical peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Educatio…