5 Ways to Improve Your On-Stage Performance

Surefire Ways to Make a Lasting Impression on Your Audience Getting up on stage and delivering an impactful performance is a skill that takes practice. With that being said, it can be learned, and there are some surefire tricks and tips to improve your stage presence!...

The Importance of Foley Artists In Filmmaking

If we didn’t have foley, film would certainly feel funny. Without the right sounds in the right places, films would feel so strange! To get an idea, think about Charlie Chaplin and the age of silent films, which didn’t have foley. Foley artists and their contribution...

Recording Studio Etiquette 101

How to Succeed as an Artist in a Recording Studio For many musicians, hitting the recording studio can be an incredibly exciting or anxious time if they haven’t done it before. Whether the swing is up or down, it is extreme. If you are looking at your first time...

Musicians Institute Industry Mentors Fall 2021

Musicians Institute is proud of our diverse mentor program, which allows MI students the unique opportunity to speak one-on-one with leading professionals who are working and thriving in the music industry. Each quarter, we feature a new group of MI instructors and...

Ear Training 101: How to Improve Your Understanding of Music

Have you ever sat and wondered how somebody could play such an incredibly out-of-tune guitar or piano without having the hairs stand up on the back of your neck? Alternatively, have you ever stood in amazement at how entire orchestras can hit the right notes either...