Acting Lessons
Comprehensive acting program covering monologues, commercial acting, character development, improv, emotional choices, cold reading, blocking, voice & diction, directing, industry insights, and career preparation.
Acting Training Project
Comprehensive acting training covering facial expressions, voice, speech, body language, characterization, emotions, and improvisation for aspiring performers.
How Improv Can Boost Your Communication Skills
Discover three improvisational powers to enhance creativity, listening skills, and collaboration in personal and professional settings.
Robert Pinsky Poetry Reading - Selected Poems and New Works
Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky shares selected and new poems, offering insights into his creative process and exploring themes of culture, language, and human experience.
Plays with Words - Language and Gender in Comedy
Explore the intersection of language, gender, and comedy through performances and discussions with comedians, scholars, and improv artists, offering insights into the role of words in shaping humor and social dynamics.
Don Quixote - Introduction to Part II - Lecture 12
Explore the transition between Don Quixote's Parts I and II, examining themes, cultural context, and Cervantes' writing process in this insightful lecture on the classic novel.
Beginning Piano Unit 1
Welcome to Hoffman Academy Unit 1! If you're an absolute beginner at music and piano, then this is the place to start.
Presence of Mind: Mindfulness and the Creative Process - Exploring Meditation's Impact on Artistic Practice
Explore the intersection of mindfulness and creativity through expert insights, personal stories, and research findings on enhancing visualization, flow, and artistic practice.
Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs - Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
Exploring critical transitions in jazz and mathematics, from creative leaps to societal shifts. Examines universal patterns in breakdowns and breakthroughs across various scales, from individual cognition to collective innovation.
Learn Bass Guitar
Comprehensive beginner's guide to bass guitar: techniques, scales, modes, and improvisation. Covers tuning, fretting, plucking, music theory, and practical exercises for daily practice.
Bass Guitar - Advanced Lessons
Explore advanced bass techniques: Mixolydian mode, II-V-I progression, key signatures, bassline construction, Aeolian mode, scales, improvisation, and more modal concepts.
Saxophone Lessons - Beginners
Set up, cleaning, fingering, tonguing, rhythm, improve your tone, improvisation, and more.
Saxophone Lessons - Intermediate
Pentatonic patterns, blues improvisation, play faster and make fewer mistakes, fingering, vibrato, and more.
Saxophone Lessons - Advanced Concepts
How to NOT mess up a performance, get called back for gigs, play overtones, altissimo, record over a backing track, and more.
Practical Saxophone Lessons
Hello Saxophone is fast-paced and will give you the exact practical information you need in the straightforward way you want! Before you know it you'll be playing cool songs like: "Mercy Mercy Mercy","The Mo better blues" and "Saint Thomas".
Mandolin
A comprehensive mandolin course in 80+ videos. Learn the basics to musical ornamentation: slides, syncopation, improvisation, rhythm chop, doublestops, licks, arpeggios and so much more!
Beginner Harmonica Lessons
Blues, how to breathe, make your harmonica sound like a train, improvisation, licks, harmonica warm ups, and more.
Intermediate Harmonica Lessons
How to play faster, boogie, blues, bends, plus many tunes.
Advanced Intermediate Harmonica Lessons
How to overblow on harmonica, learn a piece off by heart, improvising with blues scale, 5 harmonica practice tips, plus more.
Play Piano With Lisa
Beginner and play-along lessons, how to play, top 10 piano player problems, sound amazing, and more.
Online Piano Course for Beginners
The online piano course for beginners from Music Matters. Starting right at the very beginning, showing you how to sit, how to position your hand and the basics of the keyboard and working up to reading five notes in the treble and bass clef.