What Super Mario Brothers can teach us about music education

Guest post by Alper Tuzcu. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper

Learning music is difficult. It takes time, patience and perspective. Learning an instrument at an advanced level takes years. Skills like critical listening or ear training take a long time to develop. In other words, being a good musician is tied to perseverance and trying again and again until you get to perfection.

In the world of education, there are different perspectives for styles of teaching. One of these perspectives argues that humans should be penalized for every mistake they make. This is where the concept of exams come from (of course) — the fear of “failure” is supposed to stimulate us to do better.

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5 Quintessential Movie Soundtracks You Need In Your Collection

While you watch a movie because you like the story and its characters, you also can’t help but get lost in the music that goes along with it. In fact, many movies are acclaimed far more for their soundtracks than the movie itself. Ever since humans first figured out how to make excellent use of the silver screen, music has been vital to keeping audiences in suspense from start to finish. If you are a soundtrack fan, here are five of the all-time best you need in your collection.

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Symphony Of Fear: What Makes A Great Horror Soundtrack

All movies have to try to make a viewer believe in the realism of what is happening the screen, but horror movies face a unique task of trying to make viewers be in fear of a bunch of moving pictures. To build an atmosphere of tension and dread they have to utilize the whole range of tools, and the soundtrack takes a special place in that effort. From “Shining” to a B-tier monster movie, there’s no mistaking a horror movie soundtrack with any other genre. But what makes great and effective dreadful soundtrack?

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Why Video Game Music Should Be Taken Seriously

If you’ve ever thought of video game music then Super Mario or Tetris probably sprang to mind. Both are catchy theme tunes made for video games, but would people take them seriously if they were released as singles? Probably not.

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