How many of you have ever participated in a drum circle?  Today drum circles are very popular and for good reasons!  Drum circle are loads of fun, require no prior musical training, require no musical ability and enable you to connect emotionally and energetically with people that you’ve never met before that day.

I first experienced a drum circle when I was a music medicine researcher at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.  A very talented woman named Phyllis Free came and assisted in a toning group I was conducting there and suggested that we also do some drumming!  Because few people had their own hand drums back in 1992, we found empty trash cans and large buckets which we turned upside down.

A local TV station came and filmed the workshop for the 12 o’clock news because it was so unusual in those days…it was actually news.  In 1993, the “Today Show” came and filmed Phyllis and me doing another toning and drumming workshop for medical students!  You can see a clip of this at www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com/clips.html.

If you’d like to understand more about the power of drum circles I have written an ebook that is chock full of information and sounds clips.  To learn more about that, go to Drumming for Health, Wellness and Fun. 

I hope you’ll participate in a drum circle one day!  It’s an amazing experience!

Do you know about “Second Life”?

Several months

Dave Schwartz on Music Acedemy Online interviews chantdoc

 ago I was interviewed by Dave Schwartz of Music Academy Online. The hour-long interview was done in Second Life, a technology that gives humans animated avatars on-screen. If you’d like to watch/listen to this and learn about how I went from being a musicologist to being a clinical musicologist, click http://www.slcn.tv/music-academy-onlive-dr-alice-cash-ph-d. I think you’ll really enjoy this one!

If you love the old-fashioned tunes of Christmas that you heard as a child, take a peek at the deal I’m offering on my Christmas CD, the one I recorded last year.  I’m offering dynamite reductions if you buy multiple copies!  You can even download the digital version onto your iPod or other MP3 player.  Check it out!    

 YES, ALICE, PLEASE LET ME SEE IT NOW!!

Hope you’re enjoying your holiday season!  I am!  

Hi Friends and Colleagues,

By popular demand I am extending the special Everyday Qi package that I had created for Ellen Britt to offer when she interviewed me on her teleseminar series May 29.  This package has been the most popular thing I have over sold, but it was only supposed to run for a week.  It’s now been 10 days and I’m getting requests to reactivate the link to the package.  After talking with my webmaster, he agree to let me offer it for another 5 days at most so HURRY on over to www.healingmusicenterprises.com/listmailings/qi/Everyday_Qi_Package.html.  It is four of my newer products that you probably do not have but would love, so don’t wait another moment.  You can begin to use the music you already love for healing purposes right now!  Have a great week!!

Alice

I started playing the piano when  was about three years old.  I wasn’t a prodigy but I did love the sound of the piano and would be mesmerized by anyone who could play.  We didn’t even have a piano but I would go next-door to my father’s church and find an availabe piano and pick out tunes.  I didn’t actually begin lessons until I was eight years old but I loved it and played quite a few “difficult numbers” on my first recital.  When I was about thirteen, I got my first “serious” piano teacher and she was adamant about not teaching or playing “simplified” pieces.  She thought that either one should play the original or wait until you’re ready for it and play original music at your own level.

Fast-forward to 2008.  Now that I’ve stepped into the world of healing with music I believe that anytime a person can play their own music of choice on whatever instrument they love.  For that reason, I’m introducing you tonight to —————————————————————
The name Dan Coates is synonymous with fun for our students. His decade
series combines the best songs from each ten-year period beginning
with the 1950s with Dan’s own carefully-arranged, student-tested, and
pedagogically sound teaching arrangements for students of all ages. These
144-page collections offer an incredible selection of pieces that will
keep you playing all year long.

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/decade.html?id=145130

Enjoy!