2000 Lessons! Over 10,000 videos now online! This is a major milestone for WorkshopLive, and all of these lessons are available to subscribers. Lessons are available in a variety of levels and styles, from Absolute Beginner to Advanced Blues, Jazz, Rock and Acoustic. Click here for the full story. Congratulations to all of our teachers and everyone at WorkshopLive.

WorkshopLive is Going Back to School! MAP-WorkshopLive's Music Access Program-hits classrooms this year, providing schools and other educational institutions access to its award winning technology and curriculum. Learn more...

WorkshopLive is Proud to Announce Kids First Keyboard and Kids First Guitar courses! If you've been looking for that perfect gift for your child, look no further. WorkshopLive just released two new interactive lesson courses, Kids First Guitar and Kids First Keyboard. Each includes 30 lessons geared toward the young beginner. Read more...

Naked Hippy! Our own rocking guitarist Geoff Hartwell was featured in a skit on Saturday Night Live! His image is a few moments into the skit but it's all Geoff. Click here to jump straight to it.

Leo Marchildon (One Of Our Keyboard Teachers) Has Been Nominated for an Emmy! Could another WorkshopLive teacher end up with an Emmy Award on the shelf? (Jeff Bihlman has one, too.) Leo was nominated for his composition with the Cell Block Scholars at Ball State University in Cleveland. We'll keep ya' posted.

The Cave Man Cometh! Check out the entire series...

Dear Reader,
Welcome to the new generation of WorkshopLive's newsletter, Tuned In! We've resolved to stay in closer touch with our community, so there's going to be a new issue published every couple of weeks. WorkshopLive is a community of people that love music and want to be better musicians, so that's what this newsletter is about. You'll find links to videos, lessons, articles and more, all by and about great performers, teachers and songwriters. You'll find out what's going on at The Practice Room, the ultimate music blog, and on www.WorkshopLive.com, the premier online music learning experience.
So stay tuned, and stay tuned in! ENJOY!

The Pentatonic Scale: The Musician's Staple
The pentatonic scale is one of the most-used scales across many genres of music, played on all Western pitched instruments, and is commonplace in Western and Eastern cultures. We hear this scale all the time in rock, jazz, blues, acoustic, and even some examples of classical and orchestral music. So why is this scale so fun, accessible and cosmopolitan? Click here to find out more.

Follow up Scott's Theory Corner with these smokin' pentatonic licks. There's a riff here for guitar, keyboard, bass and drums, complete with notation.

Meet The Monstas, Matt Smith's new band. They've just released their first album. Here's a cut called "Crawfish Funk."

Our teachers are on the road! Looking for live music? Check out this month's list.