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YouTube user MrFasthands65 has posted more than 1,000 videos of himself drumming on top of popular songs. “Fun is learning something and doing it well in your own mind,” Lou, as he’s known on the web, writes. “Perfection or striving for it is work and ruining your fun. As I aged I realized no one can be perfect, for there will always be some self-proclaimed critic to tell you you’re not.”  Read more here…

With advanced Alzheimer’s disease, language deteriorates and patients spontaneously speak less and less. In a small study from Israel, group music therapy sessions using tailored songs helped people with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer’s strike up communication. Read more here…

Music has long been used to help people celebrate and mark a special occasion. But one Michigan woman used it for something else – healing from a coma. Read more here…

MIDLAND, TX, (Local Big 2 News) – A foster care center for abused and neglected children looks to start a music therapy program. “Music crosses barriers of culture, it crosses barriers of development,” says JaLynn Hogan, treatment director for the High Sky Children’s Ranch in Midland. A new music therapy program, aimed at healing hurting kids. “All the children that are here at High Sky are here because they’ve been abused and neglected, and removed by child protective services,” Hogan explains. Read more here…

Oliver Jacobson started playing violin when he was six years old. At 18, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music, one of the top music schools in the country. Back then, he wanted to be a star. But he had a sense he might be able to use his talent for something more. Read more here…

On November 18, 2011, a video was uploaded to YouTube. We follow a woman down a corridor of what looks like a long-term care facility. We learn that she is a recreation therapist as she tells us about the power of music to reach a female patient who seemed all but unreachable. But we never see that patient. Instead we see a name: HENRY. Read more here…

In literature, poetry, art, philosophy and theology, music has been credited with mood- heightening, emotion-altering, life- saving properties. Science has, over the years, attempted to prove that melodic sound does in fact hold power. Omkara – The Sound Of Divine Love takes the science of music to the chakras – the seats of our energies – to inspire healing and balancing through beautifully arranged tones and elevated vibrations. Read more here…

With advanced Alzheimer’s disease, language deteriorates and patients spontaneously speak less and less. In a small study from Israel, group music therapy sessions using tailored songs helped people with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer’s strike up communication. Read more here…

Rye based music therapy service The Music Well has joined forces with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health to hold a special event at Rye Studio School on Saturday July 19. Read more here…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB)– It looks and sounds like music class, but it’s so much more. “We’re not worried at all how well someone plays music or how well someone’s singing or playing an instrument,” said Donna Brown, owner of Louisville Music Therapy.  Read more here…