Instruments and Styles

Instruments

Piano and electric keyboards
Voice — lead and background
Flutes — silver flute, Irish whistle, Native American, bansuri, quena, shakuhachi, and others
Percussion — doumbek, cajon, djembe, congas, Brazilian tamborim, and others
Novelty instruments — harmonica, jaw's harp, nasophone, xaphoon, ocarina, and others

Classical
Jazz, Fusion
Rock, Funk, R&B, Folk
Blues, Boogie, Ragtime, New Orleans
New Age
Salsa, Irish, Middle Eastern, African, Afro-Cuban, Andean, Brazilian, and others

Performance: technique, interpretation, musicality, stage presentation
Composition, arranging, orchestration, scoring, improvisation
Theory: chemistry of sound, architecture of music
Ear-training
Sight-reading, sight-singing
The Music Business: venues, recording, product, management, promotion, media, etc.
Music Appreciation
Value of Music and the Arts
The Zen of Music: personal development, spiritual growth, and greater wisdom gained through understanding the correlation between music and the universal laws of nature