Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.
Anyone can be an arranger. Couple aural skills with general musical knowledge, and you can immediately become an arranger or composer. You can increase your value exponentially and go from making standard contractor pay to arranger pay with possible residuals. Arranging, though, is nearly impossible without some functional knowledge of modern harmony, traditional and modern notation, and understanding of musical instrument families. Broad and varied stylistic experience is also crucial. Basically, if you're a musician who can read and who listens a lot, you've got a head start. Let's talk about the other things necessary.
