“You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” The order of events in a private music lesson can be crucial to the student’s enjoyment of the lesson. The article outlines the basic structure of a private music lesson. As music teachers want to create a lesson plan in such a way that
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Sticky Music Lessons Trap Students
Using Stickers as a tool to help younger students practice their music lessons is a great way to keep a child’s motivations high! Fast Music Lesson Progress What is the fastest way to progress in music lessons? I hear this question all the time as a music teacher in South Florida. The answer, as you
Confessions of a Female Drummer
As a female drummer, I know I’m a bit of an oddity. And I don’t mind it one bit. In fact, I kind of like the shocked faces that follow me as I lug my huge bass drum across the bar to the stage. Tearing down misconceptions is a good thing. In this article, I share my confessions as a female drummer.
Musical Costume – Why You Started Taking Piano Lessons In Orlando
Halloween is right around the corner! While most people are getting their costumes together, running out find the perfect fabrics and face paints and making scary faces in the mirror, musicians can be figuring out their perfect “musical costume” for the holiday. What is a musical costume? You may be wondering what I’m talking about
Play Games During In Home Music Lessons
Let’s face it – kids LOVE games! A great way to keep their attention and focus during a lesson is turning simple tasks into games. For example, I always have my students warm up their hands by playing some very basic exercises from a method book. This is a great way to warm up their
How To Hold A Drumstick – Private Drum Lessons
Many teachers have different ways of explaining how to hold a drumstick. I have a simple, catchy method of remembering the best way to hold your sticks with the best possible results. This method is remembering 1, 2, 3, V. 1: Make a “1” with your pointer finger. Now look at the palm side of
Metronomes, use them! Make in-home music lessons more sucessful.
When learning an instrument, it can seem like a metronome is your worst enemy. It makes playing everything seem much more difficult! It may seem difficult now, but practicing with a metronome trains you physically and mentally to keep consistent time in your playing. Being able to keep a steady time is essential to playing
Drum Sets- Electronic Vs. Acoustic? Learning to Play Drums
As an experienced drum set teacher in Miami, FL, many parents ask me whether they should purchase a standard acoustic drum set or the increasingly popular electronic drum set for their young drum student. Either is fine, but there are definitely pros and cons with both. An electronic set may seem more practical on the
Adult Music Lessons – Learning To Play Music At Any Age! It’s never to late:)
Music can be many different things to many different people. Some people play music as a job and as a way of life. Some people play music only in their spare time, for personal enjoyment. Wherever you may lie on this spectrum, music is something that provides a vast amount of personal enjoyment. I sometimes
The Power of Positivity in Music Lessons – Lessons Learned from ADD, Dyslexia, and Autism
One of the most valuable lessons I learned about teaching music came from a place that didn’t involve music at all. Over the summer, I worked in a learning center teaching phonics and comprehension to children with learning difficulties such as ADD, dyslexia, and autism. As a teacher, I was given extensive training about how