Sometimes, a small mistake is just a small mistake. It won’t impact your child’s piano playing or their ability to move forward. However, if they’re making the same minor errors repeatedly, it can have a major effect on their piano playing. Their piano instructor is likely to even comment on these things, or you may
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Should Beginner Guitar Players Use a Pick?
One of the things new guitar players often purchase along with their guitar is a pack of picks. They believe that these small plastic accessories are necessary to play guitar but are quickly surprised when some guitar teachers tell them that they don’t necessarily need them. Let’s look in to when guitar picks are necessary,
5 Things to Tell Your Child before Learning the Violin
Learning violin is challenging, especially for young learners. While working with great violin teachers is a must, you can also help your child prepare for learning the violin by sharing a few pieces of wisdom with them. The following are tidbits that many experienced violin players say they would have loved to have been told
How To Incorporate Music Class During the Quarantine
During the coronavirus quarantine, everyone’s daily lives have been upended. Many people are no longer going to work or are working from home. Those that do continue to work outside the home have to take extraordinary safety precautions. Kids, too, have been affected. The school year ended two months earlier than planned, they can’t go
Can Kids Learn How to Play Guitar Online?
It seems like you can learn anything by going online and searching for tutorials. But does that include how to play the guitar? For children asking to learn to play, you may be considering online guitar lessons at home. But is this really the right option? The answer is – it depends. If your child
Virtual Music Lessons Are Working
Why Our Virtual Lessons Are Working Three weeks ago, 100% of our Lessons In Your Home and Music In Your School sessions went Virtual, and we moved to Online Lessons. While we’ve taught a number of students online for the last 8 years, most of our staff had a limited amount of experience teaching
5 Questions Your Child Should Ask At Their First Guitar Lesson
When your child decides they want to take private guitar lessons, they likely have a basic understanding of what that means. However, while they understand that these lessons will help them reach their goal of playing guitar, they may not understand how they’ll get there. There may be some other questions or concerns raised to
10 Things You Can Do Today In Your Online Music Lesson
Anytime a change occurs in a lesson, as a teacher you have to adapt. This is especially true if your changing from in person lessons to teaching music lessons online via live streaming video. First and foremost, don’t worry. After a few lessons online your music lessons will be feeling comfortable and familiar like they
What Are the Developmental Benefits of Piano Lessons for Kids?
Learning to play the piano gives your child a skill they can enjoy for the rest of their lives. Even if they don’t play piano in any professional setting, they can always enjoy playing for themselves, plus they will understand music theory. But did you know signing your child up for lessons from a piano
7 Warm-Up Techniques Every Singer Should Know
Before any singer starts a performance or even practice, they need to warm up their voice. If your child is learning to sing by taking private voice lessons, they may be tempted to start singing at any time. While that’s certainly fine, if they’re going to practice for any long period of time or will