When you think of the holiday season, one of the most prominent memories for most includes the presence of our favorite holiday music and carols to bring cheer and get us in the spirit for this joyful time of year. The stretch from November through New Year’s presents a great time for teachers and students
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Taking Care Of Your Vocal Chords And Things To Avoid
When we first purchase a shiny new instrument, we will often try as hard as humanly possible to keep it safe and protected. Instruments can be expensive and we want them to sound as good as possible when we play them. When a student purchases a guitar, they will likely purchase a case for it.
Piano Lessons Turn My Brain Off
Turn My Brain Off I look out the window of the room where the lessons take place. Outside, it’s sprinkling and dreary. The house I’m in is not my own, though the more I visit, the more I feel at home, the more I feel invested here. My student is playing the piano- a piece
Percussion Lessons – Get to Know the Marimba
Before I became an experienced music teacher, I went to the University of Miami to study classical percussion. There, classical percussion meant studying concert snare drum, timpani, xylophone, vibraphone, crash cymbals, all kinds of shakers and wood blocks, but mostly, the marimba. I believe at least an introduction to the marimba is in order when
A Saxophone For You Could Start With A Sax Teacher
A great instrument for so many is the saxophone. In home saxophone lessons are your ticket to playing the blues, or some of that awesome Kenny G. Christmas music that is playing all over the place at that most wonderful time of the year. If you have had aspirations to pick up the sax and
How To Defeat Stage Fright – Music Lessons In Your Home
You stepped on stage. Lights are blaring in your face with hot Sahara like heat. Peoples’ faces are blank as fresh canvas waiting for you to paint emotion on them with the joy of your performance. Each second that passes feels like hours, and your mind is blank with how to fill such time, when
Is Warming Up your Voice Important? Voice Lesson Know How!
Time for voice lesson and my young student is so excited to perform the song that she’s worked on all week long. She has memorized the words and has been practicing with her CD and she knows that she can hit all the notes perfectly. It’s a song with a lot of range and we’ve
How To Encourage Your Young Songwriter – Learn To Write Songs
In many of my lessons, I get asked by several parents about songs and poems that my students have created, and not really knowing how to encourage their young songwriter. It’s something that’s quite difficult to know exactly how to offer the right things to say to be honest with your young songwriter and also
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
The Parent’s Role In Their Child’s Music Lessons
The Parent’s attitude plays a great importance in a child’s success with piano or music learning. Success in private piano lessons in Seattle requires support from the parents in the same way as the parental involvement is crucial to children in school. The piano teacher is not the only one to teach your child how