Yes, anyone can be taught to play in time. Patience and creativity can go along way in helping a student with this sometimes difficult task. A great teacher understands that every student is different and will do whatever it takes to help a student learn. Clap, sing, draw, dance, and eventually, your natural rhythm will shine!
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When All Else Fails, Bribe Them! Practice Music
In our dream world, students practice daily because they love music and because they believe us when we say that practice makes perfect. In reality, students practice once a week, probably ten minutes before the lesson. Not all of them, of course! Some don’t even practice those ten minutes before the lesson.
How To Start A Family Band
This article covers some of the basic ways to get an ensemble started amongst siblings and/or friends. You don’t have to reach a certain level of proficiency to be able to participate and benefit from the experience, but with some guidelines for arranging, the results can be fabulous!
4 Steps To Sing Vowels Correctly
This entry is to singers taking who are having trouble singing vowels. There are some steps you can take that will help produce a better vowel sound. We all know that singing is singing on vowels. Go ahead, try to sing a “D”, “T”, or “B”. You can’t do it. The sound you’re actually singing
Alto Singers In A Choir Or Small Ensemble
I believe the importance of alto singers in a group cannot be overstated. They make the sound of a choir full, contribute to the melody, and have the best ears when it comes to female voices.
When Do Music Lessons End?
After a few years, my first instructor told me he couldn’t really teach me anymore, that I had learned and practiced everything he had to offer me.
Why Counting in Orchestral Percussion Is an Unexpected Love Story
Often times, I would literally count 128 measures just to hit one pianissimo triangle hit on measure 129, You have to just love Orchestra Percussion
The Advantages Of Playing Piano Duets With Beginner Students
This article is for teachers working with beginner piano students who are looking for ways to enrich the first year of lessons. The focus is on duets and how they provide different advantages in getting a feel for the instrument.
A Soprano Voice, It’s Role In Chorus
This Article will examine the roll of a soprano in a choral group, or even how a soprano affects a small group or duo. Sopranos Carry the Melody Probably the most important job of the soprano section in a choral group is to carry the melody. When a person is listening to a song, the
How To Relieve Vocal Tension Naturally: A Singer’s Guide to Freedom
These three exercises should be done in order, every day so that you can become familiar with yourself, how and when you produce tension in your singing, so that you can learn how to reduce it little by little.
