Do We Value Music As We Should Be Valuing It? This blog entry is inspired by a friend of mine’s Facebook post asking if we value music and appreciate the art-form as a top influencer in our daily lives. Furthermore, are we valuing the artists and composers behind the creation of this music? How much do we consciously value music and its creativity around us? Do we realize how much musical creativity surrounds us all the time and how it plays such a major role in our everyday lives? Let’s remind ourselves of this with examples of how much music […]
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Violin Lessons for Kids: 3 Things Parents Should Expect
When it comes to violin lessons for kids, parents new to music lessons want to know what they should expect. Oftentimes, they have no idea. That’s ok! We’ll tell you three things to expect for yourself as the parent of a child who wants to take beginning violin lessons. 1. You Don’t Have to Buy a Violin Buying a violin is a bigger financial investment than renting. Yes, you can find a music shop that rents violins. Usually there’s a two or three month commitment but it’s a whole lot cheaper than buying a violin if you’re not sure how […]
Read More3 Things to Expect When Teaching Online Music Lessons
Now more than ever, future music teachers want to know what to expect when teaching online music lessons. It has never been a favorite way to teach music lessons for most. Many music teachers feel that the full experience of taking and teaching music lessons is lost with the online music lesson. Here are our top 3 things to expect when you are teaching online music lessons. Keep these in mind for yourself, not only as a music teacher, but also for your students to know as well. Knowing what to expect ahead of time will help bridge the gaps […]
Read MoreLearning Violin Through Online Lessons
With this COVID-19 pandemic affecting our world, disrupting our routines, and changing how we’ve done things, students have had to address the challenge of learning violin through online lessons for the time being. In this short blog, we’ll address just a couple of the biggest challenges we have faced with teaching online violin lessons 1. Keeping the Attention of Younger Violin Students We’ve found that it is much easier to keep the attention of our younger students when we are in person with them at our school location. If you thought keeping their attention focused in person was hard before […]
Read MoreSinging in the Head Voice
Written by Brianne Cardona Many voice students find it most difficult to sing in the head voice which is also called the upper and middle registers. We speak all day long in our chest voice. Therefore, the chest voice tends to be much more developed in most singers than the head voice. How to Find the Head Voice Some students might not even know what the head voice feels like or is “supposed” to feel like. In order to develop an awareness for what the head voice feels or sounds like, I have my students start out by mimicking an […]
Read MoreBreath Support vs. Breath Control in Voice Lessons
Written by Brianne Cardona I find that breath support vs. breath control in voice lessons tend to be used interchangeably. It’s important to know that these terms are two very different processes and therefore, shouldn’t be mixed up. One cannot happen without the other, but they are not the same thing. As you will see expanded in the following paragraphs, the main difference between breath support vs. breath control in voice lessons is this: breath support is the set up of a singer’s breath while breath control is the release of that breath. Read on to delve more into these […]
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About Learning the Violin
Learning the violin is one of the most challenging musical instruments to learn but yet it is one of.. if you are thinking about taking violin lessons…
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How to Survive a Music Recital
How to Survive a Music Recital In the back of their heads, most students want to know how to survive a music recital. Most specifically, the nerves. How do you survive being nervous and how do you survive the embarrassment of messing up your performance?! The good news to hold onto is this: everyone gets nervous at a music recital! Even professional performers still get the butterflies! But how do we deal with these butterflies? Here are a few essential points every music performer should know and do in order to best survive a music recital. 1. Practice This Mindset […]
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How to Prepare For Your Guitar Lesson
There are things that every student, young and old, can do to prepare for your guitar lesson in order to gain the most you can from the money you spend to be trained. In this article we give you a sort of checklist of things you can do to be the most prepared for your guitar lessons apart from your daily practice routines. Do these things before every guitar lesson and you will quickly become one of your guitar teacher’s favorite students! Eat a Snack Before Your Guitar Lesson In order to gain the most out of your guitar lesson […]
Read MoreWhich Size Guitar for Kids?
When it comes to children learning to play guitar there is a size guitar that would be best for a child to use when taking guitar lessons. A full-sized guitar may be too big for many children to start with. It is important that an appropriate size instrument be used during a child’s guitar lessons so that they learn to play guitar correctly. Playing a guitar that is the incorrect size for a student will lead the student to compromise good technic. In this article we will show you the different guitar size options that can be used for a […]
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