5 Tips to Help Your Child Have Successful Music Lessons So, you’ve taken the plunge and signed your student up for private lessons (or you’re starting to consider signing them up for lessons) but you want to know how you, as a parent, can help your child have successful music lessons.  Let’s focus on making the most of your child’s music lessons.  Music teachers can be a useful tool in advancing your child’s ability.  However, the desire to grow and advance still falls on the student and parent. While instructors are important, parental involvement and interest is the key to […]

With arts programs being canceled across the nation, many people are left asking themselves: What are the benefits of studying music?  Music has existed since the beginning of time as a way for humans to express themselves and a way to communicate.  Additionally, music is known to benefit bot emotional psych and development of humans. Music also heightens math, language, memory, and spatial awareness.  So, why would we cancel music programs if they are proven to enhance learning capabilities?  Simply because these programs are misunderstood and therefore undervalued.  Understanding the benefits of studying music is essential in creating and developing […]

The Importance of Music Theory Do you know the importance of music theory? Music theory gives musicians a language for understanding elements and structures of music art… Many students who further their musical knowledge will eventually be taught the importance of music theory.  Music theory is the study and breakdown of musical elements.  In turn, Music theory explores the connections between notes and theories.  Additionally, it teaches students how to train their ears for music tones and patterns.  Students learn music theory through music theory lessons and aural skill practices.  Music theory is important for students to learn to advance […]

5 Techniques for Memorizing Music Finding techniques for memorizing music can be intimidating to a young musician. Memorizing is one of the more difficult challenges of studying music, for sure. After all, how can you fully perform something if you haven’t memorized it.  Memorizing pieces of music is important for developing skills and learning techniques for memorizing music will enhance the ability of the student.  Additionally, it is essential to memorize music in order to perform it to the best of your ability.   Memorizing Music is to Know it, Inside and Out. After a piece of music has been learned, […]

Managing performance anxiety is a necessary skill to develop as a musician and performer. Those sweaty hands, shaky legs, and shaky breath are an experience that most performers feel at some level or another. Some more than others. Other symptoms may include a racing heart, dry mouth, sweats and nausea. But how do you manage performance anxiety? More performance experience doesn’t always mean less performance anxiety. Even famous professional performers have said, “You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them to fly in formation.” Or as we like to tell our students, “You can never […]

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 […]

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 […]