How do you go about finding the best voice teacher for you? Not every voice teacher will be a right fit. Not everyone who teaches is even a teacher. But what constitutes who is a good fit for you? Here are five points to be aware of when you are looking for the voice teacher that would be a good fit for you: Find A Voice Teacher Who Makes You Feel Comfortable We can’t stress the importance of this enough! Of course, every single person comes into their first lesson with some level of tension and nervousness and that’s […]
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Our Violin Program
Why we have a violin program at Martucci Music Of all the music lessons we offer, our violin program is one of our favorites. I never personally took violin lessons growing up. My uncle gave my sisters and I an old violin at one point. We all messed around on it here and there but I never took actual violin lessons. Violin lessons in East Sacramento seemed to be easy enough to find but I never knew any violin teachers personally. I don’t know why, but I had decided to take flute lessons instead, on top of voice lessons, piano […]
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As a Sacramento music school we believe in giving back It’s a phrase that I grew up hearing a lot. And it’s a concept my mother instilled in us girls from a young age. Whether it was giving our $1 contribution to the homeless shelter from our own tooth fairy fund, or it was taking us to volunteer as table servers at fundraisers as middle schoolers, or encouraging us in our professional life to give our time and training to under-resourced communities. My mother instilled in us the priority of giving back with whatever resource we had to give at […]
Read MoreGuitar Teacher Interview with Billy Sanders
Teacher Interview with Billy Sanders at Martucci Music Billy, remind me, why exactly did you want to get your degree in music? I’ve always loved music. I was raised watching Sesame Street and MTV every day. I wanted to study music since JR high and I had an offer to study guitar at a university out of high school but no one in my family had been to college so they told me they wouldn’t help me because there was no money in being a music major. So I ended up in the army to get money for music school […]
Read MoreMusic | The Tool to Self-Awareness and Introspection
I am one of those people who says: “I went through some difficult times in my life. And music was always there for me.” I had difficulty with my attention span and staying focused as a child. I would break away and play the piano and it would center my energy and my thoughts. My Story I grew up carrying the heavy secrets of my own #MeToo experiences from childhood. The weight of these experiences went into my mid-twenties. Our family endured many tragedies around my father’s terminal illness and passing. Music lessons, and at that time specifically piano lessons, […]
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