How Do I Find a Piano Teacher?: A Beginner’s Guide If your question is, how do I find a piano teacher? and you aren’t already part of a music community, you might feel lost as to how to find a piano teacher in your local area. So here are 4 tips to help you both find a teacher and know what to look for in a teacher once you find one. How Do I Find a Piano Teacher: 4 Tips 1. Ask Your Local School’s Music Program Whether you have connections with an elementary school, a high school, college or […]
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Looking For An Online Piano Teacher
For some people, looking for an online piano teacher is a better option for them than in-person lessons. This could be due to a number of factors including location, transportation or scheduling. Whatever the reason, you find yourself looking for an online piano teacher. Where do you start? Ask Your Network of People You can easily post on your social media if you have a platform(s) and see if anyone knows a piano teacher who does lessons online. You may get recommended to someone who knows someone and that’s always a peace of mind when someone knows someone. And if […]
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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…
Read MoreHow To Get The Most Out Of Your Piano Lessons
If you are wondering how to get the most out of your piano lessons for the price that it costs you, we hope to enlighten you on some things to consider. Both finding the best learning situation for yourself and then leveraging that learning situation is key to getting the most out of your piano lessons. Sometimes leveraging the learning situation requires some personal introspection and change. Here are some things we think you should consider in order to help you get the most out of your piano lessons: 1. Find a Good Piano Teacher There are many people out […]
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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 […]
Read MoreAt What Age Can I Start My Child With Music Lessons?
At what age can I start my child with music lessons? Or the sister question is: How young do you take beginning music students? Could very well be the most frequently asked question we get from parents inquiring about music lessons at our school. Of course, the answer to this depends on each parents’ goals or expectations. At two years old your child will probably not sit through a formal lesson on a particular musical instrument. If that is what the expectation is from a parent then there is definitely an age to start their child according to that child’s particular needs […]
Read MoreExploring Guitar Lessons
When you first start on the idea of exploring guitar lessons, you hardly know what to expect. Perhaps even less, do you know how to answer when your instructor asks you “what your goals are”. It’s hard to express what “ideas” you have about playing guitar if you don’t have the proper guitar vocabulary to express it. We put together this article to help you understand some of the basic concepts you can pursue with your guitar lessons. We hope that it will help you communicate with your guitar instructor on what “your goals are” or what you would like […]
Read MoreDifferent Styles of Violin Music
When we think of genres and styles of violin music, many of us immediately think of orchestra music or Vivaldi and his famous violin concertos. But there are so many other genres and styles of violin music out there, especially today! For this reason, I thought it might be fun to put together a little blog article that would perhaps either remind you of other genres of violin music you already knew about or to introduce you to new kinds of styles or genres that you didn’t know were out there! There are all kinds of music genre fusions happening […]
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