Whether or not to buy a stringed instrument is a huge decision. The cost varies drastically from roughly $100 to millions. So when is the right time to buy? A long time from now. If you are looking for violin lessons for your child, chances are it’s not time to purchase an instrument. I highly
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Beginning Piano Lessons In Phrasing
This article is for teachers who are working with students on phrase shaping for the first time. It’s a concept that can be introduced early in piano study—usually after crescendos and diminuendos are covered. The topic of phrase shaping is quite broad, so please note that this article focuses in on the first steps for
Kindermusik Certified – Jennifer Keeney
So many families come to us just wanting to find out what type of instrument really fits their child and how can their child just hone the early musical skills that they’re seeing. Well, this is where one of our very fun and cheerful teachers, Atlanta piano teacher and music education specialist Jennifer Keeney, comes
Keep Your Eyes on the Music! – Teaching Tips for Piano Teachers
This article details a way teachers can help beginning level piano students keep their eyes on the music and avoid looking at their hands to improve music reading continuity. For beginning piano students, keeping your eyes on the music is a difficult challenge, but necessary to build note reading ability and continuity. For teachers,
Beginner Adult Guitar Lessons – Tips
Guitar lessons aren’t just for kids anymore! More and more adults are choosing to pick up music as a new hobby. Many of them start because they’ve always wanted to and now they have the time and money and some because of new research indicating that putting your brain to work with music/puzzles/challenging activities can
First Piano Lessons In Accompanying – 4 Practice Tips
This article covers basic concepts for intermediate to early advanced piano students in their first accompanying endeavor. Thoughts shared here assist in establishing the role of the pianist when accompanying and how this differs from solo playing. Piano Accompanying Is An Art As a piano teacher, I’m very excited to have several students studying
School, Piano, And Guitar Lessons! It’s a Balancing Act
When Guitar Lessons start to intersect with the rest of your students’ life, there are some easy suggestions to balancing both music and school. Here are a couple… Guitar Lessons and School Work-the Two Can Go Hand in Hand As kids get a little older, school work gets harder and more time consuming. Even with
Motivating Through Piano Music
Motivating Piano Students through Repertoire Options – Piano Music This article provides insights on how teachers can motivate students by letting them have control over certain portions of their weekly and long-term assignments. For private piano teachers, one of the challenges we meet, especially with students who are working through the first several years
Right Notes And Rhythm But No Song
Play A Song You’ve got the tempo, notes, rhythm, and technique down. Now it’s time to focus on telling the story, or completing the musicality of the piece. Playing the melody is one thing, but in order to be more than just a “technical” musician you should be able to read deeper. There are so
How to play Chromatic Scales On The Piano
Chromatic Scale Piano How To Play a Chromatic Scale on the Piano A chromatic scale is a series of 12 half steps up and 12 half steps down. A half step is the smallest distance between 2 notes in Western music. So, on the piano, a half step from any given note is the very