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Learning Music: Making Music a Family Pastime

The power of music goes well beyond tickling your eardrums, getting you moving, or eliciting strong emotions with rich harmonies or powerful storytelling. Music brings families together. For parents, the thought of their children playing instruments together can bring a

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Maintaining Progress After Missing a Lesson

So, you’ve missed a lesson this week. Lesson cancellations happen. Even when you miss a week with your teacher, it doesn’t have to be a moratorium on your progress. There are myriad ways that you can maintain and even continue

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Developing Inner Time Feel

Developing Your Inner Time Feel by Adrian Moring Inner Time Feel can be defined as the consistency with which one plays a steady pulse.   Developing your own time feel is an important part of improvement as a musician. As you

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The Art Of Practicing

The Art Of Practicing Music by Adrian Moring Practicing music, just like playing music, is truly an art unto itself.  As one searches for new musical concepts and instrumental techniques, it becomes apparent that it takes a perfect balance of

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5 Things To Look For In A Great Teacher

Great music teachers are hard to find. When you look someone up on the internet or get a referral, how do you know they’re the right one? We’re pretty picky about the teachers we work with and put a lot

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Music Lessons During Flu Season

Due to the particularly rampant and vicious flu this year, we wanted to share some reminders about how to have healthy music lessons and our illness cancellation policy.   Disinfecting instruments. We become especially diligent with cleaning our homes, especially

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Common Misconceptions About Your First Music Lesson

Music lessons offer an opportunity for students to learn a new language, creative expression, hard work and problem solving skills. Often a parent’s or student’s expectations for their first music lesson may differ from a teacher’s expectations for quite a

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