Your child’s first piano recital is often an exciting and nerve-wracking experience, all at the same time, for your student and for you. Here are some tips to help you know how to prepare, what to expect at the recital, and how to keep your…
Your child’s first piano recital is often an exciting and nerve-wracking experience, all at the same time, for your student and for you. Here are some tips to help you know how to prepare, what to expect at the recital, and how to keep your…
Today there are unprecedented reasons for making music a part of everyone’s life. Students taking music lessons now will determine the place of music in America and the value society places on music tomorrow. Regardless of what these students ultimately choose as a profession, music…
1. Take lessons yourself. Put yourself in their shoes – literally. Remember what it’s like to have a busy week and have a hard time finding time for practice? Remember what it’s like to when your pieces don’t play as well in the lesson as…
While many music schools limit their focus to one big recital at the end of the year, Sally Piano Music offers multiple recitals throughout the calendar year As a student, you’ll have the opportunity to perform your piece when you’re ready ! October is our…
Music reduces stress and anxiety. Research has shown that listening to music — at least music with a slow tempo and low pitch, without lyrics or loud instrumentation — can calm people down, even during highly stressful or painful events. Music can prevent anxiety-induced increases in…
The ‘Mozart effect’ was first suggested by a scientific study published in 1993 in the respected journal Science. It showed that teenagers who listened to Mozart’s 1781 Sonata for Two Pianos in D major performed better in reasoning tests than students who listened to something…
Dr Shinichi Suzuki was the founder of the worldwide music education movement known as the Suzuki Method. Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1898, he was the son of Japan’s first and largest violin manufacturer. Dr Suzuki called his teaching method the Mother-Tongue Approach, inspired by…
Finding the right instrument for your child is a difficult but important factor in your child’s continued musical success. Forcing a child to play an instrument rarely leads to the love of music making we want. Here are some components to consider when helping your…
Whether your child takes a music appreciation class or starts actual lessons, he/she’ll benefit mightily from being exposed to music. Kids can start formal music training as early as age 3, when brain circuits for learning music mature. In fact, studies at the University of…
Toddlers and preschoolers have lots to gain from listening to music. It’s fun, for one thing, and it also encourages movement, which is important for young children who are perfecting their motor skills. “Kids learn through movement,” says Rosalie Pratt, a professor of music medicine…