30th June 2008
Three Powerful Reasons why children benefit from music education as part of their Curriculum, especially at a young age. There has been plenty of research done about the benefits of music education for young children.
1. Playing music improves concentr...
15th May 2008
Young children just love music and often it is through music that young children communicate for the first time, whether it be through gesture, smiling or action.
But is there more to it than that?
There is a growing amount of evidence to show that ...
11th May 2008
Did you know that you only very basic equipment to record your own Music CD at home?
Did you know that you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a demo recording done? and you don't need to spend lots of money on equipment either!
When I w...
02nd May 2008
The beginner band is a big challenge, you have an entire band of students who are just starting to learn their instruments, and you are trying to both educate and inspire them to play.
Getting the percussion section to work effectively can be one of t...
28th April 2008
Tuned Percussion (using xylophones and things) can be great fun for music classes - but it can also be a source of headaches for the music teacher!
This article is to give you some hints and tricks on how to maintain and look after the instruments, plu...
25th April 2008
"Everyone says it, that singing to my baby is a good thing to do, but I sound so bad!"
"I heard that music helps my child.... Is this True?"
"What sort of music should I sing to my baby?"
Increasingly it is thought that singing to a child, right ...
22nd April 2008
Private Music teachers are teachers who teach one instrument, usually one on one with a student, or in small groups of students. Often these lessons are in the teachers or the students homes, or sometimes they are held within a school situation, often wit...
16th April 2008
How our music school grew from 6 to over 200 students in under two years.
When my wife and I started our music school - everyone around us thought it could'nt be done. It really hadn't been done in our home town much and no one we knew had ever quit th...
