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Offered for all ages and levels in the Sarasota & Lakewood Ranch, FL area. Multiple locations to begin learning how to play the piano.
Piano lessons can be one of the most enriching activities you can give yourself or others to enhance their music skills. See FAQ’s below. Begin the journey today.
Offered for all ages and levels in the Sarasota & Lakewood Ranch, FL area. Multiple locations to begin learning how to play the piano.
Piano lessons can be one of the most enriching activities you can give yourself or others to enhance their music skills. See FAQ’s below. Begin the journey today.
Treating ADHD with Music!
As a former teacher of underprivileged kids in an urban area, I’ve had many encounters with various behavioral, developmental and learning obstacles. It goes without saying I’ve seen my fair share of kids with attention issues. Whether ADHD or otherwise, there were always kids with problems focusing. When children [...]
7 Ways To Avoid Getting Sick This Winter
Have colds and the flu become an inevitable part of your winter holidays? Sneak these easy disease-fighting habits into your life to help stop sickness in it’s tracks. 1. Sneeze and Cough into Your Arm or a Tissue Whoever taught us to cover our mouths when we cough or [...]
Music Essay Contest: WIN MONEY!
Any student in grades 7-12 have a chance to win some money by writing an essay about something they love already: Music! There are two groups 7th – 8th grade & 9th – 12th. For each group there are first and second place prizes: 1st = $150 2nd = [...]
Festival Information: 2015
Here you’ll find all the information you’ll need for the 2015 Festival! The link below will give you all the basic information, dates, fees etc.: Festival Information: 2015 But that’s not all – Below are more resources you’ll find helpful! There is a composition competition where students [...]
Playing an Instrument Benefits your Brain!
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines [...]
10 Steps to Being the Musician You Always Wanted to Be
Principle no. 1: there are no short cuts Let me say that again; there are no short cuts. Now there’s a part of you that knows its true, but there’s another part of you that thinks ‘but I’ll be different, I’ll find a quicker way. You won’t, and it’ll [...]
How To Make Your Kids Smarter: 10 Steps Backed By Science
What makes children — from babies up through the teen years — smarter? Here are 10 things science says can help: Music Lessons – Tops the list! Are you surprised? 🙂 The Dumb Jock Is A Myth Don’t Read To Your Kids, Read With Them Sleep Deprivation Makes Kids [...]
Feel Powerful – Pump up the Music!
It’s the day of the big game — before heading out to the field, you put on your headphones and blast some music to pump you up. The music seemingly empowers you to do great things. This effect is not all in your head — according to new research, [...]
Musical Training Offsets Academic Achievement Gaps!
Learning to play a musical instrument or to sing can help disadvantaged children strengthen their reading and language skills, according to research. The findings, which involved hundreds of kids participating in musical training programs, highlight the role learning music can have on the brains of youth in impoverished areas [...]
Does Practice Make Perfect?
Case Western Reserve University’s new assistant professor of psychology Brooke N. Macnamara, PhD, and colleagues have overturned a 20-year-old theory that people who excel in their fields are those who practiced the most. Their findings are in this month’s online issue of Psychological Science. “Don’t get me wrong. Practice [...]