Musical Styles
Parenting Tip: Introduce Your Child to a Variety of Musical Styles Why? Introducing children to a wide variety of musical genres gives them a greater understanding of what is possible …
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Breanna Ferchak – Piano, Flute, Voice.
Breanna Ferchak Kindermusik Educator Music Artistry Instructor for Piano, Flute, and Voice. We are very pleased to have Breanna teaching for our school, both as a Kindermusik teacher in Mt. …
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How to Care for and Maintain Your Guitar
By Anja Wade, Guitar Instructor and Performer Ideally, the guitar should receive a general tune up at least twice a year. Just like we may need to sharpen hockey skates …
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Listening to GREAT Performances is a Key to Success!
Article by Anoush Tchakarian, 8/12/2015 “No one can make an educated decision about the instrument that they want to study without hearing it played beautifully! Students need to hear instruments …
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It’s time to Sing and Dance this Summer!
We are so pleased to announce more details for this summer’s Voice Camp and Musical Theatre Camp. Our instructor, Laura Mason, has been working hard to finalize the plans for a spectacular …
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Babies: Combining Music and Sensory Play to Explore the World
BABY SENSES: EXPLORING THE WORLD Sometimes it seems like young babies do little more than eat, sleep, cry, and generate dirty diapers. But it only seems that way. In truth, …
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Teaching Preschoolers about Musical Expression: Articulation
MUSICAL EXPRESSIVENESS – ARTICULATION (LEGATO & STACCATO) Making music is natural and spontaneous for young children! It begins within, and then emerges in the form of self-expression. ‘The joy of …
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Teaching Children to Sing
YOUR CHILD’S SINGING VOICE (SOL & MI) Did you know that, in the Western world, children usually learn to sing the notes ‘sol’ & ‘mi’ first? Think of ‘Rain, Rain, …
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Toddler: Using our Voices Like Instruments
Louis Armstrong is credited with creating ‘scat singing‘ (where the voice emulates an instrument by singing nonsense syllables instead of words). The story goes that Armstrong showed up to a …
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Using Imitative Play to Boost Your Child’s Learning.
Play is a Child’s Work. Imitative Play is Your Work. Play is one of the most important ways that two & three-year-olds learn & develop. Emerging during childhood, imitative play …
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