Blog

Is my child ready to learn an instrument?

As parents, we’ve all been told that learning a musical instrument has many incredible benefits for our children. We all want the best for our children, so of course, we want to give them every opportunity to grow and develop…

Online Lessons – Let the Music Play

Our decision last week Sunday to move to online music lessons the next day, meant we had to move fast. We needed to figure out how best to communicate our lessons effectively, keep our pupils engaged and motivated and also…

Music lessons for adults

We were half way through our 8 week adults course and learning a piece called ‘The last train home’. I had written this piece to teach 7ths and to introduce this ‘Jazz-sounding’ chord. It was the first piece on the…

Life skills that Music teaches our Children

1. The art of being present Timothy Gallway, in ‘The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance” describes the need to be present. “Since the mind seems to have a will of its…