Summer: Time to Flourish!
All year long, most public school students look forward to the summer as a time of relaxation and fun. Summer is the reprieve from all the stress that school can place on both students and teachers; exclamations of –
“Does music make you smarter?”
Well, instead of giving you my biased opinion on this subject 🙂 I’d rather share with you this very informative infographic containing several facts about how music study impacts those that participate in it.
“you have no way of knowing until you have a child of your own…”
It took one person to believe that I had the knowledge, skill, and potential to teach the skill I’d been working on since I was 8yrs old: piano playing. I was 17yrs old when my piano teacher told me,
“I think you should teach piano. I believe you can and should start doing some piano lessons.”
Is music-making for EVERYBODY? or is it for an élite “kind” that have been blessed with the “talent” for music? If music-making is in fact a basic element of human existence, then are you missing out if you consider yourself excluded from the “music-making kind”? Now, I use the term “music-making” to refer to any activity that involves creating music, whether for fun or formal training.
This might be the one question instrumental teachers ask the most in a lifetime…yet, what do students interpret that question to mean? More importantly, what do parents interpret that question to mean?
What does “practice” mean?