Posts Related to: Music Teachers

There are lots of things blooming in this area of the world (Nashville). Beautiful, but for a singer sensitive to those particular flowers – scary.
What do you do when you greet the morning sounding like a frog? Well, because many allergy and cold medications dry the throat and vocal cords out, I recommend trying these …

A teacher who plays excessively during a lesson is not an aid to a student. In fact, the teacher often creates problems for learning. The goal of a lesson should not be to get a student to play like the teacher but to encourage the student to develop  his or her own voice.
Playing can be helpful as …

I have many sweet and amazing young clients, and I adore them. But I was moved, deeply, watching the Carol King and James Taylor concert “Live at the Troubador” on PBS recently. I’ve never heard either one of them sing better, or even as well, as they did on that show.
And check out Tina Turner, …

A reader wrote in with the following question: I play the guitar and sing and would like to work on vocals as well as guitar. Should I expect a guitar teacher to help me with my vocals?
A guitar teacher should not be expected to work with your voice. A vocal teacher would be the specialist …

Music education has benefits beyond the obvious. It’s great to play an instrument or sing or write songs. But few people appreciate the long lasting value of studying music.
It’s beneficial at every stage of life. Youngsters benefit from the discipline, the logic, the process of learning itself. It can increase self esteem and balance out …

I spent many years playing the piano and not getting much better at it, although I had a natural flair for it and began lessons at a very young age. 
There were no competent piano teachers in my small town in Kansas; my first teacher was the grade school principal who knew a little about music, …

If you want to take your music to the next level, get experience performing in front of others, and just have fun, there is is nothing better than spending a week at a summer music camp for adults. There are bluegrass camps, jazz camps, guitar camps, songwriting camps, band camps, orchestra camps, chamber music camps - all geared toward adult …

My favorite sentence in all of music? That’s easy. Prima le parole, e dopo la musica. It means: “First the words, and then the music.” In terms of impact, it’s right up there with “A stitch in time saves nine” and “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Prima le parole, e dopo la musica refers to …

Chuck Anderson is part of an elite group: world-class jazz musicians who focused their careers not on performing, but on passing the baton to others. Like the late Dennis Sandole and Charlie Banacos before him, Chuck spent his career focused on educating and mentoring students, many of whom went onto illustrious careers.
Now at 62, Chuck Anderson has returned to his roots …

Classical Music. Ah, hah! There’s a label that causes trouble. What does it mean?  Most people would answer “the music of Mozart and Beethoven, Bach and Brahms…those ‘classical’ guys.” But what does that mean?
 
Those guys wouldn’t know what to do with the label “Classical Music.” They couldn’t have envisioned their music still being around centuries into the future.
Immortality? That was …