Category: Parent Tips

When Is It Time to Step Up Your Instrument?

Whether your child is enrolled in private music lessons or is involved in band or orchestra at school, chances are they’re playing a beginner-level instrument. It’s not uncommon for budding musicians to rent or buy a beginner instrument to play before they step up to a higher-quality instrument. After all, the last thing any parent […]

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Boost Social-Emotional Learning With Music Lessons

  As science uncovers more about how children learn, it’s becoming clear that a comprehensive education extends far outside of conventional subjects like math and science. Social-emotional learning is an important part of a child’s development that education experts have increasingly paid more attention to in recent years, and music lessons are one of the […]

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How to Help Your Musician Get Through the Holiday Season

As an adult, the holiday season can be pretty hectic. We often look back fondly on childhood memories of the season, seeing it as fun and carefree. What we tend to forget though, is that kids can have a lot of events occurring around the holidays too. Children who are involved in music, in particular, […]

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Woodwind Instruments

When Is It Time to Upgrade Your Woodwind Instrument?

Dedicated practice, natural ability, and drive are important factors that contribute to a musician’s progress and success. Something that’s not always talked about is the profound impact the quality of an instrument has on a musician’s sound. A well-crafted flute or clarinet has the power to bring out a player’s peak performance. When a player […]

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Give Your Child The Gift of Music Lessons This Year

Music lessons have always been a phenomenal gift option for kids. But after this challenging year, they’re more important than ever. In the face of so much uncertainty, when you give the gift of lessons and music education, it is something that can lift children’s spirits. Inspire them at a time when they truly need […]

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Best Gifts for High School and College Musicians 2020

Being a parent to a high school or college-aged musician comes with some perks as well as drawbacks. After years of willingly — or unwillingly—listening to your child practice their instrument, giving them rides to and from lessons, band practice, and recitals, students at this age start to flourish in their work and make real […]

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Best Gifts for Elementary and Middle School Musicians 2020

For the non-musical parents of young musicians, the holidays can be a rough time. Knowing what gifts your budding musician will love and which ones they’ll politely smile at and set aside isn’t easy for parents who don’t know much about music. Luckily, it turns out it’s actually not that complicated. From essential tools your […]

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5 Ways to Enjoy a Musical Halloween From Home This Year

We’re all having a challenging year, but kids have it especially rough right now after losing their summer and being kept from the steady routines that usually come along with heading back to school during the fall. While trick-or-treating, haunted houses, and school parties aren’t a safe bet for many American families this Halloween, partying […]

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Help Keep Kids Creative with Music Lessons

Creativity is a lifeline for children during difficult times, and, unfortunately, the time we find ourselves in is profoundly challenging. Whether it’s being forced to learn from home or seeing important social events get canceled, the lives of our children have transformed in a dramatic way. National Keep Kids Creative Week takes place every third […]

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6 Fun Ways You Can Celebrate National Piano Month

September is a month known for kids returning to school, the start of fall, and one of our favorite instruments on the planet––the piano! National Piano Month takes place every September, and it’s the perfect time to learn how to play this amazing instrument for the first time or to celebrate it in earnest if […]

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