Music Lessons

What to Expect in a Music Therapy Session

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Just how no two children are alike, music therapy sessions vary from client to client. What goes on inside a session depends greatly on your child’s/client’s needs and preferences. A typical session will include a hello song to indicate the start of the session, music interventions to work on social/emotional, perceptual/motor, language/communication, preacademic, and musical … Read more

Stretches for Musicians

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Playing an instrument doesn’t feel the same as playing a sport. When you play a sport, you’re on your feet, you might be sweaty and out of breath, you feel your muscles burn and ache. Playing an instrument is usually done sitting down, breathing slowly and carefully, and using fine motor movements in your elbows, … Read more

5 Essential Practicing Tips

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Here are a few tips to help your music practice (or any other practice, for that matter) become more efficient and helpful, rather than discouraging and upsetting.   Slow down When you’re learning, it takes time for your brain and body to synchronize. Give plenty of space for synchronization to happen by taking things very, … Read more

Life Skills Learned in a Music Lesson

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Anyone who studied music knows that learning an instrument is so much more than meets the eye. The discipline and perseverance involved ultimately make you a better person in life, and here’s why: Learning How to Learn Research has shown that the best way to learn is through spaced repetition–repeating a few times across several … Read more

“Let’s Play Music” and “Sound Beginnings” Classes

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Play Your Part will be offering Let’s Play Music and NEW Sound Beginnings classes beginning this fall. If you’d like to try it out this summer, we will be hosting several FREE sample classes.

 

Sounds Beginnings (0-4 yrs)–click on a date to register for FREE

Children learn best when they feel loved and nurtured. This fact is the core of the Sound Beginnings philosophy. Sound Beginnings provides the structure for natural play between a parent and his or her child. Taking us back to days before electronic stimulus, buttons and screens, Sound Beginnings gives the parents the tools to connect with their child on an intimate, playful level. These tools, both musical and literary, provide a solid framework for a child to learn, thrive and flourish.

Now, that’s a sound beginning.

Monday, July 10th at 3:30pm in Mission Viejo

Thursday, July 13th at 10:15am in Mission Viejo

Friday, July 14th at 9:30am in Orange

Saturday, July 15th at 11:00am in Mission Viejo

 

Let’s Play Music (4-6 yrs) (email brianna@playyourpartmusic.com to register for FREE)

Let’s Play Music is a music theory course that emphasizes total musicianship through piano playing, singing, classical music, note reading and ear training…and it’s all accomplished through PLAY!

Saturday, June 17th at 10:00am in Mission Viejo

Saturday, July 15th at 10:00am in Mission Viejo

Saturday, August 5th at 10:00am in Mission Viejo

 

Piano Will Make You Smarter

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According to research in this Forbes article, piano will make your kid smarter. It’s commonly known that knowing how to play piano, or knowing how to read music in general, can make you “smarter” but what is defined as being “smarter”? We usually hear about how being smart is split up into two categories: street smarts and … Read more

How to Raise a Creative Child

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-raise-a-creative-child-step-one-back-off.html?_r=2&referer= *This blog post summarizes the article in the link above   We all want our children to be successful, but do we want them to be original and creative? Of course we do! This may lead them to earning a Nobel Prize or curing a fatal disease. But that type of creative thinking does not stem … Read more

Intention

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Today I attended Irvine’s local Music Teacher Association of California (MTAC) meeting. The lecture was “Making a LIVING as an Independent Music Teacher.” Here’s what I took away from it…   There is an intention for each lesson.  The student must: 1. Have an A+ experience 2. Be aware of something learned and make progress 3. … Read more