Voice lessons are just like piano lessons, you master an instrument. But with voice lessons, the instrument is your voice! Read More
Sometimes taking music lessons can be grueling. Working at a music school based in the Alpharetta, Milton, Roswell area in Georgia and seeing the faces of frustrated students on a daily basis, I know its not just about attending the private lesson but about studying and understanding the theory and practicing the instrument. It doesn’t matter if the student is taking a voice lesson, piano lesson, or guitar lesson – it can and will get tough at times. Read More
Studies have shown that learning music has had positive results in early childhood development through language development, spatial temporal skills, increased IQ, greater brain function, and improved test scores. Though there are great benefits from taking piano or voice lessons early on, parents should note that putting your young student through piano lessons isn’t going to make them significantly smarter. It will, however, improve various aspects of the brain and will help them with life-long disciplines that in turn may make them more well-rounded and interested in learning which could yield results that appear to have made them smarter. To sum it up, put your young one into piano lessons or voice lessons to help them become musical and the byproduct will make for a better student. Read More
Music and musicians have always played a role in building and defining our culture. This is especially true in the Appalachian and Southern regions of the United States, where many rural southern families in the 1800s held gatherings that revolved around music as a regular part of their recreation. These gatherings, full of local food, musical festivity, and folklore, would often involve all generations of multiple nearby families, with people sharing stories from their ancestral roots as well as chronicling their immigrant and farm-based experiences through songs and storytelling. During the Civil War and later, the Great Depression, families used these communal gatherings to interpret (and in some cases, forget) about the harsh times they lived in. Traveling musicians, looking for a way to earn a living from their art, would also perform at these communal events. Read More