Tag: Music Education
The Role of Music Education in the United States
Studies have proved that music education is immensely beneficial to students. It grows a student as a performer by positively impacting his academic performance, social skills, and mental development. Music education helps to slingshot the height of student learning and creativity to a new benchmark. That’s why it plays a vital role in the overall…
The Importance of Music for Childhood Development
Music is known as the universal language, but it’s so much more than that. For some, it’s their favorite form of entertainment. For others, music can feel like it completes their whole life. When it comes to childhood development, music is even more important. Multiple studies and various forms of research have shown the positive…
How to Start a Professional Music Career Without Going Broke
As an aspiring musician, you’ve picked an excellent time to be alive because the opportunities are endless. Gone are the days where you had to record a demo, send it to a record company and hope for correspondence. Now, you can take your destiny into your own hands and become a professional musician on your…
Keeping Music in Our Schools
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Music education in our schools has been under attack for a while now, and with new political leaders, it is being threatened again. It seems as if many people don’t understand the benefits that music education has on both young and older minds. As a musician, you know and feel the effects that music can…
The Importance of a Curriculum
I’ve been a full-time music school teacher for over 22 years. I started young, so there’s plenty of gas still left in this sports car. There are many, many kinds of students out there. Some want to be great, others are simply hobbyists just enjoying the experience. Some students are visual learners, others great readers.…
The Gamification of Music
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The digital age we live in today is ruled by smartphones and tablets, with all sorts of apps that are useful as well as the apps that waste your time. We like to lump video games in with the apps that are considered time wasters, but a more contemporary perspective of video games is starting…