LPM Corporate Site - New and Updated! Check it out!

The corporate website for Let's Play Music has been totally redone and WOW is it awesome?!

Now Registering for Sound Beginnings: Gold Stars Semester

Forms are available in person or on line at: http://fs11.formsite.com/lmpemilyr/form6/index.html

If you would like to come participate in a class, please contact me!

Building Language with Music

I randomly stumbled on an article on two-daloo.com, "Building Language With Music" (link here) about the power of music in building language skills. Little did I realize, until the end of the article, that my friend and mother of one of my cute level 2 students was the guest blogger.  She definitely knows her stuff and has helped me personally with some concerns about my own children.  Yay!  Katie!

Research has long shown that music helps "unlock" language abilities in the brain.  My experience teaching my son in Sound Beginnings has shown this to be true.

Top Ten Reasons to Know Your Primary Chords

Each year in Let's Play Music classes, students learn to hear and play what we call the "Primary Chords" and label them red, blue, and yellow.  These chords, also known as I IV and V or tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant chords, are a foundation for 90% of the music we listen to.  Here's a run-down from fellow LPM teacher Dave Meadows on the other Top Ten Reasons Primary Chords are Awesome!

10 - Memorizing is easier!
9 - Better feel for chord position.
8 -  Tension and Release: Hear the harmonies that aren't written.  Feel where the music is going...
7- Can do more with written music.
6 -  Easier to fake it! Cover up mistakes easier...
5- Recognizing key signatures.
4- Improvisation
3- Composition
2- Trust the experts.
1- IT'S FUN!

Let's Play Music isn't just any music class, it is a total musicianship program that uses the piano to give the students an amazing foundation!

Music is Good for the Brain: Another Possible Benefit

A great article from CNN about how early exposure to music benefits our brains.

Check it out:  http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/31/health/music-dementia-link/index.html

Ready... Set... and LET'S PLAY MUSIC

The countdown is down to one hand... are you ready?  Yay 5 more days until class starts.

I still have a couple more spots in first year LPM and in Sound Beginnings.  Contact me, or see my registration page above with any questions...  If you'd like to come see a class before enrolling, please contact me directly.

Fall Class Times are:
Let's Play Music (First Year) -Tuesdays 10:00, and 4:15  ages 4-6
Sound Beginnings - Tuesday 11:00 and Wednesday 10:30 ages 2-4

Recital Pictures!

I am so proud of these kids for a great job done at the recital.  These kids learned so much this year and we had a GREAT time each class.  

Thanks for all the parent support at the recital and throughout the year!

Scotland's Burning

Miss Emily

Sound Beginnings kids doing "Two Little Blackbirds"

We love our BUGS!!

LPM and Sound Beginnings kids doing their major scale hand-signs.  Amazing!