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!

Sound Beginnings Sample Class

Come enjoy a free sample class of the fall curriculum for Sound Beginnings.  

Sound Beginnings, a similar class to Let's Play Music, is designed to give kids that are too young for Let's Play Music (2-4 years old)  a jump start on music and preschool concepts.  

Specific skills that will be covered this semester include:

feeling and keeping the beat
in-tune singing, pitch matching, head register
solfeg, major scale descending
tracking; reading preparation
singing & recognizing alphabet
phonemic awareness & phonics
developing relative pitch
low and high
enjoyment of classical music
developing recognition of theme and form
subdivision
dexterity
months
colors
manners
weather
name recognition

You're Invited

Please come to our 2013 Year-End Recital

Saturday, May 4th 2013

11:00 AM

Wasatch High School Little Theater

Featuring Students from Both Sound Beginnings and Let's Play Music