MTMS Blog
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June Theme: Mash-Ups
This month’s theme is hard to envision – mash-ups of music? But there are all kinds of music, and we love to find new ways to put it together. Try this playlist if you’re ready to keep up with the kids: (256) MTMS June 2024 Listening Playlist – Mashups – YouTube If you’re not ready…
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Summer Music Plans
As the school year winds down, we’ve been to concerts and many other events with music. If you’d like to share photos or videos, we’d love to see them! What are your current summer plans? How do you keep music fun and fresh in the summer while school is out? Don’t forget we have a…
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May Theme: Movie Themes
Many movies have a theme, a song that brings the experience to life and memory. This month the lab is exploring movie music themes. Some of them are old – think Wizard of Oz and An American in Paris, to more contemporary ones composed by John Williams. Think about your favorite movie – what’s the…
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What Our Students Said About K-Pop
My son has been taking drum lessons from MTMS for years. He told my daughter he learned about K-pop music history, and she was jealous. We’re an online lesson family, so she could have listened to it, too, but she was too busy trying to sing K-pop karaoke with a friend over the webs and…
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What Our Students Said About Strings (March Theme)
We listen when our students tell us what they’re learning. We post a lot of the information here that we give to the students in lab for the theme. Archers and those who made the bows and arrows were the first to realize that the strings made sounds and that it was musical. While the…