MTMS Blog
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Getting Children to Practice
In order to improve, students must practice. While the teacher does as much as she can with the student in the classroom, encouraging the student to practice at home will also help. One good way to reward and keep track of practice at home (and that the Michelle Tuesday Music School encourages) is to complete…
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October is Spooky Music Month
Music History in the music lab has a different theme every month. October is a perfect time to look at the history of spooky music. What is it that makes music spooky? There isn’t one simple thing that someone can point to that makes something scary. Music uses several different effects to make an audience…
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We Love Teaching!
Emma is 11, a guitar student, and pretty good. Mom said over the summer she wanted to try out for jazz band. Her teacher is a great teacher (Carrie, on Mondays) but not a jazz guitarist. We’re waiting for the audition piece. On Friday Emma’s mom schedules a makeup with me to go over her…
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Lab Stations Virtual Tour
The lab has four stations for students to continue their music learning work at Michelle Tuesday Music School. Our students may spend all their time during a month at one station, like ear-training, or choose to switch stations on different weeks. Remember when you visit we wear masks and social distance, so there will only…
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The Music is the Thing
When most people think about music lessons, they envision groups or single person lessons of softly played Bach or Beethoven, even Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Maybe throw in some Mozart or Wagner. If the teacher or the student is really ambitious, they might attempt Rachmaninoff, Brahms and Liszt. Music teachers have shifted to a more interesting…