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Hooray! It is September and we are getting ready to rock a new school year! We are exclusively Online at this time but offering more than ever! Lots of help. More videos. More performances. More group lesson opportunities. More games and Challenges. There is something for everyone to stay engaged and have fun while learning music. If you aren't part of the party...get on the bus! #lessons #music #newschoolyear #musiclessons #learning

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Once you have found C on the keyboard, we need to figure on how to place our fingers. We start by numbering the fingers on each hand, 1-5. Always start with your thumbs as number 1 until you get to your pinky which is number 5. Now that you know how your fingers are supposed to be numbered, place your right hand thumb or finger number one on C. The left hand pinky or finger number five will be placed on C and all of the fingers will follow on the subsequent white keys. You ar

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When I started to name this post, I was going to direct this post to the busy adult. But these days - with schools adding extra work now that they feel they are more confident in zoom learning and then the activities kids are in to help them stave off the separation that being in a pandemic has caused - Kids are just as busy. How do we get in practice despite? Well for one we need to think about what we are doing in all of the inbetween. Are we just sitting mindlessly at time

When we are writing, things can get a little confusing if a sentence just keeps droning on and on. When we tell a story, we have to take breaths and pauses so that a point can come across correctly. Breathing in-between words also adds flair to our story so it is not just bland. In music we enact all of these techniques by adding rests to the music, or silence. Just as we would add a comma or a period to a sentence, so too we add silence to break up the droll that a story can