APPS THAT FURTHER THE ENJOYMENT OF LEARNING MUSIC:
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Tenuto: Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.$3.99
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Note Rush:
Note reading made fun! Note Rush is a game for practising note reading on the music staff to help you learn to play the piano, keyboard, flute, saxophone, violin... you name it! Note Rush shows you one note at a time in random order then uses the microphone to listen as you play through them like you would with note reading flash cards, only these flash cards check that you're playing the right note! |
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Rhythm Trainer:
*Helps develop a sense of rhythm *Read rhythm notation *Rhythm Ear-training $4.99/month |
practice & The Benefits of playing music
Sometimes we need a little motivation to practice.
Knowing that most people are drawn to music - to learn about it and create it - my philosophy as a music teacher is to allow my students to choose the style of music that we work on together. While I have found that this is generally a powerful catalyst for motivation to practice, there are still factors that come into play that may keep us from taking the time needed daily to develop skills and musicianship.
Most of the students I work with recognize the value of learning music. They have come to me because they have a desire to learn, to develop, and to become a better musician than they are today. Occasionally, a young student will come to my studio because their parent sees potential that the child may not yet see or understand, or the parent knows the value of learning music and how it will enrich their lives. No matter the reason, we will only reach our musical goals and become the musician we desire by the daily repetition of the techniques being presented in lessons. It is important to carve out time in our schedules if we are to achieve our musical goals.
Some tips....
* Set aside the same time every day: this helps develop the habit of practice. When I was young, I practiced every evening after dinner. It became a habit to sit at the piano after dinner chores were done to work on my music, To this day, I still enjoy sitting down after dinner and playing.
* Keep an ongoing list of music/songs that you love in your lesson binder; then you always have a list of songs that you want to learn.
* If you're an aspiring songwriter, start a list of songs by others that inspire you and we can discover and discuss the elements they possess to help develop your songwriting skills; keep a journal that you write in daily.
The following articles may be useful as well:
inspirationsmusictherapy.net/blog-neurology-and-music-learning
www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/how-to-motivate-your-child-to-practice/
Knowing that most people are drawn to music - to learn about it and create it - my philosophy as a music teacher is to allow my students to choose the style of music that we work on together. While I have found that this is generally a powerful catalyst for motivation to practice, there are still factors that come into play that may keep us from taking the time needed daily to develop skills and musicianship.
Most of the students I work with recognize the value of learning music. They have come to me because they have a desire to learn, to develop, and to become a better musician than they are today. Occasionally, a young student will come to my studio because their parent sees potential that the child may not yet see or understand, or the parent knows the value of learning music and how it will enrich their lives. No matter the reason, we will only reach our musical goals and become the musician we desire by the daily repetition of the techniques being presented in lessons. It is important to carve out time in our schedules if we are to achieve our musical goals.
Some tips....
* Set aside the same time every day: this helps develop the habit of practice. When I was young, I practiced every evening after dinner. It became a habit to sit at the piano after dinner chores were done to work on my music, To this day, I still enjoy sitting down after dinner and playing.
* Keep an ongoing list of music/songs that you love in your lesson binder; then you always have a list of songs that you want to learn.
* If you're an aspiring songwriter, start a list of songs by others that inspire you and we can discover and discuss the elements they possess to help develop your songwriting skills; keep a journal that you write in daily.
The following articles may be useful as well:
inspirationsmusictherapy.net/blog-neurology-and-music-learning
www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/how-to-motivate-your-child-to-practice/
