Practice Trick

It's hard for new students to create a good practice habit. Especially for the first few weeks, when everything seems so very easy and you feel like just a quick review before your lessons will be enough. Seasoned students sometimes let their established habits slide a little and before you know it you're only practicing one or two days a week!

It's time to get ourselves on track so we can all get the most out of piano lessons.

I want you to take a minute and write down your general schedule for each day. For example:

7:00 am: Wake up, dress
7:15 am: Eat Breakfast
7:45 am: Leave for school
3:15 pm: Home from school, eat a snack
3:30 pm: Do Homework
5:30 pm: some days have dance class
6:30 pm: eat dinner
9:00 pm: go to bed

You schedule is probably different from my example, but you get the idea. You're making a map of your usual day.

Now, take a good look at that schedule and see where you can find about 20 minutes of consistently free or flexible time. How about right before dinner? Maybe right after breakfast and before you leave for school? Whatever time you choose, make sure you will have that time free most days. From now on, this will be your practice time.

I understand that sometimes our days don't go the way we plan and we just can't find those few moments to practice. But if you make the effort to find time in your schedule, I'll bet you'll practice at least 5 days a week! (Don't forget, you don't have to stop after 20 minutes if you have more time. The more you move those fingers across the keys, the stronger your muscles will be!)

Now, stop reading my music blog and go practice! See you next time.

Closing Alert

If you have trouble getting me on the phone between September 22nd and October 2nd, it's because I'm out having a good time. This vacation has been a long time coming and I'm going to enjoy every minute. Don't worry though. Send me an e-mail, leave me a message on the phone and I will get back to you the moment I've returned to work.

Great Deal To Offer!

It's time to get this school rolling again. Let's kick this school year off with a great deal!

The Fall Session will begin on October 3rd, this year, giving us about 10 lessons before Christmas. If you sign up before September 19th for the Fall Session, you'll get 2 free lessons (you'll only pay for 8 lessons) plus, I'll give you 50% off the cost of books.

Not quite good enough? Alright. Families who register more than one student will get an additional 10% off the whole bill for the fall. That's 10% off each student's '10 for 8' lesson price and an additional 10% off your already half price books.

So what on earth are you waiting for? Call me. E-mail me. Knock on my door any time. Sign up for lessons today to get this great deal!



::: New students who require books will pay a total of just $220 for 10 lessons plus books. Two or more students from the same family? Each will pay just $198! And don't worry about high costs after this discount. You'll ALWAYS get that extra 10% off as long as multiple family members continue their lessons here. And you'll always get at least one free lesson when you pay for a whole session up front (usually 10 to 12 lessons at a time):::

Great Game For Students

One of the hardest skills to learn when learning any instrument is note reading. It seems like a simple enough task until really begin playing music written on a staff and you realize that you don't know your notes as well as you thought you did!

Here is a great game that you can access online anytime for free. It will help you learn to read the notes on a staff or, if you alread know that, you can become a better, faster note reader!

You can customize this game to suit your current studies or any problem areas you've found. Have fun and practice, practice, practice!

(Click here to access the note reading drill)

Fall Enrollment

It's time to think about getting your enrollment forms in. Don't forget that they are due by August 31st and the Fall Session begins on September 4th.

Happy Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

Really! It's true!

Today we celebrate the music of the Barbershop Quartet. So grab your favorite CD and give a listen. Don't have one? That's alright. Grab the three people closest to you and start singin'! lol

May your day be full of sweet harmony!

New Mailing List

Subscibe to the e-mail list to receive reminders of important dates and events. I promise, you won't get lots of useless e-mails from me! Just the important stuff, like if we close due to bad weather, or if a semester deadline is coming up.

Send an e-mail to ModersohnMusic-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you'll get all the important stuff mailed right to your inbox!