CYM Practice Point: How to Start Your Notes Clean!
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Watch Ryan Ash’s latest installment that will ensure clear bow/string engagement: violinists and violists can try it too!
CYM Tips and Tricks: Proper Nail Care for Guitarists
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Check out Mark Marston’s easy to follow directions that will keep your fingers ready to produce the most beautiful tone possible!
Musikgarten Students Celebrate With Tea Party
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CYM students completed the second of three Music Makers courses; Music Makers Around the World continues the sequence of learning where students continue to gain mastery over identifying tonal and rhythm patterns. In this Musikgarten course, students delighted in being able to…
Loving Music and Nature With Musikgarten Cycles
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Where does the time go? Despite a year of continued distance learning, five wonderful young musicians completed the Cycle of Seasons curriculum! Students grew in their creativity- suggesting their own ideas for our stories, dances, and instrument playing! Musikgarten purposefully structures this level to…
Events in June
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June has many opportunities for students to perform out in the sun and for their friends, family, and peers! To register for an event, click it’s title. Violin Recital in Frick ParkJune 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pmJoin Ms. Rochelle, Ms…
Musikgarten Babies Move!
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The Family Music for Babies Course this season had parents moving, singing, dancing and connecting with their little ones. We saw so much growth over the 15 weeks. When we began, they were all so tiny- but what we know about babies…
Summer Course News
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The days are getting longer and the sun is shining brighter, which means that summer is on the way! Did you know that Craft Your Music has lots of opportunities – a baker’s dozen in fact – offered in the…
Play It First
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Follow the natural flow of picking out a tune by ear from beginning to end, then return to the start for guitar tricks and techniques – how fun! Tom Maroon motivates new students in Play It First – Guitar because…
May’s Serenade Sparkled
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Congratulations to Sami, Yazan, Isaiah, Lucas, Clara, Jackson, Morgan, Harrison, Kenzie, Sofia, Shaun, Siddharth, Gitanjali, Siena, Hanna and their parents! These piano students of all ages and abilities performed their carefully rehearsed piano recital pieces for each other on Zoom,…
No Easy Feat!
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Great Job Kenzie! We are all really proud of your accomplishment of practicing 200 consecutive days!
Cello Practice Club x 2! = April :)
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Cello Practice Club is a wonderful way to work on cello playing skills with friends and/or family! We learn and review different techniques based on what the students are interested in and what they could benefit from working on, particularly…
Electric Guitar Ramp Up – Review
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It was so great to meet up with these students, two of whom had taken the first electric guitar course and one who was new to it! We started with simple power chords and easy riffs from rock songs (You…