Music for kids including playing instruments and getting children to practice their instrument. Also music and songs to learn math facts and foreign languages.
Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings. Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the…
My middle daughter loves musicals. When we visited London, we found that everything there was much more expensive compared to prices in the United States except for one thing … Broadway shows! The West End, the “first” Broadway, is also a theater lover’s nirvana. What is nice about the West End is that the shows…
My sister’s book is coming out March 1, 2019! She’s a piano teacher with a marketing background, so it’s not a surprise that she wrote a book called Two-Year Wait List: An Entrepreneurial Guide for Music Teachers: In my new book, Two-Year Wait List: An Entrepreneurial Guide for Music Teachers, I share my tried-and-true method of…
My son has always had his obsessions: Age 3: Dinosaurs and Angry Birds Age 4 and 5: Pokémon Age 6: Bakugan, Ninjago Age 7: Magic Cards, Minecraft, Mario Brothers Video Games Age 9, 10: Minecraft, Dragonballz, Injustice Video Game Age 1o and 11: Dragonballz, Naruto My son’s guitar teacher has channeled his interests into guitar…
Two of my kids are fascinated by the ukelele. My son, who plays guitar, was inspired by musician Jake Shimabukuro when he showed the video to his guitar teacher and watched Jake’s videos on technique that he can apply to guitar later on when he gets more advanced. Grasshopper and Sensei is learning the ukelele on…
I met country musician Rory Gardiner on Twitter. He wrote me saying: I think music is incredibly important in the development of young minds. I am a recording artist who just released my first children’s album. After becoming a parent myself, I couldn’t resist the direction my song writing was taking me! I think your readers would could…
Tau is approximately equal to 6.28, so that makes today, 6/28, Tau day! Happy Tau Day. One easy way to think of Tau Day is just to eat twice as much pie today as you did on Pi Day (March 14). But … uhmm, what exactly is Tau?! What is Tau? In 2001, Bob Palais published…