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Why do young people lose interest in music lessons? This is a good question!  Most of my students at some time will tell me about the boring lessons they had if relevant with non creative teaching methods, where reading, reading is all that gets emphasized. That’s another issue. The question I get asked most often [...]

For a skilled musician, there is an additional career path that is invisible to the non-musician. This is an additional benefit beyond the pleasure of playing music, the attention it brings, and the better academic performance than students who do not learn to play a musical instrument. It is a broad range of extra career [...]

The common definition of transfer is to carry or shift from one place to another. One of our goals in music education is for students to become knowledgeable about music and to be able to transfer that knowledge from one musical setting to another. As you read this article, view yourself as a parent or [...]