We’re all busy people, and busy schedules can get in the way of practice. Sometimes it’s not even busyness; the days just slip by and we don’t even look at our instruments. If a whole week (or more!) has gone...

  by Jennifer Hummler & Steven Bowen  

Boy, we really wish everybody would stop using mnemonic devices to teach music "literacy."

Reading music is hard, it takes a lot of time, effort, and memorization... except it doesn't! It's...

by JENNIFER HUMMLER

Sometimes, family-members will be unsure of what they should do while lessons are going on in the home. Should everyone run and hide in their rooms until the lessons are over to provide a quiet space for...

We hear this question a lot, and if you do some research on the Internet, you’ll find various answers. Many studios and teachers base the minimum lesson length on the student's age: the older the student, the longer the lesson.   This...

My kid’s not practicing — should we quit?   (We know, we’ve blogged about practice before but it’s been about a year, and it comes up just about every day, so here we go again...)   Practice is a big problem. We hear very...