Music is one of the biggest reasons why the holiday season is so special; in many ways, music is a part of the glue that holds the holidays together.
1) Volunteer to sing in the community, 2) Put on your Own Holiday Concert, 3) Gift a personal music track as a gift, 4) Write your own holiday songs
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West Colfax Academy is all about your student! Your child can choose from a long list of instruments to learn to play, or study voice and singing.
Invest Your Coffee Money Into Music for Your Kid...
...The intangible gain of your child learning to play an instrument comparable to the cost of buying one cup of coffee a week is a no brainer in favor of MUSIC! Think about how much you spend on a cup of coffee out once a week, $6? That is enough to give your family a lifetime of music and sound.
Golden Music offers a rent-to-own program where you are able to rent-to-own (or just rent) a high-quality instrument for about just $30 a month for most instruments. You will eventually own the instrument but are never required to keep it.
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A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language development, sound, reading skill and speech perception.
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What were the dreams that this could become? Don't forget the vivid color and these scenes. You found your instrument and it found you! The focus, practice, goal setting, etc, the “work” can come later. Priority is enjoying the time you spend with your instrument. Of course, the more time you spend practicing with intent, the better you get at it and the rewards come.
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Music Education and Brain Development
Over the past two decades, music training has been associated with better than average language and mathematical skills and higher IQ, while differences between musicians and nonmusicians have been found in brain areas related to hearing and movement, among others. What is the mechanism behind such differences? One important goal of our program is to understand the effects of music training on brain development, investigated in terms of psychological (emotional, cognitive, social) and actual neural functions.
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Because the timbre of a wind instrument is determined by the quality of the vibration of the air column that passes through it, the materials used to make a wind instrument will also have a slight effect on the timbre, in addition its shape and length.
When I first started teaching in 1998, I believed fervently that music education was as vital to each student's development as math, reading, science, English and history were, and I stand by that even more today. The constant drumbeat of "high-stakes testing..
Then we take students out of the classroom and we test them. And we test them again. And we test them yet again. We focus on aligning our lessons to the standards and to the test.
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The djembe (pronounced 'jem-beh') is the goblet-shaped hand drum from West Africa.
Djembe history is a rich and diverse subject, but it can be difficult to verify. Africans have long passed down their history by word of mouth and accounts may change over time and across regions. We have done our best to gather together all the available facts.
