In this post, we're diving into the world of body percussion activities and the incredible advantages they provide to our music students.

We're not just talking about rhythm here – we're talking about unlocking a whole new level of musical understanding and expression.

The Strength of Music to Create Joy

Music has been known to create connections, change our mood, bring out memories. Parents often sing lullabies to their babies who would never sing any other time. We sing for birthdays, sing holiday carols, and add music to other important moments. There's been hundreds of studies relating to the biological benefits.

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

She put together this neat video for your holiday enjoyment!   She's playing along with herself.  

Since our humble beginning in 1996 in a 500 sq. ft. space that was a meat locker to our now 30,000 sq ft building that houses our retail, repair shop, music school, Denver Musician's Assoc., Golden Music has strived to donate our money, experience, time, talent and skills to help the Colorado music community, in particular, the public school music programs.  We give back 10% of our gross revenue each year!

 It is a known and widely studied fact that music education in children leads to measurable benefits, including increased literacy and therefore improved academic results. 

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. 

A child often conveys readiness for music lessons with physical expression. This is often starts with banging on pots and pans, tapping on couches, pretending a briefcase is a piano or that a notebook is a keyboard. 

The next sign that your child is ready for lessons is usually through verbal expression. The child may tell you outright that they want to start playing an instrument or taking voice lessons. Once the physical and verbal interest is there, it’s up to you as a parent to get the ball rolling. 

During these trying times, creativity is a spark and can fuel hours of at -home entertainment.  As many of us are forced onto screens for formerly fun, in-person times, to canceled social and even now family events, the lives of our children have transformed in a dramatic way.  We propose that music lessons can spur on health and a spark that will ignite your child's creativity.  T

he modern orchestral brass French horn was an invention based on early hunting horns. Horns were first used as musical instruments during 16th century operas. During the 17th century, modifications to the bell end (larger and flared bells) of the horn were made and the cor de chasse, or French horn as the English called it was born.