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Friday, February 13th, 2009

Articles Tab is now active. Check out my first article “Learn Guitar: 6 Struggles Everyone Faces When Learning to Play Guitar” Others are in progress. Is there anything you’d like to read more about in this blog or as an article? I’d love to hear your ideas. During the months of February & March 2009, [...]

Music and Daily Routines

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Our son will be 4 in a couple of weeks. Since he was in the womb, we have exposed him to music.  You might think that as trained musicians we have this structured regime. If you know me and how artsy I am, you know that structure is difficult for me. For the most part, [...]

An Impromtu Music Activity in the Car

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

My son (almost 4) and I were in the car the other day and he asked for a song. I asked which song he would like to sing. He just said “Happy, Sad”.  He’s been talking a lot about happy and sad lately. He’s at a stage where he’s putting words to his emotions and starting [...]

Play and the Institution

Friday, June 20th, 2008

When I was a kid in the 70′s, I lived in a small town, we didn’t have cable, and the internet was unimaginable.  My sister and I spent our time playing with toys (the kind without batteries), making crafts and playing outside.  In the summer we had Vacation Bible School, at school we had 4-H, and [...]

Music Starts at Home

Monday, June 16th, 2008

For most of us, music became a part of our life at a very young age. Even if you don’t remember having music in your house growing up, it was there. It was in the ring of the phone, the catchy television jingle you still remember 25 years later, the song of the birds out [...]