Author: jazzybrunette
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How to remember the letters on the staff
One of the first and most important things we need to learn when playing any instrument is how to read the music. Reading music is like learning another language. It takes time and lots of practice and use before you can read and understand it fluently. There are lots of components to learning to read…
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Ms. Donna’s Flute Room
I couldn’t leave my flute students out of the virtual classroom game! This room has all kinds of fun things for flute and woodwind players. There are some links for learning technique, breathing practices, and tips especially for beginners, as well as some flute play-alongs. Theres even a little something for recorders! In this room,…
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Ms. Donna’s Singing Room
My next virtual classroom focuses on singing! Just like my other virtual rooms you can click on various objects to discover something fun related to singing. This room includes some singing technique videos along with some tips for taking care of your voice as a singer. There is also a link to my YouTube channel…
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Ms. Donna’s Piano Room
To go along with my last post about virtual classrooms, I hope you’ve been able to check out my general music classroom and have had some fun. Now it’s time for more fun in the Piano Room! If you’re interested in some of the books I use for my students or if you already are…
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Virtual Classrooms
With all this distance learning going on, virtual classrooms are the big thing now. Teachers are looking for any way they can to reach out to students and keep them engaged, even at a distance. And students are searching for anything that resembles their normal routine to help keep them from getting bored or anxious.…
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Fun Composition Activity
Composing is when you write your own music. It can be challenging and difficult but it can also be made simple and fun. It all depends on how you approach it. Anybody at any age can learn to compose. Think about a toddler who makes up their own songs as they play. An elementary student…
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Tips for Piano Practice at Home
Whether you’re doing online lessons right now or just taking a break from lessons during this current lockdown we find ourselves in, keeping up with your practice is super important. Probably now more than ever. Hopefully you’re taking advantage of your extra free time while stuck at home to take more opportunities to practice. I’ve…
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Tongue Twisters
In singing, diction is very important. “What is diction?” you might ask. Diction is how we pronounce the words that we’re singing and pronouncing them clearly so we can be understood. When we are speaking, we have to enunciate to be understood but even more so when we sing. Most of our singing is done…
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Adult’s First Piano Lesson
If you’re an adult and it’s your first piano lesson, you may not have any books or materials yet. So, what do you learn in your first lesson? What do you practice after your first lesson? I use a couple different books for adults (either Bastien Adult or Alfred’s Adult) and will bring them into…
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Music Theory Basics
When I have a new student that has never learned any kind of music at all, I like to go over a few basic things about reading music. For most of my piano and flute students, they either have a theory book along with their other lesson materials or they have learned a little bit…
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