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Why Every Child Should Take Music Lessons

7/13/2022
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I always advise parents to allow their children to take music lessons because of its numerous advantages. I love music and I know music has shaped my life in many ways. I developed a strong passion for music at an early age, and I followed my passion. Music made me who I am. From recording songs to selling cd's, and from performing my songs to winning awards, I can say I have been living a fulfilled life because of my passion for music. So, I can authoritatively say music brings out the best in kids and adults. 

Even if your child has little or no experience or he is not even interested in it, you need to enroll him for good music lessons. Also, music enhances kids’ ability to learn in formal classes too. It motivates children to dig deep and tap into their inner strength and skills. Music will make them hit a gear they never knew they had. 

Another reason to encourage your child to learn how to sing, how to compose songs, or how to play certain musical instruments is quick language development. Over the years, it has been established that music education promotes language development and it also makes people more social. 

Now that you know some benefits of music lessons, you may want to enroll your child for music lessons. It is better to choose a good service provider. Here are the qualities you should look for in music teachers/school.

Conducive environment
You need a music school with a conducive environment. When it comes to music lessons, the environment where it is done plays an important role in the effectiveness of the lesson. The environment should attract kids. For instance, there should be toys for kids and a lounging area for adults. 

State-of-the-art musical equipment
Your child needs a music school that has numerous pieces of musical instruments. This will give her a variety of choices. Besides, there’s nothing wrong in learning how to play multiple instruments. Some musical artistes can play both keyboard and guitar very well. Multi-instrumentalists are usually more successful than artists that can play only one instrument. 

Experienced and qualified teachers
Your level of success in anything depends on the experience and expertise of your teacher. So, if you want your child to get the best from his music lesson, you should enroll him in a school that has experienced music teachers. You need a school that has teachers that are good in singing, composing music, and playing different musical instruments. 

Flexible schedule
How flexible is the schedule of the school? You would want to integrate the music lessons into your child’s academic routine. So, how about teachers that can come around early in the morning or during his break? Some musical schools are very flexible. 
​If you're interested in taking music lessons on Zoom or In Person in Burbank, Glendale or North Hollywood, we have some of the  best music lessons in Los Angeles. Our music instructors are picked by interviewing hundreds of music instructors and we have really high standards on both their teaching ability as well as their personality. If you'd like to talk to one of our instructors or set up a first lesson we have a guarantee that if you don't absolutely love your first lesson you don't have to pay for it. Please contact us at (818)902-1233 or on our website at https://www.losangelesmusicteachers.com/online-drum-lessons-in-burbank-ca.html​
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Identifying Octaves On Piano For Beginners

7/12/2022
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Learning to play the piano can look like a pretty big challenge to a beginner. You might be staring at your keyboard right now, wondering where to even start?
But don’t let all those keys intimidate you! Making sense of the keyboard is actually quite simple, you just have to know what to look out for.

Identifying Octaves
The first thing we’ll do is break the piano down into more manageable chunks. If you look closely at the keyboard, you’ll see that there is actually a pattern to how the keys are laid out. They’re laid out in such a way that after 12 keys the notes repeat themselves. We call this sequence of 12 keys an Octave. A traditional 88 key piano can be split up into just 7 octaves. Learning to identify this octave pattern is crucial for finding your way around the keyboard.

Finding Middle C
Now that you know how to split your piano up into discrete octaves, finding specific notes is easy! Let’s start with the most important note on the piano, Middle C. How do we find it? Take a look at the black keys of the piano, and notice how there’s a pattern of black keys across the whole keyboard, alternating between groupings of three black keys and two black keys.
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To find any ‘C’ note, simply take that grouping of two black keys and play the white key just below the lowest black key. You can see this pattern across the whole keyboard, so if you want to find a ‘C’ note anywhere, all you have to do is find that grouping of two black keys!
Middle C is the fourth ‘C’ note from the bottom of the piano. Take special note of it as it’ll be your home base for learning the entire instrument.

Naming the Notes
Knowing middle C is one thing, but what about all those other notes in the octave? These notes are all given letters as well. For now, just focus on the white keys. Walking up from middle C, the note order is D, E, F, G, A, B, and then the octave pattern repeats with C again.

Number The Fingers
In order to play the piano to the best of our ability, you need to be sure to play with the proper fingerings. The first step to proper fingerings is to number the fingers themselves. For both hands the fingerings go from #1 for thumbs to #5 for the pinky finger.

Playing Scales
Now that you know the numbers for your fingers and the names of the notes, you can apply your knowledge to play a C major scale. The C major scale consists of eight notes from C to the C in the octave above. This means that you’ll need to learn some special finger techniques to get your five fingers to play an eight note sequence fluidly.
The fingering pattern in the right hand is 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Notice how there’s a fingering reset between the 3rd and 4th notes of the scale. In order to play this order of fingerings fluidly, you’ll need to master a technique called the thumbtuck. A thumbtuck involves curling your thumb under your hand in order to play reposition your hand and continue playing a phrase. Although it may seem simple, the thumbtuck is one of the most important skills in a pianist’s bag of tricks, so make sure you’re always aware of it during your practice sessions!

When playing scales in the left hand, all the same rules apply, except our hands are mirrored. This means the fingering pattern is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1. Keep an eye out for that fingertuck between notes 5 and 6. It’s a similar motion to the right hand, but this time your middle finger will cross over to continue playing the scale.
Practicing scales is just one of the many ways you’ll build confidence and musicality as a piano player. When you’re practicing them make sure you’ve got your technique and fingerings consistently solid. Prioritizing good technique in your early days as a piano player will pay off HUGELY moving forward!

If you're interested in taking piano, guitar or singing lessons on Zoom or In Person in Burbank, Glendale or North Hollywood, we have some of the  best piano, guitar and singing lessons in Los Angeles. Our instructors are picked by interviewing hundreds of drum instructors and we have really high standards on both their teaching ability as well as their personality. If you'd like to talk to one of our instructors or set up a first lesson we have a guarantee that if you don't absolutely love your first lesson you don't have to pay for it. Please contact us at (818)902-1233 or on our website at https://www.losangelesmusicteachers.com/contact-us-for-info.html​
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Trumpet Lessons FAQ: Is The Trumpet Hard To Play?

7/11/2022
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You have probably heard many times that the trumpet is one of the most difficult instruments to play. Maybe you play the saxophone and you’re wondering where the famous trumpet ego comes from, or maybe you’re thinking about learning the trumpet. Either way, there’s something to what people say about it, let’s learn why. 

The trumpet is considered a difficult instrument because the sound of the trumpet is reliant on the delicate embouchure. The brass embouchure, particularly the trumpet embouchure, must be capable of producing frequencies upwards of 1000 HZ.

Who Makes The SoundMusic is practically the same as vibration. The way sound works is vibrating air (or another medium… bone-induction headphones prove that.).
The vibration from an instrument vibrates the air which in turn vibrates our ear drum which in turn vibrates our inner ear’s cochlea which in turn excites nerves that our brain can understand. 
For a trumpet to make sound, the trumpet player’s lips must produce the vibration.
It helps to understand the challenge here if we compare what is required of a trumpet player vs. other instruments. 
  • For a saxophone or clarinet player, the player’s breath moves a wooden reed back and forth.  The reed is what is vibrating back and forth to create the sound
  • For a flute player, their breath causes wind oscillation within the instrument, and so the flute player controls the pitch by wind speed. This is true of concert flutes and other flutes like the recorder or the tin whistle. 
  • A piano player presses a key and the piano strikes a string with a hammer which produces the sound
  • A guitar player plucks a string which vibrates and produces the sound
  • A drummer strikes a taut drum head and the vibrating drum head vibrates the air which produces the sound
  • A melodica player breathes through an aperture and presses a key to pass through tuned reeds to make the sound
  • A harmonica player works very similarly to a melodica.  The player blows through an aperture which vibrates a reed which makes the sound
In all these examples, and most examples of other instruments, the player provides the power through wind or through kinetic energy (like pressing a key on a piano) which vibrates something else which produces the sound.
  • Trumpet: F#3-D6 (And higher. You will see High Gs in music now and again
  • Trombone: E2-F5
  • Tuba: D1-F4
Does lower mean easier to play necessarily? Definitely not. Low instruments have their own challenges, particularly with breath support.

Again, so what? Why are higher notes hard to play?

As you play higher, the trumpet player has to buzz higher frequencies. To play High C, the trumpet player has to buzz around 1046 times per second! 

To be able to play this frequency takes an enormous amount of practice. In fact, culturally, being able to “hit the high notes” is a huge deal for many trumpet player. 

The embouchure is so complicated that there are entire books and theories written specifically for training an embouchure. Not all experts agree on the best system for developing an embouchure because there are so many complicating factors.  Everybody’s mouth and lip configurations (shape of mouth, placement of teeth, etc) are different. Therefore, everyone’s embouchure and embouchure development is different. 

What further complicates matters is that many trumpet players in K-12 school programs do not get formal embouchure training, and so get bad habits.

This can lead to several problems. 
  • Plateaus where the player never can get above a certain note no matter how much they practice. 
  • Endurance problems where the player can’t effectively play for more than an hour, and loses any range they had.
  • Poor form leads to applying too much pressure from the trumpet to the lips causing pain and even embouchure damage.
  • Fuzzy or Sloppy Sound. Embouchure problems can lead to poor sound.

​All this is to underscore that the trumpet embouchure is difficult and tricky enough to get the hang of that if you don’t learn decent enough technique you could struggle for months or even years with endurance, good tone, and range. 
Although it’s not unusual to learn to play around 15 notes for a beginner with 6 months, it can take much longer to play with good tone.

Embouchure Shelf LifePerhaps one of the more unfortunate aspects of the embouchure is that if you don’t use it, you lose it. Very similar to athletic conditioning–advanced trumpet technique (or chops as they call them) will be lost quickly if you are not continuously practicing.  Some experts experience a noticeable difference even after only a day or two of not practicing.

But even with the trumpet being so difficult to learn, it is majorly worth it! Would recommend looking into finding a great teacher like ours to help you push past these obstacles and become an amazing Trumpet player. 
If you're interested in taking Trumpet lessons on Zoom or In Person in Burbank, Glendale or North Hollywood, we have some of the  best Trumpet lessons in Los Angeles. Our Trumpet instructors are picked by interviewing hundreds of Trumpet instructors and we have really high standards on both their teaching ability as well as their personality. If you'd like to talk to one of our instructors or set up a first lesson we have a guarantee that if you don't absolutely love your first lesson you don't have to pay for it. Please contact us at (818)902-1233 or on our website at https://www.losangelesmusicteachers.com/contact-us-for-info.html​
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You Are New To Playing The Guitar, Where Do You Begin?

7/7/2022
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You Are New To Playing The Guitar, Where Do You Begin?
You just bought yourself a guitar and now you want to learn how to play. Where do you start? What are The Most important chords you need to know in order to strum a few songs? As a beginner, you must start at the beginning and slowly climb that set of building blocks. Chords are considered the harmony, and strumming your guitar is the rhythm, adding in someone who sings and you have a melody. Put these together and you will have music.

The first chords each beginner learns are remembered easily by the word CAGED. Yes, that is: C-A-G-E-D, and the next three are Am-Em-Dm. These chords will give you a seemingly endless playlist once you master them.

There are a few tips to remember that will help you on this journey.

-Press the guitar strings with just the tips of your fingers.

-Bend the three knuckles as you press the strings sturdily.

-Be sure to not touch the string below.

-Rest your thumb gently on the back side of the guitar neck.

Practice daily, checking to verify that each chord is coming out clearly. As soon as you feel comfortable being able to switch between these three chords, G,C, and D; you can being learning some three chord songs, and as you find yourself more comfortable you can move on to four chord songs.

Some of the top songs such as You’re Beautiful by James Blunt,, With or Without You by U2 and She will be loved by Maroon 5, are all played using just these four chords, G,D, Em and C.

There are tons of songs to learn that use that chord succession. These few tips will have you well on your way to playing guitar like a professional musician. 

There are number chord diagrams to look at that will aid you in learning. The numbers on those diagrams match up with your fingers. 

1 is the index finger
2 will be the middle finger
3 is the ring finger 
4 is the pinky finger

Learn and memorize all eight chords thoroughly to build your abilities. Be sure to practice daily and listen to the sounds as you practice. Listen for clarity, be sure that you are not muting by touching any other string.

As you feel more confident in your chords and abilities, you can research and find songs to play that will get you excited to keep playing and to continue learning some of the more difficult chords and methods to guitar playing.
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Think of how you will amaze family and friends when you are able to play just a small set of chords and be able to play the songs that so many people know and love.

If you're interested in taking Guitar lessons on Zoom or In Person in Burbank, Glendale or North Hollywood, we have some of the  best guitar lessons in Los Angeles. Our guitar instructors are picked by interviewing hundreds of guitar instructors and we have really high standards on both their teaching ability as well as their personality. If you'd like to talk to one of our instructors or set up a first lesson we have a guarantee that if you don't absolutely love your first lesson you don't have to pay for it. Please contact us at (818)902-1233 or on our website at https://www.losangelesmusicteachers.com/online-guitar-lessons-in-burbank-ca.html​
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Between a trumpet and a saxophone, which has more capacity to appeal to the soul?

7/5/2022
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This is from a Quora music question that I answered some years back. The answer is highly subjective, but I do believe that the saxophone is one of the closest musical instruments to the human voice. The voice is arguably (entirely dependent on the musicality and ability) the most appealing to the soul. The trumpet in the hands of a very skilled musician is highly appealing to the soul based on his own capacity to make the trumpet his voice and to be able to express emotion through the instrument. Having said that, it’s the same for the saxophone player, he’s only as good as his ability to express emotions with the saxophone. In my experience, having played with a lot of trumpet players, I think that most trumpet and saxophone players would agree that the saxophone is probably a little bit easier instrument to express emotion, because of the ease of being able to manipulate the sound i.e. bend notes and add colors that are similar to the human voice. So based on that fact, I would say that the saxophone is a little more appealing to the soul, but the caveat is that there are plenty of trumpet players who appeal to MY soul more than a lot of saxophone players because they have learned how to express their emotions through their instrument more effectively.
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Best Starting Instruments for Children On Piano, Voice, Guitar or Drums

7/1/2022
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Most parents have already heard that their kids benefit from learning how to play a musical instrument for sharpening their mind. It also gives them a fun activity that is much better for their growth than video games, but it's often hard to choose which one makes the most sense for their child. In this article, we discuss the various instruments and what makes them the most popular and what makes them physically easy to play.


Our first consideration that we recommend for an instrument is the piano. The piano is not only physically one of the easiest instruments to play but it can also be very inexpensive to get started with a small electric keyboard to see if your child shows an interest in playing it. 


It's been suggested that the piano should be the first instrument taught. When a key is pressed on especially an electric piano, it produces an instant sound. This is unlike the guitar, which requires a bit of time to get the fingers to be able to push down the strings enough to get a full resonant sound. The voice or any wind instrument also requires a few lessons to be able to develop a sound which is good enough to be able to then focus on making melodies. Drums can also be a good starting instrument in this same way, but drums require a lot of coordination with the hands and feet to be able to make anything that would be considered a musical sound, whereas a piano student can sound good learning little melodies in the very first lesson.


There are other reasons why the piano is a great beginning instrument. First, it's the only instrument that can play such a wide range of the musical scale. The piano is a great foundation for all other musical instruments. Also, the piano is considered to be a percussion instrument like it's relatives the vibraphone, xylophone, celeste and bells. Very young children can learn to play just the right hand or left hand only, until they are able to put their two hands together. With just a few months of piano lessons, all other instruments will be easier to learn. 


Pianos also allow the person to play multiple notes at a time (chords like the guitar), which means that a pianist can play chords with his left hand and melodies with his right hand and doesn't take a long time for a student to reach this level.


If your child shows an interest in guitar lessons, if they have really tiny hands we recommend starting them on Ukulele. It's the relative of the guitar but is a little simpler to learn and can be bought for under 100.00 for a beginning Ukulele. Violin is very similar to the guitar in that it has strings on a fretboard and takes a bit of time to build up the coordination and strength in the hands as well as the coordination of the bow in the other hand.


Voice in combination with a bit of piano can also be a great way to get a child started learning about making music. If your child is singing songs and can sing in tune then they can learn to be a vocalist. Voice training begins with developing the ear so that the student can hear a note and be able to sing in that specific pitch. If your child shows an interest in singing, it can be very fun for them to have a few voice lessons to help them to develop their voice and ability to hear songs and sing in tune.


Here at Los Angeles Music Teachers, we have some amazing teachers who our students adore. Our motto is, if you don't absolutely LOVE your first music lesson, whatever the instrument you choose, you don't have to pay for it. We are very confident that you will love our teachers! They will help your child to appreciate the joy of making music.


If you're interested in taking piano, guitar or singing lessons on Zoom or In Person in Burbank, Glendale or North Hollywood, we have some of the  best piano, guitar and singing lessons in Los Angeles. Our instructors are picked by interviewing hundreds of drum instructors and we have really high standards on both their teaching ability as well as their personality. If you'd like to talk to one of our instructors or set up a first lesson we have a guarantee that if you don't absolutely love your first lesson you don't have to pay for it. Please contact us at (818)902-1233 or on our website at https://www.losangelesmusicteachers.com/contact-us-for-info.html​
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