Music lessons are the key to finding a creative hobby or even a career you can enjoy for the rest of your life. But for many people, the biggest hurdle is just getting started. Finding a great teacher is often the first step. Some people learn best in the community setting that group lessons can provide while others thrive in private instruction. What's best for you? Here are a few of the pros and cons of choosing private music lessons over group lessons.
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The holidays are ending, the relatives are leaving, but your house has new toys everywhere. In a world oversaturated with material goods and grandparents excited to spoil their grandchildren, you wonder how you can make birthdays and holidays special next year without adding to all the clutter. However, this doesn't have to be difficult. There are tons of annual memberships, classes, or music lessons that would be a great gift without taking up space in your home.
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Motown is known as a clean and soulful genre. With its smooth arrangements and rhythms, Motown became a large hit in the 1960s. Black musicians have always had an influence on the music scene. With genres like jazz and Motown, black musicians were adding individuality and expression into music, and producers of the era perfected their techniques and created hit after hit. A new texture in music rose in popularity and has affected modern popular music even now.
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If you're considering music lessons for your child, you may want to weigh all the pros and cons before deciding on a course of action. After all, music lessons can be a big investment. But in many cases, music lessons such as violin lessons are worth the added expense.
Here are four reasons why you should choose violin lessons for your child.
1. Violin lessons are accessible even to young children
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Pianos have massive amounts of string tension. Their construction is such that they acclimate to whatever string tension is present in order to be stable. This is what makes them both a solid piece of furniture and a musical instrument.
However, the tuning of every stringed instrument, including pianos, slips and becomes flat over time. Occasional re-tuning by a professional technician are part of the cost of owning a piano.
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