Author Archives: Mandy Lagan
Practising
I have been asked by a few families lately if I have any advice on helping with maintaining practising during the week between lessons. I do have a few suggestions.
I have some young students, around the age of 6, who more »
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Why a blog?
I began teaching music in 1983. I have been starting young children on their musical journeys, which I sincerely hope they will be traveling throughout their lives, as well as focusing on piano and music theory for adults. Some of more »
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Exam results are in!
Congratulations to Athena Koumbridis (grade III), Jordan Bierbrier (grade IV), Alexandra Athanaselos (grade II) and Carolyne You (grade I). They all received first class honours on their piano exams, Spring, 2013.
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Music is a Language
First of all, music is a language. If you think of it in this context and compare the task of learning music with the task of learning another language you can draw comparisons.
Why do we want our children to learn more »
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Language is Music
It begins with listening.
We teach our children our language by speaking it to them from the moment they are born. They listen and gradually pick up on the sounds, the pronunciations, the inflections and grammar of our language. It takes more »
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