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In this guest post, Sebastian Quirmbach, Modern Music School’s education director, busts the myth about ‘natural talent.’ Talent isn’t something God-given or fixed at birth, it’s a muscle we can grow with time and practice. In fact, all children can develop talent in almost any area — as long as they experience a positive and […]
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Who likes exams anyway? For most of us, exams mean stress, pressure, and anxiety. “What if I don’t pass?” “What if I’m not good enough?” are the questions our critical inner voice is telling us. And these questions make it hard to take another view. Who doesn’t love success? We all connect success with joy, […]
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If you’ve been given the gift to be a musician, you’re very lucky! Music has the power to transform and touch other people, and, through their songs, many “rock-stars” have done just that. They gave us anthems that inspire us, and songs that never fail to make us happy! Many skilled artists set out to […]
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Have you ever listened to a song that immediately sent shivers and chills down your spine? If so, you can thank the feel-good hormone dopamine for that moments of delight. A research study by Valorie Salimpoor, a neuroscientist at McGill University, Montreal, reveals that the chills we get when we listen to our favorite music […]
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Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck enjoys a kind of cult status with educators and parents. Her research changed the way many adults praise children. “I’m proud that you tried really hard,” or “I see how much effort you put into this,” is the “process-based praise” that many educators use with their students since Dweck […]
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“How to practice effectively… for just about anything” is the title of this TED Ed lesson from Annie Bosler and Don Greene and I highly recommend watching it. Their advice applies to everything from music to sports and isn’t necessarily new (I’ve covered different aspects of it here, here and here.) But understanding “how practice […]
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Flow deepens learning. It puts us in a state of heightened creativity and enhanced learning ability and we’re rewarded by many positive emotions at the same time. In the brain, a fireworks of hormones is triggered in flow, which has an amplifying effect on learning — information or movements are firmly anchored in our memory […]
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Whether or not you like this song – this message from Justin Timberlake is very powerful: “If you’re a young person being called weird or different, I’m here to tell you that your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You will not.” This message was directed toward young people, but I think it’s […]
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Once again we are approaching the end of the year, and we have some good news to share: Modern Music School in now represented in the Middle East! In August, Sebastian Quirmbach (International Educational Director) and I (Hans-Peter Becker, CEO) visited the beautiful city of Tehran to meet with Alireza Tabatabei, the future Modern Music […]
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You’ve probably experienced a ‘plateau’ at some point or another. You know, where you start out in a new skill, you progress quickly for a while, but then all of a sudden … you stop. Plateaus are something (pro) musicians know all too well. It’s the moment when you hit a wall and it seems […]
My goal is to bring happiness to you and your child's life.
In times where anxiety and stress levels among children and youth are at an all-time high, I make it my mission to create a space for children to grow up as happy, emotionally-resilient and creative individuals.
With real connections, friendship and play being replaced by television, tablets and iPhones, I provide children with opportunities to connect with peers, to form real friendships and to grow up as socially competent, responsible human beings.
Hans-Peter Becker, once a professional drummer, now educator, author and entrepreneur, made it his mission to connect the world with music – and he’s succeeding. He is the founder of the Modern Music School, which is one of the largest music schools in the world. In its more than 80 international branches, Modern Music School has taught more than 100,000 musicians in Germany, US and Greece since 1987.
