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...

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...

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 neuroscient...

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...

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)...

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)...

Different people learn in different ways, right? Well, using the way that works best for you can be called brain-friendly learning. Brain-friendly learning is a very holistic approach to learning. It is based on neuroscientific...

Summer is coming to an end and school is about to start. For some this might be sad news, but not for us at Modern Music School! Since our classrooms get a little quieter during the summer too (some students...