All posts about Personal Growth
How good do you want to be?
Do you ever find that you’re not progressing on your instrument as fast as you were hoping to? You’re still not part of a band although “playing in front of a large audience” is at the top of your bucket list?...
Music lessons for adolescents – find your purpose
“Who am I?”, “Who do I want to be?” – These are valuable questions especially for adolescents. A world of seemingly endless opportunities offers many possibilities for self-fulfillment and, at the same time,...
From fear to excitement – 3 simple steps to overcome stage fright
To go on stage and rock out is something, many musicians dream of. But there’s one thing holding them back: stage fright. Stress, anxiety and general discomfort – for some students, just coming to music...
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3 Tips For More Music in Everyday (Family) Life
Musicality is within us and unfolds if we only have enough contact with it. With musicality it is like with the first language we speak. No one would think of explaining the grammar of his or her mother tongue to a toddler or having him or her learn words by heart.
Music & Bonds
Music calms, music stimulates and music connects. The sense of hearing is the first sense to be developed in the womb. The voices of parents and siblings convey a sense of security and the mother's heartbeat is the rhythm of the beginning of life. These sounds also promote our development, especially the development of the brain.
Listening to children properly
Most parents do think about how they (want to) talk to their children, but hardly any of them think about how they listen to their children. And in doing so, we often forget to give children what we naturally demand of them: "Listen to me." Because we know that no matter how good we are at talking, without listening there will be no successful communication, understanding, or comprehension.