All of a sudden it’s June! And it’s humid and warm in New York. At least today. The weather has been so unpredictable lately.
Next Saturday, I’m hosting my school, Park Slope Music Lessons, Spring Recital concerts. These events are so powerful as they act as a rite of passage...
Hello Parents!
We have exciting plans in store for you and your child(ren) later this year, 2021.
In the meantime,
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Someone asked me recently, is it better for my kids to learn how to code or learn music.
Well, then I read this article Want Smarter Kids? Teach Music, Not Coding, According to MIT
Holy smokes!
It made me think of one of my students.
She was one of my earliest...
In this episode, The Piano Pod interviews Andrew Ingkavet, owner of Park Slope Music Lessons, and founder and CEO of The Musicolor Method, an innovative piano method for young learners.
We discussed topics such as what is behind the Musicolor Method's philosophy and how Andrew drew on his...
So today I'm interviewing C.J. Stout, and that's actually why don't you introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about who you are.
My name's C.J..I am 39 years old. I live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in a place called Shoreline, which is a suburb of Seattle,
just a few...
In the jungle that is music education, there lives a beast.
A terrifying dragon that lurks behind every chair, instrument and music stand, it is the Distraction Dragon. This beast is the greatest and most common enemy of all teachers.
We tremble upon sensing the slightest...
So you know you can teach music...congratulations!
It’s only the first step.
Offering your services and successfully running a profitable business is a whole other problem. This is the problem most music teachers who want to grow a successful business face.
It feels like a massive tangle of...
What if we could redesign music education?
A designer’s goal is to make experiences simple, intuitive and accessible. It’s all about creating an effective user experience. In many first lessons, teachers start with a symbolic language of staff, treble clef, whole notes, half...
How a stay-at-home Dad stumbled across a new way of teaching music.
The story of how I developed the Musicolor Method.
Because I am a naturally curious person, my path in life has led me on a strange magical journey. In particular, three events have brought me a new view of teaching music:
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Years ago I began to notice a problem with some of my students: Some of them would only retain the last one or two songs we were working on in the music lessons.
No matter how many times I tried to explain that it was important to retain a "repertoire" of pieces they could...
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