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Learn the strum patterns of an acoustic guitar in this free video series on musical instruments and music theory. Expert: Tom Smith Bio: Tom Smith has been a singer & musician for 25 years. He has also worked as a part-time music teacher. Filmmaker: joseph wilkins

It’s a fact that fresh air and outdoor play is a vital part of childhood. Being outdoors is a fantastic source of inspiration and creativity and playing out provides mountains of opportunities for learning as well as many other key aspects of child development. The outdoors is full of wonderful things for children to experience, discover, and explore – so much more than simply allowing them to let off steam by running, swinging, climbing and sliding, although all essential and brilliant fun! Being in the open air encourages our children’s observation skills, they’ll notice the weather, insects, plants, and everything going on around them; in fact all that the natural world provides to stimulate the senses – wonderful colours, different smells, sounds and textures. Being outdoors allows children to explore and develop a relationship with the natural environment, gain a sense of freedom and self-exploration, space to imagine and think, and to learn the skills required to self-manage risk. They’ll also see, hear and learn about who or what is sharing their habitat; can you see a cobweb? Who lives here? Can you hear that buzzing noise?

There are three interrelated aspects to children’s development – cognitive, emotional and physical. Play in the outdoors is able to support each of these aspects in a way that is different from play in an indoor environment. Outdoor play encourages the holistic development of the child by providing children with opportunities for the development of physical and social skills, improving self-esteem and help gain confidence in their own abilities.

Young children love physically active play and it is good for them in a number of different ways; it benefits their growing bodies and gives them a healthy outlet for their abundant energy while subconsciously developing a confidence in their bodies and in their growing physical strength and capabilities. Active play ensures both fine and large motor movements and skills are being developed.

An outdoor area with varying levels and surfaces enables children to enhance their spatial awareness. The outdoors has open-endedness in terms of what it represents to children – from the fantastical to the domestic. This is also true of objects to be found outdoors, all encouraging creative thinking – a simple stick becomes a tool for the imagination.

Providing quality outdoor play experiences for children involves more than simply constructing a safe climbing structure and allowing them to experience fresh air and exercise. Language, social and creative skills in particular benefit from play areas with landscapes and equipment that enable them to try new experiences and extend their horizons and which provide opportunities for social discussion, problem solving and increased communication.

Splitting the playground into zoned areas is an easy way to ensure the play space has all the right play and developmental opportunities. For example, having an area for active play, running and ball games, a friendship stop to encourage nurturing and communication, an adventure playground for climbing, swinging and balancing, a quieter space suitable for playground games, fantasy or imaginative play and even an area for outdoor musical instruments. In fact, making music available in the playground ticks all the right boxes – musical play offers cognitive, emotional and physical play opportunities. Playing music can relax, revive or rally us depending on our mood, musical play encourages creativity and the physical action that accompanies it helps improve coordination. Music in a playground and the space and freedom it offers, makes it more likely that gross motor activity and development will occur.

Its true that we may not be able to allow our children the same sort of ‘free-range’ lifestyle we had as children. This makes it so much more important to offer outdoor play environments and equipment that will develop their bodies and minds. Children have a right to high quality, safe outdoor play and recreation facilities; however just being outdoors releases children’s natural exuberance!

So let’s open the door and let the playground provide the social interaction, equality, turn taking, negotiation, excitement, risk, challenge and opportunities to use their imagination that children enjoy and need to learn and develop to grow into well-rounded individuals, hopefully with a love of the outdoors!

Playing a musical instrument may be something that you have always wanted to do in your life. Well, what is holding you back? Are you the person who likes rock music, especially? An important instrument in any rock band is the bass guitar. Besides the drummer who provides the rhythmic beat for any great rock band, the bass guitar is equally as important in providing the foundation harmonically.

Being able to find someone who can provide bass guitar lessons to you is much easier, now that we are ten years into the 21st century. No longer do you have to go into the yellow pages and try to find a person who could teach the instrument. Going back to the late 1990′s, it was no easy thing to do in locating a quality bass guitar instructor. If you lived in a remote, sparsely populated area you might have had to commute 40 miles, roundtrip, where the nearest music studio was located just to take lessons.

Back then, the person working out of the studio might have been some guy who really specialized in lead or acoustic guitar. Sorry, but the technique and style of playing the bass guitar is quite different. If you were taught by some incompetent guy who only worked part-time; and who really was not proficient on this particular instrument, nor could he communicate well in teaching, then guess what? You probably would not have become a really good bass guitar musician. You just would have quit after a few months.

With the advent of the internet, you should seriously consider taking bass guitar lessons online. It is the proven system for learning how to play the instrument. You would need to do some serious research, however before committing any money into the lessons. A solid, interactive internet program should have testimonials listed on their home page from students who have successfully completed the tutorials. You need to make sure that the instructors, themselves, are proficient at playing and teaching the bass guitar. You should be taught something more than the slapping technique. You should be taught how to read the guitar tablature, (where the student actually reads the chords for the instrument) and the playing skills required for you to excel on the bass.

The advantages in taking lessons on the bass guitar online are quite obvious. You would be able to download the tutorials, (or pop the DVD’s into your system connected to your television) at a convenient time in your schedule. You have the advantage of repeating each tutorial as often as necessary until you master what is being taught in the lesson. Quality programs which teach the bass are very affordable as well; usually running around $25-30/ month. Taking lessons from a teacher at a music studio would usually cost at least that much, per weekly lesson!

For those people who might not think that the bass guitar is an important member of a band, consider the following musicians: Have you ever heard of Paul McCartney? While McCartney is proficient on the keyboard, drums, and in vocals; he was also the bass guitar player in a little group called The Beatles! Sting is a well-known contemporary rock musician who is also a master on this instrument.

You can never know what taking bass guitar lessons could provide for you. Perhaps you only want to do it recreationally. However, any band needs a great bass guitar player. If you take become serious on the instrument and practice, you’ll never know what doors could be open for you in the music industry. There is much more information that I simply could not include in this article. I urge you to please visit this site: http://theplayguitarlessons.info.

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If you have a pretty good sense of rhythm, drums are a fairly easy musical instrument that you can learn to play quickly. Percussion instruments and wind instruments make for easy learning and quick fun.

There has been the misconception that the piano is a difficult-to-learn instrument, therefore, only a few extremely gifted individuals will ever be able to play it acceptably.

Get good tuition. Music teachers, because they don’t worry so much about “state standards” or tests, can focus on what’s really important: learning about music. There is potential for developing musical literacy and creativity, it was realized that teachers needed new materials with appropriate skills in order to get music into the everyday lives of people.

Musical language is approached by ear game, sight reading, games aimed towards interiorisation (hearing the notes one reads), musical interpretation, and improvisation using instruments. It is not a must to develop adequate reading skills from the outset in order to be musically “self-reliant” at each level, and to enjoy the endless variety of music that is available. Many people use a combination of these methods throughout their musical life to begin learning and then grow their talents.

Because of attention span in youngest children, it is recommended getting started with group lessons. For example classroom guitar lessons give you the chance to learn the basics of how to play guitar, including how to hold the instrument, tune it and play chords. Some people want human feedback and don’t want to learn to play guitar alone but can’t afford lessons.

Lots of children are naturally interested in playing a musical instrument or singing. They may have seen a character in their favorite television program playing an instrument, or perhaps they saw their school friends or parents playing instruments. It could just be that they watched a movie on YouTube of a guy playing a guitar solo at warp-speed and said, “wow, I’d like to try that”. Below you’ll find 5 ways to help and encourage your child to explore musical instruments.

Of course, not all children will be interested in playing an instrument. It may not be the case that they don’t want to, it may just be that they haven’t been exposed to musical instruments and don’t have a concept of how much fun creating music yourself can be. In that situation you can check out the 5 ways to help and encourage your kid to play an instrument below and hopefully they’ll pick up an instrument and start having fun.

1: Explain to your child how the basic toys they played with when they were really small are different to the musical instruments older children and adults play. Children will usually start with small electronic keyboards that play all musical “sounds”. You can make the distinction between the “keyboard drum sound” and a real drum kit. You could even get some pots and pans out and create your own drum kit.

2: Play an instrument to your child. It doesn’t matter how badly you play, the fact that you find it interesting will be reflected by your child. If you simply strum a guitar, your child will want to “try it”. You can develop their enthusiasm by giving them a guitar suitable for a child.

3: Explore video-sharing sites and show your child how various instruments make different sounds. Your child may prefer the sound of a flute to that of an oboe… but just being aware of the different instruments and the sounds they make will be a great learning experience for your child.

4: See what your school or pre-school has to offer. Your child may be doing musical lessons. Find out from the teacher if your child has any desire to learn a specific instrument, and if so, which one.

5: Employ a little bit of sibling rivalry. If one child enjoys playing an instrument, it’s very likely the other will want to. All you have to do is start one child learning their favorite instrument and the other will naturally want to copy their sibling… perhaps not with the same instrument, but one more suited to them.

For years we have seen a big increase in kids who want to learn to play guitar mainly, but also many other instruments.

Given this boom, we can not but see how the opportunities and methods for learning are many more now that only ten years ago. Once it was necessary to go and get guitar lessons from a teacher, who could afford it, once, twice, three times a week, depending on how good you were and how much interested. The teacher taught the tunes and some songs, after some time. But the teacher was paid, and often a lot. Or you could learn to strum something from friends, but unless they were already great musicians, the levels reached were not lofty. There were not programs like garage band and who wanted to hear and check how it sounded, he had no other method than recording a tape and return to the point more or by intuition. To learn how to play your favorite songs, we went into stores and tried to memorize musical scores and arrangements, or we could ask the teacher to write down some.

Now, thanks to the spread of video games where you can learn to play an instrument, a lot of young people has become passionatet in this world. And always thanks to the development of many new technologies learning how to play is much easier and faster. You just have to go to the web and there are demonstration videos, programs that provide all the scores, you can digitally record and then immediately find the place you want to repeat. Yet many of these videos are often poor performances of other guys who want to show off and strut with an instrument. You should pay attention here to choose the right tools.

All these programs are very useful if you have no intention of paying a teacher, but keep in mind that to play really well, you must first learn the basics. To do this, the best method is definitely subscribe to a music school. Learn how to self-learners is certainly very admirable, but it requires a lot of effort and twice the study. At least for the first time, you should better turn to the real experts. If then you are interested in playing your favorite songs, alone or with friends, after learning a solid foundation you can begin to explore their own arrangements of different songs.

In these schools, people of all ages can apply, whether they have previous knowledge in music or they are starting from zero, there will always be a suitable teacher for you. Furthermore you can also choose the tool that you like, not just the usual guitar. Try to space, with the mind and fingers between piano, clarinet, horn, flute, flugelhorn, percussion, sax, trumpet, trombone, tuba. You can also find lessons on sol-fa and music theory.

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  I was recently approached by a woman in her 40′s who said “I wanted so badly to play an instrument the way that you can. I tried and tried but I just couldn’t do it so I gave up long ago.” This was not the first time I’ve heard someone say this to me. I gave her my usual response. “Why would you ever give up on something that you want so badly?”

 I have explained to so many of my students that everyone who has ever been able to play well has had to work for it. If determination doesn’t exist than either will results. You don’t want it badly enough if you are willing to give up so easily. Everyone who has made an attempt at learning to play an instrument has had to produce noise before music could be heard.

 One reason that many people get irritated is because they don’t want to learn properly. If someone can’t afford music lessons there are several tutorials and a lot of information that can be found on the internet and most public libraries. The best advice I can give is to  have a reliable instrument, time and the willingness to practice, and be willing to start form the ground up. You can’t learn to play like Jimi Hendrix if you can’t learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

 I often wish that our school systems would spend more time teaching students how to apply themselves instead of just throwing subjects at us. So many people lack determination, discipline and confidence because nobody was there to give it to them in the first place and they couldn’t figure it out for themselves. The thought of how this could change our world staggers me. Don’t be afraid to try and never give up is what everyone should be saying to anyone who expresses an interest in music, music lessons, and anything that will challenge us to be happier and healthier human beings. Experience leads to knowledge regardless of what instruments we choose to play in life.

 My new blog will address musical issues in every shape, way, size and sound.

 Please check it out at http://andremusic2009.blogspot.com

 By Andre R.

President Harry S. Truman, the man in the White House when the United States intervened on behalf of the millions of innocent people who were being displaced and massacred by Hitler’s Nazi Germany, claimed to have practiced his piano lessons for two hours every morning during his childhood. Likewise, President Warren Harding was said to be able to play every instrument except the trombone and the clarinet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) played the organ. Of course we all remember President Clinton and his saxophone, but did you know that President Nixon was an accomplished pianist?

And more recently a girl who was a musician long before she became an academic and then a world-famous diplomat, our own globetrotting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a very accomplished classical pianist. As she was growing up in the Rice home music was a family affair, and as early as age 3 Condi played piano at family gatherings. Her Dad was a minister and she often accompanied her organist Mother in church. The name “Condoleezza” is from the Italian phrase con dolcezza, which refers to playing music “with sweetness.” While other kids in her neighorhood were playing outdoors, she was more likely to be found practicing the piano or reading a book.

The list goes on, but the real question is why do people with musical training tend to achieve more in life? There are differing theories about that, but studies have shown a direct correlation between music and the brain’s ability to adapt to the world around it. One such test showed that people that had listened to just ten minutes of Mozart’s “Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major” and then took a spatio-temporal reasoning test (which is a part of a standardized intelligence test) scored 48% higher than the control group while a second study done at the University of California, Irvine on what has been called the “Mozart Effect” shows a increased IQ score of nine points.

In another study the Bulgarian psychologist George Lozanov discovered that playing Baroque instrumental music in the background had a profound effect on student’s ability to learn and retain a foreign language. The key is that highly structured, highly organized music seems to help the human brain to function in a more organized and efficient manner while further studies have shown that discordant music actually has a negative effect on the brain.

Studying music is the perfect way to derive its benefits. At least one study has shown that young children can gain the spatio-temporal reasoning effects mentioned above just by learning to play the piano or organ. Likewise, through the study of music we have the discipline of practice to expose us to great music regardless of our age. Besides for the effect of the music, studying music teaches discipline and the relationship between hard work and reward and there is little in life more rewarding than to hear beautiful music coming forth as a result of one’s own effort.

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them; a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.” Gerald Ford, former President, United States of America.

Not until quite recently, was it possible for everyone who so desired, to realize their dream of becoming an accomplished musician.  How many times have we heard someone say, “Oh I would love to be able play the piano (guitar, drums) but I guess I just don’t have that gift.  I must have been hiding behind the door when musical gifts were given out!”

Well, now the door has been removed, thanks to the creative and dedicated people at Legacy Learning Systems.  They’ve developed an amazing musical instrument learning program called Learn & Master – an Award Winning Series Bringing Personal Dreams within Reach.

Now it is one thing to learn, but it is quite something else to master.  The old saying, “There are many who start, but few who finish,” has applied to multitudes of musical aspirants just as it has for people in any field you can name.

But the good news here is, a serious student can go on and master their instrument with Learn & Master because each program is a complete step-by-step video instruction course that takes one from any skill level, even if they’re a total novice, through to the advanced skills training used by the pros.  And if one is not a beginner he or she can simply skip through the basics and jump into the more advanced training.

Let’s have a look at what each wonderful program offers:

Video presentations – The DVD’s contained in the Learn & Master series are really the heart of this course. Each lesson is clearly explained and demonstrated, so the student knows exactly what and how to practice. The videos were recently awarded for excellence in the categories of Education and Use of Music.
Printed materials – Not everyone wants to practice with a video all the time so the Learn & Master work books contain all of the songs and exercises demonstrated in the video lessons, as well as several more, so one can continue practicing at their own pace for as long as they need before moving on to the next lesson.
Play-along CD’s – This is where the fun comes in.  These CD’s allow the student to ”play along” with an actual band, using the very same songs they’ll be learning in their lessons.  There’s no better way to learn than by playing, and there’s no way to play that’s more fun than playing with a band. The student will be amazed at how much more fun this makes practice time!  Friends and family will be impressed, too, at how soon he or she will be playing such amazing music! 
Professional teachers – gives the rare opportunity to study from a real pro. Each teacher has been playing professionally for many years. Not only is each one a truly masterful player with a very impressive bio, but also an incredibly talented teacher and communicator.  Better teachers will not be found anywhere.  And because it’s from Legacy Learning Systems, the leader in in-depth video instruction, the student will soon know the training quality is of the highest caliber.
Online community and support - Once the chosen course is purchased, the student also gets access to student support and community websites. Each teacher is online regularly, answering questions and offering encouragement, as are other students. A student profile can be built, he or she can post recordings of their songs, track their progress and get feedback.  It is a vibrant learning community with active users, all helping each other along as they progress through the course. 

Learning to play the guitar or piano or drums the Legacy Learning Systems way, truly is the only teaching package one will ever need on one’s life journey towards mastering their chosen musical instrument.  All the student provides is the instrument and the practice!

The good news is too, there is also a 60 day no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee offered on each product, should the student not be totally satisfied with his or her purchase.

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