Asheville Music Lessons

I have been somewhat behind in updates over here lately for a number of reasons. But I wanted to mention that the Asheville Music School has now opened a West location on Patton Avenue (behind Music City). The grand opening is Tuesday March 23rd at 11AM with a ribbon cutting, but the doors [...]

I don’t know about you, but if you also teach private piano lessons, or really any kind of private music lessons. I suspect there are times you have had to cancel your lessons for the day. You’ve either become sick, had a car accident, or some other event has forced you to cancel [...]

Music Education, is it equivalent to Language Education? I’ve spent the last several years improving my Spanish and studying languages is somewhat of a hobby of mine (yes… yet another…) I’ve studied Spanish, French and German now although currently my Spanish is by far the best. But what similarities are there between [...]

I know how it is when you’ve worked on a piece for some time. You’ve practiced hours each day perfecting every note and it still feels like it’s missing something. Maybe there’s one passage that never seems to work right in the time or something you can’t seem to memorize. Here’s a [...]

I guess most music that we hear is in 4/4 time. It’s not something most people think about, but it seems that it’s very easy for us to all take a piece of music in 3/4 time and stretch the last beat of the measure and force things into 4/4. One thing that [...]

I had some of my students taking part in the Asheville Music School’s recital this past Sunday and wanted to congratulate them as well as ALL those who participated in the event. For quite some time now we’ve been having our recitals at the UNCA campus in Lipinsky Hall Room 018. It gives [...]

With private music lessons there is a slightly different relationship between student and teacher than there is in group class settings. One on one lessons give both the student and teacher a better chance to know each other and to make the learning experience better. At least, that’s the way it is ideally. [...]

I know I’ve seen a lot of students that fit the category of Speed Demons. They think if they’re going to do anything they’ll do it as fast as possible. If they can keep a steady tempo that’s all right depending on the song. Of course, the real problem is usually the [...]

First off, in College Ear training (Aural Skills…) was my favorite, maybe because it was something that was easy to quantify. You could work with software or on your on and you could tell when you missed and you could tell when you got it and you could mark your progress. Now, I [...]

It’s been quoted many times that a journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. When you think of many of the things we do in life it can be overwhelming to consider the enormity of what is needed to be done. To shrink the quote above a bit, let’s say [...]