Why Music Lessons

Throughout the ages, great musicians desired to train their students in the art of music making so they could make progress in the most efficient ways possible. What it took the teacher many years to coalesce, the student could acquire in a fraction of the time....

Why Music Notation

Combined Learning There are three main ways we learn: 1) Hearing, 2) Seeing, and 3) Doing. These are also referred to as Aural, Visual, and Kinesthetic, respectively. Participating in one of the activities is stimulating to the brain. However, when engaged in all...

Principles of Creativity – 3

There is a central truth about creativity that is so foundational, it may be the most important to understand out of all of them.  It is the principle of the ‘Seed.’  This is one of the foundational principles we teach our students in our music school in Odessa,...

Principles of Creativity – 2

All creativity requires risk.  Moving forward with an idea takes a certain amount of time, resources, capital, people and leadership.  There are no guarantees of success.  Casting vision and hope for whatever the endeavor is helps move everything forward, but there...

Principles of Creativity – 1

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.  Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. ...