The Playful Piano Studio: Offering Simply Music Piano Lessons

Hi, I'm Linda! I provide modern, engaging online piano classes for adults, teens, and kids. 🎶 These are the skills of a well-rounded musician.

I’m all about cultivating a life-long love of music and creating a musical community where learning music is engaging, rewarding, and fun. I believe music should be a creative outlet, an art, so in addition to learning the basics of reading and playing music (musical fluency, theory), my students also learn the creative side of making music: how to create their own music (composition), take a son

06/16/2024

Wisdom… 🎶

04/03/2024

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Music does many important things for so many people.

How music can future proof your brain | Neil Moore | TEDxJacksonville

03/22/2024

Excellent TEDx talk on the importance of music and creativity in the world of AI from Neil Moore, the creator of the Simply Music program. 🎶

“Over the next decade we will witness the arrival of a technological tsunami that will transform life on earth and redefine what it means to be a human being. Given the world that we're heading into, it's essential for us to consider that the critical currency and personal attribute of the future will be creativity. Quite simply, humanity needs to think more creatively than ever before. By providing the brain with the critical neurological nutrition of musicianship, music educator Neil Moore believes we can discover and reconnect to our innate creative capability and prepare ourselves for the complex and challenging future we face.”

How music can future proof your brain | Neil Moore | TEDxJacksonville Over the next decade we will witness the arrival of a technological tsunami that will transform life on earth and redefine what it means to be a human being....

03/19/2024

Are you an adult considering piano lessons? While learning to play music would be your primary goal, check out all these benefits to be gained from getting out of your comfort zone to try something new. 🎶

It may not always be comfortable at first, but engaging in new experiences delivers a proven mental-health boost. In fact, the benefits are so wide-ranging that doing new things should probably be considered an essential element of well-being.

03/11/2024

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Last night, 39-year-old composer Ludwig Göransson won his second Academy Award for his score to ‘Oppenheimer’. In a heartfelt speech, he thanked his parents for giving him his foundation in music.

12/29/2023

Not only is making music fun… it also has long term brain benefits!

And it’s never too late to start. 💕

Our continues with our third most popular post of 2023! "Music benefits brains for LIFE! 🧠 💥"

How arts education builds better brains and better lives | KQED

10/14/2023

“Art enhances the ability of the hippocampus and the other areas of your brain to perform the tasks that they were designed to do by increasing the synaptic circuits. This helps not only in the playing of music but in any life activity where learning and memory are needed.”

How arts education builds better brains and better lives | KQED “Your Brain on Art” by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross explores how arts education can enhance the plasticity of the brain and improve cognitive, social and emotional development in children.