Melody Music Studio

Welcome to Ten Minute Tuesday!
It’s Here! The first full week of summer break! Enjoy it, go outside, ride bikes, take walks and enjoy some great music moments!

Each Tuesday check your inbox for a ten minute way to enjoy music with your family this summer. It is important to keep up those piano skills and be ready for September!

For students taking a summer break from piano, remember to practice one day per week. Play your current practice list, play your favorite song, and play concerts for your family on rainy days!

Summer Students; enjoy some extra music fun found here!

Extra music fun:

Older Students:
Create a summer playlist; include titles from your music that you can find on Spotify or whatever you use to create your play lists. The more music you listen to, the more it sets your brain up to play music! See if you can find any of the songs from your lesson books on your music app, see how they sound. Be listening for music everywhere this summer.

Younger students:
Tap out your songs! Open a book or use a piece of sheet music and place your hands on a table or any surface. Then tap out the song, using the correct fingers, say the notes out loud, but don’t use the piano!

WHY DOES TAP PRACTICE WORK?
1. While there is no sound involved, your students will still “hear” their piece. The human brain is a wonderful thing – and your students will be developing their ear in leaps and bounds. As they are learning to hear their piece without the ability to actually hear it
2. How do they know they made a mistake when there are no keys and no sound? They know because their ears are connected to their finger movements; and a slight miss-tap with their fingers translates to an off sound in their mind. Your brain is completely engaged during Tap Practice without the distraction of sound… and so learning happens at a faster rate.
3. The only thing they hear is tapping… and so their fluidity improves as they learn to create an even tempo and a sense of underlying beat. Hearing just the rhythm of their piece with no notes attached brings these two aspects to the forefront. When they return to the piano their muscle memory will preserve the evenness they found away from the piano.
4. Kids think Tap Practice is fun! This is one more way of making piano practice fun. Not only is it completely portable, meaning that your students can Tap Practice literally anywhere (my students Tap Practice on the back of a book in the car, on the table of a restaurant… you name it!) but it’s also enjoyable; they love the notion of playing the piano in their mind.
Give it a shot – not only have you expanded practice time opportunities by making it a moveable activity that can be done anywhere, but you have also tapped (pun intended!) into a new way of accessing the brain’s ability to learn to play the piano.
Have a great Tuesday!
Judi Kidd

Hello Parents!
Summer Piano begins Wednesday June 3, 2026!
Bring: Your student w/ their smile, continuing students bring your books, New Students I have books for you and tuition.
Wednesdays
Cost: $160 per student (covers entire summer session)
Dates:
June: 3,10,17,24
July: 1,8, 15,22
No lessons in August.
Regular Session Begins in September.
9:00 Kaitlyn O.
9:30 Emmett G.
10:00 Madeline G.
10:30 Austin B.
11:00 Bradley S.
11:30 Sam D.
Noon Alex B.
1:00 Iris D.
1:30: Eve D.
2:00: Bri L.
2:30 Tyler W.
3:00 Maura H.
3:30 Isla B.
4:00 Noah B.
4:30 Emilia W.
5:00 Olivia M.
5:30 Roman F.
6:00 Sam W.
See you all on Wednesday! See less

Music can transform a moment, a morning, an afternoon, and evening or a night. Music Education can transform a life, for a lifetime.

Summer Session Begins June 3, 2026.
Bring tuition, books and smiles!

That's a wrap!
Regular session piano lessons at Melody Music studio finished up this week. We had great buddy visits, smiles, games and treats!
Have a terrific summer!

Melody Music Thursday Buddy Day!
Siblings and BFF's!!!!
I loved the smiles and the fun!

We had a wonderful Wednesday Buddy Day at Piano today!
Buddies of all sorts came: Magnet Man Buddy, Dino Buddy, Magic Card Buddy, Snoopy, PaperBall Buddy, American Girl Buddy, Koala Buddy and BFF Buddies! Creativity is King with the Wednesday students!
I enjoyed every single one!

Tuesday Buddy Day was TERRIFIC! We had Stuffie Buddies, BFF Buddies, Brother Buddies and Nanna Buddies!
Loved having piano fun with everyone today!

Monday Buddy Day! I have the best students, they got creative with bringing a buddy to lessons and I got to meet the best buddies ever!