Piano with Dr. Elizabeth

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It’s World Autism Awareness Day, and we are celebrating all of the creatively neurodiverse students in our studio! ✨

We love all of our students, and are grateful for the unique gifts, perspectives and insights they bring to the studio! 🌈

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter! Hope your weekend has been full of fun, sunshine and joy! ✝️
Looking forward to another great week of music at lessons this week!

Just a reminder that there are no lessons this week since Dr. Elizabeth is at a conference in Atlanta- so enjoy your spring break, and see you next week! 🦋

🎉 Miss Avery had her first piano lesson this week! 🤩

She really enjoyed using animal finger puppets to explore different sounds the piano can make, learned the Weeping Willow Tree exercise to keep our hands relaxed, and was a champ at finding all the 2 and 3 black keys! 🎹 (and of course, we listened to ‘Aquarium’ from Carnival of the Animals to move like a fish and see what sneaky animals might be swimming by 🦈 🐙)

🎶 Welcome to the studio, Avery! 👏

Happy 2024, studio families and followers! ✨
Lessons start back tomorrow and we’re ready for another wonderful semester of learning, piano and exploring music! 🎶

Having fun with our new magnetic board and props from Music Escapades Shoppe to show the patterns of our Scale Waltz piece from Tales of a Musical Journey by Irina Gorin! 🕺🏼

Only a few lessons this week due to Thanksgiving, but we’ll be back on full schedule next week as we finish up the fall semester! 🎶

👏 Music and piano are so much more than just a lesson each week!

Why do people pay for piano lessons?

The answer is….they don’t pay for piano lessons. They pay for so much more.

- They pay for their child to learn what it takes to commit to something meaningful;

- They pay so that their child can learn the magic of creation, of forming something beautiful using their hands;

- They pay so that their child recognises the power of discipline, of working at something consistently, at least five days per week, honing their skills and building their fluency;

- They pay so that their child understands not to quit when the novelty has worn off and the work must set in;

- They pay so their child learns that they must still put in the work, even when tired and grumpy, not just giving up and spending hours on TikTok;

- They pay so that they can learn the joy of creating music with others: listening intently, and learning to chop, change and compromise;

- They pay so that they realise that it’s not just “enjoying themselves” but working meticulously on small details;

- They pay so that they DO enjoy themselves;

- They pay so that their child creates neural pathways that impact every single area of the curriculum;

- They pay so that their child develops the most incredible fine motor skills;

- They pay so that their child sees that art can be transcendent, and can accompany us through our darkest times;

- They pay because music puts us in touch with something that can’t be otherwise expressed.

This little student did a lovely job on drawing his portraits of himself (and me 😂) in his book! We are loving method and Mr. E is doing a fantastic job of listening as he plays to develop a beautiful tone even in the early pieces.

Today, he taught his left hand to copy his right hand’s beautiful, graceful 🦋 movements across the keys as we listened to Edvard Grieg’s “Butterfly!”

Coastal Keys Music is closed today for Hurricane Idalia. 🌀 Prayers for all those in its path, and stay safe!