Don’t Feel Like Practicing?

What do you do if you are a musical teen who doesn’t feel like practicing? A parent once told me that if a kid doesn’t LOVE practicing, then studying music at some level is not for them. She is an accountant, so I asked her, “Do you LOVE tallying numbers? Are you dying to get […]

Music Beat Athletics

Several years ago, a student I was teaching had a big primary goal: attend college on a field hockey scholarship. She did all of the right things – captain of a winning team, high-end field hockey camps, All-Star player in her state, and played for lots of college coaches at recruitment events. Everyone knew that […]