by Sarah Stoner | Jul 12, 2019 | Guitar, Keyboard, Lessons, Piano, Strings, Uncategorized, Woodwind
The summer holidays are stretching ahead of us. Weeks and weeks of freedom for our children, but how do we make sure the skills they have developed over the past 10 months don’t suffer too much? What can you do to keep their interest in music alive and the...
by Sarah Stoner | May 23, 2019 | Lessons
Those of us privileged enough to be involved in teaching others, should never underestimate the impact we have on our students. We recently received a lovely letter from an ex-pupil who was thanking us for helping her to feel “amazing” and for fulfilling a...
by Sarah Stoner | Apr 26, 2019 | Singing
There is something truly magical about the sound of several voices coming together in harmony. But the composition of a choir is more technical and more intricate than simply asking a group to sing a song. A beautiful-sounding choir is like a well-oiled machine. Each...
by Sarah Stoner | Mar 25, 2019 | Community, Guitar, Lessons, Piano, Singing, Strings
Many of us believe that learning something new is only for the young. We’ve been conditioned to think that the older we get the less able we are to adapt, learn and grow. It’s drilled into us from being very young. “You can’t teach an old dog...
by Sarah Stoner | Mar 2, 2019 | Guitar
The guitar is a magical instrument – play it well and even the geekiest of us can come across as verifiable Rock Gods. The guitar can make us cool, like possibly no other instrument can. Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jimmy Page...
