Preview 3: Music is Child’s Play

A child’s job is to play. I don’t mean on an X-box or sitting in front of Cartoon Network. I mean real, old-fashioned playing. Exploring, building, creating, imagining, figuring things out. Building forts, playing pretend, exploring a park: that is the work of children, and there is nothing better for their mental, physical and emotional

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Preview 2: Teaching Children to Sing in Tune

Of all the complaints that people can have of a singing performance, usually the most unforgivable is that the singer does not sing in tune. With young children, intonation is almost always an issue. The majority of parents who ask me to teach their young child come with the complaint that “the notes just don’t

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