Music Lifestyle Academy

Our Award-Winning Young Musician Courses series starts as young as 3 years old as a toddler. This is considered to be the best age to get young children introduced to the exciting world of music and apply inspiring music lessons and activities in group playing. This age group is known to enjoy meeting new friends and being part of a musical team playing. Within the cluster setting they will get the chance to sing, play musical movement and dance games, rhythm with body motions and tiny percussion instruments, play keyboard or piano solos that helps build their confidence and work on inventive and note reading skills with distinctive multi-sensory comes.
Age Range: Beginner Aged from 3
Course Duration: 4 books ( 6 months per book/level)
This program features a variety of activities that children in the 21st century need for brain development and acceleration. It also involves children on a number of levels, which leaves ample room for them to establish positive relations with music that they will enjoy in their lives.
Activities:
·       Solfege singing
·       Movement, dance and gestures
·       Rhythm and beat
·       Percussion playing
·       Music notation reading
·       Keyboard playing
·       Musical games and improvisation
·       Ensemble playing
Advantages of Early Childhood Music Lessons
·       Left-Brain logical thinking
·       Quicker reflexes
·       Enhances memory
·       Attention and concentration
·       Motor skills
·       Better mathematical ability
·       Improves reading and comprehension skills
·       Improves listening skills
·       Discipline training
 

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Music Lessons for slightly older young children starts from 4 years old with the keyboard and ultimately on formal piano courses. Comprehensive music education aims to develop the talents to play what they hear as written scores. To be able to sing it in solfege, and to play the melody and accompaniment- having the ability to sing what they hear which is so called perfect hearing!
Timely education refers to learning at the suitable physical and mental development stage. It is our core belief that the golden age to create a robust foundation in correct pitching, swingy and instrumental coaching is from four to six years old. During this stage, the hearing ability of young youngsters is developing quickly. That is why young children naturally and effortlessly get pleasure from and absorb music at this age.
Group lessons facilitate the sharing of the enjoyment of music. Taking part in an associated ensemble with friends allows them to own a chic musical expertise and deepens the understanding of music. We tend to believe that cluster lessons are most effective thanks to its ability to stimulate the emotional and mental development of early childhood.
Our philosophy is to nurture the musical talent that everybody is born with, develop their ability to make and play music and encourage the enjoyment of sharing music. The following are part of the benefits:
Improve educational skills:
Music and science are extremely tangled.
Cultivate social skills:
Group categories need peer interaction and communication that encourage cooperation, as youngsters should collaborate to make a crescendo or associate accelerando.
Refine discipline and patience:
Playing an associate instrument teaches youngsters to persist through hours, months and generally years of practice before they reach specific goals. It improves patience and discipline.
Additional exposure to alternative cultures:
By learning and taking part in a range of instruments, youngsters will discover that music plays a crucial role in alternative cultures. To Illustrate, bongos and timescale could introduce youngsters to African and Cuban forms of music. Versatile instruments, the fiddle and piano, will accompany a large repertoire of designs, as well as classical and jazz.
 

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Age Range: Beginner Aged from 4 to 5 years
Course Duration: 4 books (6 months per book/level)
This program offers a wide range of musical experiences that extends beyond playing the keyboard and piano with a unique method that facilitates faster and more accurate learning.
Children meet their instrument right from the start, participate in story-telling and games, play percussion instruments and engage with music through gestures and movement activities.
Flash cards are used to ensure music literacy is developed from day one.
 

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Course Duration: 2 books ( 6 months per book/level)
This course is comprehensive and lots of fun. Essential skills are developed through finger taps, finger zips, rhythm taps, repertoire pieces and ensemble playing as well as flash cards.
The Primary Series uses the same methodology as the Junior Series to suit the learning style of older children.
Contemporary and traditional styles are authentically recreated so that when learning even the simplest of pieces, students are exposed to multiple musical layers
 

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• Music Can Help To Achieve Better Academic Results

Neuroscientists have proven when one plays an instrument, multiple areas of your brain are engaged and active like a full-body brain workout, these actions will help our brain to function more effectively.

One can improve multitasking skills greatly through the playing of piano. This can be achieved because one needs split concentration by using both hands, reading music, listening to the notes you are playing and working the pedals. That is a lot of coordination works to do at once! However, once you become used to split concentration while playing the piano, you will notice that your multitasking skills have greatly improved.

Advantages also include the development of performance and shaping of good charisma for kids. More importantly, both their reading and academic learning ability will be improved tremendously as well. Children tend to do well in Mathematics especially dealing with fractions numbers and ratios as those are parts of the exercises in music theory.

• Focused Attention And Logical Thinking

Playing the piano enhances the brain development in a positive way. While playing a challenging piece, those coordinating actions stimulate the brain in a way no other activity does. Similarly, you are also improving your memory, attention, speech, language, spatial and math skills, body and emotions. Playing the piano has been proven to help improve concentration, which helps in every single area of life.

• Motor Skills Developments

Regular piano playing can sharpen fine motor skills as it requires the coordination of 10 fingers and improves dexterity and eye-hand-leg coordination.

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A violin is a musical instrument with strings square measure hitched to standardization pegs and to an appendage which passes over a bridge command in situ by the pressure of the strings. The bridge then transmits the strings’ vibrations to the resonator that is made of pine and amplifies the sound.

Within the instrument, at a lower place, the treble foot of the bridge and impacted between the string belly and back is the sound post. The sound post is a skinny stick of pine that transmits the string vibrations to the instrument’s back, contributing to the characteristic string tone. The belly is supported by the bass bar, a slim wood bar running lengthwise and tapering into the belly. It additionally contributes to the resonance of the instrument. The sidewalls or ribs is made of pine-lined maple.

Age 5 - 7 years old: Encore on Strings

• Course Length: 1-year course;

• Duration: 45mins / weekly group session;

• Theory: Basic Notes Reading;

• Focus activities include: 

• Rhythm Training

• Percussion playing

• Ensemble playing

• Solfege/Solfa Singing (aural training)

• Accompaniment Music Tracks

Age 7-years old:

• Duration: 45mins or 1 hour / weekly group or individual session;

• Examination (Optional): ABRSM

• Focus activities include: 

• Rhythm Training

• Percussion playing

• Sight Reading

• Posture

• Technique

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Age 8-years old:

• Duration: 45mins or 1 hour / weekly group or individual session;
• Examination (Optional): ABRSM
• Focus activities include: 
• Rhythm Training
• Percussion playing
• Sight Reading
• Posture
• Technique

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Age 8-years old:

• Duration: 45mins or 1 hour / weekly group or individual session;
• Examination (Optional): ABRSM
• Focus activities include: 
• Rhythm Training
• Percussion playing
• Sight Reading
• Posture
• Technique

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Age 7-years old:

• Duration: 45mins or 1 hour / weekly group or individual session;
• Examination (Optional): ABRSM
• Focus activities include: 
• Rhythm Training
• Percussion playing
• Sight Reading
• Posture
• Technique

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The harmonica could be considered as a free reed wood-wind instrument. Harmonicas have an unbelievably wealthy variety of expressions and are straightforward to use since the usage of your fingers and other body parts are unneeded. They play in various “intervals” (two or a lot of notes), which is troublesome or impossible for several other wind instruments. It also works within the fashionable musical setting where one has to play most music through an electronic equipment or electro-acoustic transducer. A harmonica player will simply adapt to the setting by using an electro-acoustic transducer and their harmonica within their hands.

Harmonicas are very necessary for Blues music to amass its distinctive, emotional sound. Harmonicas cross several genres and are often used for rock, country, pop songs and Irish jigs. It is commonly used in classical, jazz and a lot of other genres. The tremolo harmonica is commonly used for Japanese folk’s songs.

Furthermore, learning the harmonica will improve your respiration and health. The constant blowing into the harmonica is good exercise for the diaphragm, increasing lung capacity and improving breathing.

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