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Mar 3
2 min

3 Reasons to Change Your Guitar Strings

Keeping fresh strings on your guitar is one the simplest and least expensive ways to keep your guitar playing and sounding its best.

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Gabrielle

Feb 18
1 min

Preparing for Audtions: Student Edition

A few weeks ago, we talked about how parents can help students prepare for upcoming auditions. This week, it's time for tips for students!

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Gabrielle

Jan 21
2 min

Preparing for Auditions: Parent Edition

It’s that time of year when students are preparing for chair and placement auditions for honors ensembles!

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Gabrielle

Nov 5, 2019
2 min

Learning Music As A Language

Music is a language and it is important that as musicians we take time to learn music in the same way we learn to speak.

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Gabrielle

Oct 7, 2019
1 min

Teacher Spotlight: Aura Strohschein

Each month we highlight one of our excellent faculty members! This month, we'd like to spotlight Aura Strohschein

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Three Books That Will Change the Way You Think About Music

Gabrielle

Oct 1, 2019
2 min

Three Books That Will Change the Way You Think About Music

In my years of playing music I have been profoundly moved by the following three books. Each one dramatically changed my course of learning.

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Gabrielle

Sep 17, 2019
1 min

2019 Scholarship Essay Contest!

In order to promote music and the arts, we are pleased to offer our Scholarship Essay contest again this year!

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Gabrielle

Sep 13, 2019
1 min

Teacher Spotlight: Kailey Braff

We're starting a new monthly feature here on the Academy blog, the Teacher Spotlight! This September we're starting with Kailey Braff.

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Gabrielle

Aug 29, 2019
2 min

The Importance of Setting Goals

One of the most fun things about playing music is that there are always new things to learn; new directions to take your playing.

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