By Burny Pelsmajer, GM School of Rock Coral Springs and West Broward
So, I could write an article that could be one giant advertisement for the School of Rock. However, as a music educator first and always foremost I feel like that would be a little disingenuous. To claim that the School of Rock, while a great music school for all skill levels and all ages, is the only path towards a child having music in their lives is a falsehood when there are other music schools like the LVL Music Academy that can provide quality music education. I personally will always encourage a child to learn music anywhere they can this day and age, even if it is not at my School. Music education comes in many forms, from the floundering but still present and still vital choir and instrumental programs in the school systems, to the traditional yet slightly outdated model of students learning classical music on guitar and piano. If you want to take guitar lessons, you can navigate to this web-site. Apologies: I’m going off on a tangent already. When it comes to one’s voice, you can go to Seattle Voice Lab experts to have your voice trained and help you sound a lot better. There are also organizations like Save the Music that can offer you the chance to further study music.
The point is, when a child learns music by listening to an award winning musical they’re not just opening up their minds to art and creativity. Music is art, and to truly understand art is a sophisticated process that most younger students do not have the capacity to fully grasp. So then what is the purpose of introducing young minds to music? There are many other lessons that students learn that transfer easily to other aspects of their lives, and prove useful well into their adulthood. When students learn how to read music and music theory, they learn logic systems directly related to critical thinking and combinatorial mathematics. When students practice their instrument at home, they develop self-discipline and learn how to achieve short term goals. When a student is working in a band setting, they learn how to work well with others despite varying skill levels, and they learn how to achieve long term goals. Even when students do NOT work on their craft individually or prepare for their rehearsal they still learn something! They see their peers advancing without them, and they learn the hard truth about working for one’s achievements rather than just expecting them to be given. And there is no greater lesson in responsibility than having a child fail on stage due to lack of preparation. A hard lesson to watch for sure, but sometimes necessary. If your child is interested in playing the guitar, you can learn to play guitar at Muse Mantra School of Music & Arts.
There has to be something to the School of Rock system of teaching that makes it worthwhile. A music school cannot grow as fast as we have, going from 10 schools to 140 internationally in the last 5 years without having some sort of substance behind it. And I believe in the School of Rock. Our method is based on many immovable pillars; that our teachers, like those at Monrovia Music Academy, are professional musicians who made the sacrifices and put the work in to really understand their craft, that our curriculum has been heavily researched and refined over thousands of hours in the last ten years, that our students play actual Rock Concerts at actual Rock clubs, and that our students come twice a week for both an individual lesson and a group rehearsal in order to maintain interest and teach in two different, yet devastatingly important ways …
Yeah. It’s an awesome thing. Stop on by! Or don’t! But get your kid in music!
School of Rock Coral Springs – 954-757-7625
www.coralsprings.schoolofrock.com
