In-school Music Lessons with an "add-a-parent" option are special bonds for the Stone Family. Meet Creative Soul Students Linda Stone, a mom who studied bass guitar lessons for 2 years, and her son Joey Stone, a 15-year-old who studied drum lessons and other instruments for 7 years last 2015.
Discover why music lessons are important to them and why they prefer it than just a self-study pace on Youtube or e-books.
| NOTE: This case study is based on an interview by a teacher Nolen Cierra |
Power of Music Lessons: Bringing Family Together in Difficult Times |
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"Best Family Bond" according to Creative Soul Students
7 years ago, Linda's musician husband bought a drum set, bass guitar, and electric guitar. After her husband's passing, friends and fellow church members Casey and Samantha Thomas offered free music lessons to Linda's son Joey. What happened next was very surprising.
Joey really took to the drums playing some of the most difficult songs and technical pieces his teacher David could find. Just like his father Joey really took to playing his drums. But what was so special was that his mom joined him learning the Bass in lessons and on stage. Creative Soul's "Add a parent" option in Private Music Lessons helped Linda start her journey to be a musician but something she could do to connect with her son.
The Stone family developed such a strong bond in Creative Soul's Add-a-Parent music lessons that lead them to become continuous students for 2 years. It's not just filled with purpose but super has so much to offer benefits to the body. |
The Struggles of Being Self-Taught on Youtube Videos and E-books according to students
According to the students' personal experience, free music lesson videos on Youtube videos and e-books mostly do not work and consumes their time on research.
When asked, "What would you see maybe specific challenges that you would have faced doing YouTube videos or maybe just reading off of a book?" Joey responded by saying:
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7-year Student tells why #1 Reason Music Lessons Fail"What challenges with learning an instrument do you see on the horizon for every kid and adult learner and how do you think that we can help with that?", Joey, who is an eight-grader and a drummer his school's varsity band, replied by saying:
This is true when you are aiming to be self-taught online, you will not know what each symbols of the musical notations mean. Like the staff, notes, keys, dynamics, and more. You may not also learn the correct systematic techniques and fundamentals in playing an instrument. |
7 Benefits of Add-a-Parent Music Lessons |
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1. Time Management
Photo by: Everyday Health The important part of learning a skill is that you should manage your time to balance the schedules for your other tasks. Add-a-parent lessons save your time in learning than spending much time watching videos and research with no accuracy. Most of the videos are not straight to the point and they will spend too much on verbal examples. Here's what Linda Stone have to say when she enrolled bass guitar lessons in Creative Soul Music School
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2. Practical Learning on Techniques |
- Joey Stone on Practical Learning |
3. Instrument Mastery
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Learning is all about mastery. Although ordinary music lessons are already helpful, private lessons with a parent and teacher is more memorable and effective. When Creative Soul Staff asked the Stone Family, "what is the long-impact that of music lessons", each of them responded.
| " The long-term impact is mastering the instruments you want to play and perhaps joining or forming a band, like David, my mom and I have. "
- Joey Stone on Instrument Mastery |
| "Yeah. And I think long term, like Joey was saying, you do learn to master your instrument over time. It takes that time. When he first started, it was a struggle and man, he has just made leaps and bounds over the last three or four years that he's been with David."
- Linda Stone on Instrument Mastery |
4. Learning more than just one instrument
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Once you master an instrument, it will be easy to study another instrument because you already taught in ear training, sight reading and others. One example is the piano, if you learn the piano, you will be familiar with the notes, keys, and scales of other instruments.
Linda was so happy to know that her son played more than just one instrument she quoted:
| "So it's exciting for me to see how much he's grown in his instrument and his learning. That's another thing: he wants to learn more. He joined the school band and percussion covers a lot of instruments that I didn't even realize like piano and xylophone and things like that. And whenever there's a chance for him to try something, a new instrument, then he jumps on it and he's ready."
- Linda Stone on learning more than just one instrument |
5. Colorful and Fun Environment
A colorful environment with positive people makes the lessons fun and energizing. Sometimes our own homes give problems that drain our energy to learn new stuff. which also effect our concentration and performance. Having a beautiful environment like in Creative Soul Music School is what you need to brighten up your day.
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" So it's a good environment to be able to come in and see what you're getting into. I think that's a good stepping point for learning. It's so open. It's colorful. There are little things like that, that you don't even notice, but it is. It's cheerful, it draws you in. " - Linda Stone on Colorful and Fun Environment |
6. Building New Relationships
Changing your environment will help you gain new interactions with fellow musicians and teachers. New friends mean new memories and more learning. Music helps us improve our social skills because we get to interact with people of different instruments and know about their lives as well.
| "And then meeting the teachers, it just draws you in a little further. It's a good environment to be able to learn. It's relaxed and that one-on-one, your teacher can work with you on your level. And you have that open window, you can see the interaction with the other musicians and the teachers."
- Linda Stone on Building New Relationships |
7. Confidence
All musicians are welcomed in academic schools, office and other for entertainment. Performing privately and publicly will help you boost more confidence and add more background to your skills. For example, If you already mastered music, you'll be confident to say, "I'm not just a mom and office worker, but I'm also a musician".
Especially if your child is a musician as well. You are proud to say "He's not just a painter and writer in their class, he's also a musician" for example.
| " He wants to try. I think that foundation in Creative Soul helped with that push because he felt confident that he could try something new because of his background here."
- Linda Stone on Confidence |
It's not too late to learn an instrument with your kidsDon't let your musical instruments be unused.Linda Stone regretted that she didn't study music lessons earlier like her son did. There is a 5 year gap of learning between her and her son's musical ability that she wished she started sooner.
But thankfully Creative Soul Music School have the "Add a parent" Option in their private lessons to create a strong bond with children.
There will always be a purpose why a musical instrument is in your house even if you are not a musician. There will always be a room for it in our hearts. Especially if it has a sentimental values like what the Stone Family has. Will you have to wait for your musician family member to pass away before learning music? It's never to late to learn what ever age you have. |
