We’re doing a monthly giveaway!
Each month we’re going to be putting all the names of our new students and their friends who referred them into a drawing. For the month of Jan we are giving away a $25 gift card to Waffle Love which is right down the road from us! Follow us on Instagram @roundrockmusic where we will do a live drawing each month.
Which keyboard should I buy?
There are so many options when shopping for your first piano or keyboard. As a beginner piano student, having an electric keyboard is usually the most affordable option. While some of the more expensive keyboards have 88 keys and are weighted, these options usually aren’t beneficial for the new beginner. This is why we recommend a smaller, velocity sensitive keyboard to begin. Typically beginner piano music won’t use the entire 88 piano keys so this particular option with 61 keys is perfect. Here’s a link to this 61 key which also includes the stand and headphones!
Celebrating 11 years making music!
Thanks to everyone who has been involved and supported our music school these last 11 years. We appreciate you immensely and look forward to continue serving our community!
Watch our Winter 2020 recital!
Daytime Group Classes
Being a family run music school we know that all the extracurricular activities for our children can add up quickly. This is why we strive to provide affordable lessons that are still high quality and student focused. We are now offering 4 sessions of hour long Piano group classes and 2 sessions of Guitar group classes during daytime hours.
Small group Piano Classes
Monday session: 9am or 11:30am taught weekly
Tuesday session: 9am or 11:30am taught weekly
Hour long group piano classes limited to 3 students per class.
Small classes means more focused instruction!
Providing individual and group attention in each class.
Piano Maestro Subscription (iPad app) included with class!
Grouped by age (5-6 yrs) (7-9 yrs) (10-14 yrs)
Opportunity to perform in school recital in December
Cost $100 per month per student (Weekly 1 hour classes each month)
$20 deposit to reserve space for your student.
Small Group Guitar Classes
Monday session: 10:15am taught weekly
Tuesday session: 10:15am taught weekly
Hour long group guitar classes limited to 3 students per class.
Small classes means more focused instruction!
Providing individual and group attention in each class.
Electric guitar provided during each class!
Grouped by age (5-6 yrs) (7-9 yrs) (10-14 yrs)
Opportunity to perform in school recital in December
Cost $100 per month per student (Weekly 1 hour classes each month)
$20 deposit to reserve space for your student.
15 Ways that Music Education Stimulates Intellectual Development
1. Improved academic skills – Research shows that music students perform better on mathematical, reading, and spelling tests than non-music students. Music students have higher IQ scores and better grade performance than non-music students. In fact, IQ raises 1/6 of a point for each month of music student. That means that a student who studies music for six years will have an IQ of 7.5 points higher than a similar performing student without musical instruction. The results have been found to be even more dramatic for young students. In one study, groups of six-year old students were divided into three groups, one who were given music lessons, one who was given drama, and one that was given neither. Over the course of the school year, the music students tested on average three IQ points higher than the other groups.
2. Music study develops language and reasoning skills - Students who have early musical training develop the areas of the brain related to language and reasoning. The logical and creative parts of the brain are better developed with music, and songs can help impart information for better recall.
3. Improved social abilities – Performance in music encouraging working together and cooperative learning. Students performing in an ensemble learn how to play off each other and that every person in the group’s individual success is crucial to the success of the group’s goals.
4. Increased memorization abilities - Even when performing with sheet music, musicians are constantly using their visual, auditory, and kinetic memory to perform.
5. Strive for excellence - Learning music teaches students to value doing their best. Music students learn to want to create good work, instead of mediocre work which translates to other areas outside of music.
6. Better motor coordination - Music students, including instrumentalists and singers, develop better motor skills. After all, movement and music are intrinsically linked in our brains.
7. Learning healthy goal-setting - Learning music encourages students to set, work toward, and achieve reasonable goals.
8. More educational engagment - Student musicians are more likely to stay in school.
9. Better pattern repetition skills - Music is built based on patterns. Music students develop their mathematical and pattern-recognition skills.
10. Music encourages creative thinking - Introducing music in the childhood encourages a positive attitude toward learning and curiosity. Music develops a child’s imagination. Creative thinking leads to better problem solving in all areas, which extends into adulthood.
11. Music develops spatial intelligence - Students who study music show more developed spatial intelligence, which allows them to perceive the world accurately and create mental pictures. Spatial intelligence is important for advanced mathematics, working with computers, engineering, architecture, and more.
12. Increased self-confidence - With encouragement from caring teachers and parents, music students build healthy pride and confidence. Working towards performance goals leads to higher self-esteem.
13. Better attention span – Music students develop the ability to pay attention. For example, musicians do better at being able to follow a conversation is a noisy room full of conversing people.
14. Better in the moment decision-making - A musician must make many decisions in the moment when performing.
15. Increased communication abilities – Music provides a healthy outlet to express our emotions. (More on the emotional health benefits of music study in the next Music for Life post.)
While music study has proven intellectual benefits for children (and adults), the most important reasons to study music, as well as the most important results of music study is the joy it brings. Dr. Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of child psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine explains it well. “It’s important not to oversell how smart music can make you. Music makes your kid interesting and happy, and smart will come later. It enriches his or her appetite for things that bring you pleasure and for the friends you meet.” Music increases happiness, which leads to better performance in all areas of life.
OUR PRE-K GROUP CLASSES ARE STARTING MARCH 3RD!
OUR PRE-K GROUP CLASSES ARE STARTING MARCH 3RD!
This is a great intro to music and music lessons with our Little Singers Pre-K group classes. They will learn about sounds, rhythm, and have fun doing it! They will be learning:
- Breath support and sustain
- Vocal registration (high/low voice)
- Vowels and diction
- Resonate tone quality
- Intonation (singing in tune)
- Solfege scale and intervals
- Beat and rhythm
- Reading music
- Expressive movements, gestures and facial expressions
- Performance strategies
- Basic piano and percussion playing
Level A is the most basic level of Singing Lessons for Little SingersTM and is designed to give young singers of preschool and early elementary age (or older, as needed) a solid foundation in the fundamentals of singing and musicianship.
Due to icy conditions, we will be closed Tuesday 1/16
Please stay safe on the roads today!
Round Rock Arts Day
Round Rock Arts Day is this Saturday Oct 14th hosted by Barnes and Noble. We have selected members of Round Rock Music to perform this Saturday at 4:00pm. Below is the complete schedule of performers.
Schedule of Events - Calendar:
10:00 a.m. Pollyanna Theatre
Williamson Museum Voices from the Past/Costumes as Greeters
11:00 a.m. Round Rock Symphony
Williamson Museum Voices from the Past/Costumes as Greeters
12:00 noon Center Art Club
2:00 p.m. Cordovan Art School “Mini Art Demonstration”/Mini Pottery
3:00 p.m. Round Rock Ballet Folkloric
4:00 p.m. Round Rock Music
6:45 p.m. Austin City Ballet, Carol D’Avila
7:00 p.m. Childbloom Guitar
If you are planning to make purchases please print off and bring the voucher you see here as a portion of the proceeds will go towards all these great arts organizations.
