Music Lessons with an "add-a-parent" option is the best family experience to 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.
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Power of Music Lessons: Bringing Family Together in Difficult Times |
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Best Family Bond7 years ago, Linda's musician husband bought a drum set, bass guitar, and electric guitar. After her husbands 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 become continuous students for 2 years. It's not just filled with purpose but super has so much to offer benefits to the body. |
A little about our background. I was in a growth group with my church, with Casey and Samantha and my husband and I were, well... My husband had bought a drum set and a bass guitar and an electric guitar. He had gotten to talking to Casey. 
The Struggles of Being Self-Taught on Youtube Videos and E-books"So what is the process of learning you used before enrolling Add-a-Parent Music Lessons." 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 systematic correct techniques and fundamentals in playing an instrument. |
7 Benefits of Add-a-Parent Music Lessons |
1. Time Management |
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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 |
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Photo by: Leading Musicians The problem with self-studying is that you only want to know what you feel at the moment based on your interest. It conflicts the idea of a systematic and practical learning wherein you get to study the first important topics practically with challenge and effort. Most self-taught aspiring musicians do not have an organized schedule of learning that will have ineffectiveness on their learning. If you enroll in music lessons you will know the fundamentals and techniques of your instrument as well as sight reading and other important topics before hitting the strings.
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3. Instrument Mastery |
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Photo by: Loudwire 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
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4. Learning more than just one instrument |
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Photo by: The Music Network 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:
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5. Colorful and Fun Environment |
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- Linda Stone on Colorful and Fun Environment |
6. Building New Relationships |
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Changing your environment will help you gain new interaction 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.
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7. Confidence |
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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.
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3 Secrets to Continue Learning Music |
1st Secret: Never Give Up |
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The 15-year-old drummer and the Bass playing Mom advises people to never give up on music lessons regardless of your age and perception of difficulty in the lessons. Learning music is only hard when you self-study. It will be easy if you let professionals teach you how to absorb the techniques well.
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2nd Secret: Encouragement & Accomplishment |
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Encouraging the students on their accomplishments will help them grow more in learning. Never insult someone just because they are not good enough from the start like what nagging and annoying people do. Creative Soul Staff Nolen Cierra interviewed the 2 students, "How would you say that private lessons or the add-on parent lessons have helped you with learning an instrument?"
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3rd Secret: Find experts whom you trust to vet the instructors. |
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Good and friendly instructors came from good and friendly founders. Make sure that the music school you'll be enrolling have founders which trains the instructors to be patient and compliment the students progress in learning regardless of the mistakes they do. The Stone Family gave remarks about Creative Soul during their interview with Nolen Cierra.
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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 sin'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. |
