Private Music Lessons 
Keeping in Tune with SEMO Music
Meet My
Music Students
Jerra Ingle, guitar Ben Owens, piano Makayla Turner, piano
Logan Freeman, guitar Jeremy Stark, guitar Bradley Stallings, guitar
Sam Turner, guitar Allyssa Hoehn, piano
Gracie Thomas, piano Cassie Armstrong, guitar Shelby Martin, piano
Alison Davis, guitar Tina Roberts, piano
Evin Smith, piano Dorothy Shaw, piano Wade Slaughter, guitar
Daniel Smith, piano Logan Nichols, guitar Rickie Smith, piano
Kyle Lemarr, mandolin Kelly Lemarr, piano 
Chase Birch, guitar Chase Stratton, guitar
DID YOU KNOW?
High School students who participated in music performance or music theory scored an average 51 points higher in reading and math on their SAT's than did students with no music participation. (College Bound Seniors National Report, Princeton, NJ: The College Entrance Exam Board, 2001)
The musician is constantly adjusting decisions on tempo, tone, style, rhythm, phrasing and feeling-training the brain to become incredibly good at organizing and conducting numerous activities at once. Dedicated practice can have a great payoff for lifelong attentional skills and intelligence. (John J. Ratey, MD "A User's Guide to the Brain" New York: Pantheon Books, 2001)
High school music students received more academic honors and awards than non music students and the percentage of students who received A's and B's was higher in the music students. (National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 1994)
In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, students who participated in music instruction scored 48% higher on spatial-temporal skills tests than those who did not have music training. (F.H Rauscher and M. A. Zupan, Classroom keyboard instruction field study, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1999
66% of college music majors who applied to medical schools in the US were accepted, giving them the highest overall acceptance rate of any group. Biochemistry majors were accepted at a rate of 44%. (Lewis Thomas, MD "The Case for Music in Schools" Phi Delta Kappan, February 1994)
After eight months of music keyboard lessons, kindergarten students showed a 46% increase in their spatial reasoning IQ. (University of California at Irvine, 1994 study)
College music majors consistently score the highest of any major on reading comprehension tests. (National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, 1990)
A study of second grade students used piano keyboard training and math software to demonstrate improvement in math skills. This group scored 27% higher on math comprehension tests than the group who only used the math software. (Neurological Research Magazine, March 21, 1999)
Researchers found that brain scans of musicians show a larger planum temporale (brain area related to reading) and a larger corpus callosum (nerve fibers connecting the two halves of the brain) than non-musicians, especially in those who began music training prior to age seven. (L. Jancke, Y. Huang and H. Steinmetz, In vivo morphometry of the interhem ispheric connectivity in musicians, The 3rd International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Liege, Belgium, 1994
And you just thought you looked cool playing or singing.........You didn't know it was good for you!
The following are actual assignments and test answers accumulated by music teachers in the State of Missouri in 1989. As a music teacher, I especially enjoyed reading these.
My favorite instrument is the bassoon. It is so hard to play that people seldom play it. That's why I like it the best.
The tuba is a bit too much.
Instruments come in many sizes, shapes and orchestras.
The double bass is called the bass viol, string bass and bass fiddle. It has so many names because it is so huge.
A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
My favorite composer is Opus.
Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.
John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present.
Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was rather large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music.
Aaron Copeland is one of your most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
An opera is a song of bigly size.
A harp is a nude piano.
Another name for kettle drums is timpani. But I think I'll just stick with the first name and learn it good.
Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same gets to be the conductor.
A tuba is larger than its name.
When electric currents go through them, guitars start making noise. So would anybody.
Question: Is the saxophone a brass or woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes
Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.
I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
Henry Purcell was a well known composer few people have ever heard of.
My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
Probably the most famous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys.
A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so.
For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music.
The most dangerous part about playing the cymbals is near the nose.
Music instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
Source: Missouri School Music Newsletter
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