Author: Michele Roger-Beresford

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-playing-an-instrument-benefits-your-brain-anita-collins Let’s Begin… When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the … Continue reading Music On the Brain

I love to read about different ways to learn.  Learning is something that, whether we realize it or not, we do (hopefully) all of our lives.  Somethings we enjoy learning (like new high scoring words in Scrabble or Words With Friends) and other things, not so much (like an obligatory program for work.)  In all … Continue reading Classical Music, ADD, and Test Recall

  I was given tickets to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to see "some guy named Lang Lang." It was maybe 2007 and I had been teaching piano for a few years.  I was a young mother who taught music from our house and quite frankly, I was ready to have a night out, even if a … Continue reading Piano: Rock Stars Don’t Just Play Guitar

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