Just over a year in and already jamming like this 🎹🔥keep an eye out @hiforrest you have a big fan in training
Music is easy and fun ✨
We are so very proud of our recent grads! Look at those smiling faces. We love to see them every week!
Our teachers have an amazing time jamming and making music together! Here is Gabi and Mark performing "It's Too Late" by Carole King.
Let's be honest - in 2020, teaching virtually was a challenge for all of us. Over the years, we've come to love our virtual lessons! Here's a virtual selfie of Gabi with Allie and Katelyn, some virtual students we enjoy seeing every week!
I would say that smile is an indicator of how the performance WAS going...
We are so proud of all of our students who performed at the last day of the 2025 Uptown Ankeny Farmer's Market season! To kick off our showcase, here are Keren and Iola playing "Lovely" by Billie Eilish.
Post Malone started from the bottom which was undoubtedly here.
Also this is giving Friday by Rebecca Black vibes... 👀👀
This toothbrush has what it takes - consistency, tone, and presence!
We talk a lot here about how you are never too old to learn music.
You're also never too young to start experimenting! Who knows, maybe your baby will have a natural aptitude or have tons of fun doing it!
We're impressed with this little guy and love that his parents let him try.
WHO THINKS OF THESE THINGS???
One of the biggest lessons I've learned in life is that it's better to do something late than never. It's OK to miss a day and jump back on the horse, do it and hate it, or start over again and again.
Leave behind the idea that you have to have a perfect streak to do it at all.
Just... start.
A drone in music is a note sustained over a long period of time. It is the base for minimalist harmonies which creates a meditative atmosphere!
Let go of perfectionism ✨ day 2 of playing bass
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Growing up I was taught not to deviate from the page, and it truly hampered my creativity. It turned freedom into fear. it stopped my mind from relaxing and feeling the music internally to being in a heightened state whenever I played, paranoid of mistakes
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Here Mark does a great job of having his students walk alongside him instead of in front of him. He demonstrates how to do the thing in the moment.
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These days, I intentionally craft improv time into most lessons. It's not often we get to have childlike play in our lives anymore 🤸🏽♀️
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"to live a creative, life we must lose our fear of being wrong" - Joseph Chilton Pearce
😮Don't miss the drop!😮
This song was created by producer Abbi in our Music Production workshop! She's only 15 and already producing like a pro👏
🥤 Cherry Soda by Abbi Flores 🍒
Don't wait for perfection. A little bit a day adds up to more than only practicing when you feel like being productive.
Music is emotional and makes us feel things!
It also makes us feel things both sonically and physically 🤣
There is music in the ordinary, and humans are fine tuned to hear it.
Our breath and our heartbeat are natural rhythms and proof of our innate musicality as human beings.
Other times, it's pots and pans that do it for us. 🤣Music works in mysterious ways.
Where do you hear music in the ordinary? Let us know in the comments!
Just kidding, of course!
Listening to other people's compositions can provide a huge benefit to creativity! Bouncing your ideas off of other people and hearing new ideas can result in an extraordinary end result.
We love seeing our students composing music with confidence, knowing they're not alone and that there is always someone to listen and be inspired by their work!
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Stop making your kids play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary Had a Little Lamb...
...They are capable of so much more!
This little guy is already killing it with music kids usually have to wait years to start.
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We are located in the Beltone building on the North side of the North Ankeny HyVee.