Welcome to Music By Art Scott

Welcome to my new music blog.  The sole intention of this blog is to provide daily information to parents about Music Education and the joy of bring piano music to your home - and keep it going - year after year.

Part of this process involves two things; choosing the right instrument and choosing the right teacher.

 For more information, see another of my 50 websites and videos:     http://autismspecialneedsmusicbyartscott.blogspot.com/
    (949) 454-1221  Studio Phone   24/7

If you already have a piano or keyboard in your house, you need to make sure if it's a digital instrument that it is touch sensitive; that way your child can begin to express themself correctly right from the start when they take lessons.  Touch sensitive simply means that when someone is playing softly that they can play soft; when they excert more pressure into the key(s) it responds louder, thus emulating a real piano.

Having a piano in tune is also essential for a child's ear to develop fully.  If it's been twenty years since you had your piano tuned, send me an email at mraspiano@yahoo.com and I can refer you to a good tuner, anywhere in the world!
My resources are endless and it would be a privilege to help you.  Depending on where you live you can spend from $80 - 120 currently on having a piano tuned.

The wave of the future I predict is in digital pianos - you can find a huge selection of prices, major name brands of keyboards that are touch sensitive starting as low as $130 for a 5 octave unit made by Casio.  I fully support digital pianos as a veteran piano teacher with over 30 years teaching experience.  Families today generally do not have the room or budget to spend on an acoustical piano - one with strings and hammers.

If you choose to go the route of a real piano - you can rent them or purchase them new or used.  If you are the type of consumer who likes to research before you make a purchase, you can buy the book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Piano by Marty and Jennifer Flinn - you can get this easily on Amazon.com.  I noticed used copies for around $6....

Once you secure an instrument for you child to practice daily on, now comes the task of finding the right teacher.  Whenever a parent calls me, which is almost daily about piano lessons, I also encourage them to have a mutual 'audition' time of a lesson or two with several teachers to find the right personality mix.

If the personality jive well together - then this should be a positive relationship that lasts for many years.

Unfortunately many parents have had negative experiences in their own life experience and strictly out of their own fears of the past, they refuse to even try the process of giving their children private piano lessons.   In my opinion this is both wrong and selfish.  The old catholic nuns who taught piano and would strike children with rulers - is - a thing of the PAST.  Thank God!!

For further information on how to choose a teacher, how to choose an instrument, please avail yourself of my two websites;  www.MUSICBYARTSCOTT.com and www.ARTSCOTTPIANOBROKER.com

Should you have specific questions and concerns and want some free advice you can either post here on my blog or email me directly at  mraspiano@yahoo.com

I am and will always be a firm believer that "Every Child Deserves a Music Education" and also that "Music Changes Lives Forever!

Feel free to look at my blog daily for new information.  If there are subjects that you as parents want to see covered, please feel free to suggest your concerns here - as this BLOG is for you.

Have a great day.  Art Scott, Owner / Operator

 For more information, see another of my 50 websites and videos:     http://autismspecialneedsmusicbyartscott.blogspot.com/
    (949) 454-1221  Studio Phone   24/7

PS - if your wanting to shop for sheet music, music books of all types of music and want to give some music as a gift for a birthday, special occasion, Holiday, at the top of my site, click on the sheet music banner and you will find thousands of selection for piano, vocal, instrumental there.

Also, if you are in the market of guitars, drums, keyboards and much more, go to the bottom of my site www.MUSICBYARTSCOTT.com and click on the keyboard banner.
There you will find over 125,000 instruments at great prices.




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