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Students and Their 12-Bar Blues (Part 2)

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Piano students delight in figuring out how they can make their own music based on the 12-bar blues progression. Take the improvisations of beginners Lara, age 10, and Clara, age 8. Lara improvised the following blues after she learned The Low Down Boogie and Flint Street Boogie by Marilyn Lowe:

Clara, when she was experimenting, really preferred the major tonality sound over minor or blues scales. So I told her that the 12-bar blues progression actually shows up in many musical styles besides the blues and boogie woogie, such as pop Continue reading →

Historic First Musikhaus Piano Party: 12-Bar Blues (Part 1)

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It was May 2014, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I think I had 20 beginning piano students, and most of them had studied the quintessential 12-bar blues called The Low Down Boogie, by Marilyn Lowe. Because the students were learning to audiate (really think music, like you think in English or in images), it was only natural that they would want to “say” their own blues now. So, the theme of the first Piano Party was original 12-bar blues compositions or improvisations.

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Cover of the program of the historic 1st Musikhaus Piano Party

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Program of the historic 1st Musikhaus Piano Party

I didn’t get to film the event because I was MC, so the videos from the 12-Bar Blues series of posts are from lessons. First, hear The Low Down Boogie (from Lowe’s Music Moves for Piano: Keyboard Games Book B) as played by Laura, age 7.

Now hear Emília’s own original blues composition, inspired by The Low Down Boogie when she was 8:

As for my current students here in Texas, I will start posting their music as soon as I get their parents’ authorizations!

–by Carla J. Seibert

Piano Parties!

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Piano Parties are group lessons that happen 2 to 6 times per year depending on how many other performance opportunities there are. They are for students to share their music and some refreshments, feel connected to and motivated by the community of piano students, learn from their peers, develop performance confidence and cooperative skills, and reinforce musical skills, especially rhythm when playing with other students. Sometimes we invite no guests, sometimes we dress in costume, and sometimes we hold a formal recital open to the public!

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Bay Area Chorus to Sing Veterans Concert

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There will be gorgeous and inspiring music on theis program. Don't miss it! Contact Carla@MusikhausTexas.com for tickets in advance.

We will sing some gorgeous, some fun, all inspiring music on this program. Don’t miss it! Gloria Dei is across the street from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. I have tickets to sell in advance (Carla@MusikhausTexas.com).

New Music Play Class Starting October 24 at 10am

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singing and playing in Music Play class

A new Music Play group for babies to 5-year-olds and caregivers (one per student) is starting at the Musikhaus studio in Seabrook on Saturdays at 10am. Music Play is a music class rooted in research of Music Learning Theory, the main ideas of which include evidence that music intelligence is best developed in personally interactive and creative musical activities, just like language ability, and that learning best occurs in a nurturing, safe and playful atmosphere. For Saturdays at 10am, there are currently 3 openings. When this time fills up, we can open up 11am either for another Music Play class or for a Keyboard Games class for 4 and 5-year-olds (see home page for description). Contact Carla at carla@musikhaustexas.com to reserve your child’s spot.