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Music Lessons

Florida Enrichment Academy offers music lessons from experienced instructors with proven skills. Lesson plans are individually tailored to meet the unique needs of each student. Motivation is enhanced by concentrating on styles of music of interest to the student including rock, funk, R&B, country, blues, shred, metal, classical and jazz. Music lessons are taught in a safe studio environment that minimizes distraction and facilitates learning. There are no ringing phones, overly friendly cats, barking dogs or “someone is at the door” interruptions you may find when teaching takes place in a home.

The typical music lesson is forty-five minutes long and combines a fifteen-minute computer based theory session with a thirty-minute session on the instrument chosen by the student. The theory session focuses on note reading, pitch and interval recognition, chords and rhythms allowing the instructor to concentrate on teaching the student to play the instrument chosen by the student using proper techniques. The result is a shorter learning curve and a reduction in the time it takes to become competent and enjoy playing.

Florida Enrichment Academy believes that every person has the ability to play an instrument for their own enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. Our music teachers enable the student to go far beyond chords and notations. Students will learn proper playing technique, note reading, pitch recognition, rhythm, and other skills necessary to play their instrument well. Our goal is to open the student’s mind to the fantastic possibilities of their instrument. With modern technology hundreds of different sounds can be produced in order to capture the unique sounds familiar to rock metal jazz blues and R & B. Lesson plans are individually developed to meet the goals of the singer/writer musician aspiring to play in a band or ensemble or the more serious musician student desiring to be accepted in a university music department.

Studies show that music lessons increase creative intelligence and contribute to success in school and success in life.

• One researcher states, “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 of the orchestration can have a great payoff for lifelong attention skills, intelligence and ability for self-knowledge and expression.
  
  
• A second researcher determined that students taking music lessons receive more academic honors and awards and made better grades in high school. They also scored higher on SAT college entrance tests.
  
  
• Another researcher found that 66% of music majors who applied to medical schools were accepted. Only 44% of biochemistry majors were accepted.
  
  Still another researcher found that 84% of individuals making over $150,000 a year play a musical instrument regularly.
  

Acquiring an Instrument

Students generally start music lessons with an inexpensive instrument. There are several options for acquiring an instrument. Some students select a rent-to-own option. Others find used instruments. Later, as the student progresses and determines what they want to do with their music skills, a better instrument may be needed.