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Welcome to my new online store! Thanks to CafePress.com, I am now selling a number of products with unique graphics on them. Please feel free to browse my store and buy anything you like!
Save the Brain: Do Music Save the Brain: Do Music. Promote the healthy aspects of music making. Music play generates healthy chemicals in the brain, such as endorphins, producing a healthy high. Also, the brain changes, growi |
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Music is My Endorphin Engine - Plain Music play generates a natural healthy high, from brain chemicals such as endorphins. |
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Outside the Changes - Back in 5 Minutes Jazz Players sometimes play outside the harmony, sometimes they just space out. Humor is a healthy result of music making. |
Beauty is a Survival Mechanism Learning occurs when pleasure chemicals, such as dopamine, are excited in the brain. Thus, we learn when our experience is pleasureful. Since beautiful things make us feel good, beauty is a survival m |
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All About Attitude: If You are not having fun, you Click to see more graphics. Music is a good metaphor for life; it is meant to enjoy, to fill with learning and be fun. Click on each thumbnail or product for more options or information. |
An Artist's High is Natural An Artist's High is Natural. Promote the healthy aspects of music making. Music play generates healthy chemicals in the brain, such as endorphins, producing a healthy high. Also, the brain changes, gr |
Of Sound Mind and Body Practice of music creates good learning experiences, beneficial brain chemistry and social acumen. Sound practice makes a sound mind. |
Hope Music students typically score higher on standardized tests, tend to go on to college and do better in life. |
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Musicians Become Sharp, Naturally Musicians become sharp, naturally. Promote the healthy result of making music. |
The Quality of your actions, create the level of y Various observations on learning in simple phrase and type. |
Your brain learns a lot on its own Your brain learns a lot on its own. For example, all the sounds your know about are learned between the ages of two and nine. Relax, use what you know. |
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Musical Occasional Slogans Click to see more graphics. Make music and learn to live in harmony. Outside the Changes, Back in 5 Minutes, Sound Hound, Musicians become sharp, naturally. Brass Players Resonate. Click on each thumb |
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Music is Easy Playing from a place of balance we feel tension as compensation. Our practice brings us to balance again. To learn this is hard, but the reward is great. Music is easy. |
Grow Good Brain Maps: Get Smart, Be Kind, Stay Hap Our brains grow maps due to our actions, at the rate of 1mm a day. Grow them wisely. |
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Music, the Brain and Health (substance free) see m Click to see more graphics.Music play creates visible changes in 21 areas of the brain, the only activity we know of to do this. Musicians also grow larger connective tissue in the brain. Click on eac |
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Music is My Endorphin Engine Music is My Endorphin Engine. Promote the healthy aspects of music making. |
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Music is a Sound Investment Music teaches us to make harmony successfully with each other, the ultimate survival skill. |
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Practice by recall, not by relearning Practicing the same old stuff each time gets old fast. Challenge yourself: recall what you know, practice that, be certain you trained well, grow from there. |
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Practice Learning the value of practice teaches us lessons of discipline, determination, and diligence. Encourage Practice. |
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Corrective, Constructive, Creative Arts Education fosters good work habits, lessons good for any subject. |
Determination, Diligence, Discipline Determine your goals, make yourself work for them, learn the discipline to maintain them. |
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Breathe from a place of balance. Breathing from a place of balance gives us the perspective we need to understand tension and why we compensate. |
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Practice, Practice, Practice Click to see more graphics. The best way to develop habits, to train, to grow, practice makes for good people. Click on each thumbnail or product for more options or information. |
A Good Practice is Like a Promotion Every Day Rote practice seems like repetition, however, it is really an opportunity to change each time you try. Make your practice an opportunity! |
I practice music, which teaches me discipline... I practice music, which helps me learn discipline (enjoyment learning to make things happen,) determination, (skills setting goals,) and diligence (making goals work.) What can you do? |
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Start Living Diligence: does it work? Yes? Then practice; if not then change. Determination: staying power. Stick with what works, practice. Discipline: is it fun? does it work? Am I enjoying |
Successful Performance Successful performance depends upon successful rehearsal, which depends upon the successful practice of technique. Technology is only the first step. |
Mask the Metronome At the right intensity and volume, playing on the beat, with the metronome can mask or hide the sound of the metronome. You are on time. |
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It is Not RUT Practice, It is ROTE Practice I had a teacher who said, make it like a habit, so that I still had flexibility when I played music. Rote practice means giving yourself another opportunity to make music. |
Circle of Fifths, Major Minor keys, and Scales Easy to read and understand circle of fifths, with help understanding scales, including blues, dominant, jazz minor, dorian, whole tone, pentatonic, minor and major scales. |
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Octavemode Graphics Wall Calendar Octavemode Graphics Calendar - see different graphics for each month. |
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