Welcome to Your String Family!
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Soulful discovery based music is what your child will be inspired to engage in week after week as they joyfully play: violin, viola, cello, ukulele or piano!
Stringing creative, meaningful moments are what propels our studio educators to connect with your child AND nurture their whole potential excellence! Imagine your child discovering a multi-genre world of string music on their journey with us-- classical, folk, jazz, latin, gypsy, rag, bluegrass/ fiddle and much more! |
Whether you're joining us at the very beginning of your music journey or at any point in it...
you and your child and your entire family will be authentically empowered to engage in joyful, soul-FULL musical memories at EACH and EVERY CLASS.
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TEACH MUSIC ONLINE CERTIFIED!!!! The online studio is also a joyfully oriented experience! The level of attention we will give your child encourages them to have even more focus while at the same time learning from the comfort of their own environment. In addition we offer so much visual engagement and movement games to our lessons that we feel we get to have even more FUN! Shhhhh don't tell our in person students. :-) |
We set up your child for online lesson success with the following technology:
* FORTE: Created by a music teacher FOR the unique needs of music teachers. This amazing platform is 20x better than Zoom!!! Next to zero latency helps us to talk and play integratively with each other so it is as IF we are literally in person together!
*Our YETI Bluetooth Microphone- for exceptional clarity of our sound. We can even record professional music with this!
* A Second Overhead Camera. This has been a game changer! It helps communicate specific posture and finger patterns that we need to demonstrate to our students. Many of our students have commented on how much they love this!
* FORTE: Created by a music teacher FOR the unique needs of music teachers. This amazing platform is 20x better than Zoom!!! Next to zero latency helps us to talk and play integratively with each other so it is as IF we are literally in person together!
*Our YETI Bluetooth Microphone- for exceptional clarity of our sound. We can even record professional music with this!
* A Second Overhead Camera. This has been a game changer! It helps communicate specific posture and finger patterns that we need to demonstrate to our students. Many of our students have commented on how much they love this!
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TOP TEN INSTRUCTORS ON LESSONS.COM BASED ON:
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SPLASH INTO STRINGS!
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From the first bowing movement ringing smiles of joy across your child's face to the most advanced student learning how to vibrato soulful tunes in fiddle, gypsy or classical music...
We welcome you to open the window of waves and sunshine on you or your child's aspirational string playing goals! We welcome you to String Your Memories with our string family.. OCEAN STRINGS STUDIO. NOW ENROLLING: SELECT SPOTS FOR SUMMER/ FALL 2023! |
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Do you want to speak Uke?!
Your child will fall in love with the Ukulele.. this four string bundle of Joy! It is the perfect first string instrument to introduce to little hands! Music is a language that every human can understand.. and learning to speak Uke can open that gift... similar to the moment they felt ocean water tickle their toes! 🎶 |
SUNRISE UKULELE GROUP CLASS
WHERE: RIO COCO CAFE 1412 21st Street Vero Beach,FL WHEN: THURSDAYS 5:45pm(Ages 8-12) THURSDAYS 6:45pm (Teens/Adults) BEGINS: June 1st, 2023! Introductory Class: $125 Includes rental of a 21" Soprano Hola Ukulele & Soft Case (unless you already have your own and we will adjust accordingly)! |
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ANNOUNCING:
OUR NEW PRE-TWINKLE VIOLIN METHOD FOR BEGINNERS AGES 4+!!!! Based on a kinesthetic and vocal approach using Solfege, Kodaly and Montessori concepts! The Kaleidoscopes method helps to guide, engage and nurture a young child thru a variety of enjoyable and short folk tunes whilst learning a strong tonal awareness, physically aware foundational skills and note reading - on piano and violin! FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.discoverviolin.org |
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Why learn the string instruments?
Consider some of the following reasons you and/or your child will benefit from learning a stringed instrument:
QUALITY OF LIFE & EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT:
Playing a stringed instrument enhances a child's quality of life. It provides creative, cognitive, emotional and social opportunities and can lead to improvements in academic performance and in many other areas beyond music.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD:
ALL Children are capable of learning to play a stringed instrument, regardless of talent, gifts or musical background. String classes have been successfully taught to diverse populations and in diverse settings.
LIMITLESS AGE ACCESSIBILITY: Unlike most other musical instruments, stringed instruments come in a variety of sizes so that children as young as four or five years old can begin instruction- especially in parent/teacher cooperation via
the Kaleidoscopes and/or Suzuki methods.
DIVERSITY: The great diversity of music that can be performed on strings- from orchestral music to contemporary and pop music.
Other world cultures also use stringed instruments in their music making.
In learning this diverse source of music we can broaden our understanding of other peoples, lands and cultures.
Other world cultures also use stringed instruments in their music making.
In learning this diverse source of music we can broaden our understanding of other peoples, lands and cultures.
LIFETIME PERFORMANCE: Lifelong opportunities to perform on a stringed instrument abound. There are more than 1,500 orchestras in the United States. Great historical figures have been known to perform music on the strings- among them are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and
Albert Einstein.
LIFETIME ENJOYMENT:
Playing a stringed instrument enhances the enjoyment of music and leads to a lifelong appreciation of music. An estimated 32 million people currently attend concerts each year in the United States.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITES:
Colleges and universities often need string players for their orchestras and may offer full or partial scholarships to qualified students regardless of their intended academic major.
GROWTH:
Finally the BEST reason to learn a stringed instrument: YOU GROW as a human being!
We learn how to feel, show empathy and express what it means to be human through music. Being the stringed instruments are the closest in tonal quality to the human voice playing them helps us resonate, inspire and share who we are emotively with the world!
We're excited by ALL these abundant reasons we have to play these very special and very unique set of instruments.
WE WELCOME YOU TO BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY HERE!
We look forward to beginning or continuing your soulful journey of learning and performing strings with you and your child!
Warm Regards,
Richard & Nicole Ballinger
ASTA- American String Teachers Association
FMEA- Florida Music Teacher's Association
FOA- Florida Orchestra Association
SAA- Suzuki Association of the Americas
WE WELCOME YOU TO BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY HERE!
We look forward to beginning or continuing your soulful journey of learning and performing strings with you and your child!
Warm Regards,
Richard & Nicole Ballinger
ASTA- American String Teachers Association
FMEA- Florida Music Teacher's Association
FOA- Florida Orchestra Association
SAA- Suzuki Association of the Americas
