Music and Life Enrichment

Music for Little Mozarts

Music for Little Mozarts is a program designed to help your little ones develop a love of music. Learning music at an early age helps develop little minds and expands their cognitive ability. While listing to music can certainly help your youngster pick up songs, actually learning to play the piano can expand areas of the mind that are responsible for fueling later leaps in the childes education development.

This program was developed for the little ones attention spans in mind. It focuses on little creatures that both entertain and teach. By grasping the attention of a young child’s mind and engaging them with stories along with hands on experience, you can provide them with a positive experience that just may fuel a little Mozart in later years.

What Does This Program Offer?

Within this multi-book and multi-year lesson plan there are ten little characters that help draw the child into the lesson plan. These little creatures actually can be used to help the child grasp basic concepts n music. The series starts out in the preschool years and provides day by day lessons that can aid the child or a classroom of children right through early adolescence.

The series is a designed for both classroom and preschool use and for those at home with homeschoolers. It contains a series of books along with audio CD’s, flash cards, and other visual aids that can help very young children develop an ear and an eye for music.

Developing a Love of Music Quickly

It can be hard to hold the attention spans of children for very long. However, with the right creativity and the proper attention along with simple, easy to master daily lessons, most children will not only grasp music rather quickly, they will also develop a love of real music, not just banging on a piano keyboard and making sounds.

The short, daily lessons are planned out so that children learn to play music by ear. They focus on short, easy to master songs or song parts and gradually add more song elements in a quick progression. Children find that they learn to play real songs and master real passages quickly and easily. This element keeps them involved. They also master playing by ear and then later by reading rather quickly.

We all know how in wonder children’s minds are, and we know that if they feel they have accomplished something then they quickly learn to love performing that task again and again. This sense of accomplishment with easy to learn lessons helps children to develop a love and desire to play music. Music for Little Mozarts is designed to engage the child through the use of play and quick accomplishments while repetition and small victories over time help the child maintain the interest.

Adapting the Program for Home or Preschool

•    If you are home schooling your youngsters or have preschool age children whom are not attending preschool you can still use the lesson plans. The books are designed for home or classroom use. You may find that your children at home can easily handle a few minutes every morning while their minds are still fresh, to learn music.

•    If you own a preschool or day care you may find that adding a few minutes into your daily routine to stop and go over the lessons with your charges will prove very rewarding. You can easily fit in these short and fund lesson plans right into your daily activities.

Music for Little Mozarts was developed and designed by a team of expert pianist who have experience teaching young children and classrooms of students. It is designed for children ages 4 to 6 years old. The books not only teach piano, but also singing and a general love of music. They help develop listing skills and impart an appreciation for many different musical styles. If you decide to use the system in a preschool, day care, or at home you will be delighted to find how much fun your children find in playing music.

How to use your interest and talent in music

When you are thinking about how to use your interest and talent in music for a professional purpose, you will find that there are many different options open to you.  One of the most attractive jobs that you might be interested in is that of film score composer, but how is this job that you are going to get? As you might suspect, this is a position that pays extremely well and is amazing resume builder if you can get it; there are many things that make this job extremely attractive, but what you do you need to know to see if it is something that you are capable of doing?

In the first place, you need to know the genre.  Composing for film is much different than composing for any other genre of music, though it has some correspondence to orchestral composition.  When you are looking to break into the industry, you will find that you need to listen to what other people are doing and learn what you can.  John Williams, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman and Danny Elfman have routinely pulled down many of the major scores over the years, and getting  accustomed to their work is something that any aspiring film score composer should do.

You should also be aware of the fact that you are going to be working from a storyboard version of the film or from a first cut of the film.  With that in mind, you will need to figure out what moments are going to call for musical highlights and what sort of emotions the score needs to help the movie evoke.  Although the score is something that is a part of the background, it is a very important tool when it comes to making sure that the people who are watching the film get the right idea.

When you are writing music for a film, always remember that you should write more music than is called for.  Assume that the scenes will run the longest that they can run and never shortchange a scene when it comes the music.  To get some experience with this, you will find that working with aspiring film students can help.  Offer to do scores for them, or try rewriting the scores for movies that you are familiar with.

Remember that a rock solid background in music composition at the university level is extremely important as well.  Listen and learn and remember that this is a position that takes a great deal of work!