Music and Language Learning Center
  • Home
  • Classes
    • ABRSM Music Theory
    • Celebrate Theory
    • Music Lessons
    • Ear Training
    • Music Appreciation
    • Music History
    • Music Theory
    • Trinity College of Music
    • French
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
  • Faculty
  • Store
  • Career
  • Blog
  • About Us
B L O G

Music & Language Learning Center Class Offerings

12/29/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Throughout their early education, children are taught basic subjects like math and science to help them better understand the world around them. Artistic courses were often deemed less important, despite exposing children to a new realm of interests. This is where The Music and Language Learning Center, or the MLLC, comes in.

The MLLC provides a wide variety of courses regarding the study of music, along with three language classes: French, Spanish, and Portuguese. All levels of education are welcome; in other words, no prior experience is needed to take these courses. 
​

Each course is held online with three different types of classes: flexible, multi-day, and private tutoring, or one-on-one. Flexible courses do not meet live and are instead taught through assignments. Multi-day courses meet at scheduled times over a period, and private tutoring is individual teaching.

Read More
0 Comments

How to Develop Your Conducting Skills: Basic to Intermediate

12/10/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Conducting can be a tricky business. It’s not only about learning the score, indicating instrumental entrances, or even beating the time. You must be able to understand the people that you’re working with and through that type of understanding of how to approach them whether they are beginners or even professionals, which requires a level of awareness when understanding the ensemble, you’re working with.  

Throughout my career, I've witnessed many different types of conductors - inspiring ones, angry ones, funny ones, and bad ones, but they all have one thing in common: they have the courage and tenacity to be able to stand in front of a group of people to communicate their ideas using musical gestures. 

One of the biggest lessons that I learned throughout my own formation is being able to develop the skills and knowledge to make sure that I have the confidence to stand in front of people and express my ideas through my gestures. There are a lot of conductors out there that talk about butterflies and make comparisons of sound to nature. While it may be useful to make these types of associations with younger ensembles, professionals really don’t care. What would they want is: Do you want it louder or softer?

In this article, I’ll walk you through a couple of basic beat patterns that will help you be able to get started. Keep in mind, that the most important thing is to make sure that the gesture does not happen in real-time, if that is the case, that means that you’re following the ensemble, not actually leading it. There is a great exercise in anticipating the beat that my old mentor and teacher, Dominique Rouits, from École Normale de Musique taught me. What you would need to do is to turn on the metronome at 60 and conduct ahead of the beat. This is a really great way of being able to not only practice a variety of beat patterns but also be able to integrate the sensation of what one should feel when they are leading the ensemble vs. following them.

Read More
0 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    August 2022

    Categories

    All
    Homeschool
    Language
    Music

    RSS Feed

Music and Language Learning Center

Music and Language Learning Center

​About Us
​Contact
Career
Outschool Classes
Store
​Testimonials
Language Course Policy
Music Studio Policy

Music Classes

​ABRSM Music Theory
Celebrate Theory
Music Lessons
​Ear Training
​Music Appreciation
​Music History
​Music Theory
​Trinity College of Music

Language Classes

​French
​Portuguese
​Spanish
Picture

 MUSIC AND LANGUAGE LEARNING CENTER 2023
  • Home
  • Classes
    • ABRSM Music Theory
    • Celebrate Theory
    • Music Lessons
    • Ear Training
    • Music Appreciation
    • Music History
    • Music Theory
    • Trinity College of Music
    • French
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
  • Faculty
  • Store
  • Career
  • Blog
  • About Us