Archive for August, 2011

Music Education for Parents: Kids and Music – Who Makes the Choice?

Your child is showing signs of musical talent. Who should make the decision about kids and music lessons, the parent or the child? Most people will say the adult. The child does not know enough to know what is good for them yet.

Actually, there are three different scenarios involving parents, kids and music:

Your child shows interest. His interest and ability is obvious to everyone, both friends and family. This is a perfect scenario with a natural and mutual outcome; the child is simply born to play musical instrument.

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The Day of Rock & Roll Music

Rock ‘n’ roll (often written as rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States after World War II in the late 1940s from a combination of the rhythms of the blues, from the African American culture, and from America’s country music and gospel music scenes.

Rock ‘n’ Roll started after the year 1955 and the genre emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be seen in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.

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