Audition Champions
Years ago, long before COVID, we had an annual event called Celebration of the Scales. It was a lot of fun. This is kind of like COS 2.0, even better, and involving more music, more fun, and more learning experience! Celebration of the Scales was an opportunity for students to come and demonstrate their hard work in learning their scales before their peers, the TIA community, and the rest of the TIA faculty. We had pizza and had a great time. Audition Champions takes this to the next level to include the sorts of things a musician would experience in an audition: Sight reading and a prepared piece or two. Students will take the mock audition on stage in front of their peers, in a fun and casual environment as always with TIA, and afterwards they will get encouraging feedback from us, we will all have pizza, and have a great time!
A Proper Foundation
Scales are the essential foundation of music. You simply can’t have a confident command of your instrument and all music in all keys without it.
Summers are for Music
This summer will have lots of great opportunities for students to learn music anew if they never played it before, or to learn in second instruments just like I did. Drums! Hand drums! Ukulele! Guitar! Piano! Violin! Saxophone! Stay tuned for more details! Private lessons, and, fun affordable small group options great for friend making. Our summer semester is just 8 weeks, so, you can still plan an end of spring vaca through July 4th, and a great end of summer break through Labor Day. Fill the in between with music, memories, and more friends!
Your Child or Teen May Have More than You Know
You won’t always know what’s going on with all of your child or teen in their music. You should try! Talk to them, ask them, ask them to play for you, but don’t force it. I know for example for sure that I have a student who is one of the most amazing young piano […]
Hiring Well & Professionalism
Yes, you need to be able to play well and know music well to work as a professional musician. But often times you will get and keep the work you have more because of who you are as a person than how you play. Nobody wants to work with jerk, and nobody wants to take lessons from someone like that either.
Advertising Sponsor Opportunity
If you know anyone with a business that may be looking for some more advertising, ThurstonTalk.com, which has a pretty big local reach, has done an article on us in the past, but they have reached out asking for our business. It’s $200 a month, so we can’t afford it, but if a local business wanted to donate to us for this, we would happily list them as a sponsor giving them advertising as well.
Can You Help Spread Word?
We have enrolled seven new students so far this week, which is so awesome! We can use your hep though! Especially with our Burien site, we are still struggling to get the word out. Please tell everyone in Burien, South Seattle, and Des Moines you know! Advertising in the area is crazy expensive, like everything these days! And we ty to keep our budget low so we can offer affordable tuition. Please, tell your friends! Joshua is still enrolling for piano and guitar lessons, daytime for homeschoolers/adults with flexible schedules, and a few late afternon/evening spots.
Festival 2023!
Festival 2023! Festival is a lot of fun. In short, Festival is an adjudicated event/performance opportunity for music students to play or sing their music in front of an audience of one. That audience of one is a professional musician-educator with extensive experience in music that will evaluate the student carefully in all areas of […]
Festival 2023 is Coming!
We love Festival! TIA is the only local club in the area for the National Federation of Music Clubs, the largest non-profit organization in America promoting and supporting American music performers and music education. Festival is a lot of fun. In short, Festival is an adjudicated event/performance opportunity for music students to play or sing […]
Do you love music? Can you spare $5? $10?
Do you love music? Can you spare $5? $10? A kind community member has offered us their childhood baby grand piano which will be a very welcome addition to our studio at The Tuned In Academy! But it will cost us $300 to move. Every bit helps. Give the gift of music today and give […]