Books and Resources
We try to keep this list as up to date as possible, but when you enroll, Mary will send you an email with the specific books you will need. If you are looking ahead or want additional resources however, these are our choices for curriculum and also some suggestions for beginning instruments and other resources from Amazon. We have hyperlinked them for your ease. Of course, if you have the means and would desire to, shop local! We recommend Music 6000 or Capital City Guitars.
Just Two Days till Fall!
Fall is just TWO days away at TIA and you will NOT want to miss all the fun opportunities for music making! We still have space available in our homeschool drum lab, homeschool brass lab, and adult piano! We are also enrolling for private lessons in guitar and drums. Fall Session 2018 Sept 5-Dec 15 […]
The Small Group Master Class
We believe that music is purposed to be made in community. Lessons are great, but musicians need to learn to make music together, to play together in rhythm, in harmony, in unison, and in tune. And music is so much fun like that. We want people to experience the joy of music making in community! […]
Learn to Play the Trumpet, Sax, Trombone, Clarinet, or Flute this Summer at TIA!
Attention Olympia area parents! Have your children wanted to learn to play a band instrument? Are you looking to get them involved in a fun and yet meaningful and significant activity this summer? Enroll them in Instrumental Immersion at TIA and they will learn to play the trumpet, sax, trombone, clarinet, or flute this summer […]
SD is Taking New Students
Are you an Olympia area homeschool parent or an adult with a flexible daytime schedule? SD has limited openings for new private students in the early afternoons on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. SD has over 20 years of experience teaching students of all ages and loves teaching piano, trumpet, composition/theory, improvisation, and beginning clarinet, […]
Brass Lab
This small group master class is perfect for brass student musicians with at least a few years experience on their instruments. Trumpet, trombone, French horn, Euphonium, and tuba players will have a blast in this class! Students work important fundamentals of brass playing and music in general, and have fun making music in a great […]
Brass and Braces
Have you ever seen the James Bond film Moonraker? You know, the one with the giant ogre like villain with the hideous and scary looking mouth filled with jagged and piercing metal, Jaws they called him. That’s the image that comes to my mind when I think back to having braces. Extreme? Perhaps, but braces […]