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We have noticed that many instruments brought into Caroline Springs School of Music for repairs are plain dirty.

A large number of repairs and associated costs could be avoided by some simple maintenance.

Always ensure your hands are clean before you practice. We should keep our hands clean anyway, right?

Always wipe your instrument with a soft cloth after practice, this will greatly increase...

 The great John Coltrane always played with tremendous passion

- "The emotional reaction is all that matters."

- "All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right." John Coltrane

At our recent ANZCA exams in May we had two students perform their Grade 3 piano pieces with such maturity and a level of emotional engagement; rare for a performer of any age and experience. Well don...

At Caroline Springs School of Music we are always ensuring our teachers are accurately monitoring each student’s progress.

Our teachers update progress reports on a weekly basis and brief our administration and school principal at least once a month on each student.

As a parent your best indicator of your child’s progress is their ANZCA exam scores. We never enter anyone for an exam that we are...

Over the last 30 years of teaching guitar I have noticed that nearly all students and even many accomplished players simply do not change their strings often enough.

I change strings on most of my guitars after roughly ten hours of use. I have always used Thursdays as a guitar maintenance day. Changing strings on Thursdays gives me enough hours to play the strings in before weekend gigs.

Whenev...

This is our third and final worksheet blog before the ANZCA exams on Wednesday May 27th.

This worksheet focuses on simple signs and terms that can appear in music.

Download the worksheet and match up the following answers. As always bring the completed worksheet to your lessons for marking.

Signs and terms:

Piano – Soft

Forte – Loud

Mezzo Piano – moderately soft

Mezzo Forte – moderately loud

Fortissi...

Notes and rests are often areas of confusion for students on practical exams.

Match up the following answers with worksheet 2 (download from here)

Quaver (worth half a beat) eighth note

Crotchet (1 beat) quarter note

Dotted Crotchet (1 and a  half) dotted quarter note

Minim (2 beats) half note

Dotted minim (3 beats) dotted half note

Semibreve (4 beats) whole note

Quarter rest (crotchet rest)

Half res...

This is the first in our series of video blogs to help with your exam preparation.

Keep an eye out for upcoming videos for guitar and piano exam pieces.
The first video is ANZCA preliminary grade list A piece:

Aura Lee, written by George Poulton in the 1860s during the American Civil War.

The melody was used for Elvis Presley's 1950's hit "Love Me Tender"

With ANZCA exams fast approaching (May 27th) please ensure you know all of the required general knowledge for your respective grade.

At Caroline Springs School of Music we ensure that all students are well prepared for EVERY facet of their practical exams, an often neglected area in prac exams is general knowledge. Really the general knowledge component of the exams should be the easiest of al...

If you are looking for activities for your toddler in Caroline Springs, look no further.

Designed for children aged 10 months to 4 years old, our toddler music program, Bambino Beats, helps prepare the younger musician for future musical education while enhancing motor skills, cognition, coordination, social interaction abilities and general musicality. Scientists well know the benefits of mus...