JULY NEWSLETTER Brill Music Academy In This Month’s

Brill Music
Academy
JULY NEWSLETTER
July 1, 2014
Welcome to our MONTHLY NEWSLETTER!
In This Month’s
Newsletter:
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Are YOU Our Contest
Winner? See Last
Page…

FREE MONTH OF
LESSONS - Enter our
drawing (Ryan Murphy
was our winner last
month) Will YOU be
next?
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July Birthdays

Wunderkeys for
Pre-Schoolers
WE WILL BE CLOSED
ON THESE DATES:
There are NO holidays
that we will be
CLOSED until next
Thanksgiving in
November
Please welcome our
NEWEST students!
Jessica Gettinger
Daniella Thomas
Sanyin Xu
Ambika Gandotra
Brandon Perry
Mazie Losonsky
Lilah Todd
Laura Halvorson
Larry Halvorson
Kalyaan Lim
Sovannjet Lim
Emilia Naylor
John Naylor
Euriel Valles
Emma Marrufo
Graydon Russell
Evan Ogilvie
Ian Ogilvie
Lindsey Schmidt
Aaron Murphrey
Manon Alpe
Alex Danoski
Ethan Andrews
Zachary Jacobs
Take advantage of our
Referral Program and
win a FREE LESSON!!
Thank you for checking us out on the internet. We hope that
our monthly newsletter and other information will show you
that the Brill Music Academy is the best choice for your music
education. Stop by and see us any time.
WHY Do We Like Music?
SOUND IT OUT…. You might instinctively choose to
sniffle to sappy 80s ballads when you're down or
blast hard rock to rev you up for an afternoon of
housecleaning, but music's effects could be more
powerful than you think. Tunes don't just alter your
mood; they can also affect your ability to learn and
heal. Music activates the “pleasure center” of the
human brain, says Laurel Trainor, Ph.D., director of
the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The ebb and flow of
music's rhythms and tones activate the same area
of the brain that responds to drugs and good food,
which means music has a similar ability to relax and
stimulate you. Need more proof of music's power?
IT MAKES YOU SMARTER…. Music lessons can
boost language and speech skills, memory, and
attention span, according to research by Northwestern University in Illinois. This researach noted the
long-term effects of childhood music lessons and
the way musicians can more easily pick up a new
language. And it might sound counterintuitive, but
blasting that Metallica album for a few minutes before buckling down may help you learn. Listening to
a fast-paced song you enjoy makes you more alert—
at least for a little while. “It’s only a temporary
effect,” Trainor says.
IT HELPS YOU HEAL…. Many hospitals’ rehabilitation facilities, senior centers, and hospice programs
routinely employ music therapists, according to the
American Music Therapy Program
(musictherapy.org). A study published in the
Cochran Review in 2010 found that people recovering from a stroke were able to walk stronger and
longer when they listened to music during physical
therapy sessions. And patients who listened to
Mozart sonatas had reduced blood pressure and
heart rates and subsequently had much less need
for sedatives, according to a study in The Medscape
Journal of Medicine.
IT PROMPTS RELAXATION…. Unwind after a stressful day by listening to slow songs with downwardfalling tones and gentle rhythms, Trainor says.
Simple tones have traditionally been used as a kind
of sound therapy to quell anxiety.
Happy July Birthday to our Students
Jordan Backman 1 Jul
Alexander Marcozzi 3 Jul
Justin Vargas 3 Jul
Marci Adolfo 6 Jul
Emma Cole 8 Jul
Kevin Lemus 8 Jul
Kalen Mullen 8 Jul
Jessica Moulder 9 Jul
Shayley Shimkus 11 Jul
Jacob Lyles 14 Jul
Abby Johnson 20 Jul
Kelsey Beck 31 Jul
Happy July Birthday to
Our Teachers & Staff
Pam Posey 28 Jul
Here is the photo for our next
contest. A “sandy guitar” at the
beach.
Submit your favorite line, post, or
text to go along with this photo by
Monday, July 28th, and a drawing
of all entries will be held to choose
a winner….
Steve Geller 31 Jul
What caption would you
put in this box?
The winner will receive
ONE FREE MONTH
of lessons at the
Brill Music Academy!!
This contest is open only to current
students.
Email your entries to:
Poster Contest at
[email protected]
Include your name, phone number,
email address, and of course, your
contest entry text for the poster.
The winner will be announced in
our August Newsletter.
Our Winner for Last Month was:
Ryan Murphy (saxophone student of Bob Vanacore)
Ryan has won a FREE MONTH of lessons
Congratulations!!
Music in the Summer
We hope you will be with us for the summer. Without the “distractions” of schoolwork,
sports, and other activities, now is the time to really push forward to accomplish your musical
goals and improve your skills as a musician. Talk with your teacher about what you can do this
summer to really find what you enjoy about music and about the instrument you are learning to
play. If you are in the band or orchestra at school, your efforts during the summer could move
you to 1st chair in your section to the amazement of your friends, the delight of your band or
orchestra director, and make your parents even more proud of you. But even with all that, the
sense of self-worth and accomplishment that you will feel is worth the time and effort you can
put into your music this summer.
Determine now to end the summer a better musician than you are now. You can do it! Your
teacher at Brill Music knows you can do it and is willing to do all they can to help you.
Director's
Corner:
Get the MOST Out of Your Music
MusicTheory.net
This cool website is one of the great music education resources out there. You
can use it to quiz yourself on note names and chords, or work on your ear training
and listening skills. It offers theory lessons, a chord calculator, and tons of other
great tools. You can even print your own blank staff paper from the site, ready for
your new composition!
One of the coolest features is a pop-up piano, ready for you to play on your computer, iPad, or iPhone. When you don’t have access to a piano, you can still make
up tunes or play simple songs on the go.
Make sure you check out this great tool.... www.MusicTheory.net
A referral poem:
If you LOVE your music school,
And you'd like to see it grow,
Think about the friends you have,
And make sure to let them know.
If they enroll and give your name,
you'll happily discover,
a thank-you gift from us to you,
one lesson you'll recover.
(One FREE Lesson!)
See the Referral Program details on the next page
Yes! We have been around for a loooong time. Former teachers and students
drop in from time-to-time to say hello and tell us how they are doing. So, even
if life takes you in a different direction, you are always welcome to come see us
at the Brill Music Academy.
Refer a Friend & Get A FREE Lesson!
If you have a friend who might like to take lessons, if you refer them to the Academy and they
take 1 month of lessons, we’ll give you a lesson for FREE!
It’s very easy to refer someone. Just visit:
http://BrillMusicAcademy.com/referafriend.html
Free Lesson Gift Certificate
Thank you ______ (YOUR NAME HERE)__________
for referring ____________________________________
to our Academy!!
To redeem your free lesson, call 702-212-8745 and sign up for an additional lesson with your teacher, or
any other of our teachers. You are welcome to try another instrument if you like, or give this to a friend.
Lessons cannot be rescheduled once they have been made. Certificates cannot be used for refunds to
your account or for cash.
Given by: _______________________________
Date: __________________
Type in your name, their name, and their email address, and we’ll take care of the rest!
There’s no maximum to the amount of free lessons that you can receive!
WunderKeys!!
Do you have a younger brother or sister?
Do you have pre-school children?
We are here to better prepare our youngsters for a lifetime of music.
WUNDERKEYS PIANO for PreSchoolers
Wunderkeys is a piano lesson series designed for 3, 4, and 5 year-olds. It is taught as a one-on-one, half-hour
piano lesson, given once a week. Each lesson incorporates 5 different activities to ensure the child is always
focused, engaged, and active. Each activity is designed to reinforce concepts learned in the student's book.
The program teaches beginning piano skills, and includes a music/math relationship, which gives students a
head start on kindergarten math concepts and a positive first exposure to math. By engaging in musical
games on the piano keyboard, students learn sorting, counting, comparison, classification, and pattern
recognition.
The lessons are designed to correspond with the developmental stages of 3-5 year olds. Students explore the
piano in ways in which they are capable for their age. They will learn everything they will need before being
able to read notated music. Wunderkeys “duets” allow the students to play “real pieces” along with the
teacher, ensuring success and enjoyment.
Home activity sheets are completed with your child during practice time at home. They don't require that
parents have prior musical knowledge. Wunderkeys leads directly into further piano study. After completion
of all 3 books, students can continue their studies with a piano series designed for ages 6 and up.
There are 3 books in the Wunderkeys series. The books include lesson activities and homework sheets. If you
have children in this age group and want them to get a head start in music and math concepts, call the
Brill Music Academy (212-8745) and ask for details.
SHARE THE NEWS: If you would like to share upcoming events, great
information, or anything that would be of general interest to other students and
parents, please feel free to submit it for possible newsletter publication to:
[email protected].
Gift Certificates are for Anytime!
Looking for just the perfect gift to give to
your loved ones?
Why not surprise them with a Gift Certificate for Music
Lessons from the Brill Music Academy!
SPECIAL DISCOUNT
Four 30 minute lessons or Two 60 minute lessons - $100.00
Call or see us for details!
702-212-8745
Did You Read Your Newsletter Contest
June 2014
To increase readership of the Brill Newsletter, each month we’ll feature a new
contest winner or announce a new contest.
Be sure to read your newsletter each month to see if your name has been drawn
or you might miss out!
This month’s winner is:
Tazreann Ahmed (piano student of Jennifer Loss)
Tazreann has won a free music lesson from the Brill Music Academy (a $35 value).
To redeem your prize, please contact the front desk to schedule your FREE lesson.
It is good for 30 days or until the next winner is announced.
Congratulations, and everyone be sure to read
your newsletter each month!