Music & Art with Erica – PD Day program
This is a PD Day (half-day) program. Open for only a maximum of 6 children only. Have you thought of nurturing your child’s interest through Music and Arts? Through a combination of guided and open-ended activities, your child will get hands-on experiences in creating music using melodic or percussive instruments, painting or drawing with the…
Drama & Music Program
Introducing a program that I am working on with a partner. We found out that we have a good combination of our expertise. So why not bring it to the community where everyone can benefit from it altogether? I highly encourage children or adults to join this program which helps with a lot of self-discovery…
*NEW! – Group Piano Lessons – Starting October 2023
Breaking News! Hot fresh news from the oven…. drum rolllll …. *DRRRRRRrrrrrrr……. (I am so excited) …. YES! it is my new course available this Fall. It is the “Children & Adult Group Piano Lesson”! It took me months with lots of thought to plan the curriculum and teaching strategies for this group lesson program.…
Benefits of Erica’s Group Piano Lesson
This group lesson is a Multi-level group lesson. Meaning, that students are grouped in different skill levels and age groups. The main reason for creating this learning environment is to allow students to access new perspectives through evaluating learning approaches in varied ways. Explicitly, students will observe successes and failures, Implicitly, students are managing their…
Latest Updates (June 2023)
It has been such a busy year since the start of this year and I am just so thankful for being blessed with wonderful students. Besides teaching, I have also been trying to work on some music programs, hopefully to launch it at the last quarter of this year. So, please stay tuned for more…
Piano Lessons for Homeschoolers
This post is dedicated especially to homeschoolers. If you are a parent who homeschools your children, please read on. I have always admired homeschooling kids. Being a kid myself who goes to a mainstream school, I have dreaded the suffering task of completing school work to meet my teacher’s requirements ‘Every Single Day’. So when…
Latest Updates (Jan 2022)
Happy New Year everyone! It is a gonna be a good year and I choose to believe this! So please read on for the latest updates for the Year 2022. As of current, lessons will be conducted in person at my place. However, I do conduct Online lessons for those age 7 and above due…
Melodic? or Rhythmic?
It seems strange that in the past month, I was asked 3 times about ‘what’s more important? the melody or the rhythms? Then, the highlight last week was, someone came stomping with frustration asking me to stop teaching too much of rhythm clapping but instead demanded that I focus more on reading notes melodically. Hmm….…
LATEST UPDATES (Oct 2021)
I am conducting in-person lessons at my home now. Zoom lessons will be temporarily closed for now until unless necessary. For the home-based lessons, I will mask up throughout the entire lesson and the teaching area will be sanitized with alcohol disinfectant spray before and after each student. Adult students are required to be double…
Listen!
I remember when I was teaching pop ensemble to a class of 15 teenagers, my head almost popped from the very first step into the lab full of ‘Tings and Twangs’ by the instruments. my headache became worse when I tried to get a band to play the introduction of Bruno Mars’ Count On Me.…
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