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The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips from Teens & Pros

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This book is filled with practical easy to read information about what it means to learn music. As a music teacher, I find this book to be a great tool for parents and students. It teaches the basic aspects of what is involved in learning a musical instrument. It is also written on a level that schoolage students can understand. I found it to be simple to read, yet very informative and enjoyable. I am going to recomend it to my students - especially the Jr. High students who seem to have lost motivation. I may even assign them chapters to read and intergrate it into my lessons.

What a wonderful book for young students (and older students!) I teach private trumpet lessons to students ranging in age from 10 to 18 and they all enjoyed looking at it while waiting for their lesson to begin. Lots of great tips and like the title suggests a "Survival Guide".

BRAVO !!

The advice is true, but not true for all musicians all the time. So you need to pick and choose what's good for you and decide what's not so good for you. The thing I like the best is that it has real data from real musicians, kids and pros, who tell how they handle and handled common problems like boring practice, performance jitters, bad teachers, horrible conductors, out of tune instruments and out of tune friends, time pressures, and so forth. What worked for these people might work for you. The glossary is skimmpy and the index deficient, but who cares. The book itself is what counts and it is interesting, fast and fun to read, with important insights and hints to help you get better at what you play.

This wonderful book encourages kids and parents to relax and enjoy the experience of learning to play music. It faces every issue head-on and reduces each one to workable shape. Whether it's performance nerves or just utter boredom with repetition, the book presents lively, enjoyable re-takes bound to make a parent appreciate what every musical kid is going through while at the same time opening the eyes of the student to the fact that even if these are the necessities of musical study, they can be a lot of fun!!

A very good book for all ages who want to play an instrument. If only I would follow their advise. Maybe.... reads easy and flows well. I recommend it. Thumbs up, a must own for your library.