This is an opportunity to influence the quality of life in our community. A program designed to reach the "unconverted", and place active music participation in a secure place. An awareness procedure made to promote the benefits of music study for children, parents, young adults, retirees, and others who have always yearned to play the piano and sing. Join imaginative events and activities designed to focus attention on the value of music. Share musicology with family and friends. An old Chinese proverb states that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is Now.
Stand old music definitions on their heads, and learn to express yourself in exciting new ways. More than ever before, you have more musical opportunities -- more options for self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction. This is about breaking free and exploring new adventures. Music has advanced more in the last ten years than the previous seven hundred years.
It is not a process; it is an attitude. Live a full vibrant, musical life. Sing and play the piano with your spiritual being. Come join the celebration. You will welcome "straight from-the-hip" advice from Susan Swenson a person who has been there and back.
Are you landing or taking off? When you can make a positive difference in your life, you feel good about yourself. Make Music a positive experience! This program is an extraordinary method, savvy discussion and direction about challenging, complex issues. It is not convoluted and flat boring like most music courses. You can learn to read, write music, and understand the whole potato, much faster and more inclusive. You do not need to memorize unattached "snippets". You can confidently understand the whole, a much more effective method. Individually designed lessons for beginners or advanced musicians are personal, creative, and technically challenging. Instruction focuses on the system, not only music parts, but how it all fits together. Each lesson provides a rich mix of practical information combined with the newest skill and techniques. You will experience in-depth tutorials, video and audio CD's formatted to hasten your advancement and challenge curiosity. Lessons are video taped at various times so students can acknowledge their progress and achievements. As one cannot always remember all aspects of a lesson, videotapes refresh and remind. Video lessons speed learning and self-discovery. Watching oneself in a TV monitor as the lesson progresses helps a student overcome stage fright and gain confidence and self-awareness. Karaoke audiotapes or CDs available at AAM promote practice and performance.
The finest possible instruments, a nine-foot Concert Steinway D and a six-foot plus Baldwin grand pianos, plus professional high tech, audio and video recording equipment are available.
Student evaluation occurs during the first four weeks of instruction to consider qualification as a candidate and determine individual level of curriculum. Piano and voice instruction for all age levels is unique, structured to develop each personal style. An Academic process applies to all types of music. Students master harmony and technical aspects while playing and singing music of their choice. A person can learn to read music, hear note pitch, identify chord combinations, and ultimately play, sing, compose, or interpret music in their own way.
In order to achieve a level of concentration required to learn music skills, lessons are one-to-one. There is no childcare facility at the studio.
A voice student does not need to develop keyboard dexterity. However, one can easily master pitch location, harmonic intervals, and sight singing with the aid of an electronic keyboard.
Necessary instruction materials are available to purchase at nearby music retail stores. Over a period, a student acquires assignment, method, theory, exercise books, and sheet music. To advance your creative knowledge and skills along the way, you will explore various FREE music videos, karaoke CD's, and Susan Swenson lectures from the AAM library.
Tuition is usually $62.50 for a 45 minute lesson, $250 a month, except the first and last lesson months which determine the number of weeks charged. However, during today's Special: those who enroll now are eligible for a $1.00 a minute rate. 30 minutes = $30, 45 = $45, and 60= $60. The special rate will stay in effect as long as you are consecutively enrolled. If you drop out and reschedule at a later date, you will be charged the current rate.
The whole month payment is due before the first of the month, before the first lesson. The date of the fifth omitted lesson (five Mondays in one month) is noted on a semester schedule. Tuition includes missed or canceled lessons. "Make-up" lessons, every other week, or family discounts are not an option. If Susan cancels a lesson, you will receive a refund. Folks not regularly scheduled may arrange single $60 an hour instruction sessions: audition guidelines, problem fixes, or performance critiques.
Those who prefer to pay by check receive a statement prior to the first of the month. People who choose to pay by credit card receive a statement with the receipt enclosed after the first of the month.
A student may compile a song list of favorite performers to augment a preferred style and interest. If a person cannot attend a lesson, no one else is scheduled in that time slot. Susan also videotapes a duplicate copy of part of each student's lesson. When a student is not present, she reviews previous lessons to determine what skills need to be presented, and creates a study plan for future lessons. She selects songs from the student's preferred song list, locates sheet music and backup tracks, and chooses VCR or DVD performances from the library to view. Future instruction is programmed for each individual.
Contacting potential students on a waiting list is difficult. The schedule is a Rubric's cube. Enrolled students have first choice when an opening is available. The first person to accept an open time slot secures it. Office hours are 10:00 to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday. Instruction is from 1:00 to 9:00 PM We want to hear from you. Please leave a message if we are busy and your call will be returned as soon as possible.
One can enjoy success by attending lessons on a regular basis and committing to practice. A Musician may take liberties according to artistic discrimination when he or she masters technical abilities. Musicianship is not difficult if learned one step at a time with regular, reinforced, motivated intervals. Students who miss more than two lessons in succession or do not practice the skills presented may not continue.
Students are referred to agents or inquiries for play productions, movie and television extras or commercial clips, performances in local venues, and various pageants and competitions. Susan helps each student acquire such aspirations.
Students can demonstrate their talents in Local Theater productions or enjoy AAM festive "Get-togethers" and Karaoke sing-along events. Adults earn awards and certificates of merit. Children win "Achievement Chips" for purchasing prizes.
Events include family and friends, a wonderful opportunity to meet new people and enjoy music. Although the occasion is available, a student does not have to perform. Music provides many hours of fulfilling enjoyment shared with loved ones, friends, or solitary delight.
You have come to the right place to stay on top of exciting new music technology. You will be proud of your achievements.
The best way to become a musician is to "be a musician". The key to success is experience, knowledge, and imagination. LUCK is being prepared, in the right place, at the right time, on purpose. If at first you do not reach your desired goal, be patient, don't become discouraged. You are entering an adventure that has been around for over a thousand years. With each project, your ability and confidence will improve. Create an image of the music you want to live, and that picture will become a fact.
The mind of a beginner is an open channel for genius. The "open minded" novice can look at a situation with fresh eyes and get down to the essentials with confidence. The art of teaching is to open the mind, to guide, and provide the opportunity while a student teaches him or her self. Galileo said, "You can not teach a person anything. You can only help him find it within himself."
You have the power, but you need the wisdom. Effortlessly, your music strategy clarifies and falls into place. Your music passion will project and intrinsic strength that can be felt by others around you. Seemingly by coincidence new opportunities appear and special people come into your life. For many people the connection happens suddenly. It's an epiphany moment when you suddenly see through the fog of your life and glimpse what is really essential. A moment of clarity so intense and dramatic that is becomes "one of life's true landmarks". Music is a non-material power source, a primal energy that exists everywhere. Learn to connect to it and be an intrinsic part of it.
Call 615 309 0818 to make an appointment for a free studio visit. Meet Susan, see the studio, and ask questions.
Find your way to AAM Triple Arts. Call for specific instructions or drive ten minutes from Nashville: take Interstate 65 to exit 74 A East, Old Hickory Blvd. Proceed East past the Holiday Hotel for five stop lights. When you reach the light at Heathstone merge into the center turn lane. Turn left into the gated entrance at Brentwood Chase. Continue on Brentwood Chase Drive several blocks until you pass the pool house on the right. Turn right at the next street. 416 Springer Court is located at the end of the culdesac.
