Have Fun with Your Music

The hardback picture book with coffee table quality pages encourages children that are learning to play any musical instrument to pick up their instrument and try new ways to have fun. It empowers them with practice tips to make it their own. The lively brightly colored artwork is filled with humor (and animals). It is interactive with activities. The book includes two pages of stickers. The cover picture of a dog playing violin on the roof (fiddler on the woof) asks the students what...
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The hardback picture book with coffee table quality pages encourages children that are learning to play any musical instrument to pick up their instrument and try new ways to have fun. It empowers them with practice tips to make it their own. The lively brightly colored artwork is filled with humor (and animals). It is interactive with activities. The book includes two pages of stickers. The cover picture of a dog playing violin on the roof (fiddler on the woof) asks the students what "would make you want to practice" - standing on a dog house roof?... There is another page saying to warm up with scales like you would for sports, asking what muscles do you use to play your instrument. A side note with a butterfly comments that butterflies have beautiful scales. "Play each note of your scales beautifully too". Questions, puns and side notes are of the unique fun and humor in this book. Research shows that How is students whose experience with music is limited to technical skill are more likely to quit playing and associate failure with the instrument than those who focus on a broader, aesthetics-based approach to their performance training.