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The Secret to Finding the Right Music Teacher for Your Child

The Secret to Finding the Right Music Teacher for Your Child

What do you think of first when you hear a talented artist perform? Do you think, Wow, I bet they really put a lot of time into their Hanon exercises when they were in 5th grade? Probably not (unless you’re a teacher!). But you can bet that somewhere along the line, someone required that artist to practice technique – maybe even when they hated it and wanted to quit. The truth is, we don’t think about all the behind-the-scenes work when we go to a concert. We just sit back and enjoy the result. But along the way, a whole lot of people put in a whole lot of effort to produce the music you’re hearing up on that stage.  I recently came across a Facebook post where Amanda Barrett, a veteran music teacher who owns a flute studio in upstate SC, compared teaching to baking a cake: When an artist plays so beautifully, we admire their ability and often credit the work of the teacher or teachers who have put "the icing on the cake." Yet someone stirred the batter, put the cake in the oven and...

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Meet the New Teacher: Dave Rudolph

Meet the New Teacher: Dave Rudolph

At Tampa Bay Music Academy, we believe investing in a great teacher is vital to creating a lifelong love of music. That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome Dave Rudolph to our team. Dave will be teaching drums and guitar with TBMA, and we look forward to sharing his expertise with our students and their families. Dave earned his degree in music performance from the University of South Florida in 2001. His musical career includes participation in a variety of ensembles, bands, and jazz groups. He...

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Your Brain on Music: How Music Lessons Train the Brain

Your Brain on Music: How Music Lessons Train the Brain

It’s long been theorized that people who study music also display stronger skills in other scholastic endeavors such as math and language arts. Studies have demonstrated links between early music study and higher test scores, but just how far-reaching are those effects? Do they end when the music lessons end? Hardly. What Scientists are Learning About Music and the Brain Studies of how music affects the brain have begun to deliver fascinating results. Recent studies point to changes more...

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Pics of TBMA Students and Faculty at America’s Got Talent Auditions

Pics of TBMA Students and Faculty at America’s Got Talent Auditions

America’s Got Talent partnered with Tampa Bay Music Academy in search for contestants for the season 10 competition. Students enrolled in our school were able to skip the line with a "Front of Line Pass" and some were even scheduled for a private audition. We look forward to continuing our relationship with AGT for future audition sessions. [srizonfbalbum id=1]

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December Christmas Recitals

December Christmas Recitals

Please join us for our Tampa Bay Music Academy Recitals taking place on December 4 and 5 at 7:00 PM.  The venue will be our studio location:  12032 Tarpon Springs Rd., Odessa.  All ages and ability levels will be featured on a variety of instruments like piano, guitar, violin, saxophone, and voice!  It will be a wonderful heart-warming evening of beautiful Christmas music!  We hope to see you there!  

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Pics of TBMA Students and Faculty at America’s Got Talent Auditions

America’s Got Talent Partners with Tampa Bay Music Academy

Exclusively for Tampa Bay Music Academy Students: November 2, 2014 - America's Got Talent has partnered with Tampa Bay Music Academy in search for contestants for the season 10 competition. Open auditions will take place in Tampa on November 2nd. Several thousand people are expected to show up for the auditions. With our partnership, TBMA is able to give a "front of the line pass" to any currently enrolled TBMA student who wants to audition. Instead of waiting in line for hours, you will be...

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Meet the New Teacher: Sara Maniscalco

Meet the New Teacher: Sara Maniscalco

Tampa Bay Music Academy is excited to welcome Sara Maniscalco to our teaching staff! Sara joins us from New York where she spent several years as a faculty member at Westminster Conservatory of Princeton and will be teaching piano for TBMA. She has a master’s degree in piano and has been teaching since the age of 16. Sara’s teaching career began as a result of her natural love for her instrument. When she was 16 years old, her teacher moved and Sara began teaching some of the students she left...

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Help! I’m Playing in a Recital!

Help! I’m Playing in a Recital!

It’s spring time, and it seems like the music recitals are popping up just as quickly as the flowers. Recitals provide an opportunity for students to showcase progress, receive inspiration from other students, and receive support from parents and friends. But they also force us to deal with the nemesis of musicianship: stage fright. From the student’s perspective, the specter of stage fright looms bigger than any potential benefits—so big, in fact that some may want to forego the recital...

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Spring is In the Air: Are Your Kids Practicing?

Spring is In the Air: Are Your Kids Practicing?

When spring taps us on the shoulder after a long winter, most of us want to spend as much time outside as possible. I can still remember sitting at the piano one lovely spring day as a young piano student, plinking out a practice exercise while behind me the screen door was open and my friends ran around the front yard whooping in delight. Talk about spring fever! If we’re honest with ourselves, we all have times when we just don’t feel like practicing. So how can parents motivate their kids...

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