Brae Studios About Us Now in it's 17th year of existence, "Brae Studios" has gone from strength to strength providing tuition in a wide range of instruments, both for formal examinations and purely for pleasure.
Lessons are conducted in an informal relaxed atmosphere full of encouragement to enhance your child's musical experience.
This web-site not only informs you of the services available from "Brae Studios", but can also be a guide for parents to further encourage your child's musical development.

Parents

 Providing your child with an education in music is an investment in your child's future. In making it possible for your child to play a musical instrument, you are providing the opportunity for self-expression, creativity and enhancement.
Numerous studies indicate that parental attitude, support and involvement are important factors in a child's ability to successfully learn to play and enjoy music.

Benefits

 For your child, music participation enhances their problem solving, goal setting, co-ordination, confidence, self confidence and esteem, teamwork, self expression, memory skills, poise and much more.

For Your Family

 A child's music study offers opportunities for shared family experience, including musical event attendance, family music-making, performances for and with family and friends and a sense of pride and accomplishment for the entire family.

How You Fit In

 Always remember that your support is a key element to your child's success with music study. It requires effort over a period of time by which you can help your child by providing a quiet place to practice, remaining nearby during practice times as often as possible, scheduling a consistent daily time for practice and praising your child's efforts and achievements.

To give your child the best possible support you should try to encourage them to play for family and friends, offer compliments and encouragement regularly, expose your child to a wide variety of music including concerts and recitals, encourage them to talk about their lessons, make sure their instrument is in perfect working condition, allow your child to explore other pieces of music not just their study pieces, listen to their practice and acknowledge improvement, help them build a personal music library and try to get your child to make a minimum two year commitment to their music studies.
Your child's musical progress will be greatly enhanced if you don't use practice as a punishment, don't insist that they play for others when they don't want to, don't ridicule or make fun of less than perfect playing, don't apologize to others on their behalf, don't start your child on an imperfect instrument and do not expect rapid progress and development in the beginning.
In the event that your child should lose interest in their music studies, don't panic, discuss the situation with your child to determine their loss of interest, talk to their music teacher to see what can be done to rekindle their interest and enthusiasm, encourage your child to stick with lessons for an agreed period of time and offer increased enthusiasm and support.