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How to Practise Piano: A Guide to Making Real Progress

The secret to becoming a better pianist isn’t necessarily practising for longer. It’s learning how to practise properly. Whether you’re a complete beginner, a parent helping your child with piano…

The Instruments Nobody Suggests

Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Ukulele, Bass, Recorder and Tin Whistle Ask anyone what instrument to learn and you’ll get one of two answers. Piano, because it’s sensible. Guitar, because it’s cool.…

Beyond the Practice Room: How Music Changes How You Listen to Everything

Nobody warns you about this part. They tell you about the discipline, the exam grades, the thing you’ll be able to do at parties. What they don’t tell you is…

When You Need a Vocal Coach (And What One Actually Does)

Three people walk into a music school in September. The first is getting married in twelve weeks and has promised — rashly, at 1am, to a delighted partner — to…

Why Piano Players Make Better Musicians

The Case for the Instrument Every Other Musician Wishes They’d Started On Run a small experiment the next time you are in a room full of musicians. Ask the guitarists,…

Which Instrument Should Your Child Learn?

A Parent’s Guide to Matching the Child to the Instrument — Not the Other Way Around Every September, the same scene plays out in kitchens across Dublin. The decision to…

How to Choose a Music School in Dublin

The Questions Worth Asking, the Things Worth Checking, and the Red Flags Worth Heeding An admission, before anything else: we run a music school, so you would be right to…

Your First Singing Lesson: What Actually Happens

Here is what does not happen in a first singing lesson. You do not stand in the middle of a room while someone assesses you. You are not asked to…

The Leaving Cert Music Guide

Everything Students and Parents Need to Know — Including the Path for Schools That Don’t Offer Music Here is the fact that surprises almost every parent who hears it: in…

Piano – The Instrument That Waits for You

Why a Piano in Your Home Changes More Than the Sound It does not call you. It does not remind you. It does not send notifications or expire if you…

Why Music Lessons Are the Best Money You’ll Spend on Your Child

It’s Not Even Close, and Here’s Why Let’s do the maths. A term of music lessons at Dublin School of Music costs €300 for ten weekly sessions. That works out…

What Can You Play After a Year of Guitar Lessons?

Here is the honest answer, without the hype. With weekly 30-minute lessons and consistent daily practice of fifteen to twenty minutes, most guitar beginners can play simple chord progressions within…

Is My Child Ready To Start Guitar Lessons?

It usually starts with a moment. A child stops in front of a busker, transfixed. A guitar appears in a film or a music video and suddenly it’s all they…

What Your Child’s Music Teacher Wishes You Knew

Every week, you drop your child at the door and pick them up thirty minutes later. You ask how it went. They say “fine.” You hear them practise at home—sometimes…

Why You Stopped Teaching Yourself Guitar

And What Happens When Someone Finally Shows You What You’re Missing You know four chords. Maybe five. You can strum your way through a handful of songs, and on a…

Summer Music Lessons at Dublin School of Music

The school year stops in June. Learning an instrument does not have to. Every summer we run lessons through July and into August, and they tend to attract two quite…

Back to Music This September

The New Term Starts Here — For Every Age, Every Instrument, Every Level There is something about September. The summer loosens its grip, the evenings begin to draw in, and…

When Should My Child Start Music Lessons?

The Honest Answer to the First Question Every Parent Asks It is the first question every parent asks, and the honest answer is not a number. Most children are ready…

Why Adults Who ‘Gave Up’ Music Keep Coming Back

The Unfinished Business That Brings You Back to the Practice Room You stopped playing years ago. Maybe decades. The reasons were perfectly good at the time—exams, college, a job, a…

Drums – The Instrument That Lives in Your Body

Why Drums Teach You Something Every Other Instrument Misses The Instrument That Lives in Your Body You already know how to drum. You have been doing it your whole life.…

Singing Classes:The Instrument You Already Own

Why Singing Is the Most Personal Music Lesson You Will Ever Take Somewhere along the way, someone told you that you couldn’t sing. Maybe it was a teacher who asked…

The Violin – The Instrument That Asks Everything of You

Why Violin Demands More — and Gives Back More — Than Any Other Instrument There is no hiding on the violin. No frets to tell your fingers where to land.…

What Guitar Teaches That Nothing Else Does

Every instrument changes you. Piano teaches you to think in two voices at once. Violin teaches you to find a note in empty space with nothing but your ear to…

What Can You Play After a Year of Piano Lessons?

The Realistic Journey from First Note to First Year What Can You Play After a Year of Piano Lessons? It is the question everyone asks before they begin, and the…

How to Practise Piano: A Guide to Making Real Progress

The Instruments Nobody Suggests

Beyond the Practice Room: How Music Changes How You Listen to Everything

When You Need a Vocal Coach (And What One Actually Does)

Why Piano Players Make Better Musicians

Which Instrument Should Your Child Learn?

How to Choose a Music School in Dublin

Your First Singing Lesson: What Actually Happens

The Leaving Cert Music Guide

Piano – The Instrument That Waits for You

Why Music Lessons Are the Best Money You’ll Spend on Your Child

What Can You Play After a Year of Guitar Lessons?

Is My Child Ready To Start Guitar Lessons?

What Your Child’s Music Teacher Wishes You Knew

Why You Stopped Teaching Yourself Guitar

Summer Music Lessons at Dublin School of Music

Back to Music This September

When Should My Child Start Music Lessons?

Why Adults Who ‘Gave Up’ Music Keep Coming Back

Drums – The Instrument That Lives in Your Body

Singing Classes:The Instrument You Already Own

The Violin – The Instrument That Asks Everything of You

What Guitar Teaches That Nothing Else Does

What Can You Play After a Year of Piano Lessons?

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