Lish Lindsey is one of the newest teachers at Lessonface.com. She’s a very talented flutist, as you can see from her videos, but also an equally talented and passionate flute instructor. She was kind enough to answer this week’s “Five Questions” during a rare moment when she wasn’t actively engaged in spreading the gospel of the flute.
In honor of “DRIVING school for DOGS,” we’ve put together our “Top Five Animals Playing Music Videos List,” because if there’s one thing people love more than music, it’s animals playing music. Seriously.
Music: as in a gift certificate for music lessons. That’s the answer to the question posed in the title. Music calms, motivates, and engages. Students who play music score better on standardized tests, do better in math, and have a better chance at earning more money as adults. Troubled students taking music lessons of some sort also have been shown to improve attendance and increase their cooperation with teachers and other students. That’s not to say those things will guarantee a happy life, but they usually help get you there.
Perhaps best known as the guitar player for pioneering rock band The Jesus Lizard – whose albums Goat and Liar made Rolling Stone and Pitchfork's "Top 100 Albums of the ‘90s" lists – and possessing a musical resume comprising bands and collaborations with an enormous list of musical innovators, it’s no wonder Spin recently named Duane Denison to its list of 100 greatest guitarists. With tasteful and ferocious chops inspiring a legion of imitators, Denison continues to set definitive standards for aggressive, dynamic guitarists everywhere.
Online music lessons can help you save energy by not having to transport yourself, your kids, or your instrument, you save possibly over $20 in transportation costs, and you save 30 minutes to an hour commuting if you’re the one taking the lesson and maybe as much as two hours if your kid is the student. Not too shabby. Extrapolate that over the course or a year and maybe as many as 50 to 100 lessons and we’re talking about a serious change in quality of life.
It's not often you mix a decade of teaching experience and a Berklee education with youth and a budding recording career. But Ian Thomas McCulloch, 28 and from Austin, Texas, is not your average rocker. He's the frontman for Stonefeather, an LA-based funk-rock trio that just released its first full-length album, "California Air,” and one of the latest additions to Lessonface's stable of great teachers.
Great music teachers resound in our thoughts for the rest of our lives, whether through their guidance in how to problem-solve issues, their inspiring characters, or in the direct skills that they impart in us – good posture or how to look cool holding a bass guitar, how to tune or how to use a capo, how to play Humoresque by Dvorak or Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, as the case may be. Choosing the right one for you or your child is very important.
Though the geographic range of teachers found on LessonFace in our first month can be called global without exaggeration, there's undoubtedly an East Coast of the US concentration. So placement on this map is mostly quite approximate, with some teachers based in NYC appearing to be in Greenland.
We'd love to get more teachers all around the world (and also more on the East Coast) - and students all around the world as well!
