tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121136445105343532024-02-19T00:13:13.564-07:00 Let's Play Music with Kim SeyboldtLet's Play Music is a music theory course that emphasizes total musicianship through piano playing, singing, classical music, note reading, and ear training...and it's accomplished through play!Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-6182992907458595462014-08-03T10:41:00.000-06:002014-08-03T16:14:57.764-06:00What An HonorEach year <span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">one teacher</span> from the entire company is chosen and given this esteemed award. <br />
I was blessed at Symposium this year to be the <span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">recipient</span> of the wonderful <span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">LPM</span> <span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Vision Award</span>!<br />
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To say it is an honor for me to receive this award is an understatement. To work for a company who has such high standards of excellence and integrity makes getting this award that much sweeter. Shelle and Dave Soelberg, the founders/owners of LPM, spoke and presented me with a plaque to hang in my studio. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We at Let's Play Music value generosity as a core virtue that improves the condition of both the giver and the receiver, and are pleased to announce that Kimberly Seyboldt has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Let's Play Music Vision Award. Thank you for your incredible contribution, Kimberly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to others freely and abundantly. Generosity also </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in abundance but rather giving those things </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that are good for others. Generosity always</span></div>
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Thanks, Let's Play Music, for allowing me to be your visionary teacher of the year. Here is to another great year of enriching children's lives through music!</div>
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<br />Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-41019412445093635012014-07-12T20:25:00.000-06:002014-07-12T20:26:41.071-06:00Symposium 2014Symposium is the awesome time of year when LPM teachers gather together to become better. I. Love. It. We attend workshops, laugh, PLAY, sing, be silly, stay up waaaaay too late, and listen to awesome speakers, just to name a few of the haps throughout our 3 day event.<br />
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This was a room filled with so much talent it was ridiculous! Our key note speaker on Saturday had all of us stand up and sing together. Then little by little she had us break off into 4 parts (Solfeg Sea Friends - for those of you who are through the 2nd year)... It was an AMAZING experience. I may or may not have had a few tears come to my eyes. Music is so powerful! I heard and felt the passion of this room full of Let's Play Music teachers come together in this simple song. I wish all of you could have heard and felt what I did. Every year I feel honored to be among such amazing people!<br />
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<br />Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-32619199821769836862014-04-21T19:16:00.000-06:002014-04-21T19:16:39.612-06:00Recital WeekIt is time to show off everything we have leaned this year. Our recital will be taking place this <b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Friday, April 25, 2014 at Faith United Church of Christ 1020 Walnut St, Windsor, CO 80550</span></b>.<br />
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We have a slew of <span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">third year graduates</span> who will be kicking off the night by playing <span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">compositions they</span> wrote all by themselves. Pretty amazing! They will play from 5:30 - 6pm. <br />
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(Here is a sneak peak of one composition that was written.)</div>
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They will be followed by the <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">first year students</span> who will play bells, autoharps and <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sing about bugs</span>!<br />
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Our <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">second year students</span></span> will show off everything they have learned about how to play <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">songs on the keyboard</span></span>.<br />
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We will finish up by listening to a few more 3rd year students perform their compositions for us.<br />
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I can't wait for the kids to show you how far they have come this year.<br />
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(This was us last year. Look how much your kids have grown since last recital!)</div>
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To help your friends get an idea of how great Sound Beginnings and Let's Play Music are invite them to a current class or to a sample class! <br />
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Come try a sample class at the <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Loveland Library</span> </span>this week on <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Monday, March 3 at 10am</span> or <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Thursday, March 6th at 10am</span>. We will be demonstrating our curriculum for Let's Play Music (starting at 4-6 yrs old) and Sound Beginnings (starting at 2-4 yrs old and their younger siblings).</div>
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During the first year of Let's Play Music we get to play tone bells...</div>
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The second year is our keyboard prep year. We begin to understand the layout of the keyboard and how to play chords and scales.</div>
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The third year of Let's Play Music is our keyboard mastery year. We begin to play more complex songs with both hands and we get into some pretty deep theory concepts.</div>
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The culminating activity is for each student to compose their own piano piece for the recital! It doesn't get any better than that!<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Crushed;">Click<a href="http://makingmusicianslpm.blogspot.com/2013/11/giftguide.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"> HERE </a>to read the entire article on "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Crushed;">The Gift-Buying Guide for Musical Kids".</span>Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-83561129120285568942013-11-25T14:34:00.000-07:002013-11-25T14:37:30.426-07:00Sound Beginnings RegistrationWe have had so much fun this semester in Sound Beginnings!<br />
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We have had this much fun all while learning to listen with our ears, recognize letters of the alphabet, hear and say the sounds our letters amongst many other skills.<br />
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A new semester of Sound Beginnings is upon us. Sound Beginnings Gold Stars semester will be starting the beginning of January. Don't miss out. <span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Now is the time to register!</span> Gold Stars will run from January to April. Classes are offered on Mondays at 9am and 9:30am and Tuesdays at 9am and 9:30am. Click <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><a href="http://letsplaymusicwithkimseyboldt.blogspot.com/p/sound-beginnings-registration.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span> to register.Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-63187709694325368812013-11-17T17:17:00.000-07:002013-11-17T17:17:04.782-07:00Sorry Kids...<b><span style="color: #b40000; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Did you know</span><span style="font-size: 21px;">…</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">?</span></span></b><span style="color: #b40000; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Music stimulates the mind, encourages creativity and helps to lay
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Preschoolers who studied piano performed 34% better in spatial and temporal
reasoning ability than preschoolers who spent the same amount of time learning
to use computers <i>(Rauscher & Shaw. As reported in Neurological Research,
February 1997). <br />
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</i>Preschoolers who took singing and keyboard lessons scored 80% higher on
object-assembly tests than students at the same preschool who did not have the
music lessons <i>(Rauscher & Shaw. As reported in Symphony, Sept.-Oct.
1996).<br />
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</i>Listening to Mozart’s Piano Sonata K448 was found to significantly increase
spatial scores of college students on IQ tests<i> (Rauscher & Shaw.
University of California as reported in Nature). </i><br />
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In a study of medical school applicants, 66% of the music majors who applied to
medical school were admitted, the highest percentage of any group. Only 44% of
the biochemistry majors were admitted <i>(Lewis Thomas, as reported in the Phi
Delta Kappan, February 1994). <br />
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</i>The very best engineers and technical designers in the Silicon Valley
industry are, nearly without exception, practicing musicians (Grant Venerable,
The Center for the Arts in the Basic Curriculum, New York, 1989). <br />
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For the unborn child, classical music, played at a rhythm of 60 beats per
minute, equivalent to that of a resting human heart, provides an environment
conducive to creative and intellectual development (<i>Dr. Thomas Veert, The
Secret Life of the Unborn Child). <br />
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students with coursework in music performance taking the university entrance
exam (SAT) scored 49 points higher on the verbal portion of the test and 36
points higher on the math portion than students with no course work or
experience in the arts. <br />
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averages than non-music students do in the same school <i>(from Time Magazine
June 11, 1999). <br />
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</i>"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force
behind that intuition. My discovery was the rest of musical perception." -
<i>Albert Einstein on his Theory of Relativity. <br />
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</i>Plato once said "...music is a more potent instrument than any other
for education..." Now scientists know why. Music, they believe, trains the
brain for higher forms of thinking. After eight months of musical training, 3
year olds were expert puzzle masters, scoring 80% higher than their playmates
did in spatial intelligence – the ability to visualize the world accurately.
This skill later translates into mathematical/conceptual and engineering
skills. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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lessons make you SMARTER!<o:p></o:p></span>Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-88013997193473842112013-10-02T17:57:00.000-06:002013-10-02T17:57:08.885-06:00WE GOT TO ROUND 2!Although some of you may already
know, I wanted to enlist the help of all of you. :) I have entered my
business, Let's Play Music, into a contest called Small Business Big
Game which is being put on by Intuit (the makers of Quickbooks, etc).
They are offering a small business the chance of a lifetime to get
exposure for their business. A commercial during the 3rd quarter of the
Super Bowl! Plus a trip to New York during the Super Bowl for PR and
promotional work as well. Let's Play Music with Kim needs this!<br />
<br />During round 1 I had to tell about my business in 600
characters or less. No small feat! Then people went on the site to vote
for my company. And surprisingly I made it through to round 2! <br /><br />During round 2 I need you to <b>VOTE DAILY</b>
for my business. I will be expanding my profile by answering some
questions they have asked as well as producing a 90 second video. This
will all be happening before October 13th. So, <b>we have until October 13th</b>
to rack up as many votes as possible. You can vote from your computer
at school, computer at work, computer at home, iPad, iPod, phone, etc. Each one counts as
a vote for me.<br />
<br />Click on this link to vote: <a href="https://www.smallbusinessbiggame.com/CO/Lets-Play-Music-with-Kim/385084" target="_blank">Let's Play Music with Kim</a><br /><br />
<br />Let's Play Music with After October 13th Intuit will determine the top 20 businesses
based on the scores tabulated from the video, questions, and public
vote. That is why I need your votes each and every day. <br /><br />Please share with your friends and family. The more we can rally together the better chance I have.<br />
<br />Thanks so much for your support! We can do this!<br />
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Big Business usually owns the Big Game. Well, at least they used to. Intuit is giving one small business a TV commercial on the 2014 Big Game. I have entered Let's Play Music with Kim into this contest! Now I need your help.</div>
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If you have little ones and have not yet seen a class, I invite you to join us at the Loveland Public Library on <b><span style="color: red;">Thursday, Sept. 12th at 10am</span></b>. The library has graciously invited us to come share this wonderful music curriculum. Sound Beginnings is filled with kindergarten readiness skills and concepts. We learn things from months of the year to alphabet letter names and sounds to finger numbers for the piano.<br />
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This is a great opportunity to try Sound Beginnings, the amazing pre-cursor to Let's Play Music, especially for ages 2-4.<br />
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Bring a friend! You will love how much learning takes place and your child will have a blast :)
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<a href="http://letsplaymusicsite.com/sound-beginnings" target="_blank">Sound Beginnings</a> - click to learn more about this fantastic program!Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-5040383454679546052013-09-03T10:08:00.000-06:002013-09-03T10:08:34.408-06:00Parent Involvement is Key<br />
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<span style="color: #191919; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;">One aspect of the Let's Play Music program that is dramatically different from any piano lesson, or even any group piano class: parents are required to attend with the child every other week!</span></h3>
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<br />Why? Because one prominent goal is to establish music as a venue for parents to play with, love, and bond with their child. A child who perceives music study in this positive light flourishes!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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T<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CD4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholarlyrepository.miami.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1242%26context%3Doa_theses&ei=euH5UaemMILM9QTx2IDADw&usg=AFQjCNFsG96_Xsk0RhJt0FgkGsNB6kMvwA&sig2=A9Hw6NgaRLrK8qkvDc10yA&bvm=bv.50165853,d.eWU" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">his recently published thesis</a> by Adrienne M. Wills on relationships between parental involvement in music class and the musical home environment sheds some additional light on the excellent reasons for attending music class with your child.<br /><ul>
<li>86% of young students need parental encouragement in music making during class.</li>
<li>Parent involvement during music class helped students feel more competent.</li>
<li>Parent involvement during music class fostered a strong bond between parent and child.</li>
<li>Parent involvement coupled with a musical home environment improved music retention, plans to pursue music, music achievement, and music aptitude.</li>
<li>Participation in early childhood music classes enhanced the musical home environment.</li>
<li>Parents and children begin to communicate and relate to each other in a more meaningful way as a result of shared music class participation. </li>
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As you gear up to attend class with your child this month, be mindful of the wonderful benefits of your participation and clear about your intentions.<br /><br /><ul>
<li>Model enthusiastic participation and respect (you are being watched and copied!)</li>
<li>Look into your child's eyes, smile, give frequent hugs, rock him on your lap.</li>
<li>Endorse the spirit of playfulness in class and at home practice. </li>
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Your child's first experience with music will delight him because he sees your delight in being with him. He will sing when he sees that you enjoy singing, that you enjoy hearing him sing. For years, he will rely heavily on your nurturing and shared enjoyment. Over time, he will discover his own joys in creating music, and blossom into a lifetime love of music.</div>
Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-84006298140158313282013-08-23T14:58:00.002-06:002013-08-23T14:58:25.121-06:00Music In The News<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">The </span><a href="http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20130513/WINDSORBEACON01/305100048/Growing-young-musicians-Windsor?nclick_check=1" style="background-color: white; color: #93c47d; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;">Windsor Beacon of Windsor, CO</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> recently visited the studio of Let's Play Music teacher Kimberly Seyboldt. This is what they found.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">Kimberly Seyboldt, owner of Let's Play Music in Windsor, poses Thursday in her teaching room in her home. Let's Play Music seeks to teach kids music fundamentals culminating in being able to compose music. / Sam Noblett/The Beacon</span></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Kimberly Seyboldt has a passion for music, and she shares that passion by taking elementary school-aged children and turning them into composers at her Let’s Play Music business.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="pp" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Seyboldt has operated Let’s Play Music in Windsor for six years after moving to town from Tucson, Ariz. She has since grown her home-operated business from just four students in the first year to 34 musical learners in the program currently.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="pp" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">"What sets Let’s Play Music apart from normal music lessons", Seyboldt said, "is its interactivity."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="aa" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="pp" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">“She teaches them </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">difficult music theory concepts through song and dance</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">,” said Amy Brown, a pianist and mother of three children who have been through the program. “They don’t even realize that they’re learning it.”</span><span class="aa" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">The learning takes place through a structured program based in the teachings of music masters Zoltán Kodály, Carl Orff and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Seyboldt teaches the principles of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Kodaly</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> through the association of sound to body by using hand symbols to teach the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>solfège symbols</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">. These are the set of ascending notes commonly known as do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti.</span><span class="aa" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Orff</b>’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">s teachings are learned via instrument with the progression of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>percussion, voice, tone bells and piano</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Dalcroze</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> principles are used to teach </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><b>rhythm through movement</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">, which the Let’s Play Music curriculum does through with puppet shows set to classical music.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="aa" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="pp" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Taking classes every week, students are enrolled in the program for three years, which mimics the school-year schedule. It culminates when the students compose their own song at the end through the use of the various instruments they have learned, including voice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="aa" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="pp" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">One focus of Seyboldt’s teachings, and the one she believes is most important, comes through </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">strong parent involvement</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">. Parents are asked to come to lessons every other week for the first year and then to move to once a month in the second and third.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">A lot of the success is due to the parents and what the kids do at home,” Seyboldt said. “I feel lucky to have dedicated parents.”</span>Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-52486788490279648912013-08-20T14:58:00.001-06:002013-08-20T14:58:39.356-06:00The Psychology of Music<div class="visually_embed" ><img alt="The Psychology of Music " class="visually_embed_infographic" data-id="0" rel="http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/the-psychology-of-music_510e25927e035.jpg" src="http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/the-psychology-of-music_510e25927e035_w525.jpg"><br><div class="visually_embed_bar"><span class="visually_embed_cycle"><a href="http://visual.ly/psychology-music/?utm_source=visually_embed">The Psychology of Music infographic</a> </span> </div><a href="http://visual.ly/psychology-music?utm_source=visually_embed" id="visually_embed_view_more" target="_blank"></a><link href="http://visual.ly/embeder/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><script src="http://visual.ly/embeder/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br><div class="visually_embed_overlay" data-id="0"></div><a href="javascript:void(0)" id="visually_embed_enlarge"></a><a href="javascript:void(0)" id="visually_embed_grab"></a><div class="visually_embed_overlay" data-id="0"></div><a id="visually_embed_enlarge" href="javascript:void(0)"></a><a id="visually_embed_grab" href="javascript:void(0)"></a></div>Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-25661271615128311542013-07-26T23:14:00.002-06:002013-07-26T23:16:05.822-06:00Music Makes You Smarter<br />
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<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** Music stimulates the mind, encourages creativity and helps to lay a foundation for learning that leads to higher intelligence and aptitude. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** Preschoolers who studied piano performed <b>34% better in spatial and temporal reasoning</b> ability than preschoolers who spent the same amount of time learning to use computers </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">(Rauscher & Shaw. As reported in Neurological Research, February 1997). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** Preschoolers who took singing and keyboard lessons scored <b>80% higher on object-assembly</b> tests than students at the same preschool who did not have the music lessons </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">(Rauscher & Shaw. As reported in Symphony, Sept.-Oct. 1996). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** Listening to Mozart’s Piano Sonata K448 was found to significantly increase spatial scores of college students on IQ tests </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">(Rauscher & Shaw. University of California as reported in Nature). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** In a study of medical school applicants, 66% of the music majors who applied to medical school were admitted, the highest percentage of any group. Only 44% of the biochemistry majors were admitted </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">(Lewis Thomas, as reported in the Phi Delta Kappan, February 1994). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** The very best engineers and technical designers in the Silicon Valley industry are, nearly without exception, practicing musicians (Grant Venerable, The Center for the Arts in the Basic Curriculum, New York, 1989).<br />** For the unborn child, classical music, played at a rhythm of 60 beats per minute, equivalent to that of a resting human heart, provides an environment conducive to creative and intellectual development (</span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Dr. Thomas Veert, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** In 1994, it was reported by the college entrance examination board that students with coursework in music performance taking the university entrance exam <b>(SAT) scored 49 points higher</b> <b>on the verbal portion</b> of the test and <b>36 points higher on the math portion</b> than students with no course work or experience in the arts.<br />•• It has been shown that high school music students have<b> higher grade point averages</b> than non-music students do in the same school </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">(from Time Magazine June 11, 1999). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">•• "It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the rest of musical perception." - </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Albert Einstein on his Theory of Relativity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">** Plato once said "...music is a more potent instrument than any other for education..." Now scientists know why. Music, they believe, trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. After eight months of musical training, 3 year olds were expert puzzle masters, scoring <b>80% higher</b> than their playmates did in spatial intelligence </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">– </span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 12pt;">the ability to visualize the world accurately. This skill later translates into mathematical/conceptual and engineering skills. </span></div>
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Have you read the Let's Play Music vision statement? To <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">enrich lives</span></span></span>, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">increase confidence</span></span>, <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">develop talent</span></span>, <span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">enhance intelligence</span></span>, and <span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bond parent to child</span></span>, by providing an outstanding music educational experience for children, using<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">premium materials and lessons</span></span>, taught by <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>superbly trained teachers</b></span></span>.<br /><br />Let's Play Music has a national program designed to bring this vision statement to life with solid results; this optional continuing education program is called BOOST. BOOST is “Building Optimal Outcomes and Superior Teachers”, and your teacher is likely spending some summer time working on improving herself and her classroom for you!<br /><br />During her first 3 years of teaching, your teacher is focused on meeting the annual training and rigorous certification requirements accompanying each level of curriculum. If she demonstrates mastery of the goals and policies each year, she can earn RED level.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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As a seasoned teacher of 3 or more years, your teacher will be branching out to participate in continuing education classes each year as well as participating in local music associations, helping students enter composition contests, presenting Let's Play Music at local venues, and increasing her own musical training. As she meets required goals, she can earn YELLOW level.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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After 5 or more years of teaching, your teacher will continue to focus on providing an excellent program for students, reaching out in the community, and improving her skills. Her teaching will be filmed for critique and the education of newer teachers; her clients will also provide feedback about the quality of the program so she may earn BLUE level.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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You'll see your teacher's BOOST status right on her license, as well as on her profile at the corporate website (FIND A TEACHER NEAR YOU). You know your teacher is busy getting ready to make this next year great for you, so give her a big smile when you see her in a few weeks!</div>
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Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-49134065767500447892013-06-20T14:06:00.000-06:002013-06-20T14:06:28.907-06:00Free Sample ClassSo excited to teach FREE sample classes of Let's Play Music and Sound Beginnings Friday, June 21st at 9am (LPM) and 10 (SB). There are still spaces available so let me know if you would like to attend. Each class will be approximately 30 minutes with time after for questions and registration. <br />
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See a video of Sound Beginnings here: <a href="http://letsplaymusicsite.com/sound-beginnings" target="_blank">http://letsplaymusicsite.com/sound-beginnings</a>Kimberly Seyboldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331756510576242256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512113644510534353.post-60726584659275456812013-06-11T11:08:00.000-06:002013-06-11T11:08:13.759-06:00National LPM Essay Contest Winner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once a year teachers from all over the US gather together at the national LPM Symposium for an amazing weekend of inspiration, fun and learning in Mesa, AZ. We attend training, workshops, and multiple classes to help us become better teachers (and parents/people). One part of symposium this year was an essay contest. The theme was 'Through the Eyes of a Child'. The following is the winning essay I wrote:</div>
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Twenty
minutes before my parent meeting in August of 2012, I had a pregnant mother,
and friend of mine, call and tell me that there were complications with her
unborn daughter and it was going to be too much for their family to participate
in LPM and take care of a sick infant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were a few tears and understanding words shared between us at
which point I told her I would be happy to have her 5 yr old son, Carson,
participate if something changed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sadly,
things did change and a week later I attended the funeral of that precious 3
day old daughter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My
friend called me about a week after the funeral and asked if I still had a spot
for Carson, which I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said
she felt as though she needed to keep things as normal as possible for the
other children, 5 and 3 years old, after the passing of the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carson is one VERY, VERY active boy who
needs an understanding and loving teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought music class would be a great outlet and learning
environment for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I
asked his mom how he was doing with the death of his little sister and she told
me he had never said anything about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He would act out sometimes but never talked about his sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were attending grief
counseling where the counselor told them that this was completely normal and he
may NEVER talk about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young
children process differently than adults, but to make sure they always kept the
lines of communication open and let him know he could talk about it if he
wanted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not to expect
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I
had him start class on lesson 3 so he would have his mom there with him on his
first visit to LPM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I quickly
realized that he was going to be a very challenging student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting still and not talking were not
his strong points!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sometimes
wondered if it was really worth the money being spent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would often struggle with him walking
around, sitting in corners and trying to tell stories, very animated stories,
in the middle of my teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would say to him, “I really want to hear that story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you remember it and tell me after class?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say that to him… A LOT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Then
came our first time in class talking about a lullaby and listening to/singing
‘May There Always be Sunshine’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
rocked as we listened to this song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Carson rocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t
talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He listened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I stopped the music he raised his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First time ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called on him and very excitedly told
him, “Thank you for raising your hand!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He said, “That’s a song we should sing to my sister.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continued on, “She isn’t here
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is in heaven but I
think she can still hear us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They put her in a box and
sent her to heaven.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so
taken aback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not ever expect
to hear him talk about the passing of his baby sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, this time I let him tell as
much of his story as he wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“She was sick in my mommy’s tummy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor had to take her out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They put her in a box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think me
and mommy should sing this song to her at bedtime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would make her happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will sing to her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
tried to compose myself and finish class. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I
talked with his mom after class and told her what occurred during our
lullaby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was in tears and
thanked me over and over for sharing with her and allowing him to share and
talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up to that point, he still
had not said a word about it to anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was grateful
there was an opportunity to get a glimpse into his mind as to what he was
feeling and thinking about having a sibling die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grief counselor prepared her to never expect Carson to speak
of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Carson
had some weeks following that lesson where he would be in tears or would act
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we worked together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He started answering questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Correctly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes yelling out of turn… but he KNEW HIS STUFF!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can ask him any question today and he
will have the right answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
those weeks of sitting in the corner, wandering around or doing donkey kicks –
he was listening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That smart
little boy was teasing me and making me think he wasn’t paying attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i>
paying attention and music has opened up his world in ways I will never be able
to understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A family was
strengthened and gained a greater perspective of their 5 year old’s life than
even a grief counselor could believe. This family was able to better assist their
child in healing after the loss of a sister because of what was shared during
my LPM class.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I
have been teaching LPM for 7 years now.
I have seen LPM affect kids and families in so many positive ways
throughout the years. However,
those 10 minutes during that class listening to Carson’s story after singing a
lullaby changed me and my outlook on how and why I teach Let’s Play Music
forever. It reaffirmed to me
that music has powers beyond notes and chords. It has strengthened my conviction that every child needs
music in their life. And not just
for the reasons and benefits we normally think of as music educators. I continue to be impressed with all of
my LPM classes, but I especially look forward to seeing what Carson is able to
accomplish when he graduates two years from now.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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