The Music Notes Difference

What is the Music Notes difference? A parent signing up for school year ’20-’21 pointed something out to me, that should be obvious to me at this point. A parent of one of our guitar students, said on the phone there is absolutely no hesitation in continuing music and classes online, because the education and teacher expectations have not lessened or diminished while online. This is true.

We – the Music Notes Academy teachers – have been continuing to uphold our standards and expectations throughout Covid-19 while teaching music online.

While understanding the situation, adapting and continuing our students’ music education, we enabled students to continue the with the musical arts and showed students – and parents – that music can continue. Believe me, teaching online is not easy. We prefer teaching in-person at the Academy.

We’ve always had high standards and expectations for our students. Not all musicians and teachers of music approach teaching music this way. One of the reasons we have a small and dedicated teaching staff. It’s difficult to find great, dedicated teachers of music that can pass all the checkpoints in order to become a staff teacher with Music Notes Academy. I’d rather be small and superior than large and sloppy.

This might be also the reason some students leave Music Notes after a semester or school year and go to another other local music school. Most schools of music have no standards for anything. I know this because I’ve interviewed many teachers from our competitors over the years. Then, we have students and parents that have left Music Notes and then return years later. After trying all the rest they’re back.

While Covid-19 has changed everything for everyone, one thing that remains the same for Music Notes is what we expect from our students. This is the Music Notes difference. The difference is and always has been that we are actually teaching the musical arts. We want students to learn music comprehensively and become self sufficient players of music. Reading music. Understanding music theory. Being able to perform as soloists and with other musicians.

For prospective adult students and parents that don’t know us, schedule a time to meet at our East Brunswick Academy. Know that the Music Notes difference is us, the teachers and what we’re doing. What we’re doing is teaching music. This is what parents should want, teachers of music teaching music.