Sentence examples for keyboard lessons from inspiring English sources

Leopold used the music notebook to give Nannerl, as his daughter Maria Anna was called, keyboard lessons.

He also taught organ, and one of his pupils was Johann Christoph Bach, who in turn gave his younger brother Johann Sebastian Bach his first formal keyboard lessons.

Mr. Filippi worked as a private music teacher, giving the victim voice and keyboard lessons for about two years, Mr. Tierney said.

According to the report, written by Lois Hetland, a cognitive psychologist at Project Zero -- a research organization co-directed by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education -- when young children are given keyboard lessons for several months or years, their performance on spatial reasoning tests improves while the instruction lasts and for up to two years afterward.

Shaw, a physicist by training, says the improvements are in keeping with the theory that the spatial awareness and the need to think several steps ahead that are required in keyboard lessons "enhance --or renhance --ortenhance --or patterns.

It's intended as a therapeutic tool for patients undergoing rehabilitation, but it can also be used to add an extra layer of muscle memory to keyboard lessons.

The experts aren't in agreement on when formal keyboarding lessons should begin, but no one with any credibility is recommending them for the little, uncoordinated hands of a kindergartner.

Ronnie stopped singing publicly for three decades, but continued to write songs in his head and – his divorce impending – "had a few comebacks… like Frank Sinatra!" In 2001 he retired from the Post Office, bought himself a keyboard, took lessons and reconvened with Mick to play pub sets "for a roast and a few pennies".

A 2004 study led by Glenn Schellenberg found that 6-year-olds who took nine months of keyboard or voice lessons had an IQ boost compared with kids who took drama lessons or no classes at all.

In an experimental study, Schellenberg [29] also showed that a group of six year-olds who received keyboard or singing lessons in small groups for 36 weeks had significantly larger (although modest) increases in full-scale IQ and standardized educational achievement than did matched groups of children receiving either drama lessons or no lessons.

While she "played around on the keyboard" and took piano lessons at County College of Morris, utilizing an instrument for songwriting didn't happen until 2009.