Oakville Academy of Music
1026 Speers Road #6 L6L 2X4 Oakville, ON, Canada

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Grrreat job ! Piano Student Sebastian completed his Songbird challenge, earning him some fun awards ! We are so proud of you Sebastian! Keep soaring new heights !!! ... Your instructor, Graham, and we at the Academy are super proud of you. Looking forward to seeing your progress

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Well done Alistair ! Piano student Alistair completed his Apprentice Challenge, earning him some fun awards ! You have done an exceptional job! ... Keep up the good work! We look forward to seeing your progress !!!

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Don't forget our Winter Student Showcase is coming up 11th and 12th December. Videos must be submitted by 30th November. Give us a call for where to submit your videos!Don't forget our Winter Student Showcase is coming up 11th and 12th December. Videos must be submitted by 30th November. Give us a call for where to submit your videos!

The half-size guitar, as it’s name would suggest, is half the size of a standard guitar! Of all the guitar sizes, this is the most popular with young children who will struggle with an adult-sized guitar. Both electric and acoustic guitars are available in half-size. Unlike the guitarlele, a half-size guitar will tune into concert pitch (standard guitar tuning). Half-size guitars are ideal for smaller children, but as they grow older and bigger, they’ll need a bigger guitar.

Did you know? Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work-out performance. What's a song that gets you on your feet?

Happy 82nd Birthday to singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became one of Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born today in Orillia, Ont. He was inspired to write his own material after listening to Bob Dylan and other urban folk musicians in the early '60s. His first hit in Canada came in 1965 with "I'm Not Saying." That same year, "Peter, Paul and Mary" took Lightfoot's composition "For Lovin' Me" into the U.S. top-30. W...hen the folk music boom came to an end in the late '60s, Lightfoot easily made the transition to pop. In 1971, he made his first appearance on the Billboard chart with "If You Could Read My Mind," which went to No. 5. And in 1974, both his single and album "Sundown" topped the Billboard charts. Gordon Lightfoot's other international hits have included "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Carefree Highway." Between 1965-78, he won 15 Juno Awards, and in 1986 was inducted into the Canadian Recording Industry Hall of Fame.https://youtu.be/Ilybv2ZKOto See more

Thinking of trying something new? In person drum lessons? Give us a call and we will get you drum rolling in no timeThinking of trying something new? In person drum lessons? Give us a call and we will get you drum rolling in no time

A little Sunday Fun Day Funny!

Cool music fact: The Fender Stratocaster is the top selling guitar model of all time!

On this day in Music History: Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album Songs in the Key of Life, an ambitious double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Chart on October 8, 1976, becoming only the third album in history to achieve that feat and the first by an American artist.

Weirdest instruments: Cross-Grainger Kangaroo-Pouch Tone-Tool When it comes to names, this instrument from Percy Grainger takes the biscuit. The Cross-Grainger Kangaroo-Pouch Tone-Tool is an insane idea anyway - using rolls of paper and a series of oscillators to produce a sound not too dissimilar to series of air-raid sirens going off. Picture: Melbourne Art Critic

Beautiful watercolour sky tonight - can you see Mars? #nofilter #oakvillemusiclessons #musicalladdersystem #oakvilleinhomemusiclessons

Great work Maxim! You have reached Musician on the Musical Ladder System, and we are so proud of you for keeping your mask on everytime you come for your lesson!

Did you know? In 1893 (probably in a one room school house), the Hill sisters needed a song for their kindergarten class to sing on birthdays. Today, "Happy Birthday" is the most profitable song of all time. The song's ownership had changed hands a few times over the past 100 years. But music holding company Warner Chappell bought the rights for $15 million in 1990, and have held them since. Today the song brings in $2 million a year in royalties, which comes to $5,000 per day. Another fun fact: the song costs $25,000 to use it in a movie or TV show. Get writing down those little ditties!

Great work Julian on reaching Songbird on the Musical Ladder System! Keep on practicing, and soon you will be a Musician! #musicalladdersystem #musiclessonsoakville #oakvillemusicschool #academyofmusic

In 1983, Neil Young’s rockabilly-styled song Everybody’s Rockin’ led record company head David Geffen to sue Young for making unrepresentative

We were nominated for Best Music Lessons in Oakville! Would you mind taking a minute to vote for us? We would really appreciate it https://www.insidehalton.com/readerschoi//academy-of-music

Weirdest instruments: Cello Horn This hybrid made the pages of Popular Science Monthly magazine back in 1936. The sound created by bowing the strings came out of the brass horn instead of via a traditional wooden body, reportedly producing a sound somewhere between strings and brass.

#smilecookies #food4kidshalton #toolateforacookie? One day left to help raise funds for Food4Kids Halton! Get out there and buy a bunch - it's almost Friday after all #musicalladdersystem #musiclessonsareago #oakvillemusiclessons

Why is Food4Kids Halton our favourite charity? Because of Weekends Without Hunger FULL BACKPACKS EQUAL HAPPY TUMMIES! Participants aged 4 14 years are referred by schools aware of students with limited access to food in their homes. The school submits a referral and parental permission form. Food items are packed by Food4Kids volunteers and delivered to schools each Friday morning. At the school, the food package is placed into the student’s own backpack helping to shiel...d the child from any stigma associated with hunger or receiving food assistance. Each child in the home receives their own food package. The cost per backpack is $10.00 or $400 to feed a child for an entire school year. Programs are 100% funded by community donors and one-time grants. We are not in receipt of any core funding. The Academy of Music supports Food4Kids Halton with performances of our Celtic Fiddle Orchestra as well as special events like our Playathon we held last August. If you would like to make a donation to Food4Kids Halton you can contact them at www.food4kidshalton.ca

Did you know? There had been some speculation for decades, but Paul McCartney finally admitted during a 2018 60 Minutes interview that neither he nor any of his Beatles bandmates were able to read or write music, and they never understood music theory. McCartney said that the music just came to him and his bandmates John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, and it was never written down. Clearly, knowledge needn't beget success. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to learn!

#smilecookies #food4kidshalton #day2 My delivery arrived all proceeds from Tim's Smile cookies for this week are going to Food4Kids Halton - our charity of choice. Help us feed kids and their families across Halton by eating a cookie a day....cookie monster anyone? #musicalladdersystem #oakvillemusiclessons #musiclessonsareago

Did you buy a Smile cookie today?? I'm hoping for a delivery a little later Did you buy a Smile cookie today?? I'm hoping for a delivery a little later

#smilecookies #food4kidshalton #oakvillemusiclessons #musicalladdersystem All proceeds from Oakville Tim Hortons smile cookies are going to our favourite charity - Food4Kids Halton!!! Sept 14 - 20 one week only! Be like Judith, buy a smile cookie

True Canadiana - Inuit throat singing, or katajjaq in Inuktitut, is a sort of contest where two singers stare at each other and perform in synch, producing melodies from deep within their throats. One singer provides a strong accent while the other produces a weak one. When a singer runs out of breath or begins to laugh, the contest is over. Katajjaq is common in Arctic Quebec and the south of Baffin Land.https://youtu.be/DLMlkjnYe0U

Mask Benefit #1. Everyone is a ninja?

Weirdest instruments: Sharpsichord Henry Dagg has one of the coolest sounding job titles ever - Sound Sculptor. In his amazingly awesome role as Sound Sculptor, Dagg invented the equally cool-sounding instrument known as the Sharpsichord. It's actually a gargantuan pin-barrel harp that contains 11 cylinders, and the pins strike internal strings as they rotate.

We have some amazing news to share! Tim Horton's Smile Cookie week is Monday Sept 14th through to Sunday Sept 20th and this year Food4Kids Halton has been chosen as their main charity! This means the full $1.00 from each cookie sold at Tim Hortons Oakville, Milton and Hornby stores will be donated to Food4Kids Halton!!!! Food4Kids Halton has been our charity of choice for many years and we are so happy to hear that they will be benefiting from this year's Smile Cookie week - please join us in purchasing many cookies over the next week

Did you know? A study conducted by South Korean scientists from the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology found that plants grow faster when music is played around them. The study used 14 different classical pieces, including Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," in rice fields. Findings were that the music helped the crops grow at a faster pace, and pointed to evidence that plants have genes which enable them to "hear." Mine only get to listen to heavy rock which may explain why they die quite quickly...

Iconic Instruments: Jimmy Page's 1959 Fender Telecaster. Stripped down to bare wood by Page himself, he decided to paint the dragon design in 1967. The guitar went on to be a valuable item in Page's collection, along with being the very same guitar used to record the famous "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo.

Great work Charlize! Love your smiling eyes Maestro level on the #musicalladdersystem #oakvillemusiclessons #superheroswearmasks #musiclessonsareago