Making Music and Having a Blast A Guide for All Music Students [Paperback]

In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchards strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.

Making Music and Having a Blast! is an entertaining guide full of interesting stories and inspiring examples. This unique book offers real-life advice and the tools you need to achieve your musical dreams.2010 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection--rated outstanding

Bonnie Blanchard is author of Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers (IUP, 2007).

Cynthia Blanchard Acree is author (with Cliff Acree) of The Gulf between Us: Love and Terror in Desert Storm.

The Music for Life series stands alone as an incredible resource for musicianswhether performing or teaching. Music for Life deserves a standing ovation!A fantastic bookfilled with practical advice and real-life scenarios. I wish I could have read this before I regretfully quit my piano lessons.A fabulous source of information to answer EVERY imaginable concern or query that a music student (or their parent) may have. . . I'm just a bit sad that Bonnie didn't write this back in the dark ages when I was a kid. . . . I needed this book and I know I would have adored it. 4/28/2010Bonnie Blanchard shares the teaching tricks that have worked so well in her own studio to produce successful students who are energized about their lessons and their music. . .[Her] entertaining style makes this series a thoroughly enjoyable read.