What to Focus on While Warming Up for a Musical Performance

Warming up for a musical performance is a crucial step in ensuring that you deliver your best on stage. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a novice, the warm-up process is essential for preparing your mind, body, and instrument to meet the demands of a live performance. In this article, we will explore the key…

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How To Restring An Acoustic Guitar in 5 Steps

In this handy guide, we will go over how to restring an acoustic guitar from start to finish!

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Virtual Open Mic Highlights

Enjoy some performances from our first 2 virtual open mics of 2020!

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Online Music Lesson Guide

Whether it's out of convenience or necessity, the use of video lessons is increasingly becoming a part of music education. In this guide we will explain how to get started if you're a student, parent, or teacher as well as some useful tips to ensure success through online music lessons!

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Beginner Guitar Lesson Basics: 5 Ways to Ensure Success

If you’re just starting guitar lessons, or even considering starting guitar lessons, there may be a lot of questions and doubts swirling around…these 5 tips will help you to ensure success no matter what!

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Practice Routines: The Key to Succeeding On Any Musical Instrument

Professional musicians and novices, alike, can run into the same issues while trying to polish off a new skill. The difficulty in practicing lies not in what we are practicing, but how we are practicing. In order to understand how we should be practicing, we should be thinking about how we learn in general.

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Why “Collingswood” Sound? Teaching Music Lessons In South Jersey

…one of the most common questions I’ve gotten is “Why Collingswood?” Being an Upstate New Yorker at heart who traveled to Philadelphia for school, now living in South Jersey, I understand the confusion.

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Welcome to Collingswood Sound!

We created Collingswood Sound Music Lessons because we believe that not all music lessons should be alike, with each individual student having their own musical goal. Whether your (or your child’s) goal is to learn basic piano, be able to solo on guitar, play saxophone in jazz band, perform day tripper on bass, master singing a song for an audition, or any other small or large goal, we have experienced teachers (including ourselves) ready and eager to help you achieve that goal.

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