We will be following all CDC / LADPH guidelines as we resume In-Person music lessons:

• All BAND classes will take place outside

• Students will keep their masks on at all times

  • BAND students will ONLY remove their masks when playing

• Students will be socially distanced and spaced out as far apart as possible

• Students will each have their own music stand and music to avoid sharing of materials

• • Improve reading skills, increase vocabulary, and language ability

  • Develop listening skills, aural awareness, abstract thinking, and imagination

  • Increase memory skills, builds concentration, and attention span

  • Build social skills, self-discipline, patience, and improve behavior

  • Stimulate and strengthen the same part of the brain needed for math and reasoning.

  • Build confidence and emotional growth and make a happier child

  • Music performance teaches kids to deal with nerves and stressful presentation situations like interviews

  • Children who have music lessons score higher in their SATs writing, math & science and higher grades in general

  • Music lessons develop the skills that provide a firm foundation for learning