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We realize that summer schedules are crazy and that might mean missing more lessons than you would like.  PPA takes care of this by offering unlimited extra and makeup sessions.  This applies to both Habits and Players students.

During Summer Quarter only – Players or Habits students can take OPEN or OUT spots on the Habits Swap calendar WITHOUT having to post a corresponding OUT.  This gives you unlimited extra sessions with a teacher.

For Habits students you can come multiple times during the week for extra help, or a supervised practice session.

For Players students this gives you a chance to have a private session with a teacher to practice or to help you with your Players assignment.

We have LOTS of OPEN spots.  So please take advantage of this great summer opportunity!

Habits Swap Calendar

How to Use the Swap Calendar

A PPA parent passed this article along to me about the importance of creativty. Here is an excerpt, with link to full article below. Worth reading.

NEWSWEEK ARTICLE EXCERPT
A fine example of this (whether or not creativity can be learned) emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard’s Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

SUMMER BREAK – COMING UP!
PPA will be on Summer Break July 5-17. No classes or lessons will be held during this time.

SUMMER PROMO – Still on!
There are two ways to waive your annual registration fee.
1) refer a friend that starts lessons before August 1
2) list 5 friends and their email address on your fall reg fee

FALL AND SUMMER ROSTERS
We are currently tracking two sets of rosters – summer and fall. PLEASE CHECK THE SUMMER AND FALL ROSTERS to insure we have registered you in the correct classes. We appreciate your help in keeping these accurate. Please email schedule@peerymusic.com if you find any errors. We appreciate your help in this.

All of the rosters are password protected. If you don’t know the password please email schedule@peerymusic.com

FALL FORMS
Scheduling for fall is in full swing. If you are NOT listed on the fall rosters then you HAVE NOT filled out the required Fall form which gives you a chance to choose your Skills class (for players), update your contact information and choose your parent role, along with reserving your fall time. Please check that your name is listed and if it is not please fill out the RETURNING/CURRENT STUDENT FALL form (link is):
http://peerymusic.com/registration/returningcurrent-students-fall/

CLICK THIS LINK TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE FILLED OUT THE FALL FORM FOR A HABITS STUDENT
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-habits-schedule/

CLICK THIS LINK TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE FILLED OUT THE FALL FORM FOR A PLAYERS STUDENTS
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-players/

SKILLS CLASS ROSTERS – for Players and Mastery students
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/monthly-class/

SUMMER SCHEDULE –
All roster pages are available on peerymusic.com, parent section, rosters and roles

HABITS SUMMER ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/parent-info/

PLAYERS SUMMER ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/players/

PPA student Jamie C and Henry S were accepted to participate in the 3rd International Piano Music Festival held in Saratoga. Today was their first day of events including a masterclass and private coaching session.

Based on their performance today they were chosen as one of a select number of students to perform in the festival final concert on Saturday, June 26 at 7:30pm. They will also be performing the same Saturday at 5pm for the student concert.

Please come and listen and support Jamie and Henry! The concert will be held at the West Valley College Theater in Saratoga.

We hope to see you there!

SUMMER PROMO
There are two ways to waive your annual registration fee.
1) refer a friend that starts lessons before August 1
2) list 5 friends and their email address on your fall reg fee

FALL AND SUMMER ROSTERS
We are currently tracking two sets of rosters – summer and fall. PLEASE CHECK THE SUMMER AND FALL ROSTERS to insure we have registered you in the correct classes. Please email schedule@peerymusic.com if you find any errors. We appreciate your help in keeping the rosters accurate.

SUMMER SCHEDULE –
Summer schedule has begun. PLEASE BE SURE TO COME TO YOUR SUMMER TIME!
Click on the links below to confirm your summer time. If you see an error please contact schedule@peerymusic.com.

Password to access all roster pages: please email schedule@peerymusic.com if you need the password
All roster pages are available on peerymusic.com, parent section, rosters and roles

HABITS SUMMER ROSTER

http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/parent-info/

PLAYERS SUMMER ROSTER

http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/players/

FALL REGISTRATION and SCHEDULE
Scheduling for fall is in full swing. If you are NOT listed on the fall rosters then you HAVE NOT registered for fall. Please check that your name is listed and if it is not please fill out the RETURNING/CURRENT STUDENT FALL form (link is):

http://peerymusic.com/registration/returningcurrent-students-fall/

If you see any errors please email schedule@peerymusic.com

HABITS FALL ROSTER

http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-habits-schedule/

PLAYERS FALL ROSTER

http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-players/

SKILLS CLASS ROSTERS – for Players and Mastery students

http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/monthly-class/

One of the greatest things about PPA is that we train our own students to become teachers – aka Guides. This not only helps them learn the great skill of teaching, it helps them become better students and keeps them motivated to stay involved with piano.

We have a few Guide spots open starting in September. If you are interested in becoming a PPA Guide please see the ‘Guide Training’ information page on the website under Parent Section, Program Info, Guide Training.

http://peerymusic.com/blog/program-info/guide-training/

The requirements and steps to becoming a guide are listed there.

Peery Piano Online, www.peerypiano.com, was recently awarded a 2010 Top Ten Reviews Gold Award and ranked first among other online piano lessons.

Go to http://musical-instruments.toptenreviews.com/learn-piano-online-review/index.html to see the ranking and to read the full review.

Congrats PeeryPiano!

MEMORIAL DAY BREAK-
No lessons will be held Monday May 31 and Tuesday June 1

SUMMER PROMO
There are two ways to waive your annual registration fee.
1) refer a friend that starts lessons before August 1
2) list 5 friends and their email address on your fall reg fee

FALL AND SUMMER ROSTERS
We are currently tracking two sets of rosters – summer and fall. PLEASE CHECK THE SUMMER AND FALL ROSTERS to insure we have registered you in the correct classes. Please email schedule@peerymusic.com if you find any errors. We appreciate your help in keeping the rosters accurate.

SUMMER SCHEDULE –
Summer schedule begins June 2. Please click on the links below to confirm your summer time. If you see an error please contact schedule@peerymusic.com.

All of the rosters are password protected. If you don’t know the password please email schedule@peerymusic.com

All roster pages are available on peerymusic.com, parent section, rosters and roles

HABITS SUMMER ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/parent-info/

PLAYERS SUMMER ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/players/

FALL REGISTRATION and SCHEDULE
Scheduling for fall is in full swing. If you are NOT listed on the fall rosters then you HAVE NOT registered for fall. Please check that your name is listed and if it is not please fill out the RETURNING/CURRENT STUDENT FALL form (link is):
http://peerymusic.com/registration/returningcurrent-students-fall/

HABITS FALL ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-habits-schedule/

PLAYERS FALL ROSTER
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/fall-players/

SKILLS CLASS ROSTERS – for Players and Mastery students
http://peerymusic.com/blog/for-students-parents/monthly-class/

When filling out your Fall enrollment form enter the names of 5 people you know who might want to take lessons at PPA and get your annual fee waived. We will contact them to see if they want to attend a FREE orientation (regularly $25).

If your friends start lessons before July 1st they will receive a FREE FLIP* camera! Perfect for use on our online certification site, www.peerypiano.com.
*one flip per family. Students must start lessons before August 1 and be registered for Fall semester in order to receive the camera. Cameras will be given out in September.

Thanks to everyone who made the Festival yesterday so amazing. The fun, the food, the performances… everything was just fantastic. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Congrats to audience choice winners: Jared S, Willy A, and Henry S.

Congrats to Teacher’s Choice winners: Jamie C, Willy A, Rohan K, Hunter L, Michael P, Bright L, Noah H and Maya C

Congrats to class award winners: Amy P, Ash A, Beth P, Braeden A, Esmi P, Grace O,
Isabella W, Kai S, Karen S, Samuel J, Hazel S, Elyssa B, Jamie C, Amy T and Joojay H.