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National Talk Like a Pirate Day Practice Contest Sailin’ the Seven Seas!
Cap’n One Eye here – just to remind all o’ ye as to yer progress in practicin’ this fine day!!!
We be tallyin’ up all o’ yer Practice Minutes each week – and a fine lot they are!!
So far, thar’s been a few stand-out sailors with a whole foot locker full o’ minutes – the first week at sea, our front runner racked up 265 minutes…followed by 440 in Week 2, and then 350 in Week 3 (ending August 28).
Surely ye swabs can beat that scurvy dog!! Put yer backs into it, me lads and lasses – the hourglass is runnin’!!! Or me name ain’t Cap’n One Eye!!! Arrrrrrr!
Hometown Summer Recital CDs On Sale Now
Were you one of the performers at the July 31 Huntingburg Gazebo "Tiny Talents" recital?
Now available at the front desk are CDs of the evening's music. You'll definitely want to have this in your collection!! A steal at the unbelievable bargain price of just $1.00 each!! Get 'em while they're hot!!
Hometown Music Welcomes New Piano & Voice Teacher
Hometown Music is proud to welcome Nicole Leake to our teaching staff!
A 2007 graduate of Hannibal LaGrange College in St. Louis, Missouri with a degree in choral music education, Nikki specializes in beginning piano and vocal instruction. A private music instructor since 2005, she has also performed with the sextet vocal group Covenant while a college student, and has led congregational singing at her local church.
She has been a piano student since 1990 and a vocal student since her freshman year of high school.
Nikki especially loves working with young children. Currently teaching lessons at Hometown Music on Thursdays, she is available now to help students gain a solid musical foundation. Please see us at the front desk to enroll your child today!
Hometown Summer Recital a Smash!
The summer heat didn’t keep families and friends away from the Hometown Music Summer Recital held out at the Huntingburg Events Center Gazebo on Saturday, July 31.
An estimated 100 or so folks braved high temperatures to come out and hear some great music performed by the students.
There was music for every taste, from Mozart to Credence Clearwater Revival.
Students performed as soloists, duets, trios, and ensembles on a variety of instruments, including piano, electric and bass guitar, drums, trumpet, tambourine, and percussion.
The Hometown Summer Recital was held as one of several concerts being presented this summer by The Huntingburg Foundation out at the Gazebo.
Olivia Gutgsell - "A Thousand Miles."
Kristi Starling - "La Valse d'Amelie."
Cameron F. - "One Scary Night," "The Shoe Maker."
Brooke F. - "Circus Days," Feelin' Spiffy," "Fancy Pants."
Bethany B. and Beth Vance - "Ponies," "Feelin' Spiffy," "Sonatina for Two"
Barb M. - "My First Goal."
Evalyn S. and Dr. Rachelle Sherer - "One Scary Night," Oh, Suzanna."
Paula Prather with Lena and Ryan P. - "Don't Mess Around."
Noah Gogel - Drummer extraordinaire!
The Hometown Music '70s Ensemble: (left to right) Paul Vance (acoustic guitar), Alexandria R. (trumpet), Spencer D. (electric guitar), Blaine D. (electric bass guitar), and Noah R. (drums) - "Runaway," "Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Green River," "Satisfaction," and "Black Magic Woman."
Hometown Music would like to thank the Foundation, the students of Hometown music and their families, and our fine community for making this event possible.
Thanks for coming out on a very warm evening!
Hometown Music Changes E-Mail Address
Due to changes with our previous e-mail provider, we have a new e-mail address, effective immediately: pvance@hometown-music.com. Please make a note of it – we don’t want to lose any communications with our great customers! Thanks!!
Hometown Music Welcomes PCTLC, Inc. Satellite Office
Hometown Music is proud to make welcome the new satellite office of PCTLC, Inc., now open here inside the store.
You can trust PCTLC's expert technicians to get your computer running better than ever. Please pass the word on to all your friends and neighbors here in Huntingburg and beyond.
Get All the Latest on Hometown Music's Facebook Page
Want to get the most up-to-date scoop on everything going on here at Hometown Music?
All you have to do is find us on Facebook - just log in on your own Facebook page and then search for us...we'd love to add all of you to our "Friends" list! Send us a message...state a comment...show us a picture of you playing music!
Have Fun While Learning More About Music
Ahoy, kids! Be sure to check out this fun website, http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/music_and_art_games/music_and_art_games_musical_notes.html. When you go there, you'll find all kinds of fun stuff to do, not only with music but with art, nature, science, geography, and math too! Just click on the various icons on the website and you'll be having more fun than you ever thought you could!
Pick a Chord...Any Chord
No more searching for the Lost Chord with the fantastic website Chord House, found at http://looknohands.com/chordhouse/. Whether for piano or guitar, this website has it all. Just one click on the link above will take you to its homepage. From there, you can navigate through a number of different musical rooms according to your interests and needs.
In the Piano Room, you’ll find easy-to-read keyboard diagrams for all scales and chords in all 12 key signatures…and then hear them played.
In the Guitar Room (Easy), you can find any chord in any key, and with every possible fingering located up and down the neck of your guitar. If you’ve been wondering what an augmented, diminished, suspended, or even a major or minor seventh chord sounds like, this website allows you to choose a certain chord and then hear it played on a variety of guitars (classical/nylon, acoustic/steel, and electric jazz, clean, or muted guitar). All chords may be printed out or e-mailed directly to you.
The Guitar Room (Advanced) truly lives up to its name, with its wide variety of standard and alternative tunings (drop, double-drop, open, modal, minor, custom, and others) and scales (major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole tone, pentatonic, octatonic, exotic/international and others). All scales can be diagrammed for the right or left hand as well as bass string on the top or bottom. As with the other two Rooms, you can listen to everything - quite educational and fun!
Sharpen Up on Music Theory
If you're looking for a way to beef up your music theory skills, we have the perfect website resource for you! Found at www.musictheory.net, this wonderful website will take you through the basics of music theory, with a wide variety of self-paced tutorials to choose from.
You can easily review everything from key signatures to intervals to chord inversions. Many of the lessons also include audio of notes and scales, along with the excellent and clear graphics and step-by-step explanations of each topic.
Check out MusicTheory.net today!
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Hometown Music Calendar
September 2010
September 6 - Labor Day; STORE CLOSED; NO LESSONS
September 19 - National Talk Like a Pirate Day - Arrrrrrr!
October 2010
October 22-25 - Fall Break; NO LESSONS
November 2010
November 25 - Thanksgiving Day; STORE CLOSED; NO LESSONS
November 26 - Thanksgiving Day Vacation (SWDCSC); NO LESSONS
December 2010
December 22-31 - Christmas Vacation (SWDCSC); NO LESSONS
December 25 - CHRISTMAS DAY; STORE CLOSED
Just a reminder...on those days when school in the Southwest Dubois County
School Corporation is canceled due to inclement weather,
Hometown Music's lessons are also canceled.
Thanks!!
Be sure to *stay tuned* for coming attractions!
And don't forget to check out our Facebook page!!!
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