Why QMA is different?

1. We love seeing people playing musical instruments with passion. Playing an instrument should be fun and enjoyable. It can be a good lifetime companion. My school's philosophy is "Character first, ability second". - Dr. Shinichi Suzuki.

2. We hold live musical performances. Live performance speaks to people — it’s good for the soul and mind. Mental health crisis? Music will be the solution. Let them play musical instruments with others, and social and mental issue will diminish drastically.

3. When young children (3-5 years old) start to learn how to speak their language, we might as well teach them how to speak in musical language too, so they can be fluent when they are older. Some kids are naturally fluent so quick. The earlier they start, the better they are. I have passion for teaching young children (3-5 years old).

4. Music is a universal language that everyone should learn. I remember some of my high school friends went to Germany, Italy, U.S. or France to study music right after their high school graduation ceremony. I am sure their language skill was not perfect, but it helped them to get accepted to foreign universities to study abroad right away after high school.

About

Established in 2009, Queens Music Academy was picked as one of the top music schools in NYC by NY1, Timeout Kids NY and Daily News. QMA is a comprehensive music school that offers complete music programs for students age 3 and older, who wish to develop performance skills and an understanding of music theory and literature. We offer a wide variety of programs including: private lessons for all orchestral and band instruments, as well as piano, voice, guitar, and composition; rock bands and string ensembles and group guitar, piano, violin, and cello classes. We are open all year except three holidays per year: Thanksgiving day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

We welcome you to join our musical family and explore the many opportunities available to students enrolled in lessons

Choi Fairbanks
Director

WHAT MAKES ONLINE MUSIC LESSONS at QMA SO DIFFERENT?

  • We offer lessons that make playing an instrument fun and easy which allows students to feel confident in their musical skills.

  • Music lessons are fun when your teacher lets you be YOU! Our mission is to teach our students the language of music and the fundamentals of all instruments in a way that allows them to experience the joy and thrill of playing music while also learning the necessary theory and techniques. Once a student understands the language of music, growth, and enjoyment grows exponentially.

  • Each individual students has their own personality and strengths, and our job is to find the spark that makes music fun! We have our own curriculum library divided by ages and levels and instruments. So we focus on finding our students’ potential and tailoring the curriculum just the way they can unleash their potential.

  • We’ve combined the most well-trained teachers, with exciting and unique events as well as fun rewards and recognition programs inside the school. This combined with our 3 phase lesson success program ensure students get a well-rounded lesson while having a blast at the same time: Technic, Fun Repertoire and Theory

  • We emphasize on Reading music and improvise! We will teach how to play by ear, from chords, improvise, or makeup your own songs. So they can be more creative!

  • Once a week lesson is not enough, so we added one extra practice help Zoom Session. Also we wanted to re-enforce sight reading technique and social experience, so we created couple master classes for each instruments, music theory class, recording class, group class led by QMA faculty everyday.

  • All QMA students have Access to Practice Tracker App which shows how much they have been practicing, get a feed-back from your teachers at anytime and also you can see your progress in one platform. Everything is stored in one place, even Zoom link; any pdfs, recordings, your video, your teacher's video, audio and sheet music and piano accompaniment youtube links, and etc.

  • Unlimited Video Pre-recorded Classes access in your personal Wellnessliving platform ( class on demand, you can watch all resources at anytime: how to tune , how to string, fundamental of each instruments), you also get an invitation to join our Facebook online learning center group (exclusive to our QMA students) which has tons of most updates new class videos of music theory, recording, song writing, jazz piano and more. We add new units for each subject daily. Above all , you will be connected with our QMA community!



INSIDE LOOK

 

Teaching Methods

  • Suzuki

  • Shirley Given

Our schools teaching philosophy is primarily influenced by Dr. Suzuki Shinichi's mother tongue method, Shirley Given's Adventure in Violinland and "Music For Little Mozart" series for young pianists. We engage young children through the usage of visuals such as illustrated characters and stuffed animals to help make stories for each song. This helps to keep make their young minds more imaginative and exciting for each day's lesson. We believe that if we make the size of a violin smaller, they are able to start playing as young as 3 years old.

TEACHING Books

Bastien Piano Basics, Alfred’s Basic Piano Library, Adventures in Violinland, Fundamental Studies For Snare Drum, Stick Control, Mel Bay’s Modern Guitar Method, Suzuki, A Dozen A Day, Neil A Kjos Piano Library, Music for Little Mozarts, Piano Adventures, and more.