Aug. 24, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest House of Music

The Sound of Gold with guest House of Music
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Season 2

A family's passion for the arts was brought to a community in Brazil in 1995. In 2017, that family moved to Florida bringing their passionate business model with them. This is not just any music school. Tune in too learn about one of the top music schools in theTreasure Coast of Florida. The dynamics that is offered here range from music to movement, music therapy, speech therapy, creative arts, sports, and so much more.

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Hi, and welcome to the sound of gold. It's so

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good to be back. My show airs live every Monday

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at 4 p.m. Eastern time, 1 p.m. Pacific time. And

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if you've been here before, you know, my focus is

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on music. And if you're joining me again, welcome back.

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And if you are new, welcome. We focus on music, musicians,

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music venues, music teachers, music schools, music composers, and anything

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to do with music, musicology. And, um, And here I

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am in my home studio at my piano. And before

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I introduce my special guest today, I always like to

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start our Mondays with a little bit of an afternoon

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Monday afternoon sonatina. And it's composed by me. And welcome in. Relax.

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If you're driving, don't close your eyes. But if you're

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in a space, in a place where you can just

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kind of take a breath, it's a Monday. And.

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If you've had a rough day or a great day,

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you can still enjoy and relax.

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Today, I am so excited.

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Every week, I feel so blessed.

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To have these wonderful connections and musicians and students and

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teachers and musicology on my show. And, you know, it's

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really important as a music teacher. And, um, cause I

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do teach piano as a music teacher. I'm also a

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music student. It is so important to constantly work on our,

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our trade on our talent because As a music student,

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as a music teacher, sorry, my cat decided to interrupt

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us here. As a music teacher, as a music student,

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it's always so important to constantly review and renew. And to,

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in my world, in my mind, in my heart, I

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always want to do better. I always want to be

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a better musician, a better teacher. And the only way

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I can do that is to connect with people that

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know more than I know and people that I can

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look up to. And it's like the schools of life

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are never ending. And that's the beauty of our lives

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is that we get to constantly learn from each other.

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And especially when there are schools that help us learn.

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There is one fabulous school. I think it's like one

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of the top schools in Port St. Lucie, Florida called

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the House of Music. And I'm so excited today to

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have the owners on my show, Myra and Bruno. I

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know you are sitting backstage. Please join me. And I

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can't wait to introduce you.

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Hi.

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Hello, Lisa.

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Thank you for having us.

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Yes, yes.

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You're welcome. Thank you for being here. There's so many

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questions I have. And I know there's a lot I've

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read and I've spoken with your mom. You're a family-owned business.

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And.

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I would love for you to share your story. I know,

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I know personally, you've come, you've had the school in

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Brazil and now you have the school in Florida, but

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share with our audiences a little bit about your journey

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and where you began and what brought you here.

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I can begin. Yes. So, uh, my name is Bruno.

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Um, as Lisa mentioned, we, me and my sister and

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my whole family, we own House of Music PSL up

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in Port St.

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Lucie.

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And, um, we've, we grew up in, um, in an

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environment like this as children, right? Because my parents, they

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founded their first music school about 31.

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Years ago, back in Brazil.

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So we were raised in a music school.

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Just like we see our nieces today, they.

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Have the privilege of growing in this environment. And yes,

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when I was 15 years old, my sister was 16,

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My parents sent us over here to the U.S. just

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to study English for six months. But the whole family

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ended up moving here after this journey that me and

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my sister had for only six months.

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Oh, no.

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Yes.

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And then a few years later, I was already 22.

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I was already 22.

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It was.

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A couple of years after my parents came, they sold

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their business in Brazil. And my mom decided to open

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up House of Music in July 2017. And when that happened.

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I joined her and we started House of Music from scratch.

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Before then, she was teaching at home.

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Yes, that's correct.

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They would teach at home. And one thing that... That

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is interesting that.

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I'm going to tell you right now.

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Yes.

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Is mom.

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Uh, everything was so new for her. So she didn't

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know any English, the culture completely different. She wanted to

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know how, how a music lesson would look like here

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in the U S she, she said, Myra, let's go

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with me to schools in here. I'm going to offer

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work for free to volunteer because I need experience.

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How it works here. I need to know like the.

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Methodology, like the method that they use.

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I need to know. I said, okay, mom, let's go.

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I was a teenager back then. I said, okay, this

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is my mom. I would introduce her. This is my mom.

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She's a music therapist.

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She knew no English at the time as well.

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So Mayra was her translator.

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Yeah.

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I would go with her.

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And everywhere that we went to, they said, okay, we're

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going to call you.

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They never called.

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Nobody called.

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They never called. Nobody called. So finally one day, um,

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he found a one.

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School, like it was a regular school and.

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Then she would go there to teach music. Okay. And

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then she was excited.

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She got this job, um, And they were going to

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pay her like $ 10 an hour.

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But she was so.

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Happy that she would have that experience. And I remember

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she dropped me at college. And then she said, okay,

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I'll go give my first lesson and I'll come back

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to pick you up. She said when she parked the car,

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before she put all her stuff out of the car,

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she brought everything that she would need. The security guy said, um,

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told her the owner of the school wanted to talk

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to her before her lesson. And, and he said, Myra,

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I understood three words, unfortunately, budget.

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And I'm sorry.

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And then I didn't understand it. Like she was fired

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before her first lesson. And then three months later, she

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opened house of music. So this is, yes. So we always, um,

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so this is, this was, um, we, we believe that, uh,

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that I didn't want that for her greater plans. So

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then we, they founded house of music.

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Yes.

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So that's, that's a good kind of the story then.

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Uh, and this is why it's good to have Myra

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on my side because sometimes I, I forget things, but yes.

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So 2017 is when, uh, we opened from, from zero.

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Uh, she, she would teach piano and.

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Music therapy because, uh, her, uh, Her specialty is music therapy.

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She's been working with that for a very long time,

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music therapy and music education. So she would teach those lessons,

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and I would teach drums, guitar, and music production. So

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those were the instruments that I was teaching. And as

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time went by, we were able to also find other

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people that would collaborate, other music teachers to join the team.

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And yeah, it's been a journey. It's been nine years.

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And Mayra, what do you teach as well?

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Okay, so I manage everything. We need to be, yes.

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We need to be.

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She knows everything I don't know on the administration side.

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Mayra knows every single detail, every single family member.

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And I remember.

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When I was a child and then I would spend

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the whole day at the music school and I would

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tell my mom, when I grow up, I want to

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be a doctor. I don't want to do anything with

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the music school when I grow up.

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And But today I manage everything here.

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I supervise the lessons and I also do the behavior

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support because.

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We have so many kids with special needs here. I'm

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a BCBA.

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So we train the teachers on the behavioral side.

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I understand.

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Nice. I have so many questions before I start asking

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my train of thought. Um, Bruno, I, I made, I

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looked to connect with both of you on Facebook and

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I wasn't my, I wasn't able to find you on

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Facebook or maybe I did, but I don't know if

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it was you and Bruno week. I connected with you

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or I sent a request and I noticed, um, and

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I'm saying this because if I live local, you would

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probably see me because I teach piano and I would

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probably come to want to work with your school because

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you offer so much. I work with Danny Zayas at

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Zayas Music Studios. I've been with them for six years.

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So I don't know if you remember Danny. But anyway.

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I know Danny.

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Yeah.

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It looks like we have some technical freezing.

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I don't know.

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Let's see what happens. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand by

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as we're having some technical difficulties. Our telecommunicating has froze.

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So while we're... Let's see, while we're waiting, I would

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like to.

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We lost you for... Yes, I lost you.

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We're back.

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We're back, we're back, hopefully.

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So you know Danny Zayas, and yes, yes, wonderful people.

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Great guy, yes.

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I've been a part of the Christ Fellowship worship team

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for about 12 years now.

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I played with them a few times.

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I know.

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I know him, his beautiful family that they have beautiful

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studio as well.

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Yes.

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Yes. So, um, your studio is a little bit different and, and, um,

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I think because you offer, uh, and you're in Port St. Lucie.

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So it's a little bit North of where I'm at.

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It doesn't matter for those listeners out there that are

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looking to, um, maybe take lessons or learn more about

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what is offered. I want to share on our show

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today what you offer because you don't just offer music lessons.

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There is so much and it fills my heart to

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have this conversation with you because you offer so much

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to the community, not just one, two, three. Please share

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with our community, please share with our audiences today all

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that you offer because it's not just music or piano.

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That's correct.

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So the reason why House of Music was founded is

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because of music. So, you know, everything that happens over

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here is because of music. So we're so grateful for that.

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But as the school grew and as the families that

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are here started getting to know our work, they were

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also like looking for other.

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Programs to have their children involved in.

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So I think one of the music lessons were one thing.

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And because my mom is a music therapist, she has

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a lot of experience working with kids in the spectrum. Okay.

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And because of that, because of experience, I grew up

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learning how to also be around kids in the spectrum.

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So we started doing a lot of lessons with kids

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like that.

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Now we train our staff so they're able to teach

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kids like that.

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I love that. That are in this pack.

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So that was the first thing, the therapeutical side of music.

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And then also what happened in the first couple of

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years of House of Music, it was like family-wise, it

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was just me and my mom. And about two or

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three years later, Mayra, she was living in Colombia because

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my brother-in-law, he's a former professional soccer player. So he

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was playing for Colombia at the time. And then when

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they moved here, also the next thing that happened, like

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the next program that we opened was the HOM Spart,

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which is, Mayra can explain a little bit more about.

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So Lucas, uh, right now he's on the fields. He's

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he teaches coaches.

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He's a coach.

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So he teaches soccer, but we also started a motor

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coordination with.

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The special needs.

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So we have that as well.

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Uh, so to strain their, uh, gross, uh, motor coordination,

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fine motor coordination, um, So we have many branches in

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the house of music today. So we have HOM music.

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We have HOM arts. We have art classes. We have dance, ballet.

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We have HOM therapy.

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We have speech. We have music therapy.

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We have HOM sports, which is the one that Lucas does,

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my husband. That's soccer and motor coordination. And we have

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HOM Academy. So we have a big community of homeschoolers here.

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In Port St.

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Lucie.

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Here at House of Music too. And they were asking

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for more. We want to.

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Do more programs at House of Music. So little by little,

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we started adding programs. They come here on Mondays for academics.

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And then on Wednesday and Friday, we have enrichment classes.

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They come from music, language, arts.

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Yes, and we adapted the whole space so we're able

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to have all of these activities. So we have a

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good setup for the motor skill side of the program.

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We have a very good setup for the academics.

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And it's a lot of work.

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We have to set it up and then tear it

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down because in the afternoon we use the same rooms

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for music lessons. Then the art room is already set up. So, yeah,

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so we adapted our location over here. We have, as

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of now, it got to the point that we need

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to expand. We need to get a bigger location. But thankfully,

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we have a good enough space that we're able to

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adapt to all the other programs.

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So we have to.

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Set up, tear it down, set up, tear it down

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every single day.

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So how many, I guess, a guesstimate, how many students

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do you have? Like some schools maybe have like a

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500 students.

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Around 400 students.

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That's wonderful. And are you looking to, do you think, expand,

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I understand in the size, but do you think the

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house of music, you will stay in Port St. Lucie,

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or do you think you will branch off in maybe another,

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another town, you know, because you, you offer so much

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in there, honestly, the schools that like the local schools

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here are music schools. They're wonderful, but they don't offer

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all that you offer. And the specialty that you offer

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is needed in every community because, you know, there, there

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is students who are on the spectrum and, all around

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us and they deserve to have the opportunity that you offer.

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Yeah.

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Want to answer that one?

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Maybe something in that.

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Yes.

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We have, yeah, we have plans in the future to,

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to expand, branch out and go to, to different locations.

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Um, that's, that's in the plans that's in the work.

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Of course we need, we need, people we need to

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train people so we're able to also send them to

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the right locations because that's a very one of the

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things that we have here at House of Music is

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the culture like the teachers we have to teach them

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the culture of the school and we want to be

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able to have the same quality that we have here

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in Port St. Lucie on the other locations but yes

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we do have we do have plans to go to

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different locations as well and I'm sorry.

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In addition, I saw, and ladies and gentlemen, we are live.

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People are watching us and people are, our audiences are

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also listening. So if you cannot, if you're not visually

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seeing us, you can, because we have a scroll on

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our screen about the House of Music. It's easy to

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find House of Music, PSL, Port St. Lucie. You're one

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of a kind. And I will mention that I noticed,

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which I think is wonderful also is, When I was,

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I have a daughter and I raised her and we

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had like a mommy and me group. So before, when

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she was a baby, there was some place to go

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and take her like a Gymboree. That's what I remember.

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I don't think they exist anymore, but you offer a

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similar program. You offer like from zero to, I don't

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know how old. Please share with our audiences out there

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a little bit about this program also.

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So for early music education programs, We start at six

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months old with toddlers. Yes.

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So we have classes from six months old up to

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two years. And then we have the.

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We separate them in groups. So from six months old

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up to five years old, we have this program called

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music education. So it's the program that we focus on

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the fine motor coordination and Um, so on there, like

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listening on musical terminology on the notes, we, a lot

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of the glockenspiel here. Um, so they work on the note, um,

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and then we separate.

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So, uh, we have groups from six months old to

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two years old, then two and threes and three to fives.

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And then once they, uh, are six years old, they

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go to a specific instrument. They choose, um, which instrument they.

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they would like to do their private lesson. But before them,

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we have the music education class. And that's another thing

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that our mom, that she specialized with the early music education.

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So that was something she was able to.

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Yes, and then as far as age, there is no limit.

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We have students over here that are over 70 years old.

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So it's an honor to have this... you know, the.

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Group here as well. Uh, and we see a lot

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of interesting stories. We have, uh, veterans that come over

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here and they take lessons. Um, I, about two or

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three years ago, uh, Mr.

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Bill walked in. Mr. Bill is on his, um, his seventies,

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I think. Okay.

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And he came over here with an acoustic guitar and

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a dream to, um, to get better in the instrument.

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And when I started teaching him, it was great because

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he would always show me the songs that he wanted

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to learn.

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Or songs that he was making.

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So in this process of showing his original songs, I

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was like, Mr.

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Bill, let me produce one of the songs for you.

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So I produced his songs and then the dream just

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grew even bigger on him. And he was just teaching

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me right now. And we're in the process of finishing

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up an album that we produced, mix and master of

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11 songs that he has.

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So if you guys, if you want to check it out,

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his work is amazing, but.

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It's just to, so you guys can get inspired because

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there is no limit to music, right? He's 70 years

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old right now and he's still pursuing music.

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You know, it's his therapy in a way. It's what

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makes him feel good.

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A successful retired guy. And now he's on, on a

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mission to release this album. He's already on Spotify. His

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name is. So if you want to check out some

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of his songs are really good. It's a, he's an inspiration.

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You know, we have the early, you know, six months old,

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the babies that come here. And then we also have

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this young people in their seventies.

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And it's, I love this. One of my private, because

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I also teach privately, one of my private students, and

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I share this often, is 95. And she, I go

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to her place of living and I work with her.

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But she's smart as a tack. I mean, she's, you know, 95,

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God bless her, you know. She's still playing. Yeah. I

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love what you, I'm sorry.

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Go ahead.

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I love your programs. I love the idea that because

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I'm thinking of other schools and every school is a

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beautiful opportunity to grow. I love your school specifically for

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the fact that you grow with the students as me

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as a teacher, no matter what age my student is

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or what they know or what they don't know. what

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I love about being a teacher is that I grow

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with my student. And I always tell my parents that I'm,

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I'm not here to tell your child what to do

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and how to do it. I'm here to grow with them,

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to learn with them. And that's kind of what you,

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what you create for the students. You welcome them in

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and you have, you have this, you know, this outlook like, okay,

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you're going to start here, but it doesn't just end,

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you know, in six months, it doesn't end in a year.

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And as you know, as a musician, I, we never finish.

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There's always something to learn or something to do better

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and grow on. And that's the beauty of music. And

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in addition, being the student coming to your school, it's

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almost like a world of, it's a world to grow

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in and continue on. And I love that. And I

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love I love the focus on the opportunity for those

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that are on the spectrum to have an opportunity to

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learn and to grow as well. And I also love

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that you not only offer music, but you offer art,

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you offer dance, you offer music therapy. Am I correct

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on this? Yeah. And so it's beautiful what you offer

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to the community. would you say in your years, because

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it's almost been 10 years that you've had this school,

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what are some of the greatest achievements that you feel

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that you've, you've provided? Like what has been your greatest

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high or is, can I say that word? The greatest high,

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the greatest achievement that you've, that you see in what

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you do.

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I mean, every week I, we always, um, We always

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say this when we are together. Yeah.

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Every week here, we have something to.

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It's either Bruno calling us to come here, come see

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what my student did.

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Or another teacher. Because we, like you were saying, we

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grow with the student. We meet them where they are.

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Yes.

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And another... Here.

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At House of Music, we focus on their abilities, not

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their disabilities. A lot of places, they tend to focus

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on what the child doesn't know. Okay. What they don't know.

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And then we're going to.

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We.

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Have to work on that. But here, we try to

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find what they know. So we can work on abilities.

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So we focus on their abilities. And it's amazing.

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Every week.

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And like for a student, for example, to play at

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a recital, a student that couldn't with noise at all

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to be up on stage at a recital.

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So it's very rewarding. Every week we have.

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Situations that are very rewarding for us.

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And it's not easy. You know, it's very hard. There's

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a lot of sacrifice behind it.

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All that we do of course but at the end

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of the day it's very um rewarding and every time

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that we are like tired something happens a situation happens

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here and then that uh it feels like god is

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saying okay this is your mission yes and every week

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we have different situation right yeah yeah.

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Yeah Those questions are deep because when we start thinking

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about all of the stories and all of the situations

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that happen over here, like she said, it's very rewarding,

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especially working with kids. Sometimes a lot of them, they

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come over here with no hope, with no skills, with

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no confidence. And we have many stories and many testimonies

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of kids that come here not wanting to talk to anybody, not,

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not wanting, like they, they're not able to, and now

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00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:13.900
they're singing, they're playing the drums, they're dancing. Uh, so, uh, it's,

477
00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:17.960
it's just, uh, it's amazing to see the transformation that

478
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:20.299
music can do.

479
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.960
It's, it's so true. It's as a teacher, it's a gift.

480
00:29:24.970 --> 00:29:27.809
The high, I think it's, it's, it's looking at.

481
00:29:27.829 --> 00:29:31.049
Uh, yeah, absolutely.

482
00:29:31.069 --> 00:29:35.049
And moments like, uh, Yeah, yeah.

483
00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:35.970
Go ahead.

484
00:29:36.049 --> 00:29:40.559
Yeah, it's being, I mean, that is the gift. that

485
00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:44.220
keeps giving being, being a teacher and being, um, a

486
00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:48.680
representative of the school and providing what you do. It's just,

487
00:29:49.069 --> 00:29:52.549
we get to see, um, how much joy and growth

488
00:29:52.609 --> 00:29:55.329
and it's just, it's, it's so beautiful. So I understand

489
00:29:55.369 --> 00:29:59.519
what you're saying. Um, Please share with our audience a

490
00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:01.819
little bit about the recitals that you do. Do you

491
00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:04.420
do them in-house? How often do you do them? Do

492
00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:09.049
you do them just by one instrument, just all piano,

493
00:30:09.329 --> 00:30:11.750
all guitar, all drums? Share with us a little bit

494
00:30:11.789 --> 00:30:14.289
about how you go about your recitals.

495
00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:19.910
So we finally came to the point that we decided

496
00:30:19.950 --> 00:30:22.539
to only do two recitals per year. We used to

497
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.680
do some in-house performances But the recitals.

498
00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:31.059
They take a lot of work and a lot of dedication.

499
00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.299
As we decided to do, we do a spring recital

500
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.839
usually or a summer recital, depending on the year.

501
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:43.009
And then we do a fall or winter recital. Okay.

502
00:30:43.089 --> 00:30:46.730
So it happens twice a year. The winter recital is

503
00:30:46.849 --> 00:30:52.849
focused on Christmas. And we used to do individual instruments.

504
00:30:52.869 --> 00:30:56.089
It used to be like a whole day, like, starting

505
00:30:56.130 --> 00:30:58.490
at nine o'clock in the morning and ending around like

506
00:30:58.930 --> 00:30:59.490
eight o'clock.

507
00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:01.019
Oh, that's a long day.

508
00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:03.880
It's still a whole day. But we, now we.

509
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.500
Like we, we do, of course we divide in sessions.

510
00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:08.839
Like we have many sessions throughout the day.

511
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:13.920
We have many sessions, but instead of having individual performances only,

512
00:31:14.029 --> 00:31:18.450
we focus on, on getting bands together, on getting like group,

513
00:31:18.490 --> 00:31:22.690
like a group of piano students together, group of the

514
00:31:22.789 --> 00:31:24.710
music education students together.

515
00:31:25.250 --> 00:31:31.049
Or let's say two or three drum students together. We

516
00:31:31.089 --> 00:31:35.130
set up like three drum sets. And then for guitar, bass,

517
00:31:35.769 --> 00:31:40.539
and other advanced students, we offer the band aspect of it.

518
00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:44.289
So usually we separate the day in three sessions. The

519
00:31:44.329 --> 00:31:47.849
first one is the music education. Second one is like

520
00:31:48.190 --> 00:31:51.670
a piano group focused session.

521
00:31:51.789 --> 00:31:53.390
And then the last one is the band.

522
00:31:53.890 --> 00:31:58.890
We have a few individual students throughout the sessions, but

523
00:31:58.930 --> 00:32:01.490
the focus is to get them all on the group

524
00:32:01.970 --> 00:32:05.859
and having two of those big recitals per year because

525
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.200
of the amount of work that it takes. Yeah.

526
00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:08.720
Yes.

527
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:14.180
Yes. Yes. That makes sense. Do you find that you're

528
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:18.390
busy all year round or do you find that like

529
00:32:18.430 --> 00:32:21.190
the school season is your top season?

530
00:32:21.750 --> 00:32:25.400
Yeah, I mean, the school season, of course, is the

531
00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:29.819
top season because many students, they leave during summertime. But

532
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:34.380
then during summertime, we have summer camps. So we're still

533
00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:40.049
very busy during summer as well. I think summer is

534
00:32:40.130 --> 00:32:44.750
one of the seasons that we work the most because

535
00:32:44.769 --> 00:32:47.470
of these additional programs that we offer during summer.

536
00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:54.099
What happens many times as well, we have different businesses

537
00:32:54.259 --> 00:32:59.970
also that want to collaborate with us, having our services

538
00:33:00.049 --> 00:33:04.190
on their location during summer as well. We're not able

539
00:33:04.250 --> 00:33:09.000
to do that during the high season, but over the summertime,

540
00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:14.779
we're able to partner up with some other businesses and

541
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:18.180
facilities to have our programs over there.

542
00:33:20.809 --> 00:33:24.470
So that I understand, the audience understands, do you do

543
00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:29.089
in-home lessons as well, or you're talking at other schools

544
00:33:29.109 --> 00:33:30.549
you offer your services?

545
00:33:31.029 --> 00:33:32.619
No, it's not even schools.

546
00:33:32.930 --> 00:33:39.539
For example, there's churches that, let's say they do a

547
00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:42.400
summer camp and they want to have a music program.

548
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:48.299
Sometimes they hire us to go over there like summer

549
00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:51.460
camp and we separate a time of the day to

550
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.440
bring some of our teachers and teach those kids. We

551
00:33:55.500 --> 00:34:01.579
have other facilities like an example is 55 plus community

552
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:04.880
around here in the area that sometimes they do events

553
00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:09.699
and they hire House of Music to bring music over

554
00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:13.880
there and Part of our program is doing that, partnering

555
00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:19.199
up with them. But it's not at-home lessons. We focus

556
00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:20.769
on the studio.

557
00:34:21.130 --> 00:34:24.829
And let's say if I were to come to you

558
00:34:24.949 --> 00:34:31.570
as a student, would I receive one-on-one lessons? Or would

559
00:34:31.590 --> 00:34:35.369
it be a classroom setting of so many students that

560
00:34:35.730 --> 00:34:36.809
are taught at one time?

561
00:34:38.190 --> 00:34:40.449
Most of our lessons are one-on-one.

562
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:41.300
Okay.

563
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:41.860
Okay.

564
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.840
And then we also offer some group lessons. But yes,

565
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.639
we have 30-minute 101 lessons. We have full-hour 101 lessons.

566
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:57.159
And then we also have some other group, like a

567
00:34:57.260 --> 00:35:00.559
band group that we have. We have the music education,

568
00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:02.840
piano transition group.

569
00:35:03.780 --> 00:35:04.050
Yes.

570
00:35:04.469 --> 00:35:05.369
We also have.

571
00:35:05.300 --> 00:35:09.130
The program that you do on Wednesdays.

572
00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:10.739
Social skills.

573
00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:14.889
And tell us a little bit about that. Yes. Yeah.

574
00:35:14.909 --> 00:35:19.050
So we have, um, um, a social skills group.

575
00:35:19.329 --> 00:35:24.650
We find that a lot of parents asking for that or, um,

576
00:35:24.889 --> 00:35:28.380
social skills for the, for the kids. Uh, so I'd

577
00:35:28.469 --> 00:35:33.440
see a group of teenagers, um, between 12 and 15

578
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:38.769
years old, uh, on Wednesdays. And we focus on, um,

579
00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:42.119
Let's say last month, for example, we went to the restaurant.

580
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:48.860
So they were ordering their own food. Today, they're always

581
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:53.860
on their phone all the time. There are other.

582
00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:57.260
Things that we worked on with them.

583
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:02.440
So we focus on how to manage money, for example,

584
00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:09.130
going to the store, shopping. having like responsibilities at home chores.

585
00:36:09.929 --> 00:36:11.849
Uh, so we have this social group.

586
00:36:11.809 --> 00:36:15.409
On, on Wednesdays and we want to do more with

587
00:36:15.449 --> 00:36:17.309
the little ones as well.

588
00:36:17.789 --> 00:36:18.369
I love that.

589
00:36:18.730 --> 00:36:19.130
I love that.

590
00:36:19.190 --> 00:36:25.449
And that's more, that's more social skills. Um, not necessarily

591
00:36:25.550 --> 00:36:28.849
music per se. It's more life skills. There's, um, um,

592
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.420
it's kind of like a Montessori way of teaching. Cause

593
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.980
I know, cause I know Montessori teaching is based on

594
00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:48.230
like feel and touch and, and like hands-on, um, more

595
00:36:48.269 --> 00:36:51.050
than just a paper and pencil, which is beautiful because

596
00:36:51.110 --> 00:36:54.889
we need that. We don't, um, yeah. And I think

597
00:36:54.929 --> 00:36:55.630
it's wonderful.

598
00:36:57.670 --> 00:37:02.380
Very important for them to have those, those skills, um,

599
00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:06.380
So yeah, so we have that group on Wednesdays and

600
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:08.539
we are planning on doing more of.

601
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:09.480
These groups.

602
00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:12.579
Throughout the week with the little ones as well.

603
00:37:12.699 --> 00:37:16.019
So I, I'm me and my mom, we are sitting

604
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.579
down and planning more of those skills, but then using

605
00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:22.239
music as well. So she comes with the music part.

606
00:37:22.550 --> 00:37:25.489
I come with the behavior part and then we can do,

607
00:37:25.949 --> 00:37:29.610
because I think he's like a natural reinforcement. So yeah,

608
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:32.440
There are a lot of, um, there are a lot

609
00:37:32.460 --> 00:37:35.079
of therapists that they come with, uh, they come here

610
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.119
at the music therapy sessions or the music lesson.

611
00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:40.539
And they said, oh my God, he does.

612
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:46.389
This child never does that at home. It's because they

613
00:37:46.429 --> 00:37:49.969
have like music. Um, it's, it's amazing.

614
00:37:50.650 --> 00:37:54.090
Uh, it's amazing. The results that we have here with,

615
00:37:54.449 --> 00:37:55.349
with music therapy.

616
00:37:55.949 --> 00:37:58.090
I love what you do and what you bring to

617
00:37:58.110 --> 00:38:02.420
the community. And behavior is so important. And whether, you know,

618
00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:05.199
we're playing an instrument or we have a child that's

619
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:10.360
playing an instrument, behavior, you know, even within ourselves, you know,

620
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:14.659
we maintain our own behavior in itself. And then when

621
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.389
we have family members or we need to help them,

622
00:38:17.690 --> 00:38:23.510
we also have to know how to handle that behavior.

623
00:38:24.190 --> 00:38:26.650
And as a teacher and the program that you offer

624
00:38:26.789 --> 00:38:31.030
and what you teach your teachers, I've not, I've not

625
00:38:31.590 --> 00:38:34.969
taken lessons or been taught by you. But I've had

626
00:38:35.050 --> 00:38:40.530
my own personal experience where I can understand where, you know,

627
00:38:40.570 --> 00:38:43.889
we have, you have to support each other, and, and

628
00:38:44.230 --> 00:38:48.010
work together to learn what works, because sometimes we don't know.

629
00:38:48.030 --> 00:38:52.059
And sometimes it takes a trial and error of maybe

630
00:38:52.099 --> 00:38:54.820
this will work. And if it doesn't, okay, well, next

631
00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:58.829
time we try something different. And And everybody, just like

632
00:38:58.909 --> 00:39:02.719
our regular students, everybody's different. So how we approach them

633
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.639
and how we work them depends on who they are.

634
00:39:06.139 --> 00:39:09.860
And whether students or adults are on the spectrum or not,

635
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.380
we all have our own way about us, yes? We

636
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:17.179
all have our own way of learning, our own way

637
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:21.239
of showing up. And the way I may relate with

638
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.739
you or you relate with me may not be the

639
00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:29.110
same you relate with you know, another friend or a student. It's,

640
00:39:29.610 --> 00:39:33.409
you know, we find out what works by the relationships

641
00:39:33.489 --> 00:39:37.010
we built. And thank you so much for, you know,

642
00:39:37.030 --> 00:39:40.340
being on the show today and being a part of this.

643
00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:45.460
And it's a joy to help share the word and

644
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:49.199
talk about your school and what you offer. In addition

645
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:51.510
to the music, even though my show is focused on

646
00:39:51.530 --> 00:39:57.090
the music, we mentioned art and dance. So I want

647
00:39:57.170 --> 00:40:00.130
to just focus on that for a minute or two.

648
00:40:00.170 --> 00:40:05.860
Do you offer recitals for that? Do you offer different opportunities?

649
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.920
Do you do pottery classes? Do you do a specific

650
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.820
dance class? Can we talk about that since we're talking

651
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.800
about House of Music and it's not all about music?

652
00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:17.650
Yes.

653
00:40:18.030 --> 00:40:20.940
So we do for the arts, we have our regular

654
00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:24.960
art classes. So they do a different project every week.

655
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.460
It's arts and crafts. On the week, they either paint

656
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:35.139
on canvas or do like craft. We also have sewing class. Okay.

657
00:40:35.389 --> 00:40:39.929
We have sewing class as well. For the dance, it's

658
00:40:39.989 --> 00:40:41.429
more like ballet.

659
00:40:42.449 --> 00:40:47.360
Right now, we only do two groups during the the week,

660
00:40:47.699 --> 00:40:51.039
one more for beginner girls, and the other one is

661
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:52.920
for more advanced.

662
00:40:53.420 --> 00:40:54.400
Okay.

663
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.769
And then, yeah, so it's arts and then sewing as well.

664
00:41:00.110 --> 00:41:04.329
So on some of the recitals, we do have, like,

665
00:41:04.389 --> 00:41:05.889
the dancing aspect.

666
00:41:06.289 --> 00:41:06.869
Okay.

667
00:41:07.110 --> 00:41:11.809
So we do have some presentations that happen during.

668
00:41:11.570 --> 00:41:14.150
The recitals that we do twice a year.

669
00:41:14.170 --> 00:41:14.809
Okay.

670
00:41:14.849 --> 00:41:14.929
Yes.

671
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:19.179
In something for arts, um, we tend to expose a

672
00:41:19.219 --> 00:41:22.230
little bit of the, the arts that they do over here.

673
00:41:22.309 --> 00:41:24.730
We put it, we put it up on the entrance

674
00:41:24.849 --> 00:41:29.869
of the, uh, yes. Oh, that's wonderful.

675
00:41:30.289 --> 00:41:32.860
Yeah. So you bring it, you bring it all together

676
00:41:33.420 --> 00:41:37.920
when you have your recital and that's beautiful. Um, I'm

677
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:41.340
not sure if this is a question other than, um, yeah, I'm,

678
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:44.000
I know when I was growing up as a child

679
00:41:44.059 --> 00:41:47.980
and I took many years of lessons, my greatest, and

680
00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:51.619
this is something I teach, and maybe this is something

681
00:41:51.659 --> 00:41:55.349
you can help me understand if it's something you focus

682
00:41:55.530 --> 00:41:59.710
on at your school. Working together, you mentioned you have

683
00:41:59.969 --> 00:42:03.769
groups where you have band members. You have students that

684
00:42:03.969 --> 00:42:07.699
have different instruments come together. You have, and I know

685
00:42:07.860 --> 00:42:10.400
as a music teacher, ear training is a big thing

686
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:15.880
and listening and and working together, how do you bring

687
00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:21.949
your piano, your drums, your guitar, and whatever other instruments? What,

688
00:42:22.809 --> 00:42:27.130
how do I ask this? What is your approach to

689
00:42:27.269 --> 00:42:30.309
bringing them together? Is there a secret to having them

690
00:42:30.429 --> 00:42:34.500
play together? Because there's a lot of anxiety when you

691
00:42:34.539 --> 00:42:38.159
come together and bring different instruments together and the groups

692
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.530
have to, you know, Yes.

693
00:42:40.769 --> 00:42:45.360
So especially for the bands, we kind of have to

694
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:51.320
select the students that we put in the band. So I,

695
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.559
you know, we have to work, of course, they take

696
00:42:54.619 --> 00:42:58.000
the 101 lessons, so we need to know their abilities

697
00:42:58.219 --> 00:43:03.360
and their taste of music too.

698
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:07.050
It has to match with what we're trying to accomplish.

699
00:43:07.070 --> 00:43:11.679
So then we work those 101 lessons focusing like hey

700
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.159
let's work on this song because we're gonna get together

701
00:43:15.219 --> 00:43:19.539
with other fellows and we're gonna you know uh we're

702
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:23.780
gonna yeah yes as a group uh so yes so

703
00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:27.070
they have they need to have the ability to play

704
00:43:27.090 --> 00:43:32.250
together wonderful of that concept to make that happen because

705
00:43:32.829 --> 00:43:35.909
it's not a lot of you know a lot of

706
00:43:35.969 --> 00:43:40.429
students they're you know a they're not able to do that, right?

707
00:43:40.530 --> 00:43:40.739
Yes.

708
00:43:41.219 --> 00:43:43.199
This is why we have to select... I see your cat.

709
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:44.570
My cat, yeah.

710
00:43:46.110 --> 00:43:48.630
Yes, so we have to select the ones that we're

711
00:43:48.710 --> 00:43:49.750
going to put in the group.

712
00:43:49.989 --> 00:43:55.010
Sure, that makes sense. We're just about out of time.

713
00:43:55.070 --> 00:43:57.510
I'm sorry, Mayra, were you going to follow with something?

714
00:43:58.269 --> 00:44:04.610
But with group lessons, we usually don't advertise to everyone

715
00:44:04.670 --> 00:44:05.440
because we don't know the.

716
00:44:07.309 --> 00:44:11.440
Uh, the students who we usually advertise for our students

717
00:44:11.579 --> 00:44:16.260
that are already doing private lessons, uh, the groups.

718
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:21.380
Understood. Understood. We're almost out of time for our audiences

719
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.340
out there that are just listening. This, we are, our

720
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show today is focused on the house of music located

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in port St. Lucy. It is very easy to find.

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If you Google house of music, port St. Lucy, it's

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all over the social webs and, um, Any last words

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before we finish for today?

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No, we just want to thank you for having us here,

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for giving us the opportunity to be in your show.

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Yes.

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Thank you. Thank you for connecting with us.

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Yes.

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And also, if you have our website, in there we

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also have a nonprofit organization as well called House of Harmony.

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And with that, we pay for kids that cannot afford

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music lessons. But we do have some kids here at

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House of Harmony. We do have some kids here that

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do lessons. And that House of Harmony is paying for

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their lessons. Thank you so much.

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We will be in touch. And one day I will

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have to take a drive up so we can meet

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in person.

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Yeah. We were also on WPTV this week.

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If you want to hear more.

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We have our story there as well. Congratulations.

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We will be in touch. Thank you so much for

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being on the show today. For my audiences out there,

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thank you for tuning in. Tune in next week. Help

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me keep music alive by... supporting us and we want

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to keep the instruments being played and we want to

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continue learning and inspiring each other. And again, for my

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listeners out there, tune in next week. I'm not going

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to tell you who my guest is next week. I

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have another fabulous guest. You have to tune in to

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find out. And in the meantime, be blessed and enjoy

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the week and the day ahead.

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Thank you.