Studio Name: The Bailey Studio Teacher's Name: Andrea Bailey, NCTM The Bailey Studio is dedicated to giving pianists of all ages a positive and rewarding experience with music. Helping students understand that music can be fun, rewarding, and exciting is a top priority. Students of the Bailey Studio will be challenged because a student cannot recognize their progress until a legitimate challenge has been surmounted. Students are provided with many opportunities to make progress.
In addition to private lessons there will usually be a Master Class and a Group Lesson each semester. Students are encouraged to participate in Competitions, and to attend live performances. I am positive that every student can have a wonderful, life enhancing experience in the study of music.

More about ANDREA KNOWLTON BAILEY:

EDUCATION:

Master of Music degree in Piano Performance, Brigham Young University, Summer 2005

Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance & Pedagogy, University of Utah, May 2000

KODALY CERTIFICATION Level 1, Intermuse Academy of Brigham Young University, 2002

PRIVATE INSTRUCTION:
Dr. Irene Peery-Fox (2002-03)
Dr. Jeffrey Shumway (2000-02)
Lenora Ford Brown (1996-2000)
Marilyn Anderson (1990-96)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PRIVATE PIANO STUDIO, 1992-present
Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, Music Teachers' National Associtiation, 2002. Member of Idaho and Treasure Valley Music Teachers' Associations. Former member of Maryland and Utah Music Teachers' Associations.

GROUP PIANO INSTRUCTOR, Brigham Young University (2002-03)

PIANO and DIGITAL PIANO SALES and TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST for Summerhays Music (2000-01)

GENERAL MUSIC INSTRUCTOR at Wasatch Elementary (1998-99)

Studio Policies

Billing Cycle
Tuition payments can be made once a quarter or once a month. Quarterly payments will be charged on the first day of the following months: September, December, March, and June.

Holidays
Lessons will not be taught on Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, Spring break or on Memorial Day, Labor Day, July 4th, or Summer break. Private lessons will also be cancelled during the weeks of major teaching conventions I will be attending.

Tuition Rates 

• 1 hr/week ($297 per semester or $99 per month)

Payment
Payments can be made using Visa, MasterCard or direct debit from a checking or savings account. Payment can not be made using a personal check. All payment is processed by Music Business Solutions (mubus.com).
 
Tuition Includes
* Reserved weekly time slot
* Studio Recitals
* Software Station Use
* Group & Master Class
* Studio Outings

Studio Cancellations
30 days notice is required if student decides to discontinue lessons. Notice should be sent to MuBuS Inc via US Mail-1025 Villa Street, Mountain View CA, 94041, email-support@mubus.com, or phone-(650)961-7137.

Tuition Assumptions
Your tuition reserves you a weekly time slot and membership within the studio. There will be no make-up lessons for cancellations made by students. If the student knows there will be a conflict, he or she should try to change lesson times with another student and notify the teacher of the change.

Lessons will not be canceled due to weather; even if public schools are closed. Students who decide they are not coming due to weather are requested to call and let the teacher know.

Each semester students will have a minimum of twelve scheduled events including: lessons, group and master classes, and recitals. Upcoming events will be listed on the online calendar.

Teacher cancellations other than the predetermined holidays will be made up. They may be made up by giving extra time at other lessons during the semester or by scheduling another lesson. Please make note of the previously mentioned holidays so you can plan around the lessons that are already scheduled to be missed.

Students should expect semester tuition rates to be raised approximately $10 annually.
 
Other Information

THE LEARNING CLIMATE:
Provide the best piano possible and have it tuned regularly; once a year is the absolute minimum. Students of the Bailey Studio are strongly encouraged to have an accoustic piano for their primary instrument rather than an electronic/digital piano or a keyboard. The key weight and sound production of an accoustic piano are necessary if the goal is to play with expression rather than just learning to read notes and rhythms. Several local music stores offer piano rentals if needed.

The practice room should be pleasant, at a comfortable temperature, with good lighting and free from distractions such as the television or phone. Good practice takes concentration! Create a household attitude that time at the piano is free from interuptions. Love music, listen to the best available and attend live performances.

STUDIO RECITALS:
In order to develop self confidence and poise at the piano, students are expected to perform at recitals. They must come on time and remain for the entire recital to participate. Participation for adult students is optional.

I am happy to help students prepare for special performances. Please play often for friends, family, church, and school events.

PERFORMANCE CLASSES and GROUP LESSONS:
At performance class students play for each other, and comment on each others playing. These classes are a great source of motivation and peer reinforcement. They also provide a wonderful opportunity to hear live music. Group lessons provide a chance to work on many areas of music education that we may not have time for in the private lesson including; music history, theory, ensemble playing, sight reading, ear training, rhythmic drills and composition. Students are assigned to a group by age not ability level. Unfortunately, there is no way to make up missed group lessons or master classes.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT:
Young students can not be succesful practicing or coming to lessons alone, and students must gradually learn to attend lessons by themselves, or they are not progressing to their capacity. The best teaching is done when the child is learning gradually to do things on his/her own. Both teacher and parents must encourage this in the students and allow them to develop fully. If the student can't be independent of the parent by age 10 he/she usually gets worse not better. By this age a parents presence can hamper rather than enhance the childs development. If students are to become self-motivated they must be allowed the space to grow independently.

GUIDELINES FOR PARENTS ATTENDING LESSONS & PRACTICING WITH CHILDREN:
5 & 6-year-olds, Parents required to attend every lesson and practice daily with their child.
7-year-olds, A parent attends three out of every four private lessons. The child attends every 4th lesson alone. All practicing on that week is done alone with the parent checking each item daily when the child thinks it is done.
8-year-olds, A parent attends every other private lesson alone and practices with the child on those weeks.
9-year-olds, A parent attends one out of every four private lessons.
10-year-olds, The student should be able to attend all lessons and master classes alone.

After the 5th-grade the way a parent can help is by:
1. Giving encouraging words.
2. Making practice times available, and not allowing disturbances during these times.
3. Seeing that all practicing is done.
4. Working out a reward system for tasks accomplished.
5. Making available a fine and in tune instrument to practice on.
6. Sitting in on the practice sessions for short periods simply to compliment not to criticize or help.
7. Getting the child to and from lessons on time.

STAR SYSTEM & DISCONTINUANCE OF LESSONS:
Students are expected to come to each lesson prepared. If a student comes to a lesson with an assignment not prepared, the student will receive a "star" or in other words, a mark (*) indicating that he or she was not prepared. If the student comes to the following lesson with the "star item" not prepared, the student will then receive two stars etc. . . If a child receives three stars the parent will be contacted because a habitual problem that prevents satisfactory progress has developed. The student with four stars will be placed on probation. Each time probation is used, specific goals for improvement are set. If these goals are not met in the specified time, or the necessary change is not sustained over time, the student will be dropped. This is necessary because The Bailey Studio maintains a list of perspective students waiting for a time slot to become available. Students must make satisfactory progress to maintain their spot in the studio.

Please turn off cell phones while in the studio, or set them to ring silently and take them outside to talk. Siblings who are not part of the lesson but who need to come when the parent is present must be able to sit quietly and play, read or study.

Students must practice daily with their notebooks open and placed directly in front of them on the piano.

I do not work on Sundays. If you need to talk to me please call M-F between 9am and 6pm.