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		<title>Taking a Break from Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been officially open 20 months, and we thank our awesome customers for their continued patronage, our hardworking students who make us look good, and our amazing instructors, lab attendants, and staff for making us the best music school in central Ohio. Yay! Hugs and high fives all around. For the curious, we currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTMS Music Summer Camp Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must be out of our minds. We&#8217;re giving away a free summer camp this year. No strings attached. Just to clear up a point of confusion, anyone can enroll in MTMS Summer Day Camps. You don&#8217;t have to be a current music student at MTMS. You don&#8217;t have to be a current music student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: The 6th and Final Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At MTMS, we love music. And we love it when our students love music, too. So it thrills us to see our students excited to share their music with friends and family. We believe that music is meant to be heard and should be shared.  Music lessons are much more fun when students have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: Day 5!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and we&#8217;re on the sixth and last day of Bring a Friend to Lessons Week April 2012! We&#8217;re going out with a friendly &#8220;bang&#8221; of drum heads and piano keys&#8230;as students once more show off their prodigal music ability to friends, cousins and neighbors. Speaking of neighbors, Dunkin Donuts has been a wonderful one through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: Day 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only two days left in MTMS Bring a Friend to Lessons Week, excitement is anything but winding down. Miss Leann&#8217;s preschool music class was hopping yesterday with friends, stickers, lollipops, and treasures from the Treasure Cauldron. Music lesson rooms boasted students showing off their mad music skills, and the computer lab was crammed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: Day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve passed the halfway point, and we&#8217;re still excited to see the friends of our students step through our doors. Welcome to all, and we hope you are having a good time and enjoying all the donuts. Meanwhile, we have a friendly sales competition going on among the staff. We are still running our half-off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, we&#8217;re Dunkin Donuts&#8217; favorite customer! Bring a Friend to Lessons Week Day 2 was a smashingly sweet success. Miss Emily&#8217;s preschool music class just about burst at the seams with energy and enthusiasm for music, as almost every child in the class brought a friend. The older kids in private music lessons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring a Friend to Lessons Week: Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, April 16th, Michelle Tuesday Music School launched Bring a Friend to Lessons Week April 2012. With music, balloons and donuts from our favorite neighbor, Dunkin Donuts, we celebrated in style. Check out the pictures below, and be sure to bring your friend if you have a lesson later this week! Show off your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Festival Photos &amp; Upcoming Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos from the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Party and Irish Carnival are posted on the blog. Scroll down the post for photos. This week is BRING A FRIEND TO LESSONS WEEK. All students enrolled in classes and private lessons are invited to bring a friend, show off their mad music skills, and get a photo commemorating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing: you can&#8217;t go it alone.</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/you-cant-go-it-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michelle Tuesday I&#8217;m a writer. I freelance commercially as a nonfiction and copy writer, and my original songs make it into my paid performance repertoire, but my real (and, thus far, unpaid)  joy is fiction. &#8221;Writer&#8221; is one of my lesser-known identities, because I don&#8217;t invest a lot of time on the act of writing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTMS St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Party and Irish Carnival 2012</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/mtms-st-patricks-day-party-and-irish-carnival-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our students didn&#8217;t need the luck o&#8217;the Irish to offer stellar performances at this St. Patrick&#8217;s Day event! Congratulations to all our hard-working students for preparing and polishing pieces to share with family and friends. Congrats also go out to all our game and cakewalk winners, which was pretty much everybody. A huge thank-you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frolic Time</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/a-story-inspired-by-sammy-the-studio-puppy-and-the-winter-we-didnt-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frolic Time by Michelle Tuesday Sammy, the little wolf-pup, loved to frolic in the sunshine and roll in the grass. It was his favorite time of day, when the trainer threw balls around for him to chase and catch. He especially liked the little light-up ball, the one that flickered every time it landed. Sammy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Music Part 2: Pitch</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/reading-music-part-2-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we talked about reading rhythms. Today, we&#8217;re going to talk about reading pitch. Now that you know how to count notes and pitches, how do you figure out which string to pluck, which key to strike, or how high or low to sing? The location of the note on the staff tells you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write Song Lyrics</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/how-to-write-song-lyrics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learning Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Original music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to be a lyricist! Congratulations, because the drive to create is the first thing you need to write a song. You know you want to do it, and you think you have the passion, but you&#8217;re not sure what comes next. Start by asking yourself this question: For whom are you writing? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2/11/12 MTMS Valentine&#8217;s Recitals</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/21112-mtms-valentines-recitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, February 11, and Sunday, February 12, MTMS held its 2nd annual Valentine&#8217;s Recitals. For some, love was in the air. For some, bitter nods to Single&#8217;s Awareness Day were the tune of the day. All in all, our students had a lot of fun. We had some debut performances from young and adult students, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Music Part 1: Rhythm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learning Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, you want to read music! Maybe you sing: You&#8217;re in the choir at your place of worship, or you landed a part in the local community theatre musical, and you&#8217;d like to practice at home. Perhaps you play an instrument by ear, or you read guitar, bass or drum tabs, and you&#8217;d like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering From Marketing Blunders</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/recovering-from-marketing-blunders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Coke: it was possibly the biggest marketing blunder in history, except maybe the Chevy-Nova-in-Mexico fiasco (get it? &#8220;No va&#8221; is Spanish for, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t go.&#8221; Yeah, Chevy didn&#8217;t get it, either, at least not in time to stop the launch.) It was the 1980&#8242;s, and The Coca-Cola Company tried to launch a new recipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work / Life Balance</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/work-life-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, and a relatively new one at that, I&#8217;m just in the learning stages on managing entrepreneurial work/life balance. But I had a bit of a head start thanks to my plethora of part-time employment and music gigs, and I have a supportive network of family and friends, which helps. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Singing Competitions, Song Choice is Everything</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/in-singing-competitions-song-choice-is-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I judged the December video entries for Ohio Idol. The competition was fierce this round! I&#8217;m looking forward to judging the January 80&#8242;s entries and, eventually, the live competitors. Some of the videos were taken in a quiet, home setting, but many were recorded at live shows. I was struck by how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to Buy Instruments &#8211; and What to Buy</title>
		<link>http://michelletuesday.com/blog/where-to-buy-instruments-and-what-to-buy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Tuesday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a musician, I have eclectic tastes in musical instruments. I like my pianos Boston, keyboards Yamaha, acoustic guitars Breedlove, drums Pearl, cymbals Sabian, and electric basses Schecter. I like my electronics Roland and my amplifiers Marshall. I like Line 6 Pod pre-amps. I&#8217;d love a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, though I haven&#8217;t dropped [...]]]></description>
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