Teaching Approach

Why do you use so much color?

Color is the electricity of the brain!

Donna Cercone has worked extensively with color in all her classroom teaching and in the process of teaching music.   Through her studies and experimentation, she has found that color activates different portions of the brain.

Even science has proven that all black and white in learning can make the learning more difficult, make the student bored or not as able to see things easily.

Where does Cercone use color?

1. All of our Theory books are done in Color.
2. We literally color our music by chords.   Results? It is far easier to learn and most interesting to look at.
3. Basically we use color everywhere, even in designing the studio, because certain decor colors make learning easier.

If we place the same song side by side, one is black and white and the other is colored, everyone we have ever tested wants to look at the colored music.

The black and white music looks much harder to learn.

All one needs to do is to think of watching TV on black and white or color in order to understand this.

We have also helped students find their colors for learning in school whether it is in reading or math or just home work in general.

Results:

1. Reading is easier and more understandable.
2. Math is easier and the student gets higher grades.
3. Homework is always done easier and faster. And grades are higher in school.

Homework is always done easier and faster. And grades are higher in school.

Want to Learn Music Deeply and Easily?

The Cercone Music Method has been developed for all of us who have wanted to play music but to not have nor do we want to take 4-5 hours a day to practice.

We are NOT a learn music overnight! That is not possible!

We literally treat music as a foreign language with the notes being the alphabet and the chords the vocabulary!

Through working with the brain the way the brain was designed to be worked with, we accelerate the learning process and move easily and quickly to playing songs and understanding music!

We teach the READING of music rather than the
SPELLING of music note by note.

Our text books are written in an accelerated learning format and this method is organized so that you know where you are and where you are going.

We work to create a a life-time repertoire of songs that you can remember and play easily for your own enjoyment.

If you have taken lessons before and cannot play the way you want to, nor do you remember the songs that you learned, give us a call and we can help you accomplish your dream of playing the piano.

We do color our music by the chords! Some say that it is “kindergartenish!” Yet sports can not be played without color and we do not consider that “kindergartenish!”

Color is the electricity of the brain and it makes learning anything easier! So why NOT use it!!!

We do group work and private!

Tried Music Before but it did not “Catch?”

The number of people that have had piano lessons just in America, somewhere in their lives, but cannot play in their adult years is something that haunted Donna Cercone.

She was almost one of those statistics! Then she started asking herself many questions – one of which was “WHY?” We are very intelligent people – Why could we not learn music and play in our adult years?

Being an educator, she realized that if she did not like the results, she needed to look at how it was being taught! It was then that she realized that music was being taught as an alphabet rather than a language.

Being an avid reader, she knew she absolutely would not want to
SPELL a book-letter by letter, she wanted to READ the book!

That began the process of discovering how to READ music as a language and the results were amazing. People who had taken lessons before, were now able to play songs that they had thought were way out of their reach.

So if you tried music before and it did not catch it is not your fault and it does not mean that you have no talent for music! It just means that you were only taught the alphabet and were not taught HOW to practice a song.

We were usually just assigned a song and rarely told how to practice it! I do not recall any one of the 11 teachers that I have had that ever taught me HOW to practice!

At Cercone not, only are you taught the language, but you are also taught how to practice!

And that leads to musical success that lasts a lifetime!

So if you have had lessons before, but did not accomplish your musical dream, give us a call.

It does not take hours of practice! The Cercone Method has developed a process so that if you have very limited time, the RIGHT kind of practice gives you amazing results!

Want to learn faster and Easier?

Donna Cercone has been in the Education and Corporate arena for over 40 years and has taught thousands of students from ages 5-95.

Her unique classroom-tested “whole brain teaching” approach (Cercone’s Mega Learning) has been described as an innovative revolution in teaching with phenomenal results.

The Cercone Mega Learning program (Learning How to Learn) enables students to absorb and retain information at a much faster and sustainable rate.

“This is truly a wonderful approach for processing and applying new
information at accelerated speeds.”
Dr. R. Lawrence, University of Massachusetts

She is an author with Nightingale Conant, the composer of Hearts of Peace music and has done many corporate workshops utilizing these techniques plus continually experimenting with them in classrooms and in teaching music.

This method was first tested by Donna in a self-contained classroom of 45 seventh graders whose IQ’s ranged from 80-140. It had such great success that at the end of the school year, the 7th grade boys approached her and said:

“We don’t want school to end this year!”

Over the years, she researched and used these methods with classes of disadvantaged, troubled and educationally challenged students, always achieving outstanding results. Students obtained high scores who previously had given up on even obtaining a “passing” grade.

She has worked with color in the educational arena for over 35 years, working with colored filters, colored paper and glasses, finding the colors that would help students read easier, comprehend, understand math and remember better.

Through these methods, her piano students are able to learn to play the songs 500% faster than reading note by note while utilizing the complete Cercone Method.

She has found a way to teach the reading of music as we read books.

She enjoys helping people accomplish their dream and make learning easier for she believes that we really are a genius if we can learn how to access the potential in our brain, if we can learn to be “Brain Mechanics” – who know what the brain needs in order to achieve the true potential.