I picked up the guitar at a young age in Mexico. Still play every day because making music makes me happy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each day, several times a day I pick up one of my guitars as it feels good to spend time with an old friend while sheltering in place. Music has also been a big part of my art making.<\/p>\n

Portrait of Chuck Berry<\/p><\/div>\n

Drum Dream Girl<\/p><\/div>\n

Tito Puente. Mambo King.<\/p><\/div>\n

To stay connected while social distancing, neighbors in Italy <\/a>are making music from their balconies and so are people in Spain<\/a> and New York.<\/a> It’s something that can make you instantly feel better. Now it’s your turn.<\/em> Here are some ideas to get you started.<\/p>\n

DIY Instruments: <\/strong>Get creative with upcycled fun by having an at home instrument making<\/a> workshop using things laying around the house like popsicle sticks, plates, cartons or bottlecaps. There are lots of videos<\/a> online to show you how.<\/p>\n

Musical bedtime stories:<\/strong> Pick out some favorite children’s books but this time sing the words to a familiar tune.<\/p>\n

Hand washing songs:<\/strong> Now that we are all washing our hands in warm, soapy water for 20 seconds teach kids to sing a tune to help them make the moments count. Here are videos to old favorites<\/a> that can make clean up a musical activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resources that will be\u00a0music to your ears:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Classics for Kids<\/a>-you can be your child’s music teacher at home<\/p>\n

Music Lab<\/a>-a great site where children can experiment with music<\/p>\n

SFS Kids<\/a>-play games with music and have some musical fun<\/p>\n

Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures<\/a>-a young person’s guide to the amazing orchestra<\/p>\n

Word Synth<\/a>-this is an engaging place where kids can play with speech and music<\/p>\n

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This quarantine is the perfect opportunity to dust off that instrument you were learning, sitting in a dark corner of the house. Or get creative and improvise by using everyday objects all around you. Music calms, heals and is pure magic. Let’s make some music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,46,211,349,358,374,373,19,20,22,361,23,34,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}