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Instruments: Piano Voice Music
Music is for everyone and I want lessons to always be a safe space, and a fun space. There is no one right pace for people to learn, whatever works best for you! We can achieve this by setting S.M.A.R.T goals, as well as potential benchmarks to rate progress by. I like to approach each lesson with empathy, humor, and curiosity. I think there is much we can learn from ourselves and each other, so I like to keep my teaching focused, exciting, but also attentive to each persons needs and what goals we are trying to achieve in a given day. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Saxophone Ukulele Recorder Music Keyboard
I have had a desire to be an educator since I was in second grade. The first music ensemble I directed was a men's choir at Huntley High School in Huntley, Illinois. I proceeded to direct worship choirs and bands at Carthage College for my four years at Carthage. After Carthage I became the music teacher at Fratt Elementary School in Racine, Wisconsin where I taught general music and directed the annual fourth and fifth grade musical. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ Synthesizer Keyboard
My teaching experience dates back to my college days, as I began teaching private lessons part time 30 years ago, and I have been teaching students consistently. I've been a pianist at several churches in the past 25 years and teaching private lessons to many students of all ages( pre school to adult) and all levels. I taught at Music and Art and I've been teaching piano lesson at Schaumburg park district. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Bass Guitar
My experience as an educator began when I was a junior in High School, where I fast gained a reputation as an exceptional guitarist/singer. During this time, a few of my friends and classmates asked me if I would teach them. Since then, I have been teaching non-stop out of my residence and other creditable music stores. From 2008-2010, I taught out of Avenue N. Guitars, while keeping my own private students. Read More
Instruments: Piano Flute
As a pianist, I took classes from IU that broadened my capability as a teacher to teach everything from general, choral, and instrumental music. I had my senior piano solo recital. I have a diverse range of performing experiences as a vocalist, including Opera, International Vocal Ensemble, and show choirs. With voice lessons, I have learned a lot about singing and being able to teach healthy singing. As an instrumentalist, I played in band ensemble for 10 years and have also taken all the instrumental technique classes that study instruments by families in depth. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I believe students must first acquire competence in theory and proper technique, followed by artistic expression. My teaching style is encouraging, patient, thorough, nurturing, engaging, challenging and fun. To progress, students must practice daily. I let my students know that quality and focus of practice is far more important than duration. They learn to isolate 2 or 3 measures, and repeat them slowly until accuaracy is achieved consistently. I convey my love of teaching by: complimenting students on achieving goals, smiling, being energetic, making sure the student lets me know when he/she does not understand a concept and re-explaing it until it is understood with gentleness and patience, bringing in adjunct music from which the student, after hearing me play several excerpts, can select several pieces, playing duets with the student, and encouraging students to compose their own songs by ear, which I later notate. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Drums Keyboard
My teaching style is technical and yet open ended. I stress knowing scales, chords, inversions like the back of your hand to enable you to put them together just as we put the English language together. Letters become words which become sentences which become paragraphs which become stories. Keys become scales which build chords which build progressions which build phrases which build songs. Knowing this language of music, one can freely express what they hear in their mind outwardly to their audience. Read More
Instruments: Voice Bass Guitar Double Bass
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
I didn't it chose me. Isn't that so cheesy to say. I started as a bass player, I always sang as well but I chose bass. I took lessons and had success in orchestras and bands as a bass player. But my desire for music was never enough so that lead to guitar and piano which lead me to harmonica and accordion and bagpipes and banjo. I kept picking up instruments and the one constant was that I was singing. Singing just made sense to me and I could be fully responsible for my instrument. So I became a singer and a teacher.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
The simple most difficult thing to master when it comes to voice, especially in commercial styles is that what you hear is not what you get. What I mean by that is that the sound of resonance in your head is not the same as the sound coming out of your mouth. The task at hand then becomes mastering the feeling, singing by feel and muscle memory, knowing the right placements and vowels. That, I believe, is the hardest part of mastering voice. If not the hardest it sure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
I have a Bachelors of Music Degree from Belmont University. I majored in Vocal Preformance with an emphasis in history and pedagogy. So what that means is I have a degree in pop styles of singing. Commercial music would be pop, rock, country, folk, jazz, r&b, rap/hip-hop, modern musical theater and anything you hear on the radio. The history part means I am a music nerd and find it interesting to know useless fun facts about singers. The Pedagogy part means that I studied to learn how the voice works on a physical level and the theoretical side of how to control it.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I have performed in many styles. I am an accomplished musical theater actor, I was a jazz singer for 4 years at a restaurant, I have been in country bands, pop bands and everything in between. But my absolute favorite style to perform is Rock n' Roll. I love the theatrics and the high energy of it all. I was drawn into it, be the flashy lights but then was caught by the acceptance. The community surrounding the genre is so inclusive and welcoming and you feel that on stage while performing. Plus you get to wear leather pants and that is pretty cool.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
In short yes. I always joke I grew up under my grandpa's piano. My great grandfather was a piano tuner around the Detroit area. He was the only person the famed Victor Borge would trust to tune his piano. My entire family sings, usually in 5 part harmony. I was very lucky to grow up with music, it helped me to develop a very good ear. I learned to play guitar by watching my uncle, and piano by watching my grandfather. My mom would play a game with us when we were little where we would pick a song like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and she, my sister, and I would sing the song a half step apart from each other to train our ears.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I think I always wanted to be a musician. In what context has changed a bit. I wanted to be on broadway for a very long time, I also wanted to be a rockstar, and I wanted to be a teacher. The choice between musical theater and pop/rock came at college. I had been taking classical voice for years and loved it but I knew I wasn't going to be an opera singer. I applied to two highly recognized schools, one for theater and one for commercial music, and said which ever I get into I will go to. Well I got into both, and was offered scholarships to both, and not a single defining sign seemed to show itself. I took a chance and moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University after a lot of thought. And rock n roll recognition happened and I have had many incredible experiences from being in Nashville, but it seemed my favorite part was teaching private voice. So the time came and my wife and I moved to Troy, MI and the clear choice for me is to do the one consistent thing in my career, and that is teach.
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