Bass Lessons Dona Ana County, NM

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

I am a proud self-taught musician and have a great ear for music, so I love unearthing the same talents in my students. For my beginners, I feel that while practice makes perfect, Ode to Joy gets boring after the 127th time, so I focus on getting my students to learn their favorite songs that I have personally transformed into easy one-note-at-a-time melodies and work my students up to the chords, scales and modes that make up these songs. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Bass Guitar, Synthesizer, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

I approach music from four perspectives in order to create an integrated foundation that caters to the learning methods of my students. My method is very simple: First and foremost I ask what kind of music my students like to listen to. Using this as a format I gradually add theoretical concepts to the extent the student is able to broaden his or her understanding of what they like. Third, I incorporate short bursts of technical exercices, utilizing a knowledge of the devolopment of muscle memory and gauging my student's individual capacity to absorb new information. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Flute, Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin, Recorder, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

For all instruments, I teach students to utilize ALL resources available to them, such as the Internet for finding sheet music with specific websites, YouTube for instructional videos and karaoke, tablets and phones for metronomes and tuners, and different ways to learn music through all of their technological devices that go beyond typical music notation. Students are given incentives for practice through a system of 5 A's in a row: if they achieve this goal, they get to choose whatever song they learn next. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Bass Guitar, Synthesizer

I want everyone to feel that they can learn music and that music can be fun to learn and grow in. So I strive to learn how a student learns and do my best to cater my teaching style and the materials I use to help them learn tothe way they learn. For example, if you are a repetitive learner than I will try to solidify the techniques by teaching those techniques over and over again until they areabsorbed. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Drums, Bass Guitar, Conga, Latin Percussion, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

As a performer, I have played many years, many venues and I am known as a professional Stylist in whatever performing I did. I played with the likes of Felix Cavelier, Charlie McPherson (Jazz), A Beachboys review band that toured with many groups as a back up band. Directing, Teaching, Recording, Performance has always been prevalent in my musical make up I want to share with students as well teaching performance as well. Read More