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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Flute lessons in Philadelphia . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Flute Recorder Piccolo Music
For beginners, I start with the basics of sound production, and move onto reading music and basic songs shortly after. I try to teach things both visually and by ear, so that the student does not feel that they have to wait to play fun music until they are advanced enough. I believe in a strong base of music theory (scales, arpeggios, understanding intervals), so that the student can use their musical knowledge in many subject areas. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Recorder Oboe English Horn
I firmly believe that everyone can learn to play music well. Natural talent exists but if you have the passion and desire then you can achieve anything! I plan the lessons around the individual student and their needs and focus on keeping the students eager and positive by emphasizing strengths and finding solutions for improving areas of difficulty. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Flute Clarinet Synthesizer Piccolo Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion Oboe Bassoon English Horn Acoustic Guitar
For my beginning piano students, I emphasize the twelve major and minor scales with proper fingering, first one octave and then two octaves. These exercises strengthens fingers and create more familiarity with the keyboard. I use the book, Level 1 The Older Beginner Piano Course by James Bastien and the companion book, Musicianship for the Older Beginner. I have seen results when these books are used in tandem. The student increases in technique and start to master music theory simultaneously. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I believe learning music should be a fun process. It is my goal to make sure the student enjoys learning at every step of the way. I encourage students to set realistic goals and help aid them in finding the best way to achieve them. I hope to inspire the student to become eager to learn and make music and enjoyable part of their life! Read More
Instruments: Flute
I began teaching as a young kid in middle and high school. I would give informal lessons to my peers, and this is what started my interest in teaching. I continued this path teaching classical flute and jazz improvisation to anyone who would listen to me! In college, I worked with the saxophone players in the jazz department helping them develop their flute sound as a doubles instrument. Now, I am teaching private lessons in the Philadelphia area to all ages and abilities! Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet
Over the years I can trully say that in every person their is a musician inside what makes them wake their passion on discovering their inner musician is the teacher that inspire, motivate them in seen themselves as the teacher sees them and helping them express thru their instrument all their feelings. Read More
Instruments: Flute
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Practice with purpose and intent. Play difficult passages slowly and build speed gradually.
Time is not the sole determiner, as people can put in the time but practice mistakes, errors, or unhelpful posture and finger positioning given physical demands of playing.
Best to rest after one half hour for about 10 minutes.
Take a break or walk away if frustration sets in. Clear the mind and then continue playing.
How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
Interest is first. Does your child sing songs, preferably with relative pitch? Do they show a sense of rhythm, repeating tapped patterns they hear. Do they talk about music, move to music, indicate a particular instrument or song preference?
When will I start to see results?
Depends, but should be heard right away with application at home noticeable. Results begin with interest. After the lesson and preparing before the next lesson, does your child put in time playing?
Did you have a teacher that inspired you to go into music? How did they inspire you?
Frances Blaisdell: Ms. Frances Blaisdell was a world class flutist and teacher. I started lessons with her when I was 12, at which time my family then moved to France for a couple of years. Lessons resumed when I was 14, up to my senior year of high school, when we moved to Hawaii, and again on and off while in college at Syracuse and after until Miss Blaisdell moved to California. There she taught flute at Stanford University for the next 35 years. She would send her many students a yearly holiday family newsletter that always had a personal note in it. This was throughout my adult life. Miss Blaisdell best personified what is best in the student teacher relationship. She was a model of what it means to be a truly remarkable teacher and musician where excellence was the expectation, her belief that it was attainable in her students, and her very specific content knowledge and instructional strategies to bring out our excellence. She was modest, kind, specific, encouraging, realistic, and inspiring. Her great dignity was/is rooted in her simple (and yet profound) respect for everyone she knew or met. Miss Blaisdell was also a trailblazer who touched countless thousands and yet she always gave you her full attention when she was with you. She is relatively well known as a teacher and musician, with information about her on Google.
Ted Dunbar: Ted Dunbar, a jazz guitarist and educator, was one of the founders of the jazz studies department at Rutgers University, now part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts. I took classes in jazz improvisation at Rutgers when I was in my mid 20s. Ted was also a registered pharmacist. Pharmacy became part time when he devoted his life to performance and teaching. While at Rutgers, Ted played with some frequency at major NYC venues and in Broadway pit bands. Ted was that kind of teacher that was above all inspiring. He also was an interesting role model in that underneath his great creativity was his studious nature and a systematic and sustained knowledge of jazz pedagogy. He was not only a master teacher and improviser but was able to articulate ways that we, his students, could specifically improve. Ted helped not only increase our understanding of jazz improvisation and history, but also sought to help us grow in our understanding of the creative process. He was also a teacher about life choices and suggested philosophers and thinkers that we should read. Ted was imposing and humorous, at times demanding, and other times kind and supportive. My father had passed a couple of years before I started classes with Ted – in some way, although I never told Ted, he helped to fill some of that void I felt in my life.
John Frascatore: Mr. Frascatore was my fifth grade teacher. There are several moments that I continue to remember, such as writing to classical music (“La Mer” by Debussy), or putting on plays (“The King and His Creampuffs”), and his reading aloud to us. What I remember most is the sense of community that existed in his classroom and the individual care and attention I sensed even then that Mr. Frascatore showed for every student. For me, a particular memory was a block I had learning long division. I could not have been more frustrated and thought I would never learn how to do this. This, though, was not an option for Mr. Frascatore. I can remember Mr. Frascatore patiently and supportively working with me one on one until I started to understand. With me, and other students, failure was not an option. This was his gentle gift and example in many different ways. I learned later that he had become a principal and director of curriculum and instruction. I did not know until I checked years later that Mr. Frascatore was an Army Air Force World War II veteran, flying 34 missions as a bombardier fighter pilot.
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