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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Guitar lessons in Sunnyvale . 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: Guitar Trumpet Trombone Euphonium Tuba Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
My teaching styles revolves around the student and his/her needs. But above all, I love to see the joy of music speak through the students own earned skill through hard work. Achieving goals, and succeeding is the platform for building confidence and gaining great joy from the learning and playing of music. All students will be required to learn scales, etudes, solos, and other repertoire to bolster his/her musical goals abilities; but beyond that, I open to what the student wants learn, and what he/she is able to bring to the table. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
My teaching experience began 2 years ago when I started teaching a few neighborhood kids that my family knew. By word of mouth I gained 3 more but then I moved to Santa Cruz so I could attend Cabrillo College. These were private lessons all in the homes of the students. But now that I have my own studio, I have been inviting students over to study in my studio. I have been playing guitar for 10 years beginning with professional lessons, electric bass for 7, and drums for 5. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin
I like to teach at the student's pace or what their parents have in mind. When I learned piano, my parents wanted me to learn at a high pace, and forced me to rush everything. As a result, I was able to play a lot of pieces, but the quality of the songs were not the best. I ended up slowing down and spent time to actually work on the tiny details of each song. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar
I tailor each lesson to the unique self and stage of musical development of the student and actively create custom lesson plans and materials to best suit their progress and musical curiousities. Improvisation and rhythm games, music theory essentials, and instrumental basics are core components of my teaching practice. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin Cello Viola Bass Guitar Organ Ukulele Electric Violin Music Keyboard Electric Guitar
Each student learns at their own pace and it's important to understand that not everybody learns the same. Setting both short and long term goals with the student helps me understand what they want out of lessons. This makes it easier for me to engage with them and bring it back to something relevant to them at the end of the day. For example, no child understands advanced rhythm unless you disguise it in familiar terms e.g. using the phrase "run po-ny run" to describe two eighth notes sandwiched in between to quarter notes. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I start my beginning students with Alfred guitar method. If someone wants classical lessons I start them with the Fredrick Noad books and some Sor and Segovia studies. For people interested in improvisation we begin with Blues and then take it where you want to go. Advanced students I give more master class type lessons where we discuss more advanced music ideas. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin Viola Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I love seeing my students grow in their knowledge and appreciation of music! Excellence is rewarding, and I teach the process to get there from whatever level we begin. I use positive reinforcement and notice what the student is doing right. Then, I give critique and an action plan to improve performance. It feels good for the student and teacher when they learn the methods to break down what is currently difficult into smaller pieces so that it is both manageable and possible to go further than they thought. Read More
Instruments: Trumpet
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
In addition to playing the trumpet, I also play ukulele. In my first year at Juilliard, I had a hard time improving at Ear Training. Taking up a chordal instrument like the ukulele allowed me to hear music in a completely different way and advance my ear training skills much more quickly. I think it's very important if you play a single line instrument to learn a chordal instrument; whether it's harp, piano, ukulele, guitar etc. After getting better at ukulele, I formed a band with a colleague from school. Now, I write songs for my band and have a lot of fun playing and performing a different genre of music!
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I have enjoyed playing music since I was very young. When I got to high school, I started taking music seriously and ended up attending the summer music camp at Interlochen Arts Academy. At Interlochen, I gained some of my first experience playing in orchestra which quickly became one of my biggest passions. Near the end of camp, we performed Mahler’s second symphony. I was captivated by this piece, and from the first rehearsal, I decided that I wanted to play and perform music for the rest of my life.
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
A normal practice session for me starts off with about ten minutes of long tones and breathing exercises, resting as much as I play and going very slowly (38 beats per minute). After this, I work out of the Stamp book to play pedal tones and slur up above the staff. Then, I work on technical exercises, which include intervallic slurs, multiple tonguing, articulation and other things from Bai Lin, Shuebruk, Arbans, Flexus or Franquin. I write down everything that I do and how it went. I typically work on a single exercise for about a week and then move on to the next one. After I get my warm up and technical exercises out of the way and take a break, I work on the music that I have to play for any upcoming auditions or performances. It's important to me to start the day off as relaxed as possible, making sure that all of the technical aspects of my playing are in the proper place before I move on to my music. It makes playing difficult music much easier!
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Since the trumpet has a max practice time of around two or three hours, it is incredibly important that students use their time effectively. We can't spend two or three hours on a single passage of music like a violinist or pianist, so every note we play should have our complete attention. Trumpet players must also not overplay anything, as it's very easy to sustain a injury or to lose that mental focus. Resting as much as we play and breaking up practice sessions into thirty-minute blocks is a very effective strategy to working around these issues.
When will I start to see results?
Results can vary student to student. For example, a student working on articulation will see results much faster, a few days to a week, than a student working on an embouchure change, which could take anywhere from month to a year. However, since my lesson plans involve writing everything down (what the exercise or etude the student is working on, what is good and bad about it, time spent on material, what to improve, etc.) students should be able to easily document their progress day by day. When starting out with lessons, it’s typical to see a great deal of improvement in a short amount of time.
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Cities with Students
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