Music Lessons Sonoma County, CA

Instruments: Double Bass, Music

Hello! I am a passionate music educator and performer who loves to share my experience and passion for music with my students. I have received my education across the country at schools including California State University, Fullerton and Manhattan School of Music, and have now come back to Southern California where I grew up and currently reside. While I have a deep rooted love of performing, I also find it incredibly rewarding to share my experience with students and encourage them to develop their interests in music as well. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Drums, Bass Guitar, Music, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

I tend to allow things to evolve organically, meaning I let the student inform me about what excites them the most. This way, I can better ensure that lessons will be enjoyable. Also, understanding their preferences helps me build a better game plan for assisting them with their goals . . . and helping students reach their goals is certainly one of my biggest goals as a teacher! At the end of the day, I just want the people I teach to have an enjoyable experience learning music, enriching their lives with the wonderful gift of music. Read More

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

We will start with the 12 bar blues (in order to work on finger dexterity) and work our way up into the pentatonic, major, and minor scales. Students will also learn during this time, various techniques to add more expressiveness or feeling to their playing such as slides, bends, vibrato, hammer ons/offs, double stops, etc. For the later stages of this course, students will learn about other scales of interest (melodic minor, harmonic minor, etc.), scale modalitys (the modal scales), five string arpeggios, tapping arpeggios, and advanced techniques such as tremolo picking, sweep picking, hybrid picking, economy picking, harmonics (natural, artificial, and pinch), and tapping (both one hand and two handed). Read More

Instruments: Saxophone, Clarinet, Music

During my entire career, I have worked as a private teacher of Clarinet and Saxophone, with people from all ages, 10 to 60. In 2011, I also worked as a Clarinet and Saxophone teacher for Altamira School, a private school in Santiago, Chile. I have Classical, Jazz and Latin-American music experience; learning, performing, recording and teaching. I developed my career as a musician in Chile as a Saxophone and Clarinet player, performing with many different styles of bands and orchestras, so I have experience playing Jazz, Latin Jazz, Blues, Funk, Afro Beat, Salsa (Son, Rumba, Mambo, etc), Bossa Nova, Samba, Tango, etc.  I also Performed, Collaborated and Recorded with: La Pozze Latina, Irazú Big Band, Gitano, Carlos Cabezas, Tonino Carotone, Luis Jara, Leo Quinteros, Gonzales y los Asistentes and Benjamín Lechuga. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Synthesizer, Ukulele, Music, Keyboard, Acoustic Guitar

For beginning students, I like to give them a solid foundation of music theory and help them to learn their instrument, teaching them chords, posture and scales. I use my own lesson plans as well as a method of books and other teaching materials. These are the essentials. Once a student understands the fundamentals and gets a firm grasp on them I like to branch out and find out what they are interested in learning as well as their goals. Read More