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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Downers Grove . 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: Piano Keyboard
This will help students become better story teller through music once they realize how they want to lead a performance. Each student has different way to build up their own musical capability and artistry. I firmly believe when I give the opportunity and knowledge, students can cultivate a powerful message through music. I also design activities to learn collaboration with others in order to strengthen student's sight-reading, score reading, and ear training. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums Bass Guitar
I work very closely with every student customizing lesson plans based on their needs. From the very first lesson, we figure out his/her goals and we write them down. Then I create a lesson plan specifically suited to get them to where they want to be. I often recommend specific songs or artists they should listen to as well as certain books and practice exercises that gravitate towards reaching their goal and most importantly; true potential. Read More
Instruments: Piano
My teaching dates back to my high school days, as I began teaching private lessons in my students' homes. I learned as I went along the different ways to engage different types of students, and I loved seeing the growth from week to week. I've found that my students took a lot of pride in learning to play a song they thought was too difficult for them, or in overcoming a specific hurdle. Read More
Instruments: Piano Music Keyboard
My Teaching experience is I started out I was a music tutor in college back in 1994. I had two students 25 years ago. It was in their home. Back in 1999, my cliental increased up to 6 students but I went from house to house . That was rough.Back 2006, I taught in the home with my grandmother. I was also giving Piano lessons after school when I worked at Higher Learning Day care and I worked there for 6 years from 2002-2008. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Violin Viola Music Keyboard
My methods depend on my students' ages, experience, and instruments. I incorporate books from Full Voice, Suzuki, Schradiek, Piano Pronto, Bastien, and more! I ensure that my students are getting the essential education that will help them grow and succeed as a musician. In addition to teaching exercises, technic, warmups, scales, chords, arpeggios (and more), I also ensure that students are applying these things to pieces that are important to learn through lesson books and with songs that my students want to learn. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Trumpet Bass Guitar Ukulele Keyboard Electric Guitar Djembe Acoustic Guitar
I'm here to help the student. We all were students at one point and I remember how I felt in the learning stages. I'm just trying to help the student understand their instrument and assist while bringing confidence to venture the possibilities they can have with that instrument. My teaching style is a fun and simple one. I always say that practice is the best teacher but as an instructor in here to help with the journey. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Harmonica Recorder Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
i was taught piano at the age of 5 years old by my father. i finished many piano method books my father instructed me on. at the age of 8 i learned to play the bass. i was in love with it more than the piano and became my main instrument. finished many bass method books as well. by the time i was 14 i was playing guitar, saxophone, drums and singing in choir. as i got older i began performing in concerts. i have performed in over 3,000 concerts since then and continue to. music is a way of life for me. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I decided to become a professional upon graduation from my undergraduate music school. After graduation, I was able to get a job in music retail at a large music company in Los Angeles, California. My job at that time was demonstrating organs in retail stores to sell to customers. The hope was to get people to buy organs with group organ instruction. In my classes, I would have as many as 50 students observing me at a concert theater organ with a mirror over the console. Each person was able to obersve my hands and fingers during the instruction.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Music does run in my family. My mother was a very gifted pianist but never studied the keyboard formally. She is most likely the person I inherited my playing skills from. My mother's mother was also a pianist and played at her community church. I can vividly remember going to church and hearing my grandmother play for her choir rehearsals and even church. It was such a pleasure and will always be part of my life's journey. I might mention also that my uncle is quite gifted at playing keyboard. When he was growing up, he did study piano formally.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
When I was a junior at West Virginia University, that was the year I began the study of the organ and decided later to make a career in church music with this instrument. The organ has offered me more opportunities performing as I never thought. I've had workshops with Marie-Claire Alain, Anton Heiller, Flor Peeters, and others. Once, I had the priviledge of hearing and meeting Madeline-Durufle. She did a concert at National city Christian Church back in the mid-1980's and I must say that every organist within 100 miles of Washington, D.C. attended.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
My favorite style/genre of music is baroque and classical. To me, Johann Sebastian Bach was the greatest baroque composer when it came to organ and piano works. Bach was also the ultimate church composer and his output was enormous. Then when the transition to classical occurred, my all-time favorite composers was Mozart and Beethoven. It is a toss up between Mozart and Beethoven as to who is the greatest, but I would have to say Mozart. His music is straight from heaven and is likened to a puzzle. When you hear it, it
is a like a puzzle, every piece fits perfectly.
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