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Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
Thank you for visiting my page. I guess music found me. On a family trip to Mexico by way of Arizona when I was eleven years old I remember guitars seemed to be everywhere. I asked my mom and dad if I could have the toy. When we got home from the trip I registered for music lessons and the guitar soon became my favorite toy. Three things happened that changed my life - after a few months my lesson was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and I remember that if I practiced it hard enough I could get it to sound right. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
I can teach mostly all level voices, male and female. I was teaching children age from 8-14 at Municipal Higher Education Establishment of Choreographic Arts and also give private vocal lessons to students from age 25-68. I love working with beginners because they are open for new experience and ready to receive information. Especially I love working with children, whose desire to learn something new is helping them to move forward very fast. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Acoustic Guitar
I have been teaching Prek- 8th Grade general music, choir, drama and instrumental lessons for the past 5 years. I am a 2009 graduate of Rutgers University with a BA in Music and a 2011 graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University with an MA in Music Education. My primary instrument is trumpet and I have played in a variety of bands and sung in a variety of choruses of the years. I began giving private trumpet lessons in 2004 and began giving piano and voice lessons in college. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I first began teaching while still completing my Bachelors degree at William Paterson in 2011. Most of my students were beginning level piano students, but I had a few more advanced students as well as some people studying saxophone with me. My teaching philosophy is to combine teaching the technique of an instrument with learning songs as well as theory and improvisation/composition. Everyone learns technique, but learning music that I wanted to learn, learning how those songs were written (theory), and eventually elaborating on those songs (improvisation), and writing my own music (composition), was what really got me deeply engaged in the act of practicing and making music, and I have found over several years of teaching that it keeps my students engaged and enjoying the learning process. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Banjo Ukulele
All of my lessons are designed to develop technique in an way thats easy to learn and understand. I perfer to make sure the student has an understanding of the first position of the instrument before moving on. We will learn the first position in a way that will allow the student to have fun and develop their own playing style. Next we will move up the instrument learning about theory and chordal harmony. Read More
Instruments: Piano
Sharing how to make music is a passion of mine. I earned my Bachelor's in Piano Pedagogy, and, as of May 2016, my MM in Piano Pedagogy from Texas Christian University. For the last 5 years, I have taught piano private and group lessons of all ages. Both lesson types are beneficial for students, since each has his own learning style. Private lessons allow the student to interact one-on-one with his instructor, and group lessons provide peer interaction to aid learning. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trumpet Trombone French Horn Tuba
I believe that my style is really flexible. I think that everybody has a different way to learn so my style will vary based on the student. I also believe that the role of the teacher should the one of facilitating the student process but ultimately is the student who should dictate the style and the pace of the lesson. I believe also that listening is a really important part of music learning so I have my student listening to a lot of different music and also I play with them all the time so that they can hear and feel what is it to play together. Read More
Instruments: Piano Drums Mallet Percussion Conga Djembe
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
I'm not sure why I chose the drums. I remember seeing videos on TV and thinking to myself that drums looked like a lot of fun. And this was one year before the time in elementary school when you were allowed to study a string instrument. Drum studies were not even offered until 4th grade.
I guess in hindsight I intuitively knew the drums were a very creative instrument. I also felt that because there were no harmony or melody that I had a better chance of just diving into the instrument and figuring most things out by trial and error.
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
In no particular order I am proud of many things. The first thing that comes to mind is graduating from Bucks County Community College and Temple University. This comes to mind first only because besides studying drums, which I was already very accomplished at, I had to learn how to sing in tune, dictate and transcribe melody and harmony as well as compose music using theory. Being a drummer left me with a disadvantage when it came to those topics. But since I had developed discipline and time management with drums I was able to achieve the things I didn't think I was capable of.
Also very proud of my band iNFiNiEN. Every week we continue to sell our CD's and Merch all across the world online. Our latest CD has been considered "a masterpiece" and "one of the year's best" by many critics. In 2014 the Buffalo News listed our live show as one of the best that year. Included on the list was The Flaming Lips as well as Jane's Addiction!!! A real honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as those bands.
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
I am not aware of any special award or honors that my students' may have received. But, I do know that many of my students and I have worked on preparing music to help them get into Jazz Band at their school or to even pass and entrance audition for a college.
As far as I can remember in every one of those cases the student ending up passing the auditions. I do know for a fact that many of my older students in high school are considered to be some of the best drummers in the area for their age. And that means a lot. It takes many, many years for other things to develop in order to receive honorable mentions or awards.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
I think that the most difficult thing to master on the drums is coordination of all four limbs. There is no other instrument that uses all four limbs. Piano comes close with the sustain pedals but not nearly as difficult a use of independence.
In order to play four limbs takes serious understanding of timing and rhythmic subdivision. It also takes precision of playing in order to gain clarity on part distribution and harmonic interplay.
Playing the drums with just your hands is the start. Then adding the bass drum followed by the hi-hat.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I do not believe in having a set curriculum. But I do believe in creating a personalized curriculum based on each student's skill level and areas of interest.
In general my favorite books to study are Stick Control and Syncopation for the Modern Drummer. These books focus on the basics of playing and reading rhythm. 4 Combined, these books provide a great foundation for students to get up and running on the very first lesson.
Other books I like to work with a Jim Riley's Art of Bop Drumming and Fusion Drum Styles.
For advanced players I recommend The New Breed and Future Sounds.
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