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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Saxophone lessons in Austin . 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: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
Both of my degrees were in music education, although I did start a second masters degree in jazz studies. Since 1981, I've been teaching in several settings. I was a full time public school band director for four years, and have taught all the way to the college level and adults, teaching classes in jazz studies and private lessons on saxophone. I've done woodwind coaching as well as private teaching since 1985. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone
I began teaching part-time in 2018, when I took on my first student in my final year at University. Since then, I have made a point to take on students who are eager to learn and excited about music. I have found during my time that every student loves to learn relevant skills that build toward an end goal, and I encourage my students to branch out and try things outside of our lessons to great success! Read More
Instruments: Guitar Saxophone Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
Ive been teaching private saxophone lessons for 3 years. Ive developed a simple method to customize each students practice routine. Students are all different and have different strengths and weaknesses. Its very important for musicians to be honest with themselves about their struggles in music. I help direct their focus and plan a written practice log in their own notebook. Writing down goals and achievements weekly helps motivate students and keeps them practicing. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I am a University of North Texas graduate. I studied with Jim Riggs and Dr. Eric Nestler and played in the top lab bands and classical ensembles while attending school. I later moved to NYC where I started my professional playing career. I lived there for 14 years playing with several music ensembles and studied with Bill Blount on clarinet and Lorrie Glaze on piano. I played on Broadway musicals like Avenue Q and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Flute Clarinet Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I am a passionate and dedicated musician with a broad range of experiences both in education and performance. As a solo artist, I have toured the United States extensively, and have performed at festivals in the Caribbean and Denmark. Having performed and taught music in so many styles, I feel I can bring a lot of perspective to each lesson. I earned my Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas in 2015, and have really settled in to the Central Texas community. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Saxophone Music
Typically, I like to start every lesson by spending some time working on specific vocal techniques. Good fundamentals are very important - developing good singing habits while getting rid of bad ones is key to consistent improvement. I believe that as a teacher, the best thing I can do for a student is to give them the tools to succeed outside of the lesson. We also spend time practicing musicianship skills, which means time spent on ear-training and learning to read music. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet Piccolo Oboe Bassoon
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Let's first slow it down and play it right
and musically. Let's also work on the more difficult parts of the pieces. How about playing for some else. Let make it musical. I love using selected solos to help in developing the, especially with band or piano accompaniment duets are fun and especially helpful in concentrating on the individual parts while blending and making the lines musical. A set time to best fit in the busy schedules of our lives is helpful
and keeping track of our daily practicing, coupled with conversations
on best practices on how to get the best results from the invested practice time.
How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
Young beginners should have the basiic size to control their instrument. This includes body size and height to successfully handle and balance their
instrument. The student needs to have the strength to hold and support the instrument properly so as to be able to
control the correct needed armbiture. Very important is the hand and arm development to have control the instrument and push and maneuver the keys, valves, or slides that will be in use
Maturity and the commitment for home practice to facilitate the development that will come with the proper home preparation
When will I start to see results?
Positive progress will be quick in arriving IF the student is dedicated
To his outside the lesson practice and preparation A good relationship is critical for instrument technical for the teacher and student as well as the parents
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
I was raised in a musical household and family so the motivation and desire to
Play was strongly there. My uncle was a wonderful Saxophonist who played
and recorded with good big bands was an inspiration and helped develop the thirst to play a woodwind.
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
My graduate degrees and training and
my talented and successful students There are many who have gone on to be successful musicians and teachers.
My experience as a college instructor and director and the many non musicians that experienced the joy of music in their life's Probably the most rewarding has been my directorship of my contemporary big band at the university with many performance at various venues, recordings and work with schools and public school students and band directors sharing musical moments and memories
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
Sight reading is a complex skill that can only be developed with much time reading various and different sight reading material. It is a skill that separates the good player from the the
Excellent player
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
A wonderful approach for a well rounded and comprehensive lesson routine would have some long toned
with perhaps vibrato workout. A run through of scales or arpeggios is a must, with sporadic metronomic assistance. The lesson material with all rhythmic, time and key atuness is important and attention to articulation
and dynamics continues to build musicality and student awareness for
more musical and creative approach to
Future sight reading and a generally more complex approach to the student's musical IQ.
If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
Music Education Bachelors Degree and Master's of Music
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