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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Saxophone lessons in Houston . 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: Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Clarinet Euphonium French Horn Tuba
It was a great honor. Late into highschool I was accepted at the DCI CADETS for 3rd trumpet part. This is the second best drum corp (at the time) in the world out of over a dozen different division 1 corps. I unfortunately was not able to perform with them, however it was a great honor just being able to be accepted and to practice with them for 4 months in New Jersey. Read More
Instruments: Violin Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Recorder Euphonium French Horn Piccolo Oboe Bassoon Music
For beginning students who are children, I typically start with the lesson books you or I provide, preferably Hal Leonard's Essential Elements. Once the student has progressed to have a grasp of the fundamentals, I will begin to introduce solo repertoire appropriate for their first recital performance. For adults, I try to find out what the student is interested in, and guide my instruction accordingly to keep the lessons engaging and fun, no matter their ability level. Read More
Instruments: Saxophone Flute Clarinet
Often times, I am teaching myself something new that I am not acquainted with. This gives me the ability to always think as a beginner and to figure out how I can convey information to different students with different learning styles. I have experience teaching classical and jazz lessons. I love growing musicians into be the best that they can be. When I first began to study jazz and bought theory books and listened to jazz in order to get better. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Saxophone Bass Guitar
I have been a music instructor for 13 years now. I have taught different categories of students ranging from 2-65 years old. I started off as a classical teacher for a church choir, in which i taught for 7 years. My students find listening and playing their musical instrument very enjoyable, where personal practice becomes interesting and looked forward to. My students are driven by the joy of the learning process and this has been a reason they improved at a great pace! Read More
Instruments: Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums Tuba Oboe
My starting point for my students is typically having them practice posture, hand position and proper mouthpiece placement. After this has been satisfied, I have the students blow using a breathing exercise. From this, I have the students play the first three notes out of their Habits of Good Musician Book 1. Students will continue in the book and proceed to their daily lesson exercises until they are ready to play other higher level music pieces. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone
I have a variety of methods that I use to teach students. I have used many Hal Leonard's band and guitar books, I use a wide variety of materials so that the students can achieve their goals. There is always new material coming out and I will also write my own technical exercises if the student needs them. Beginning Classical Guitar by Hal Leonard is a specific example of one of the method books that I use for the Classical Method.I incorporate these methods on what the student wants to achieve. Read More
Instruments: Piano Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums Bass Guitar Ukulele Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion
As a drummer that has played in all kinds of styles and venues, I can teach any skill level from the first time picking up sticks to making good drummers great and great drummers legendary. Using my experience as a school band director (4 years), I am also able to teach concert band instruments (trumpet, flute, trombone, etc.) as well as Jazz ensemble instruments (drum set, electric bass). In the short time I have been with my current school, we have been awarded 3 awards: one for best in class, one for superior rating, and one band of distinction. Read More
Instruments: Trumpet
What is your dream piece to perform and why?
My dream piece to perform is Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. I remember hearing it as a kid because it was on Disney’s Fantasia - the segment which illustrates the growth of biological life including the Big Bang and fighting dinosaurs. Stravinsky was the only living composer out of all pieces used in Fantasia and was actually involved with the process. Once I learned about the original intent of this piece in university and how controversial it was with its carnal themes in the ballet, I became increasingly interested in it. Rite of Spring is an avant-garde piece which is something I identify with as a lover of avant-garde music. I would adore to perform Rite of Spring with an orchestra as it is a spectacular piece of music literature.
If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
I cannot imagine being anything other than a musician, especially coming from a very musical family. But if I wasn’t a musician, I would imagine I would work with animals in some way. I might get involved in rescuing animals but the great thing about that is I could do that whilst being a musician. I did think about being a veterinarian or zoologist but chemistry isn’t really a strong point for me and I wanted nothing but to study music. I can’t help but be predisposed to music from a life of listening to all types of music, and enjoying off-kilter and avant-garde types of music since I was very young. Joining jazz band in college pretty much sealed the deal of my becoming a musician.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I absolutely love playing classical music, mastering a piece and adding yourself into it is a feeling like no other. Being introduced to this in college was more than I could have ever imagined. I used to think of playing a piece as just playing it - I didn’t realize how much you could add into music by being yourself and truly feeling the emotions you create by listening to the music. I highly encourage my students to listen to their piece over and over again - to create a story out of the music they are studying - and ultimately to insert themselves into the piece, becoming it.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
I started playing trumpet at age 7 or 8, but I’ve always sang. Once I started college I started exploring my voice a whole lot more - by joining different choirs and actually being a jazz vocalist in the jazz concerts (as well as playing trumpet!) After that it all span out from there. Freshman year you always take a piano course and I got really interested in piano, I’m pretty intermediate with piano and mostly use it to compose. I also learned French horn and played in the horn choir as well as play horn in the lower band. I also started playing guitar around then but I am definitely a beginner; I mostly use the guitar for songwriting and composition. My songwriting course I took my senior year reinforced my guitar playing, piano, and singing even more due to composition.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Absolutely! My musical family has shaped who I am. My grandfather taught me trumpet at about 7 or 8 years old, and he is really great at trumpet. We were able to play together during Christmas and it was really nice. My great uncle Larry is a church pianist. My father is a guitarist - and a fantastic one at that. He is actually in a cover band. And my brother is a drummer/guitarist/bassist. I mainly do trumpet and voice but I aspire to be more like the rest of my family and be a better multi-instrumentalist.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
There was absolutely a defining moment for me. It was my freshman year in college when I joined the lower jazz band that you didn’t have to audition to get into. Greg Ball was the jazz director then and he made rehearsals extremely enjoyable and jazz was a way to bring us all together as one. At the time I was a Agriculture major (which totally wasn’t my style), and I realized “why am I doing anything other than music?”. This question sparked my decision to make music my career and I am so glad I’m not doing anything else that isn’t me.
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