Brittany C  
Instruments: Guitar, Voice, Clarinet, Ukulele, Recorder, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Folk, Country, Gospel, Musical Theater, Showtunes, Marching Band

My teaching experience is as varied as my interests. I currently teach music and band at a local school. Since 2003, I have taught private lessons in Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio. My students have ranged in age from 6 to 18 and I have both started beginners and seen my long-term students graduate high school. I have taught Elementary General Music for two years. For five years I conducted a children's choir in my community. I was also an instructor at the Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp, a counselor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and the Music Mentor of the Resident College of Arts in Humanities at MSU. I served as a woodwind specialist for marching bands for several years. I previously taught classes on music technology and composition at MSU and assisted in Early Childhood music classes at CMS. For two years I had an assistantship with MSU teaching private lessons in music composition and solo teaching classes on introduction to music technology. I love to teach children and teens! No age is too young, as long as the child is ready to learn and excited about music, I will welcome them into my studio with open arms.

The first lesson is both an assessment and an opportunity for my student and I to get to know each other. Based on the student's level, personality, instrument, and interests I have a variety of ideas about beginning methods. Either way, most of my students do focus on scales, exercises, and songs. My philosophy is to teach the student, not JUST the music. Also, I believe in "comprehensive" musicians-ones that can perform, understand, write, and create. Because of this, all of my instruction connects to music theory and song writing/composition.