John M  
Instruments: Trumpet, Trombone
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Funk, Reggae, Swing, Soul, Marching Band, Avant-garde

My teaching experience began with an in depth class in my undergrad about music pedagogy. This class got my wheels turning about how I would communicate to students in a way they would understand. From there I have had several students, not including when I teach my non music friends how to do simple music tasks, who I instructed privately and enjoyed immensely finding what excites and motivates different people. My most recent student made it into the Connecticut All State Jazz and progressed rapidly with my instruction.

I find music has two important aspects to emphasize, reading and understanding music theory on sight, and hearing and interpreting music. For reading and music theory at it's most basic level I use books like Arban's method. This book contains scales and patterns that are easy to digest for someone learning to read music while also building up the intricate brass technique needed for all brass instruments. For hearing and interpreting I use simple excercises to start like having a student play back a simple line I play to them or have them identify what kind of scale it chord I just played. This combined with the theoretical knowledge mentioned before accumulates into a students ability to hear and break down any music allowing them to freely improvise or simply transcribe whatever music they wish.