Louis P
Instruments: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Double Bass, Classical Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Latin Jazz
Louis P
Instruments: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Double Bass, Classical Guitar
Styles:
Classical, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Latin Jazz
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 10-80
Pursued BM, Music Performance / BS, Computer Science - University of Missouri, Columbia - 2010-2011
BS Music Production - McNally Smith College of Music, Saint Paul MN - 2011-2014 (graduated Aug 2014)
MM Music Technology - Southern Utah University - 2024-2025 (expected grad. March 2025)
2007-2010 - Member of Missouri All District and All State Orchestras each year
2010 - Lees Summit West "Arion" Award Recipient
I am primarily an electric guitarist who has a fascination with composing/producing original music of a wide variety of styles. I was born into a musical family; I began taking classical lessons on piano at age six, and later upright bass at eight (guitar being a venture on my own accord that began somewhere in between). Though I consider guitar to be my main instrument, double bass allowed me to achieve considerable success in my high school years. From 2006 to 2010 I sat first chair in the symphonic orchestra at Lees Summit West High School (Lees Summit, MO) and was even a member of the Missouri All-State Orchestra all four years. From 2011 to 2014 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Production at the McNally Smith College of Music in Saint Paul, MN. Since then I have had the pleasure of teaching many guitar and bass students of all ages and experience levels, and I hope to continue to do so while I am not composing!
I've been teaching on some sort of basis since my senior year of high school, when I spent a semester helping the middle school I had previously attended with an upright bass after school program. After high school, my focus was primarily on getting through college, so I taught lessons here and there but not anywhere near full time. When I earned my degree, however, I had some time to begin taking on students on a more regular basis. I'd teach close friends, friends of other family members, and it was then that I began to realize how rewarding teaching can be. When I finally became employed as a teacher at the beginning of 2015, having up to 20 students per week, it became even more clear to me that I could really have been finding some sort of a calling. Very few things feel as amazing as watching another's excitement unfold as he or she makes apparent progress on his or her instrument. My biggest goal is to to help facilitate this kind of progress in the smoothest, most enjoyable way.
I enjoy using popular method books designed to help develop technique at the student's specific level. I also particularly enjoy creating my own exercises that may be more beneficial to a student's specific technique development. Being a bass/rhythm guitarist, I place a lot of value on tempo and rhythm accuracy, and other key elements to being able to play successfully with others. I believe technique development to be of vital importance and approach it on a student by student basis - no two students have exactly the same lesson plan!
What do you want to learn? I encourage all students to convey to me their interests! I can come up with suggestions as much as you'd like, but my favorite lessons are the ones where a student has his or her own goal, and I'm able to help them achieve this goal in some way. We will always have technique exercises and drills to work on, but we'll never lose sight of why we do all this technique building in the first place - to get better at something we love! This makes my overall teaching style highly individualized.
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