Matt N  
Instruments: Drums
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Latin, Funk, Hip Hop, Latin Jazz, Swing, Samba, Bossa Nova, Avant-garde

I've been teaching private lessons since 2010, as well as teaching in studios and doing workshops for children. I encourage my students to work toward their goals and always practice! As a practicing musician you are in control of your own destiny! A major reason I became a musician was to be able to create and in order to create you must have the tools to do so. Taking private lesson will help you gain those tools and give you more motivation to keep going! I believe in giving back to the music through helping students achieve their goals.

I believe in tailoring my lesson plans to individual students. I like to target a students musical goals and help them achieve them whether it be through method books or passing down techniques. I've been fortunate enough to have been around many incredible educators throughout the years and try to take the methods they've showed me and apply it to my own teaching style. For drum students I teach out of various books including Syncopation, Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Stick Control and Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments. For my piano students the books I use range from John Thompson Piano books for beginners to various classical piano books from Hanon, Cherney and Bach. For jazz piano I teach out of the Mark Levine book.