Pablo K  
Instruments: Lute, Double Bass
Styles: Classical

I've been teaching double bass since high school when I was a volunteer teacher at Austin Soundwaves, an El Sistema inspired organization. The organization's cause was to provide access to music-making to underserved communities in the Austin area. I really love being able to give back to the community I live in by sharing what I've learned over the course of my career and education. Similarly, I've provided additional lessons to students in the BYSO Intensive Community Program as a part of the music pedagogy courses I took at Boston University.

For absolute beginners, I begin with the Sassmannshaus double bass book alongside other materials that help to connect musical ideas with something we already know well: speech. I believe that learning music is just like learning another language. We already know how to communicate effectively, we just need to learn how we can effectively translate those thoughts into music. Just like any language, music is structured in its own manner. By teaching a student to understand the building blocks of music, we can help them to communicate their own message to an audience, rather than repeating whatever they may see and hear verbatim. That being said, most learning is done by doing.