Queade D  
Instruments: Piano, Voice
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Gospel, Musical Theater, Funk, Showtunes, Spirituals, Swing, Samba, Bossa Nova, Soul

Since 2011, I have worked with my voice teacher as an apprentice to understand how the voice fundamentally functions. Each voice is different, so I treat it as such. No artist is the same. PLEASE DO NOT SEEK VOICE LESSONS EXPECTING ME TO CREATE A MIRACLE. I encourage you to write out your goal(s) before seeking lessons. The voice is a muscle and I treat it as such when teaching, especially in young children. I teach to inform performers how to healthily sing for a long time. Every student will be exposed to a variety of styles and will settle on the genre or genres that appeals to you the most. I encourage students to perform as often as possible in school choirs, musicals, community theatre, etc to learn the reality of performing in professional environments. It is okay to take lessons to build confidence when speaking in public. It is okay to want to learn how to write your own songs. Allow your love for music to live at the forefront of your endeavors.

For students who are just beginning with voice lessons, I like to start them off by asking a series of questions to learn about their background in order to gauge how I will teach them. Some questions include the following: do you listen to music? What kind of music do you listen to? Do you play sports? What kind of sports? What are your eating habits? Just to name a few. Then I will ask the student to sing vocal exercises to assess their aural skill level. Then from there I will have students sing a song or a few songs that showcase their artistic expression. Then after every lesson, I will assign work that should be done in between our lessons. Practicing is ESSENTIAL TO GROWTH! I cannot stress this enough.

Piano lessons work a bit differently. I will ask questions about their background, however most of the learning begins with theory books. Once the work has been assigned in the theory books, the student and I will choose a fun piece to learn where the student will be able to apply the theory they learned. Then each week the student will practice.