Ravia P  
Instruments: Piano, Voice, Saxophone
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop

My teaching would focus on performing and helping you find inspiration for your own music. Discipline and fun are both important! I have a lot of experience in music and can share a lot of fundamental knowledge about composing, producing, and theory. I find it very important to come to a lesson with motivation and goals as I would like for it to be an engaging learning process where students learn by doing even if it means playing a phrase 10xs in a row correctly. Understanding scales, chords, and patterns in the music you like helps you to start writing your own music- it's like an artist's palette! I can also explain things visually, as there are different approaches to understanding musical concepts that help students prepare for recitals and performances. Different people learn in different ways, and I can adapt my teaching to that, which can help students get ready for recitals and performance's.

For beginning musicians and children, I find it is best to start with the fundamentals: an introduction to music vocabulary. introducing major scales, common time signatures, and basic rhythms. from there, we'll move on to reading sheet music and performing simple rhythms, melodies, and phrases. One of my go-to resources for this is the standard of excellence book 1. For adults or experienced musicians, we'll take a different approach. we'll start by diving into some of their own favorite tunes. This gives me a good sense of ones own current skill level and interest. Based on that, I will introduce piece from the Great American Songbook or the Real Book that align with your abilities and musical tastes, while also gently pushing you to expand your repertoire and challenge yourself.