Richard D  
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Synthesizer, Ukulele, Recorder, Piccolo, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, R&B, Musical Theater, Funk, Hip Hop, Electronic, Reggae, Swing, Soul, Punk, Avant-garde

My passion for teaching began in my Junior year of high school in 2011-2012, when I spent 6 months teaching guitar lessons to elementary school students at a local YMCA after-school program. With a class size of approximately 10-15 students, I learned many valuable teaching methods for students of all backgrounds and learning methods. Later that year, I said goodbye to my students to move to Boston and attend Berklee College of Music, however, in summer of 2014, I revived my passion for teaching when I started a saxophone lesson program at Brighton's All 'Bout Christ church. Since then, I have moved on to teach saxophone, flute, piano, and theory lessons at Onset School of Music in Wakefield from summer of 2018, until an unexpected family emergency in May of 2019 caused me to have to leave work to attend family.

For beginners, I have a multitude of etudes, simple songs, and exercises to encourage sight-reading, finger comfortability, and basic cognitive understanding of music fundamentals such as scales. For guitar, I usually begin with fun simple songs such as "What do we do with the Drunken Sailor" and a simple blues. For woodwind instruments, I'll typically begin with songs such as Hot Cross Buns, Mary Had a Little Lamb, or some holiday songs during the holiday season. For more seasoned learners, I typically utilize the practice of transcription, Klose and similar classical etude books for saxophone, Werner classical etude book for flute, and a host of other intermediate-professional books, transcriptions and learning materials for other instruments, as well as a lesson-by-lesson breakdown of scales, chords, arpeggios, harmonic analysis of songs, and related chord scales, melodic and harmonic exercises.