Clarinet Lessons Mountain

Instruments: Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Recorder

  General teaching philosophy: I help my students build good fundamentals.  I customize lessons to define and reach realistic goals and address students’ school band needs or other musical activities.  I respect students’ other interests and pursuits.  I am an experienced professional musician well versed in woodwinds and a variety of styles.  I can offer students a broad spectrum of musical knowledge. I can teach all levels from a young beginner to an adult professional.  I can offer individual or group instruction. Read More

Instruments: Saxophone, Clarinet, Music

I have been playing the clarinet for over 10 years now and the alto saxophone for 8 years. I have loved band for a long time and am currently studying to be a music teacher with a band emphasis at BYU. Teaching is something that brings me great joy and I love to watch as students progress and gain that same joy. I have experience teaching in small settings through school, both high school and college. Read More

Instruments: Voice, Clarinet

For beginning voice I start with the fundamentals and breathing techniques. For beginning Clarinet lessons I start with the basics and fundamentals from assembling and disassembling the instrument along with proper cleaning, Storage and proper placement of fingers for playing and basic breathing techniques. Once the student grasps the fundamentals I begin to introduce notes, scales and exercises, moving up to solo repertoire. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Recorder, Music, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Djembe, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

I love making music with all kinds of people, but I now specialize in gifted and twice-exceptional children, adults who are re-starting an instrument after many years, family lessons in which each member has different a learning need or even a different instrument, and facilitating interactive musical events (such as community sing-alongs, drum circles, and eclectic ensemble performances.) My teaching style is Learning by Doing, and I employ mindfulness training, performance-readiness, breathing and stretching routines. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Saxophone, Clarinet

For beginning improvisers, I rely solely on my own materials and exercises, which emphasize the bebop scale and short ii-V licks and help develop understanding of key centers and 7-3 resolutions. For intermediate students as well, these concepts are essential to development as an improviser. For saxophonists, I begin with scalar studies and stress the importance of tone developing exercises such as overtones and long tones, but quickly introduce manageable repetoire. Read More