Violin Lessons Mountain

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Violin, Cello, Viola, Recorder, Double Bass, Music, Keyboard, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

For beginning students, I typically start with Hal Leonard's Essential Elements as I believe it the most comprehensive lesson guide for fundamentals. I do also on occasion utilize the Suzuki method for my string students in addition to EE. Every lesson begins with tuning and scales which helps train the ear and prepare students for the lesson at hand. From there we will go through the pieces as written. Once the student has a grasp of the fundamentals, we will begin to introducing solo pieces such as etudes and other popular music they may be into to keep them engaged. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Violin

I have a violin performance degree and long term Suzuki teacher training from Northern Arizona University. My passion is teaching the joy of music! I am most qualified to teach violin and viola, but I am also comfortable teaching beginning piano. Besides my Suzuki training, which makes me an ideal teacher for young children, I love in working with adults and teaching all styles of music including fiddle. I specialize in audition prep and orchestra repertoire and I enjoy working with all ages and levels. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Violin, Fiddle, Music

At present my practice of teaching music involves inspiring other singers to want to sing along during Zoom meetings, or giving them the tools to make a good audio recording for a virtual choir. Recently I made slideshows of the music score synchronized with the audio track for their voice part. I took responsibility for my own learning, and shared my tools with others. The singers in my choir made good use of these musical slideshows. Read More

Instruments: Violin, Viola, Electric Violin

My main focus with string instruments is sound development - how to use the bow properly and get a beautiful sound from the instrument first and foremost. I typically use Sound Innovations for Strings for beginning students, and start supplementing with different repertoire as we get further into lessons. For beginning students, we start with a proper hold, left hand set up, and only after that do we get to using the bow so we can focus on getting the best sound possible out of the instrument. Read More

Instruments: Violin, Viola

Melissa’s goal is to help each student reach their full potential. She cares about excellent music making and interested in the character developed by striving for musical excellence. Melissa believes every human has an inherent love for music and a musical voice they need to express. This is why Melissa finds great fulfillment in helping students of all levels and ages realize their musical dreams through classical music lessons. Read More