Shelby L  
Instruments: Piano, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Drums, French Horn, Mallet Percussion, Oboe
Styles: Classical, Pop, Folk, Country, Musical Theater, Opera, Showtunes, Spirituals, Swing, Samba, Marching Band

I have taught privately since junior year of high school through college. I have taught for marching band with 4 different bands in Columbia, SC and taught as a private woodwind instructor for Augusta University Music Camp. I taught as a Band/Orchestra director at a local private school where I started a marching band program. Currently I am the band director at Ave Maria University in Naples Fl. I enjoy students of all ages and am a big advocate that its never ever to late to learn to play or sing!! I engage students with theory, aural skills training, instrumental technique and fundamental performance habits. My students learn etudes, scales, pop songs, and music for all state auditions and recital repertoire. I often have my students collaborate to create small ensembles to improve listening skills and perform with other musicians.

I teach from a variety of materials including Rubank Method, Standard of Excellence for beginners. I have created my own curriculum standards for beginners that enforces fundamentals before adding music. This allows students to develop an ear for tonality, modality, intervals, tone quality, and timbre. It also serves the purpose of learning rhythm by sound before sight to create a solid habit of subdividing beats of music. As students transition to music by sight, they have more understanding of the core components of music, rhythm, pitch and musicality and executive skills.