Tyler L  
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Drums, Synthesizer, Mallet Percussion, Orchestral Percussion, Latin Percussion
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, R&B, Musical Theater, Funk, Hip Hop, Electronic, Showtunes, New Age, Soul, Marching Band, Punk, Avant-garde

My personal teaching experience began while studying in Phladelphia at teh Unviersity of the Arts. As I started my 5 year Music Education minor/clearence program, I started to adapt what I was learning and develop my own style and flow of teaching. I began tutoring my friends and fellow classmates after school in the music library on campus, teaching them compex jazz theory, ProTools/Logic DAW shortcuts and processes, piano accompaniment, intervals, inversions,  rhythmic dictation, bascally reinforcing what we learned earlier in the class. This continued, grew and developed throughout my 5 year tenure. As required by music education minors, we had to participate in finding an accredited school system and observe for one year and assist for one year. I was fortunate to discover String Theory Charter School in Center City Philadelphia and began walking to the school every morning before my classes started, sitting in the back of the classroom taking notes and shadowing the orchestral and vocal teachers as they went about their morning classes, absorbing as much information as I could. This went on for months, at which time I spent my last year of college assisting both teachers in the field as they taught their classes! I began taking mroe of a central role and the teachers were nice enough to let me take the lead some days. This experience surely brought me out of my shell, standing in front of 40 middle school children! 

The methods have to suit the child and vice versa. I like to began all students by really getting to know their (and their parents') ability, history, desires, needs, wants, ect. I like to base my teaching pedagogy purely around the child, the family, and their learning skills. Everybody is different and it's my job to explore all avenues that the student wants to accomplish in their musical experience. I have taken classes and studied Kodaly, Suzuki, and various other psychological approaches to education. In addition to the pedagogical studies, I was deeply moved by my two semesters of Music for Special Children where we learned to really inspect the human brain function and how different people learn and create. These classes and real-world experience combined with my personal music teachings, have helped develop my own teaching method!