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Instruments: Trumpet Flute
I have taught students from the ages 6 to over 30. I have been a student teacher as well as a private teacher. I have written over 10 arrangements for a college band. I have performed numerous recitals and a masterclass. I can and have worked with group lessons as well as private teacher. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Violin Viola Music Keyboard
Ive been in choirs (from community to All-State) since I was born, literally - my mom was the church choir director, and I followed suit, assisting her and student-directing my high school choir. I started piano lessons in 4th grade and used it to compose my own music and play in churches since then. I began studying violin in kindergarten via the Suzuki Method and played in the Trevecca Symphony Orchestra in Nashville, TN from 2007-2018. Read More
Instruments: Piano Organ Keyboard
For pianist lessons, I like to use the Piano Adventures book series for beginner students of any age. These are the books I used when I began taking lessons at the age of six, and I have found that they are a very productive tool in teaching students with a a variety of different backgrounds. For organ lessons, I like to use Hal Leonards First Organ Book, as it contains many pieces of music that target work on specific techniques from legato fingerings to proper pedal techniques. Read More
Instruments: Piano
I am pretty new to teaching, since I started at around August of 2017. I taught for around one year in my senior year of high school, and had to leave for college during summer of 2018. I taught students at any place they were convenient with: sometimes at my studio, sometimes at their homes. I loved teaching when I first started. I am mostly focused on classical music, but teaching students helped me understand many more genres of music. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Bass Guitar Ukulele Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I love to see my students overcome challenges in music. My music teacher used to say, "nothing is hard, or difficult, just challenging." If students learn how to practice effectively on their own, learning new music becomes easier over time. I teach my students how to approach a certain rhythm, phrase, or fingering and the techniques to do so correctly such as by slowing down and practicing with a metronome, our muscle memory will be able to play it up to speed once it's learned. Read More
Instruments: Drums Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion Conga Latin Percussion Djembe
Nothing is more important to me than seeing my students develop not only their skills as a player but also true passion for music. Whether I'm working with a youngster or an adult, I always employ a kind, encouraging and patient teaching style. First and foremost, I aim to create a fun and relaxed learning environment. When a student is hitting a wall with a particular skill, I will then move on to something else, to then return to the skill after giving the student a mental break. Read More
Instruments: Flute Piccolo
I am a flute/piccolo player in the DC area with experience teaching private lessons, group lessons and coaching small ensembles as well as extensive performance experience with various orchestras and chamber groups. I have spent summers at various music festivals, from the Monteux School in Maine to the American Institute of Musical Studies in Austria. I currently sub with Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies (PA) and freelance in and around Philadelphia and DC. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Bass Guitar Ukulele Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
First of all, practicing out of a sense of obligation is a dead end. The internet is filled with articles and interviews of some of the greatest musicians of our time and virtually all of them agree on this point. Practice needs to have a sense of excitement and freshness. Of course, there are aspects of practice that are challenging and sometimes repetitive and no musician can entirely avoid those. However, our main motivation for practicing music needs to flow out of inspiration and love for what we're doing. So, incorporating a sense of play is important in any practice session. It is paramount to allow periods of practice, particularly the beginnings of practice sessions, to contain free-form exploration of the instrument in the form of improvisation, exploring the sound possibilities of the instrument, and anything that sparks the curiosity and imagination of the musician.
How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
When your child is nagging you over a period of many months to buy them the instrument of their choice, that is generally the surest indicator that they are ready to start lessons. If they have already established musical interests, especially under the age of ten, that is a bonus. Usually, children under the age of ten experience obstacles to learning the guitar because of motor-skill development issues. This is not such a big deal, as the years before the child's hands and body catch up with their interest, can be used to explore music and develop their interests. This is a vastly underestimated and critically important part of the development of any musician. Making progress on an instrument becomes much easier when the interests of the student are already well established.
When will I start to see results?
There is no way to answer this question other than to say that it depends on the student. The factors are so varied, including age, musical interests, physical ability, personality type, and others, that the outcome is impossible to predict. Any other answer is misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. Also, I am uncomfortable with the implications of the questionl. After all, how do we define "results"? Is our idea of results being able to play certain pieces of music by certain points? Being performance ready after a certain period of time? If so, we are almost certainly setting ourselves up for frustration and disappointment, even if we achieve the goal we have set for ourselves. If our idea of seeing results involves enjoying ourselves from the very first lesson and taking pride in whatever we are able to accomplish, then results come immediately. Those are the kinds of results I strive for and I find that this kind of less goal-oriented approach paradoxically produces better results, in terms of practical outcomes.
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
I have a number of former students who are now performing and teaching professionals. A former student of mine recently graduated from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County's jazz guitar program and has become an outstanding guitarist and musician. Another former student now tours regularly with his band and has been doing so for years. I have had students who went on to successful teaching and performing careers, at the School of Rock and at Music and Arts Center in particular. Beyond that, I've had students who developed themselves in ways they wouldn't have thought possible before they started.
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