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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Middletown . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Piano Drums Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion
For beginning students, we initially tackle the fundamentals of music and drumming. This includes how to properly hold the sticks, basic reading skills, music terminology, rudiments, and stickings. I also teach one or two drumset beats in the first lesson to show the student that playing drums is for everyone. After the student begins to understand the fundamentals, I structure a tailored lesson plan that addresses their areas of interest. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Banjo Ukulele
All of my lessons are designed to develop technique in an way thats easy to learn and understand. I perfer to make sure the student has an understanding of the first position of the instrument before moving on. We will learn the first position in a way that will allow the student to have fun and develop their own playing style. Next we will move up the instrument learning about theory and chordal harmony. Read More
Instruments: Piano Saxophone Flute Clarinet
My teaching style revolves around the students’ needs and desires in the music. I like to have a balance of exercises that are centered around developing technical facility and developing the ears of the students. Each student is assessed on what they wish to learn and their own capabilities. I like to give a push into a direction that challenges my students but still allows for them to benefit from and enjoy the music. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Flute Piccolo
Teaching is the best decision I have ever made in my entire career. When students first start I always ask them what their goals are and what they would like to work on. My goal for them is to watch them grow into the best musicians they can be because I see so much potential in them. For band students, during marching band camp, I asked my students to play what they could and gave them feedback afterward including suggestions on how to correct bad habits early on. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice
For beginning students who are children, I start with the book "Learn to play piano" for piano students and for guitar "Learn to play guitar." It is a basic book with specific essential elements for reading and understanding music. As the student progresses I use to introduce songs for their repertoire applying what they leaned in the book. For Voice lessons is more practice, which includes exercises for breathing, diction, tune, Corporal expressions among others. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Drums Conga Latin Percussion Music Djembe
In my years of teaching experience in music, English as a second language, and biology, I have found that different students learn differently. Some do best learning by demonstration, others by reading sheet music, others through discussion and application. In general, I have found that when students are given individual focus and a lesson plan built upon their strengths, they excel! I make sure that, whether in individual or clinic style settings, I give attention to each student, work with them, and help them achieve their goals! Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Ukulele Music Acoustic Guitar
I have been playing guitar since I was 16 years old I've been playing music since I was 5 years old when I started playing the organ and the recorder. I continue to learn music and started playing a little bit of flute as I got older I also played drums in marching band in high school. I started teaching guitar when I was about 18 years old just so I could play with some friends who wanted to play but didn't know how to so I started teaching them and over time I realize that I was actually pretty good at teaching so I started teaching other people outside of my friends and started doing pretty good with it. Read More
Instruments: Piano
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
For many of my younger piano students piano lessons are an introduction to the wonderful world of classical music and sonic creativity. As I focus on teaching beginners and intermediate performers I have not had a student that was able to win a national or international competition.
I have had, however, many success stories, from students that went on to become professional musicians to the ones who achieved their most cherished musical goals.
Among these was an adult private student who was so inspired by the musics he played and loved that he went on to compose his own music within the same styles. Eventually he produced a CD of his own music, which he composed, performed and produced.
Several of my former college students who were music majors went on to become accomplished professionals and are now professional musicians and music teachers.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
I believe the hardest lesson for most is the discovery of their abilities and limitations. Learning discipline to focus and the ability to persevere is also a tough task. But once students learn these significant skills they can apply them not only to their musical goals but also to their non-musical world.
On a more practical note, the hardest things are the areas in which the particular student is in greater need of attention. For some this has to do with time. That is, to keep a crisp and dynamic rhythmic and metric patterns. For others this may be related to the issue of finger dexterity. Finally, those who have trouble reading notation may find it tough to decipher complex pieces and to bring out the melodic line in the middle of a jumble of notes.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I teach classical piano and am a conservatory trained pianist and teacher with strong academic background. As a result my teaching methods reflect my classical background. This means that I use the methods used in most conservatories with a leaning on the German technique, as my former teacher was a German trained pianist and composer.
I emphasize a relaxed and natural hand position that uses the natural weight of the pianist’s arms and elbows and an awareness of the student’s posture. I recommend that my students spend a small amount of time working on their technique and warm up prior to practicing their main pieces.
As for the musical material, I use classical piano textbooks such as Beyer’s elementary piano method, Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook, Mozart and Beethoven’s easy pieces, Chopin’s preludes and easy waltzes and Bartok's Mikrokosmos for the beginner to early intermediate students. I have used easy arrangements of classical pieces when my students requested to play those, as I am flexible with the musical choices of my students once they have gained some of the basic musical techniques.
To address my students’ goals I often ask them about their musical interests and request that they think about the pieces that they would ideally like to play. I will then and try to incorporate versions of those pieces or segments of those pieces in order to keep the student inspire and focused on their goals. Those who do not prefer to focus on an ideal piece as a goal usually follow the gradual progression of pieces from simpler compositions to the more complex with a balanced mix of compositions from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century composers.
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