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Featured Piano Teachers Near Plainfield, IL

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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Piano lessons in Plainfield . 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!

Irene Z

Instruments: Piano

I believe students must first acquire competence in theory and proper technique, followed by artistic expression. My teaching style is encouraging, patient, thorough, nurturing, engaging, challenging and fun. To progress, students must practice daily. I let my students know that quality and focus of practice is far more important than duration. They learn to isolate 2 or 3 measures, and repeat them slowly until accuaracy is achieved consistently. I convey my love of teaching by: complimenting students on achieving goals, smiling, being energetic, making sure the student lets me know when he/she does not understand a concept and re-explaing it until it is understood with gentleness and patience, bringing in adjunct music from which the student, after hearing me play several excerpts, can select several pieces, playing duets with the student, and encouraging students to compose their own songs by ear, which I later notate. Read More

Grace S

Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Cello Trombone Bass Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

For beginning students who are children, I typically start with Hal Leonard's Essential Elements, scales, and basic music theory. Once the student has progressed to have a grasp of the fundamentals, I will begin to introduce solo repertoire appropriate for their first recital performance. For adults and continuing students, I try to find out what the student is interested in and guide my instruction accordingly to keep the lessons engaging and fun, no matter their ability level. Read More

Marjorie L

Instruments: Piano

I am highly motivated to determine the unique musical talent of each individual student, and their learning style and developing their potential. I have a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Music in Piano Pedagogy, and an Educational Specialist Degree in Special Education. This degree is the same as an ED D, but many electives. Mine was in brain sciences, neurology, autism, developmental disorders, and music. This degree enables me to use music for cognitive improvement in autism. Read More

Matthew P

Instruments: Piano

I have been teaching piano lessons for over a decade. I have held private studios in Seattle, WA, Wheaton, IL, Bloomington, IN, and now in the Torrance, CA area as well as taught group lessons, taught at the YaGe Community Arts School in Kunming, China, and taught at the Joe Ferrante Music Academy in Monrovia. I have extensive experience teaching the full gamut of the classical repertoire, traditional and contemporary jazz, pop, RB, and rock. Read More

Tristan B

Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Violin Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums Recorder Euphonium Tuba Mallet Percussion

In 2010, I graduated from VanderCook College of Music with a Bachelor's in Music Education. I have played in a variety of instrumental ensembles on different instruments, from euphonium, trombone, marimba and drum-set to name a few. I am motivated to helping people accomplish their goal of learning their instrument. I teach music for Chicago Public Schools and have started a music program at my school teaching, marching band, guitar, choir, drum-line and orchestra. Read More

Roxanne L

Instruments: Piano

It feels good and rewarding upon seeing my students improvement and more love for music. I aways see to it that it is fun and effective. Finger training is one of the most important too therefore we won't miss that in every lesson. Read More

Luke A

Instruments: Piano Voice Drums

Hello! Luke here! I'm a enthusiastic and motivated teacher who enjoys nothing more than watching students progress and discover the language of music! In 2011 I graduated from The University of North Texas with a Bachelors degree in Jazz Drumset Performance. Since then, performing all over the world has been the driving passion in my life. I've had the opportunity to play everywhere from the Virgin Islands to New York City, Los Angeles, and all over the south and midwest. Read More

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Robert C

Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar

What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
The Blues. I love a lot of genres, especially classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s and I enjoy writing songs in that genre. I absolutely love The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Beatles and those are probably my favorite to listen to, however nothing compares to playing the Blues. It flows out of me naturally and puts me in a meditative like state. Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and perhaps most importantly, Robert Johnson, those Bluesman created what was to become Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry sped up the 12 bar blues, added cool lead guitar parts and loud guitar solos and boom! You have Rock and Roll. I love playing the Blues and I am in it for life. Even if it's on my front porch with my dog, I'll be playing the Blues for however much time I have.

If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
Well, I started off on saxophone while in 4th grade for the school band. My grandfather, who is a professional drummer heard that I had rhythm, so under his tutelage, I began playing the drums and became an exceptional drummer. While I was playing drums for a band that started while I was in 8th grade and lasted through high school, I started picking up the guitarists guitar and learned a few things from the two guitarists and kept going with it and began teaching myself and even started to write songs for the group. I was lucky to have a first band like I had, because we were all versatile and we all wanted to learn all the instruments. Later on in life, in more serious bands, I had to learn how to pick up any instrument while in the studio. A lot of experiments go on while recording, so if a song needed a little of this or a little of that, I was usually the first one to give it a go.

Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
I only know my family's musical history starting in the 20th century, but the word is, my family goes back further than that, particularly on my maternal grandfathers family. In the early 1900's, practically right off the boat from Europe I know of my grandfather's great uncle John and his son were jazz bassists and reached professional status, playing on records and were members of the Musicians union. My grandfather also had another uncle who was a professional saxophonist and he too was a part of the union. My grandfather was a professional drummer and landed his first big gig in 1955 at the 500 club in Atlantic city, owned by "Skinny" DiAmata and played alongside legends like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and many others. He was there for about 5 years and continued to play professionally into the 1990s. Although, my uncles can play the drums, they never did anything with it, but along came me. It's important to me to keep my family's musical legacy alive by passing on the gift of music by teaching it to the younger generations (or older, for that matter,) and keeping the spirit of real music played with real instruments alive. As well as being an experienced music teacher, I was in a few gigging bands, one of which wrote songs used in BMX movies sold all around the world.

When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
Well, I kind of stumbled into it as a teenager. It was my first band and I was the drummer. I had Doug Sabolic (A Life Once Lost) on guitar and vocals as well as two other very talented and versatile musicians. We all knew how to play eachothers instruments to a pretty high degree and that's how I got into playing guitar. I started writing songs for that band and when we split up, I kept playing more and more guitar while still practicing the drums. I was basically just a musician and really didn't take part in the financial side of things until later on. For instance if I put X amount of dollars into t shirts and we sell out, than I get this much back. Same with the cover charges at the door. If you see 200 people that came out for you, make sure you get paid what you're owed. My most successful band had a following right away because the rhythm guitarist/vocalist was a major professional BMX rider and I was also professional, but not as high profile as he was. The BMXers loved us and we did very well, packing the Khyber in Olde City Philadelphia PA. We also composed songs for BMX movies sold all around the world.

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