Dan C  
Instruments: Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboard
Styles: Classical, Rock, Blues, Country, Gospel, Latin, Funk, Electronic, Spirituals, Latin Jazz, New Age, Soul, Avant-garde

My Teaching experience began in High School when people would ask me to teach them after they heard me play. In order to teach my students more effectively, I decided to study classically at that time and studied with Morton Estrin, (Billy Joel's Piano Teacher) and Ross Barentine, a celebrated conductor. While they each had drastically different styles of teaching and playing, I was able to take the best from both and create a method of teaching that will give my student the technical ability to play advanced pieces while helping them to become well-rounded music artists.

Simply put, my methods are based on classical methods involving very specific exercises, as well as carefully chosen pieces that will be an important part of their repertoire as well as exhibit a specific technique I want them to master. I customize my lessons for each student and break down in minute detail exactly what I want them to achieve on the piano daily. Generally speaking, I want a student to spend 1/4 of his/her practice time on exercises, the rest should be spent on the assigned piece. Exercises build technique, strength, and confidence. This is achieved through mastering scales, arpeggios, and finger independence, repertoire will give them musical vocabulary and broaden them as musicians.