Jason S
Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Synthesizer
Styles: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, R&b, Funk, Hip Hop, Electronic, Reggae, Latin Jazz, Samba, Bossa Nova, Soul, Punk, Avant-Garde

I began teaching almost 4 years ago during my last years in Boston before moving to the Philadelphia area.  Stylistically, I focus on practice, patience and passion with my students and have seen great results thus far.  I believe in using both contemporary references as well as references from former decades or eras in music.  When a student is able to hear the music coupled with seeing the music; amazing things can happen!  I encourage all my students (no matter what age) to record their own performances and/or music, during both lessons and practice.  I believe that both studying and creating music helps develop a greater passion overall.

For all beginner students, I start with Berklee Music Theory Book 1 and a few selections from one of my Real Books to begin to apply some theory techniques.  Once I feel that the student has a firm understanding of fundamentals of theory I usually have the student select one piece from the Real Book selections and we then begin working on playing the piece as well as analyzing the piece.  A synthesis of performance and analysis is one of my core philosophies with all my lessons.  For more advanced students, I usually either have them select a piece of music they wish to learn or assign a piece I find to be most useful and challenging based upon their ability.