Matthew W  
Instruments: Saxophone
Styles: Classical, Jazz

My teaching experience began while I was in college. Wanting to get experience I began giving out free lessons to gain experience around the Houston area. For a brief period I moved back to Beaumont, TX where I am from and also would give out free one to two lessons for the experience. I also have a younger brother who help began his journey with his saxophone. I helped to tutor him for the year and half I was there and would periodically work with him either online or when I would visit Beaumont.

I find the best route with private lessons is start with student see where they are in the process and move forward with a pace that best suited them considering certain factors. Those factors include age, skill level, dexterity, body characteristics, and amount of time already spent with instrument. I like to have student have a lesson notebook and journal so that progress can be tracked more easily. I also tailor my lessons around not just understanding music concepts and techniques but also how to break them. I want to give the tools to perform and the tools to understand to complex into simple ideals.