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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Violin lessons in Oakland . 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: Violin Viola Mandolin Electric Violin Fiddle Double Bass
I started teaching violin from the age of 20 privately and in recent years I have had experience of group teaching both in schools and animating Gypsy violin seminars. I like equally to guide the approach of young musicians to the instrument, and the improvement of advanced students. Given my experience in the field of folk and ethnic music i believe that have fun is a central part in learning music at any age. Read More
Instruments: Violin Viola
My teaching experiences date back to my high school days where I was a teacher assistant to my school's orchestra program. I have had the opportunity to work with students of all skill levels from basic beginners to more intermediate students auditioning for youth orchestras. I have also been teaching privately on and off according to my school schedule. Through my experiences and love for teaching, I am certain that I can provide each student with their own unique and motivating violin experience. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin
My teaching style is very adaptive to the abilities and interest of each student. I always try to keep my students motivated and positive because it is very important to be upbeat to learn music. From beginners to professional players, every musician needs passion to excel in the field and I encourage that by keeping my lessons very interactive and interesting. Read More
Instruments: Violin
I am currently a student as SFSU and I am 18 years old. While I am on the younger side of teaching, I have numerous experience with playing violin and also with good bad violin teachers. I have been the first chair in every orchestra Ensemble since I have been in the 7th grade including the CMEA Bay Area Secdtion Ensemble, Honor Orchestra, Bay Area Honor Orchestra, College of Marin Symphony Orchestra, etc I have also gotten three music scholarships from three universities, however, since I want to follow a different path, I decided to turn it down. Read More
Instruments: Violin Viola
As in the above-mentioned orchestra I also partook in different presentations in the cities of Manzanillo, Colima, Zamora and Guadalajara. In 2013 I was honored to participate as a guest to the orchestra for a festival in which the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez was the organizer and director. I have taken classes with various Chamber Music ensembles like the St. Petersburg String Quartet (Russia), Amernet String Quartet (USA), Trio Broz (Italy), Quarteto Latinoamericano and the student cellist of M. Read More
Instruments: Violin Viola Electric Violin Music
My aim is to provide you with a pleasant, high quality learning experience, developing a healthy and happy relationship with your instrument so that you can enjoy and express yourself through any music style! Combining the means offered by the finest violin schools and all the alternative, related disciplines such as Alexander Technique, Yoga, and Meditation working all together towards the importance of knowledge of our body, awareness of the self, need for enjoyment and educational relationship centered on student needs. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin Cello Viola Bass Guitar Organ Ukulele Electric Violin Music Keyboard Electric Guitar
I eventually earned a degree in Fine Arts and German language from the University of Texas at Austin. To this day, I use what I have learned to teach the future generations how to make beautiful music. Back in Texas I ran a private music studio where I would take on students in the San Antonio area. As I accumulated more and more students, I noticed most suffered from some sort of mental disability. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
What musical accomplishments are you most proud of?
I'm proud to just have been able
Have any of your students won awards or been selected for special honors? How have they succeeded?
I have had
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I use Hal Leonard's books for young children, adolescent and adult students for both guitar and bass guitar. They are pretty easy to comprehend style of book. Each lesson builds upon itself and the lessons are numbered to keep track of progress and to know what to study and practice. For children 10 and under, I recommend Hal Leonard's children's guitar method book #1 and move on from there. I do introduce some lessons from the adult book to the student when they are ready. For 11 and over, I recommend Hal Leonard's guitar method book #1. Just like the children's book, the lessons are numbered to keep track of progress and to know what to study and practice. There are also follow up books to the ones I have mentioned. I also incorporate non book related picking exercises and other tricks of the trade I have learned and am still learning into the lessons.
What is your dream piece to perform and why?
My own "masterpiece" which I have yet to compose. I was never really one to play cover songs, although I have played a few cover songs during sets, including Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar and Honkey Tonk Women (both open G alternate runing,) Dead Flowers, The Spider and The Fly, and Midnight Rambler by the Rolling Stones, Johnny Be Good and Carol by Chuck Berry and my former band The Tombstones played a great rendition, in our own style of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower which was a crowd favorite . My favorite guitar solo is by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd on Comfortably Numb, which still gives me goose bumps till this day, I'd still have to say my "dream piece" would have to be something I had written or worked with other musicians to create as a masterpiece. I've written and co-written some good songs but I don't consider them masterpieces, although one particular nameless Blues song in the key of E is close.
If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
It's really hard to think what else I'd be doing, because music is my life, it's my family's legacy. We're talking over a hundred years of professional musicians in my bloodline, possibly more. My BMX career is long over, but I always wanted to teach. I'm happy to be a music teacher and will continue to do so but, if I didn't teach musical arts, I'd probably teach High school high school level History or Philosophy. I love history and philosophy and may have persued that route if things panned out differently. I'd probably want to teach a fun college level elective like Conspiracy Theories. I'm also a writer and have had a few poems published by small independent magazines. I'm also currently writing a Sci-fi/thriller novel in my spare time.
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Scott
Hi! I am interested in learning the violin, I have absolutely 0 experience with any music in general. Please let me know if it's possible to set something up
Carol
Looking to learn violin. Age:53. I currently play piano so I can read music. Want to learn for fun. Looking for 30 min lesson per week, preferably in person.
Alicia
My 5 year old has expressed an interest in learning how to play the violin. She's autistic. Do you have any experience with teaching special needs children.