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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Voice lessons in Columbus . 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: Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Djembe Acoustic Guitar
My intention is to make learning to play the guitar fun. Motivating students to practice brings me joy because I know starting out is tough. Teaching others comes effortlessly to me because I'm doing what I love. With 15 years of experience as a musician, you can feel confident in my ability to provide a quality service. I have worked at other music bussinesses as an instructor where quality standards were in place. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice
My style is very relaxed and fun and I make the lessons very student focused. I do not believe in a 'monkey see monkey do' style where I simply show the student and have them repeat the concept or technique, but rather a discovery learning approach where I provide the needed support for the student to learn and apply the concepts. I also provide incentives such as rewards for practicing a certain number of hours a week. Read More
Instruments: Voice
I typically half my lessons between music reading and theory skills and working on their song or songs, and I normally assign a listening example, music reading assingment, and encourage daily practice. I do not punish a student for incomplete homework, however I stress that the homework I assign is to help them on their musical journey. When preparing for a performance or audition I spend the lesson fine-tuning their repetoire. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Trumpet Flute Clarinet Drums Bassoon Keyboard
My experience in both music education and special education gives me the insight into adapting lesson material to the individual student, as no two students are alike in their learning styles! I work with the needs and goals of the individual student, and incorporates a wide variety of teaching styles into my lessons. For my younger piano students, I use the Bastien piano series, and I like to use the Alfred Adult Beginner series for my beginning students that are late middle school and older. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Ukulele Double Bass Acoustic Guitar
When beginning teaching I typically assess the learners general attention span, natural strengths, and what is motivating for them. I complete a beginner piano assessment to find out how the learner is with pattern recognition, any previous knowledge they may have, and what type of instruction they respond best to. When I understand the learners least restrictive environment I will choose the type of notation we start with. This can be traditional sheet music, pop chords, or adapted notation that may consist of numbers, letters, and/or colors. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Flute Music
Hello! My name is Nadine F. and I am orginally from Washington, DC born and raised. With a mother who is a visual artist and a father who is a musician, music has been important to my upbringing and family from a young age. I began playing flute at age 4 and continue to pursue it professionally to this day. I also have been teaching music for the past 5 years including piano, flute, acting, and choir. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Trumpet Bass Guitar
I have a passion for music. I started on the piano when I was seven years old and I've never looked back. After spending years in grade school, junior high and high school learning and performing in the band program on trumpet and euphonium, I moved on to play euphonium in The Most Exciting Band in the Land, the Ohio University Marching 110! In the Marching 110 I played in front of thousands of people at Ohio University's Peden Stadium and at professional football games in Cincinnati and Buffalo. Read More
Instruments: Voice Flute
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Goal setting is the most important part of practicing effectively. I find it helpful to have written goals about what I want to achieve in the short term and in the long term and base each chunk of practice time on achieving a small part of that goal. For example, if my goal is to improve my tonguing by next month, I would set three or four deliberate steps necessary to achiever that (like slow practice, fast practice, metronome work, and rhythm exercises) then setting each practice time to work on one of those skills until I have achieved the goal.
How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
For flutists, a student is ready for lessons as soon as they can hold the instrument without tiring. That is usually around the age of 8 or 9, but can be earlier, like 6. It is helpful, but not necessary, that a student is able to focus on one thing for a half-hour or so as well, but good teachers should be able to keep a students attention regardless of age or ability to focus.
When will I start to see results?
It really depends on the student. For beginners, its my goal that you will be able to play a nursery rhyme on the headjoint by the end of the second lesson.
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
To be honest, this instrument was chosen for me. I really wanted to be a violinist. My mom heard me play recorder in kindergarten and assumed, that since I was so good at recorder, that I would be an excellent flutists, so she took me out of violin lessons and moved me to flute. Even though recorder playing has no bearing on flute playing, I quickly fell in love and ultimately decided it's what I wanted to do with my life.
What do you think is the hardest thing to master on your instrument?
Good tone is the hardest to master especially since "good" is an extremely relative term. There are some loose definitions on what is desirable and what isn't, but ultimately, tone is dependent on what each player likes to hear. Either way, even making a "good" tone is pretty difficult and takes years of practicing and listening to master.
Do you use specific teaching methods or books? (Ex: Alfred, Bastion, Suzuki, Hal Leonard) Why did you choose them if you did?
I use mainly the Rubank methods for flute. I also use the Suzuki books but only for repertoire. I do not employ the Suzuki method itself in teaching. I am a huge fan of the Trever Wye flute books. For advanced students, I work with Taffanel and Gaubert and other recognized studies of that level. I have a detailed Applied Repertoire list on my website that I can send to any interested student.
What does a normal practice session look like for you?
I usually begin with long tones, then some scale work. I then spend some time working on etudes and sight reading. Then I work on repertoire. I work either parts of the repertoire or the piece as a whole depending on how close I am to a performance. Each practice session is divided mainly by goal setting.
If you have a Music Degree, what is it in (Performance, Education, Musicology, Theory, Composition, etc) and why did you choose that degree?
My music degree is in performance. I chose that degree because I knew that I wanted to teach students one-on-one (and not in the classroom) and that I wanted to develop better technique and performance practice to be able to pass those on to my students. I want to complete a masters and then Ph.D. in musicology because I love research and I love finding out the stories and theories behind why composers chose to compose and that those influences are vital to our understanding of the piece and how we perform it.
If you weren't a musician what do you think you'd be doing instead?
I would be lawyer. In fact, I get asked almost daily why I didn't choose that route instead of music. Ultimately, I wanted to do something uplifting, which the legal field often isn't.
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
I love playing avant garde music. I love pushing the boundaries of the instrument and seeing what kind of crazy sounds I can get it to produce!
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
Flute is actually my fourth instrument! I started on piano, then moved to violin, then voice, then finally settled on flute. There was quite a bit of overlap actually. My mom really wanted me to be a musician and kept rounding me through instruments until I found the one that I loved.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Actually, no! I am the first and only musician in my immediate and extended family. Nevertheless, I have never encountered anything other than support from my family despite my unorthodox career choice.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I decided just last year. It was a gradual choice. For a long time, I had told myself I needed to have a "real job," but then doors just started closing and the one's that remained open were ultimately pointing me into making this hobby that I loved a career.
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