First lesson Meet and Greet's and consultations are always free!
First lesson Meet and Greet's and consultations are always free!
I can travel to you (with an added travel fee), you can travel to me, or we can do lessons online! Get ready for your auditions or just for fun. My students have been seeing all sorts of success and progress. Along with this I also have worked and currently work as a marching band technician for Central Cabarrus High School, also with experience at Hickory Ridge High as well as Northwest Cabarrus High.
I do teach independently as well as through Music & Arts, the learn more link below takes you to my page on their website.
Every student who books with me independently will also receive a personal Dropbox link. Within the Dropbox you will find all materials from lessons, video uploads of lessons, listening ideas/assignments, along with many other things that will help throughout the journey. See below for a very detailed description of my teaching philosophy, and again, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I teach all types of music! Believe it or not, Brass instruments are used through all types of popular music, not just for Classical. I can also teach improvisation as well as marching band/drum corps prep! Lessons available to all skill levels.
Unsure about private lessons? Fear not, because I always offer a one-hour introductory lesson and consultation. I will spend time getting to know you and your student, then give a full hour lesson for free so we can ensure a good fit for everyone involved.
I use the William "Bill" Adam philosophy as taught to me by my first Trumpet professor in college, Dr. Michael Hackett. The idea is to let the sound flow through you with as little thought about it as possible. In essence, you hear the sound you want in your head, and it'll come through the horn. For beginner students, this means less emphasis on actually reading music starting out. This means that we will learn note names and simple melodies by sound first, rather than trying to read and play simultaneously. I think of this as learning to talk before you learn to read. Once you start to learn how to talk and get comfortable with that, we utilize what we already know and learn to read as we continue our ideologies on our sound. For more advanced players this means to think less about each individual thing you are playing or seeing on the page in front of you and instead connecting it into long phrases, creating music and not just sound. Through this more psychological approach, we're not focusing on too many things at once. In essence, creating a player who can let go of all the extra thoughts that happens while playing, moving forward rather than getting distracted with every little detail.
Here, we go for a fuller sound filled with overtones that really projects and fills the room, really filling up the horn while keeping a relaxed airstream and body. See Chris Botti, Greg Wing, Randy Brecker for some examples of audio.
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