My musical career started in 6th grade, which was around 2001. That year I started playing guitar and trombone. My main interest was in the guitar so I started taking lessons since the first time I picked up it up. Through out high school I played guitar in the jazz band and trombone in the symphonic and marching bands. I also played guitar in the 2006 New Years day parade in London. I was with the marching band and was a featured soloist during the parade.

I was eventually accepted into Berklee College of Music and began attending during the fall of 2008. At Berklee I have performed with many different independent groups at medium sized venues. In addition, I have performed with a series of ensembles, and performance labs here at Berklee. I am still currently attending the college where I am finishing a degree in professional music. The main focus area of my major is music education. Through out my Berklee career I have been teaching privately with a wide range of students....

I've been a full time professional musician for 13+ years and have toured all over the world performing with music icons like Chacka Khan, Beyonce, and many more. I have a lot of experience with many different styles of music and I love sharing this gift with anyone who's interested. My teaching philosophy is simple: Get students playing music! It's much easier to understand the nuts and bolts of music when put into the context of the music you like.

I currently have my Bachelor's degree in World/African-American Music with a concentration in Percussion Performance from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. I am also certified to teach Vocal or Instrumental Music in public schools in Massachusetts for grades K-8. I have a focus in playing/teaching all styles on drumset and also have vast performance and teaching experience on several disciplines of percussion. These include but are not limited to: Orchestral Percussion, Jazz/Rock/R & B/Fusion/Hip-Hop/Latin Drumset, 2 and 4 Mallet Vibes/Marimba, Rudimental/Marching Percussion, West-African Drumming, Brazilian Samba, Afro-Cuban/Latin Percussion, and Steel Drums. I also play/teach Piano and Trumpet.

When I was young I travelled around the world a lot! I had amazing opportunities to meet a wide array of very different people while gaining perspective on the world. Since friends were always changing I found a way to soothe myself by writing short songs about what I was going through, not only was it therapeutic - but at a certain point I started getting paid! I've studied Music Therapy now so I believe in taking an approach which is best suited to the students needs.
Currently I am a student at Berklee College of Music, I have one year left! I'm often producing music, cooking a big soup, working on a collaboration or working a gig.

Hi potential students! My name is Matt, and I am a young Boston based guitarist. I currently enrolled in my junior year at the New England Conservatory where I study jazz, though I am fluent in many styles, including rock, blues, and folk/fingerstyle. I have experience leading my own bands and perform regularly in the Boston/Cambridge area. I also have experience as a recording engineer. I have worked with students of all ages and abilities, including kids and complete beginners. I am a laid back and friendly teacher who wants his students to succeed on their own terms, and to develop a love for music and for the guitar.

Over my 20 years of teaching , I have had Guitar, Bass and Mandolin students go on to continue their musical education at Berklee, then on to careers in music both in performance and production, as well as preparing students to go on to Julliard and MI and NEC. My goal as a teacher is always to help my students achieve their personal musical goals as directly and constructively as possible.
I am an honors graduate from Berklee College of Music, and have taught all ages of students privately and students at Emerson College.
I have found that most adult students have a “Horror Story” relating to some negative experience with a music teacher. This has reinforced how important a supportive environment is for younger students. Teachers who are indifferent to the student’s individual musical goals, or teachers who value the advancement of their own musical agenda over respect for the student’s musical aspirations, can do much greater harm than they realize. As a...

I eat/breathe/sleep music. From writing and conducting my first a cappella piece in high school to playing in bands that have toured around the world (The Fates, Ben Levin Group), I am a music machine! I value nothing more than finding that passion in others and working together to turn musical fantasies into realities.

From grade school to high school I took rigorous classical piano lessons. In 2006-07 attended two summer programs at Berklee College of Music where I studied jazz/rock performance, and continued to study jazz piano at Washington University.

At Boston University, I studied classical music composition/theory, and was accepted to for a dual degree in Music Composition & Psychology, but decided to pursue music as a minor in order to allow more time for gigging. Since relocating to Boston, I have performed 250+ shows in various ensembles around the greater Boston area.

Hello all! Here are all the nitty gritty deets about me:

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U n i v e r s i t y o f M a s s a c h u s e t t s A m h e r s t , M a y 2 0 0 9
B a c h e l o r o f M u s i c , P e r c u s s i o n P e r f o r m a n c e
Studied Production and Marimba at Berklee Sep 2009-May 2010
Studied drumset at New England Conservatory; Sep 2010

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Are you tired of boring guitar lessons? -Learning endless scales and chords without having fun or writing anything new-

Do you want to jump into creatively applying what you learn?

It's my belief that the best way to learn anything is to internalize it creatively. What set my guitar lessons apart from other lessons is that instead of learning from a book of scales and chords we'll use everything we learn and apply it immediately to writing original tunes and riffs.

My lessons are flexible and the curriculum is tailored to every individual student. We can focus on guitar, songwriting or vocal coaching and switch between them.

I'm a current Berklee College of Music student who is one semester away from graduation. I have experience teaching in public schools, camps and with 'Mad Science' of greater Boston.

*ALL AGES*

*Must be near Boston- Cambridge*

I'm a very friendly and easygoing instructor. My philosophy in teaching music is to show the student musical elements that can be put into practice right away, which can be used in a context to have a solid reference of the progress made.

I started my musical training playing classical piano when I was six years old. From there I studied Classical/Romantic Piano until I was seventeen. Since I was brought up listening to my Dad's Beatles albums and I became more and more interested in rock music as I grew up. In high school, I began learning guitar so that I could become a more versatile musician and to be able to play anywhere. Before I graduated high school, I completed a course on Music Technology and AP Music Theory and I knew that I wanted to continue my music studies in College. I acquired my Bachelor of Science degree in Music Technology at Northeastern University, with a minor in Music Industry. During my time in College I had worked in a professional recording studio, studied piano/ guitar/voice, and composed numerous instrumental and acousmatic works.

My name is Dave. I am a 26 year old Massachusetts native and have been playing music since I was 8 years old, starting on the piano with a wonderful teacher in Beverly who also went to Berklee. I picked up the guitar and the bass in high school and got into rock and jazz and blues and haven't looked back. I graduated from Berklee in 2012 with a major in Professional Music and minored in Music Education.

I have been teaching on and off throughout college and now am taking it much more seriously. I have several students (one started as an absolute beginner with zero experience) who I have had great success with and will vouch for my teaching style. I currently perform in and around boston and am also a furniture builder and am branching out into instrument repair and maintenance.

I am happy teaching students at any level, even if you have never picked up a guitar before. I can work with you and get you on the path to being the kind of musician you want to be. I look...