I am a Music EC-12 Certified Educator with a degree from The University of St. Thomas, working as General Music Teacher for Stafford MSD. My teaching experience covers many schools and programs in the Houston area, including student teaching for several HISD schools as well as working with arts enrichment programs. My life is driven with music, sharing with the community. As an Instructor I know that I can spread the fun, creativity, and expression of music no matter what the instrument. My background in music is mostly vocal, working in and with choirs my entire life. I have also spread my abilities to work with Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, and many more. I have teaching experience to work with instruments including Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, and most of Concert Band instrumentation. I have many experiences with different genres such as Choral, 19th and 20th Century Vocal Repertoire, American Folk Music, Jazz (Early to Fusion), and contemporary Rock/Pop, R n' B,...

Music is my life. As cheesy as that phrase goes, for me, it holds true. I'm Andrew. Everything I do and have been doing has been geared towards music. I've been in one working/gigging band or other without break for the past 5 years. I began intensely learning to play guitar at the age of 9 and have not stopped. The second I started learning I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I took lessons of my own as a kid, which helped shape me greatly. I then picked up bass at the age of 13.
Ive taught personalized lessons for over 3 1/2 years now without a single complaint. At this point in my musical career, the majority of my experience and attitude has come from being "in the field". Ive played South By South West, Westheimer Block Party, opened up for bands like the Misfits and Rage Against the Machine, shared the stage with bands like Minus the Bear and Echo and the Bunnymen, and been on tour and lived the whole life more often than not!
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I began playing guitar at age twelve when I asked my dad to start showing me a few chords. It didn’t take long before I came to my own and began practicing many hours a day.

As I got more and more serious about music throughout high school I wanted to take my experience to the next level and so I auditioned for and was accepted to Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. While there I performed with the school’s Small Group Combo and Big Band.

After high school I wanted to go to the next level once again and auditioned for and was accepted to a few different music colleges but decided that Boston’s New England Conservatory was the best fit for me. Here, I had the opportunity to study and perform with some of the world’s best jazz performers and composers. As a sophomore I was a part of a group who received the Honors Jazz Ensemble award and as a senior I was awarded a scholarship for composition.

Every summer since the age of thirteen I...

Jeffrey is a drummer, mainly. He started learning drums way back in the last century, a time long ago when even Google wasn't around. He was taught at the prestigious Holub Middle School in the Alief school district and very quickly became a band geek. This geekiness continued on into high school where he was a member of the Alief Taylor Drum Line and learned the marching tenor drums. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston in 2009 with a degree in Media Production.

Jeffrey's true musical passion, though, is the drum set. He was the drummer for the Holub Jazz Band during its historic visit to the Midwest Clinic in 1999. As such, he is very experienced in a number of genres including Big Band, Blues, Funk, Rock, Funk Rock, and Progressive Metal.

Jeffrey is an autodidact pianist and composer and has been arranging MIDI music for over seven years. He even has the ability to play the keyboard and drums at the same time! As a composer, he's composed the music...

Robert began playing guitar in Houston, Texas at the age of 12. It was not long before he began playing in bands and played his first professional gig at age 17. Robert performed in and around the Houston area for five years before deciding to study music on the college level. He attended the University of North Texas and later attended Musicians Institute. While a student at MI, Robert was given the Outstanding Student of the Year Award for 1991-'92. Robert began teaching at MI in the guitar school (GIT) in 1993. He has played with Bo Diddley, Tim Bogert, Chevy Chase, Floyd Radford, Deacon Jones, Joe Houston and countless others. He has performed for Buddy Ebson and Chevy Chase and has partied with the Monkees. In addition to playing guitar Robert also plays and teaches bass guitar and piano.

I've loved music since I was able to walk. When I was 5 or 6, I would listen to my mother's stereo system, with Jim Croce playing on the 8-Track tape deck.....(ok, so I'm aging myself a little bit). I would lay on the floor in between the speakers which were turned inward toward my ears. I could lay there for hours, tapping my toes to "Bad Bad Leroy Brown", "Roller Derby Queen", "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", and many others. I would also listen to the Beatles, Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and "Revolution" and be completely taken away. I didn't realize it then, but what captivated me were the songs that were written to tell stories, and the music that brought the stories to life. As I grew into my early teens, I got into Kiss, Alice Cooper, Rush, Ted Nugent, and Jimi Hendrix. (His version of "All Along the Watch Tower" was much better than Bob Dylan's original version)

During my high school years I got more into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, because of it's...