Music Lessons in Jeffersonville, IN. It's your time.

Students can expect to learn new chords and strumming patterns along to songs of their choice.

Beginning guitar- basic chords and scales, fingering, finger style picking, strumming patterns

Intermediate- caged method and applying it, chord building, soloing, songwriting structure and critique

I can cover blues, rock, some jazz, improvisation

Please send me a note detailing what you’d like to learn and we can go from there.

I teach students of all experience levels and ages! I structure my lessons so students learn what they want to learn, while also building a strong foundation of classical piano skills. I typically use Bastien books, and also incorporate sheet music. My lessons are challenging, and fun!

My whole method book starts and ends with listening and ear training and rhythmic work and playing. In the end, if you really are serious, you need to know ALL the nuts and bolts.
Music theory is essential if you want to take it to a high level. But it's not hard.

Why? You see, when you were a kid, you talked before you could read and write, correct? So we learn the fun stuff, listening and playing first and then you easily grasp the theory of music. And we make sure you get it all so you are a well-rounded pro.

Oh, and you will have had so much fun that you will actually still be studying music instead of having quit because you were bombarded with paper at too young an age!

The English language has 26 letters. Music has 5 lines and 4 spaces. Piece of cake!

With a Master Of Music degree in Voice Performance from Boston University, I am passionate about helping each student discover his/her own unique voice. A student of the esteemed operatic soprano, Phyllis Curtin, I teach a pedagogy founded on the principles of the classical bel canto technique. With strong emphasis on maintenance of a coordinated singing posture and fully supported diaphragmatic breathing, my teaching allow most students to see improvements in ease and beauty of tone within two lessons.

I do believe that time spent outside of one's lessons applying the technique in private practice is THE MOST important building block to mastery of one's voice. I encourage all students to record their lessons for use in their private practice. Objectively listening to oneself and developing a discriminating ear for your sound is essential to successful development.

In addition to teaching, I am a busy performer in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing the singing voice for ...

I like to give students a firm foundation in songwriting with a dash of theory as well as writer's block busting exercises to help spark you creativity.