Music Lessons in Defiance, MO. It's your time.

I teach ear training from beginner to advanced levels. We will learn methods such as solfege and how to navigate intervals of scales. In addition we will learn how to accurately sight read, hear intervals, chords, inversions and harmony.

Students can expect to learn individually at their own pace. Every lesson will be encouraging to the student. Every lesson will be a good experience. I strive to teach love of music whether popular, sacred or classical.

The technique I practice and teach is all about connection to one's speaking voice, that is, one's truly natural voice. The voice is as unique as a fingerprint, and our goal as singers should always be to sound like the best version of ourselves, not like someone else -- even those that we admire. The most successful singers and performers have voices we recognize and distinguish from others, and that is because they are connected to their own unique and natural sound. As your voice teacher, I will not be teaching you songs. I will teach you how to uncover your own unique voice and produce healthy sound, and we will move forward together from there.

Carolyn T. is a Bay area musician and teacher. Originally from the suburbs outside of Philadelphia, Carolyn grew up playing piano, guitar, trumpet and tuba. She moved out west to pursue a Master’s Degree under the tutelage of Jeffrey Anderson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she serves as the brass department graduate assistant. She hold’s a Bachelor’s Degree in performance and has won first place in the Mid Atlantic Brass Band festival solo competition. Carolyn has performed and taught with numerous youth organizations such as: Philadelphia Sinfonia, Philadelphia Sinfonia Player’s, Philadelphia Youth orchestra, Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra, Rowan Youth orchestra, Bravo Brass and various brass quintets. She has taught lessons and Master classes to all brass at various schools in the bay area.

Carolyn’s students usually range from age 4 to adult, and she encourages the skills of learning music to be adapted for all of children’s activities and for them to ...

I have transcribed and written several bass books for Hal Leonard's Bass Play-Along series.

I like to teach musicians to learn music theory by learning their favorite songs and then dissecting them to find out what makes them work.

I can teach you to read notes and chord charts and get you ready for auditions and performances.