Music Lessons in Gray Summit, MO. It's your time.

My goal as an instructor is to keep the lessons fresh, fun, interesting, and to ultimately guide the students to better teach themselves as they gain experience and familiarity with the instrument and music. Students can have their lessons catered to the music and styles they wish to pursue. Lessons are tailored to each individual student so that we can build upon their strengths and focus on lessons to improve weaker areas. Students will learn how to build dexterity, use proper technique, and be creative. Every student has different goals, some really want to learn theory and read music. Others may simply want to learn to strum a few chords. Whatever the goal, I can provide the instructions to help the student succeed!

Experienced violin teacher of 39 years available for eager 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 counting, concentration, coordination, precision and note reading skills. I specialize in traditional European method.

sight-reading, chart interpretation, scale/chord relationships.

I have been studying cello since the age of four and have taught cello lessons for 15 years. I enjoy working with students of all ages and experience levels. My teaching method helps students become musically literate while exploring the variety of music available for the cello and the techniques needed to play the music. I fell in love with the cello at a very young age and am excited to share my love of music and experience with you!

"All you know as a writer, as an artist, or as someone who deals and manipulates symbols is whether it has an interior integrity." - Leonard Cohen

Great Songwriting is about accessing inner truth and through the personal, tapping into the universal.

In a nurturing and supportive atmosphere we will:
- Share completed songs and songs in progress and receive feedback
- Experiment with songwriting exercises to work on honing specificity, creating powerful visuals, and storytelling by showing, not telling
- Examine Song forms and how we can use them
- Leave with exercises to jump start new songs

I have taught classical vocal lessons in the past, and I feel they are a strong foundation for any type of singing style. I like to focus on breathing techniques, pronunciation, scales/vocal warm-ups, getting a nice tone, note recognition, head voice vs. chest voice.