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Bass Guitar

Piano

Music Theory

Percussion

Beginner

Intermediate

My teaching experience dates back to 2000, and includes students ranging in age from 5 to 70 years, working at a range of ability and experience levels from first-time music students to college-level, pre-professional musicians, in private, ensemble, and classroom lecture settings.

Private Instrumental Instructor

English

Students interested in studying piano will learn basic technique, keyboard harmony, improvisation, and utilizing the keyboard for the purposes of composing and arranging.

I have extensive training (including a doctorate) and experience as a performing musician, ensemble director, and teacher including 13 years of private instrumental instruction. My primary instruments are drumset, mallet percussion, and hand percussion, and I have additional experience teaching piano, bass guitar, and jazz harmony and improvisation.

I took drum lessons from Jon U. for a little over a year, and loved it. The only reason our lessons stopped is because he moved.

On our first day, Jon's first question to me was, "What do you hope to learn from me and these lessons?" I couldn't read music and I had no rhythm, and that's all I hoped to learn. I was in my forties, and wanted this to be a hobby; it was never going to be anymore than that, but Jon didn't treat this as boring or a waste of his time.

Jon was patient, professional, fun. And he was a *teacher.* Each time I mastered an assignment, he'd write me a more difficult one, and I learned more about music and became a better player than I ever thought I would.

Jon isn't just qualified to teach the mechanics. He has a Ph.D., and my favorite part of our lessons was simply discussing what's "behind" the playing: the theory behind it; what it means; viewing and contemplating what music is and what it means to us. How it changes us.

Good musicians don't always make the best instructors, but Jon U. is one of the rare ones. I can't recommend him highly enough.

I took lessons with Jonathan for about 2 years. I had never played the drums before and he did a great job of teaching me. His teaching style is great. He manages to make the dry stuff fun and keep your attention, and he is very willing to change up his plans to help you get to your goals. 

The atmosphere during lessons is great as well. Taking lessons with Jon is very comfortable and relaxing, so it becomes very easy to open up and really get into the drumming.

Couldn't recommend lessons with him any more.

Piano with Dr. Jonathan U.

About Dr. Jonathan U.

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Private Instrumental Instructor

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Concentration in Jazz Studies

Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies

Master of Music in Studio Music and Jazz

Languages

English

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