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Piano with Mark M.

Trabuco Canyon, California

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Teaches online
Teaches all skill levels
Age: 14+
Speaks English, Spanish, Japanese
Teaching since 2009

    Patient Clear Supportive Jazz Piano Teacher - Play Jazz From the First Lesson!

    As your teacher I will: #1 Explain in plain English to you how jazz works. #2 Teach you how to make up melodies and solos, and play jazz chords and soloing scales, from the start of lessons (or at least soon after starting), without you having to wait forever. #3 Teach you only music theory that is absolutely necessary for your soloing for yourself and supporting your solos with chords, and songs if you want to learn to play them, and not get you too bogged down in music theory. Hi! My name is Mark Meronek, and I am a jazz piano teacher who has been teaching for around 15 years privately and I would love to help you learn jazz and how to improv if my teaching style is a good fit. Here are some details about the lessons and myself:

    Instructor details

    Location:
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    Teaching Hours

    Monday
    6 PM-8:30 PM
    Tuesday
    11 AM-1:30 PM
    Saturday
    5:30 PM-8 PM
    Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
    Pricing
    30 minutes
    $50
    60 minutes
    $73

    About Mark M.

    I have been teaching piano for 15 years, playing for 20, and my playing experience includes that I played in a duo and as part of a trio for 4 years for bars, weddings, parties and music events in southern California playing mostly jazz chords and improv on modern and jazz drum beats. In lessons with me my students generally learn how to play songs, beautiful jazz and pop chords from the first lesson, soloing scales, how to improvise, music reading/theory, rhythm, and how to overcome any blocks to their creativity. What I can teach includes playing pop songs, jazz standards, a cocktail piano style, jazz hip hop, and a classical improv style. If you have any questions for me to get a sense of whether lessons with me would be a good fit for you, I would be happy to answer them, just message me by clicking "Ask a question", or if you would like to schedule a lesson, please click the book now button and I look forward to meeting and helping you improve your playing! Thanks, Mark
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    Languages

    Japanese

    Limited Proficiency

    English

    Native Proficiency

    Spanish

    Limited Proficiency

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