This class is by schedule request only so as to find a weekly day/time that works for both learner and instructor. Since the instructor schedule fluctuates with many other learners, a private class section is created for those who request a class so those learners get priority without worry of the class enrollment being taken by others.

Guitar musicians: 
BEGINNING/LOWER INTERMEDIATE
Starting out with simple TABs to focus on parts of the instrument, body and hand positions, and utilize the ear to hear rhythms within the internalized beat. Progress to rhythm notation over more challenging TABs, power chords, and open chords. From there, rhythm notation is applied to strumming with more complex rhythms using ties, as well as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and bends on TAB notation. For those interested in learning to read music notes on the staff, Mel Bay method and custom well-known melodies I notate personally are provided.
HIGHER INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Improvisation, composition, applying more advanced music theory to the instrument through scales and chord structures, and challenging repertoire using all styles of notation.

Bass (4- or 5-string electric) musicians: 
BEGINNING/LOWER INTERMEDIATE
Much like the guitar except instead of chords, students are taught walking bass lines with 12-bar blues and progress to using chord notation to write their own walking bass lines. 
HIGHER INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Berklee Bass Method is used for notation reading, Jamey Aebersold methods for the jazz-minded, and focus on versatility for ANY genre with ear-training.

Piano/keyboard musicians
BEGINNING/LOWER INTERMEDIATE
We start with note names on piano that utilizes rhythms by rote (by ear) and stick notation to establish visual and internalized rhythm, body and hand positions, and finger positions. Alfred's Basic Piano method or Bastien Piano method levels are determined for the student after assessing how they did with the first part in order to learn music notation with notes on the staff and rhythms. Customized melodies for their rewards always utilizes note-name and/or music notation. Once students are ready for the challenge of changing positions, Hanon exercises 1-5 are introduced. 
HIGHER INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Scales, applying music theory to repertoire and composing, and specific genre studies to expose the student to various styles of playing while finding what they would like to focus on most.

Vocal musicians: 
BEGINNING
Establishing good habits of breathing from the diaphragm, relaxing the throat, and utilizing air to sing instead of "hit" the note starts out our vocal lessons. Warm-ups using scale degree numbers and syllables with steps, skips, and controlled scooping eventually progress to solfege and harmonies. For repertoire, enunciation is a crucial habit that naturally makes the voice louder and words easily understood, and pieces are chosen collaboratively by myself and the student so that they are challenging but not discouraging. If students are interested in specific singing genres, such as Pop, Rock, Musical Theater, or Jazz, we then focus on techniques for those styles. 
INTERMEDIATE
Vertical and horizontal range, belting, and versatility. 
ADVANCED
Focus on specific genres & styles to master vocal techniques that will help a student succeed with auditions and gigs.

Flute musicians: 
The hardest thing to do on flute is get the initial sound. Once that's done, the rest starts to fall in place! Body position and proper breathing techniques are taught with sound production, reading fingering charts for G, A, and B get the student started on simple 3-note melodies, applying the notes they learn to simple music notation as they learn more notes, and then getting into the Rubank method to challenge their music reading and finger combinations for repertoire. From there, we move into move advanced techniques like double-tonguing, scales, and applying to more challenging repertoire in a variety of genres.