Students will review primer skills:

    🎹    Reading staff notation across the treble and bass staff

    🎹    Rhythmic notation & note values

    🎹    BONUS: Learn the basics of how to play chords and use chords to accompany singing (comp)

I teach classes on a variety of arts-related subjects: 
  * piano, sight-reading, song-writing; 
  * realistic drawing techniques;
  * comic book creations & anime drawing styles;
  * digital arts, Photoshop, graphic design.

Look at the bottom of my profile to find my other classes. 
    → https://outschool.com/teachers/Elizabeth-Essex ←

As a teacher with over twenty years of experience, I have been running my own piano studio full-time for the last decade. I started learning music in piano lessons when I was four years old and am currently teaching my 15th academic year as a piano teacher. I also am a former public school art teacher, university adjunct professor, swim instructor, dance teacher, and math tutor.

The Suzuki method is at the core of many of my ideas about teaching music. Shin’ichi Suzuki believed that music is like a language and therefore should be taught like one-- learning to speak before reading and writing and that learning should take place in a loving and supportive environment, with constant repetition, and with helpful modeling from the parents. Like Montessori, the Suzuki philosophy is student-centered, includes lots of learning games and enjoyable activities, and demands that learning activities be planned according to the student's needs and level of development.

Homework Offered
At home off-screen practice is highly recommended! Check the Outschool classroom after class for extra assignments.
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered

Students should be starting to read staff notes below bass E and above treble G
AND in piano lessons, using a music learning app, OR have graduated my Intro to the Staff Primer class OR my Taylor Swift Piano Crash Course, parts 1, 2, & 3.

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