Private Music Lessons

Music Lessons for Teens and Adults

Learn guitar, bass, voice, piano/keys, drums, or percussion! Private music lessons for young children, teens and adults are shaped to each student's needs and skill level.

Depending upon your goals you can learn to play your favorite songs, explore a specific style, or focus on performance skills, ear training, theory, and/or repertoire. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced performer, our talented instructors will identify your key areas for growth, and sculpt a lesson plan which will address your full musical potential, developing proper technique and a well-rounded ability on your instrument(s). Purchase a package of four private lessons or more and save on each lesson!

Guitar Lessons -- Sample Topics

• Common guitar chords and progressions
• Strumming Patterns
• Mastering the Fretboard Notes
• Guitar solos
• Jazz guitar chords
• Fingerpicking styles
• Blues, funk, R&B
• Songwriting ideas and methods
• Rock guitar riffs
• Guitar tuning methods

Piano Lessons -- Sample Topics

• Piano chords and voicings
• Understanding sheet music and sightreading
• Classical piano composers and repertoire
• Music theory and composition
• Musical theatre & Broadway accompanying
• Gospel, spiritual, ragtime, and blues piano
• Modes of the major scale
• Jazz improvisation
• Dynamic phrasing and musical expression

Singing Lessons -- Sample Topics

• Vocal warmups and vocal exercises
• Sightsinging
• Vocal range extension
• Presentation and singing auditions
• Movable Do Solfège syllables and solmization
• Opera, arias, and classical voice
• Vocal support, breathing, and projection
• Harmonizing and background vocals
• Tone, diction, and pronunciation
• Singing in Spanish, Italian, German and other languages

Drum Lessons -- Sample Topics

• Beats and grooves in different styles
• Syncopation
• Brushes and Mallets
• Accurate tempos and metronome click track use
• Swing and shuffle feel
• Latin percussion, bossa, samba, etc
• Hi-hat sixteenth note and triplet patterns
• Odd meters
• Drum rudiments: paradiddles, drum rolls, flams, etc
• Double kick pedal
• Drum notation and transcription
• Common drum fills

Bass Lessons -- Sample Topics

• Slap bass, popping and tapping
• Bass guitar arpeggios
• Walking basslines and chromatic passing tones
• Five and six string bass
• Funk, soul, R&B, and jazz bass
• Bass in hip-hop and rap
• Classic bass riffs
• Matching kickdrum patterns
• Playing behind the beat

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