Please fill out this form with your availability! All lessons are done at YOUR house/apartment– because of this, you will need your own keyboard/piano.

Typically working with students 10 and older– but exceptions can be made!

Servicing: Lincoln Park and surrounding neighborhoods

$60 / hour

Learning Outcomes

🎹 Piano Technique:

  • Finger, hand, and wrist stretches

  • Learning to play without tension 😌

  • Major and minor scales in all 12 keys (2 octaves) 🗝

  • Arpeggios

    • Triads ➡️ 13th chords (all qualities)

  • Hanon Exercises ✋🤚

  • Learning common chord progressions

  • Repertoire 📖

    • I like to leave repertoire selections open for my students. In the past, I have guided my students through selections from Purcell, Bach, Debussy, and Chopin. From Thelonious Monk to John Coltrane… and Adele, John Mayer, through Taylor Swift. I’m here to help with your musical future and play music you are wanting to learn how to play.

  • Jazz Specific Learning Outcomes 🎷

    • ii-V-I progressions

    • Learning to actively listen to a recording

    • Transcribing solos

    • Effectively comping and supporting other musicians

🎼 Composition/Music Theory Outcomes:

  • Proficiency in tonal harmony

    • Chord/scale identification 🧐

    • Roman numeral analysis (I iv ii V7)

    • Understanding transpositions between instruments 🎹 ➡️ 🎺

    • Investigating effective modulation

  • Learning how to transcribe what you hear in your head 🧠

  • Have confidence in your sheet music handwriting ✍️

  • Learn how to create beautiful sheet music in Musescore or Sibelius (laptop required) 💻

  • Being able to hear what you read on the page 👁 👁

  • Writing with convincing rhythm 🎵

  • Experimenting with the page– discover a new compositional dimension 📝

🎧 Recording Outcomes:

  • Take your composition to the next level and learn how to properly record your work! (Equipment required)

  • Proper Mic-ing technique 🎤️

  • Attaining proper gain 🎛

  • Basic mixing and mastering inside Logic, Ableton, Reaper, or Audacity 🎚

  • How to get your music out in the world! (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) 🌐

Additional Services

Typesetting Services

  • I will typeset handwritten music or typeset music that must be re-typeset. Each project is different for timeframe and turnaround, consult with me to get an estimate.

  • $25/hr

Transcription/Arranging Services

  • I will transcribe solo lines and arrange already existing music for whatever ensemble you are needing it for. Each project is different for timeframe and turnaround so consult with me to get an accurate estimate.

  • $35/hr

Commission

  • Each project is different! Let me know what you are looking for!

  • Consult with me to get a quote