If you are interested in taking private or ensemble lessons, I would like to hear from you. Please feel free to send me an email.
If you are the director of a college or festival music program, I'm available for master classes, clinics, and workshops. This could be in the form of me presenting by myself, or with one of my ensembles, or working with a group of students from your program.
Some selected teaching concepts for private or ensemble lessons include:
Addressing subconscious phrasing tendencies
Understanding time, gaining perspective of time continuum
Understanding form
Interactive playing
Free/open playing
Ensemble playing
Ensembles within ensemble playing
Solo playing
Duo playing
Accompanying
Composition
Playing chord changes
Sound production
*For guitarists*, I also have some other areas of study that can be valuable:
Picking hand hybrid guitar technique
-Study of all aspects of picking hand possibilities, using the pick, the fingers, and their various combinations
Breaking away from position playing, studies in vertical playing
Improvising multiple voices
Developing a personal system for constructing chord voicings
Tone/sound
-Understanding the variables in sound production; playing technique, amp/effect settings, etc.
Guitar maintenance/repair (setting intonation, action, truss rod adjustment, etc.)
-Keeping the guitar playing comfortably and in tune has more of an impact on performance than one may realize.
I've seen first hand how this knowledge effects my own playing, and recommend, on some level, everyone be able to deal with adjusting their own instrument