Music Lessons

Drums:

1. Drum Set Studies:(Basics to Advanced)…a progressive study (taught over several years). Includes all basic note values, constructing simple to complex drum beats/grooves in duple and triple meter, music styles, techniques, the grip, rudiments (40+) development and applications, latin grooves concepts, applied rhythms, polyrhythms, accents, Building solos, reading and interdependence.

2. Drum Rudiments: Creative and dynamic sticking skills. An in depth study of the 40+ rudiments as applied to snare drum & drum set, dynamics, ABCDEFG concepts, Motion studies.

3. World Ethnic Rhythm studies: Over 20 ethnic drum studies played in groups of 10 or more.

4. Latin Drumming Studies: As applied to drum set.

5. Snare Drum Studies: (Applying and combining rudiments to create dynamic and stylistic hand flow on the snare drum).

6. Drum Set and Bass Guitar Rhythmic Relationship Studies (Basic to Advanced).

Guitar:

7. Guitar: (Covers all Pop and Rock guitar styles) (beginning – advanced) (lead/rhythm/scales/modes/patterns/skills)

8. Blues Guitar: (chords/theory/scales/rhythms/artists/songs).

9. Chords,Modes and Scales: A complete perspective…..as applied to guitar, bass, piano. and other instruments. Building the musical “beast.”

10. Chords: (Major, minor,augmented and diminished) and their scales, altered maj. and min.chords and their altered scales.

11. Rhythm and Chords Study: (Simple to complex rhythms and chord/chord extensions)

Bass:

12. Bass: (Applied music theory to many styles of Bass Guitar: includes Pop, R&B , Blues, Rock, Country…etc. Scales, modes, arpeggios (all), rhythm fundamentals, reading bass clef.
13. Bass and Guitar relationships: (A musical perspective by isolating,studying,and playing chords,rhythms and bass parts).

Keyboards:

14. Keyboards: (Learning piano basics for songwriting and band…chords/ inversions/ scales/ arpeggios/ chord extensions, rhythms,etc.)
15. Keyboards, Bass and Guitar relationships.

Music Theory:

16. Music Theory I, II, III, IV, Advanced: (Build music from ground zero and up……includes all keys)

17. Music Theory: Applied to Basic Blues Guitar studies and Pop, Country, Rock and Jazz guitar.

Song Writing:

18. Basic Songwriting Studies: (Studying great hit songs in all genres, building something from nothing….working your magical ideas).

19. Songwriting and applied Music Theory: A creative approach to songwriting using music theory formulas and chord fundamentals.

20. Advanced Songwriting: Putting all lyric, theory and creative rhythmic, melodic and writing skills together.

Rhythm:

21. Rhythm Studies: (Beginning-Advanced) all essential note-value vocabulary…reading, counting and tapping rhythms.

22. Rhythm Section Studies: (Rock, jazz, latin, pop, country, funk, R&B, jazz rock, latin rock, blues etc.).