Here's the deal...
I've been playing piano for almost 20 years now. It is one of my most persistent and personally satisfying hobbies. I took piano lessons starting in middle school right up to graduation, making it through 7 grades in the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music program (RCM). I got a digital piano as soon as I graduated and it has never sat idle since. In that time I have continued learning what I can and continuously picked up new sheet music on- and offline to learn. I have finally gathered enough confidence in myself and my skills that I want to talk about music with people. I want to show you how interesting it is!
So what I want now is to give you some of that knowledge and confidence. If you're an adult or a teenager with any interest in music I want to help you explore that. Ideally we would meet up on a call at most once a week for an hour or two, covering one or two topics per session and having some ongoing goal that we work towards. We can concentrate on a song, a style, or a specific area of knowledge. Take-home work is also completely optional; music is wonderful but the rest of life is also extremely important. This isn't a school course where you have to make the grade by a deadline, this is hanging out for a bit and talking about music.
If this interests you, shoot me an email at c013mck@gmail.com
Or DM me on Fediverse @rockario@kind.social
Or anywhere else you may have already found me
Here's what I can do:
- ◆ Teach you everything there is to know about reading sheet music
- ⦁ How to locate notes on a staff
- ⦁ What different note length and markers mean
- ⦁ How to recognize chords
- ⦁ How to navigate the system for repeating sections (repeats and codas)
- ◆ Counting rhythm
- ◆ Measuring intervals
- ◆ Scales and key signatures
- ◆ Recognizing and constructing chords
- ◆ Talk about the ways music is transcribed for different skill levels
- ◆ Help you learn a song, from start to finish
No previous knowledge required.
I can show you as much or as little as you're interested in. From full-on lessons and practice exercises, to just letting me ramble at you about theory for an hour.
I will work with you even if you do not have an instrument.
This limits how much of the practical piano-specific stuff I might go into, but that just means we can focus on *reading* the music and the more general theory that can be applied to music outside of live performance.
What you want comes first.
But don't let not knowing what you want stop you. If you don't know what you want to concentrate on, I can pick our direction just as easy. Just don't be afraid to say "I want to know more about this."