As an educator, my goal is to deepen my students relation with music. I’ve given clinics at colleges and high schools, taught classrooms and group lessons and given a lot of one-on-one lessons on bass, guitar, various stringed instruments and music production.
Some highlights from my teaching experience…
In two rehearsals, I taught a combo of high school saxophone players how to improvise a compelling solo over a jazz standard (*hint no scales were used, we focused purely on improvising around the melody.)
I had a 6 year old student who would not focus on piano…until I slapped some dinosaur stickers on some staff paper and then all my student wanted to do was learn music notation so he could write dinosaur songs.
Teaching my high school students how to use the GarageBand app on their iPad to create backing tracks they can practice their scales along with at home.