Bio

ecole@fitedu

321-308-7932

Lesson Location: Online via Zoom

Course Name: MUS 1550 05

I firmly believe that motivation to improve and succeed in musical endeavors has to come from within. A good teacher will guide, encourage, and set realistic goals to achieve, but rarely will shame and disappointment make a student feel like they want to practice more. As such, I always try to pick repertoire to work on that is at the student’s level, or within their reach if they put in an appropriate amount of time and effort. Not everyone needs to be playing the showiest, most difficult music, and as long as we’re enjoying the music and learning something, it doesn’t matter what level of difficulty we’re at.

In the end, small mistakes and imperfections happen, and while we always want to try and eliminate them, it is much more rewarding to focus on the details of musical phrasing and style. I’m a very analytical and detail-oriented teacher, and very much believe that attention to the volume and length of every note is important in order to achieve the style and phrasing that the music calls for. Almost equally important is understanding why it is the way it is, so that a student can know how to learn new pieces by themselves in the future.