FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Yes of course. Learning music is in fact a continuing education. You never stop learning, you always strive for better and learn new materials. For my case, I now play 10 instruments: singing voice, melodica, piano/keyboard, glockenspiel, harmonium, ukulele, guitar, accordion, bass guitar, and keyboard recorder; I am still learning viola, mandolin, recorder, and harmonica, and will pick up banjo in near future as well. This is the result of my "continuing education", it makes me become a better musician: for example, I learn ukulele in additional to other instruments I know, as a result I get better with those "other instruments" too, as I have one more "mode" for interpreting music. So you probably can tell how my improvement rate would be by knowing 10 instruments by now, and will know more in future. I would also try my very best to influence my students with my philosophy, hence they are having "continuing education" all the time, and I truly believe this is the best way of education.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
Besides music, I also studied computer science in college. While computer science industry can earn big bucks, I felt like it is not something I want to do for the rest of my life, plus like any kind of industries, you can only earn big bucks in computer science field IF AND ONLY IF you devote your time and passion into it, otherwise you would be out of the industry really fast as there are way too many good programmers out there. Music is the thing that I am willing to devote my time and passion in it, plus my computer science training made me have a rational view point that very few musicians have, so I know I can do it and that was how I started.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
With my computer science background, I 200% understand that efficiency is everything, as that is how the field goes. I put that philosophy into my music teaching as well. What students learn from me is not just "playing piano", "singing", "playing ukulele", "playing melodica", etc. what they learn is HOW the music is created so they can put that into any kinds of instruments. For example, 4 of the instruments that I teach: piano, melodica, glockenspiel, and harmonium are all keyboard based instruments. Hence by learning one of them, you kind of already know the other 3, then most of my students would go for my packages like "learn 2 or 3 of them in 1 hour or 1.5 hours". So by spending the same amount of time as the students from other music teachers, my students learn 4 or even more instruments (and all of them sound bad ass), versus students from others barely learn 1 instrument half ass and they don't enjoy it. This is what I call "efficiency" in my teaching style devoted from the philosophy of computer science.