Introduction: Los Angeles native currently looking for New Students who are excited about taking that first step and beyond! The most direct & illustrious methods to unveiling one's musical dreams! Empathic & motivating instructor bringing out the best you've got and even the unexpected!
*Blessed to work with artists & group members of The Supremes, Prince, P-Funk, Motown, ,Alice in Chains, Beck, Black Crowes, Stylistics, Tom Petty & personal instructor to families of Rod Stewart, Casey Casem and Earth Wind & Fire..
I am cordial with an old fashioned value system. I aim to be clear with who I am as a teacher so you can be clear with your learning. I've never taught two students the same way. I try and get a feel for where the student would like to aim for and build small goals so as to reach new heights musically.
∙Voice:
proper breathing & breath support
∙ vocal placement / resonance
∙ diction / vowel modification
∙ bridging registers & 'the high note'
∙ mixed voice
∙ vibrato
∙ vocal health/maintaining your voice
∙ touring, recording, performing
∙ screaming
∙ rhythmic singing
∙ writing songs/melodies/lyrics to suit your vocal strengths
All my students learn:
∙ ear training
∙ music theory/ music knowledge
∙ composition/songwriting
∙ intonation / resonance
∙ proper breathing & breath support
∙ diction
Interval training
Major scales in one octave
Harmonisation
∙ vocal placement
∙ understanding chest / head voice
∙ bridging registers & 'the high note'
∙ vowels and modification techniques
∙ mixed voice
∙ edgy/bright
∙ clean/distorted
∙ vibrato
∙ screaming and rasp (properly)
∙ Elizabeth Sabine power singing breathless technique
∙ vocal health/maintaining your voice
∙ touring, recording, performing
∙ writing songs/melodies/lyrics to suit your vocal strengths
and personality
Guitar:
I'll make certain you're working with the right guitar for you and your size, style etc.. I'll lower the action if the strings are too far from the neck, which is the case 99.9% of the time with nearly all guitars (making it hard to fret a note or barre.) We can even spend 20 min of the lesson changing the strings to one's more well-suited and this will be a necessary skill you will learn.
You will be given a step-by-step approach to learning the instrument as a whole, yet in a slow, considerate to your learning pace-fashion..You'll get into it.
I'll be giving you different warm-ups and exercises which induce strength & flexibility & knowledge & technique.
Learning songs or working on developing your own song ideas
Scales, modes, shapes and patterns and how to use them to improvise
How to play with soul and not sound sterile or mechanical.
Piano:
I am not your typical piano teacher. I don't use a method book. We will learn to read music but primarily we will be communicating old school, learning how to use both hands on the piano and voice them in a way which looks and sounds like a pop/ rock/ R&B, gospel and blues piano player/ keyboardist and not a classical pianist. I was trained by a Motown musician and songwriter be versed in music as to be able to speak and communicate it as natural as a 2nd language! You will earn how to read and write chord charts, melodies and rhythms and have the ability to play songs & musical idea in all 12 keys, improvising within the structure if it's what you gravitate toward, personally. Soon you'll feel a new sense of limitlessness and power when practicing, playing and performing.
Many students have gone on to form their own groups and work with major artists around the world. Within the first few lessons, you'll be able to know your way around the keyboard, and as time goes on you'll be able to naturally play what you want. I specialize in Pop, Rock, R&B, Country and Gospel and love working with students of all ages and experience levels. I am not your typical piano teacher. I was trained by a Motown piano/ keyboardist so as to be versed in musical as a 2nd language, learning how to read and write chord charts, notate melodies and play a song or musical idea in all 12 key, providing a sense of limitless when you approach and execute that which you will to do on the instrument.
*** Travel Equipment ***
I can provide portable keyboard, acoustic or electric guitar, access to any songs online with a clear sounding wireless speaker, learning documents which I will provide you with copies of, etc..
I always make certain you're working with the right guitar for you and your size, style etc.. I'll lower the action on your guitar if the strings are too far from the. neck (making it hard to play) and we can even spend 20 min of the lesson changing the strings to one's more well-suited and this will be a necessary skill you will learn.
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ValensLuv Voice & Music - To connect with you on the path of discovering your musical dreams and guiding from an open, experienced mind so as to realizing your objectives and possibly bring forth the unexpected!
