Our Teaching Philosophy

From Sean and Sienna:

"We have had extensive experience teaching music through various schools and companies. From working in public school classrooms to private lesson rooms, there are many similarities in how students learn music. Our goal is to take all we’ve learned from our wide array of musical experiences and utilize it in each of our lessons. We understand that every single students learns in a unique way, so we try to emphasize the auditory, visual, reading/writing, and kinesthetic in our lessons - all while relating information back to the songs that are most familiar to the student. A big problem that pushes students away from practicing is teachers forcing repertoire that the student doesn’t know how to relate to. We all know this situation, a student looking to learn the piano is forced to play song after song that they have never heard before and don’t know anything about. This style of teaching bores students and leads them to feel disenfranchised in their own music education. So what do they do? They stop practicing and eventually feel as though music just isn’t for them, their self esteem plummets. Our idea is simple: We can do this better. We know from experience that any student who finds joy in music will improve at it. So we spend time in the beginning learning what each of our students already loves about music, then we strive to center lessons and concepts around that. Practicing should never be something that you dread every day, it should be something that you look forward to. We are here to prove that - just ask any of our students."