Josue O.

I have studied and played guitar since I was 10 years old and I studied it all the way up to college where I received my Bachelor's of Arts in Music with a concentration in guitar. In teaching my students, I like to teach the fundamentals of guitar such as learning chords, notes and note names on each string, learning how to play chord progressions and how they relate to music theory, and most of all learning individual songs that the student wants to learn.

I studied Keyboard and Piano at the university level and I primarily train my students to learn finger patterns for both hands, playing scales, sight-reading, learning chord progressions and how they relate to music theory, and playing simple songs that can enhance their skill. If there is a pop song that a student wants to learn as well, I can teach that.

I know how to use Ableton Live and Pro Tools and have studied both of these programs while I was at university. I like to teach how to mix properly, learning midi and how to input it, mastering tracks. songwriting, looping, automating tracks and devices, and sampling.

I have written many songs, and studied song writing in college. I can teach song writing techniques such as matching lyrics to music, how to get out of creative ruts, what chords can invoke different feelings, how to write melodies, and work-shopping songs with students.

I have been singing ever since I was a kid, and even received proper voice training while in college. I like to teach my students how to properly and healthily produce sound with their voice, proper voice posture, vocal anatomy, controlling the volume and timbre of their voice, how to make what they are singing more musical in the way that they want it to be, and how to maximize the resonant space in their mouth and head so that a beautiful sound can escape and reverberate. If a student is not confident in their singing and can play another instrument I can also teach them how to incorporate the same feeling of playing their instrument into their singing. I like to help students grow more confident in their singing voice.