Lawrence A.

Assessing your goals in music, what place does music have for you in your life, and what do you want to be able to do with music? The ability to read and write music notation. Music theory and Ear training fundamentals. Learning basic chords, rhythm, and melody on guitar. How to practice on your own to guarantee progress without a teacher. How to write your own musical ideas from scratch and develop your artistic sense on the instrument, including improvisation. You are never too young to do anything more difficult than beginner on guitar, but we want to get a few basics and fundamentals down so that you know how to approach learning songs or writing your own music.

The student can expect an introduction to the vocal mechanism as an instrument, how it works. The voice is difficult because I cannot show you how to alter your vocal mechanism directly, we establish the fundamental basics of breath control, relaxed upright posture and allowing the resonance of the voice to come out. These fundamental basics are the continually revisited ideas that carry you from beginner to advanced, and always need to be revisited. We cycle through concepts and techniques and then practice letting go of those ideas so that you train your body and mind to be relaxed, yet aware of the vocal mechanism. Singing relaxed is the beginning and end stage goal for producing a healthy sound that will last your entire lifetime.

Songwriting can begin at any level of musical ability. The sooner you start, the better you will become. The fundamental principals behind writing your own music and being a music artist is that there are no rules. There is indeed a formal way to teach songwriting, which involves a deeper level of understanding music theory and technical proficiency on your instruments of choice. I can share the beginning concepts that start you on this formal path of writing songs, formulaic songwriting, and I can share with you the more openly creative approach of using your ear and current knowledge of music. Even if it's very little, if you like music, you can be creative and musical. Bridging these two ideas together can help the student learn overtime how to be creative and confident with what they know on their instrument, or it can help them come up with new song ideas as they learn new music theory concepts along the way in their music journey. You don't need to know everything before you can sit down and write a song. You write songs along your journey as a musician because you have that creative passion and desire to create music as much as learn from your favorite artists.