A Little Bit of Everything...
Student – 5 year-old, less than 10 minute attention span
Goal – Parents requested a mix of basic piano and French in 45 minute lessons
Approach – Created finger puppets with French names to engage student. Simultaneously, taught music scales while introducing basic French vocabulary.

Voice

Students – 4 teenagers
Goal – Prepare for end-of-year High School talent show
Approach – Assisted in song selection that matched group voices and coached on harmony

Student – Teenage girl
Goal – Learn fundamentals of singing
Approach – Taught the vocal basics while practicing the students’ favorite pop songs

Student – 26 year-old, choir member
Goal – Improve participation in church choir
Approach – Coached weekly on site reading, harmony, and pitch control leveraging the choir’s repertoire

Student – 31 year-old lead singer of Christian contemporary band
Goal – Identify unique sound and style while building emotional range
Approach – Experimented with different vocal ranges, colors, and nuances to identify the artist’ core vocal character. Enhanced artist’s self-awareness of her musical personality and helped her to enlarge the personality.

Student – 51 year-old professional folk guitarist and singer
Goal – Enhance breathe control and refine pitch for long, live performances
Approach – Customized set of warm-up exercises to significantly increase breath capacity

Piano

Student – Self-disciplined 16 year-old with no prior training, but natural musical ear
Goal – Create daily goals and practice schedule grounded in weekly 1:1 lesson
Approach – Customized lessons using a mix of the Suzuki method and traditional site-reading. Created daily routines to accelerate learning and match self-discipline.

Student – 9 year-old had given up piano after two years of lessons because he was bored with the instrument
Goal – Build excitement for the instrument and overcome initial challenges with confidence
Approach – Created highly interactive, mini-lessons within his 30 min session focusing on the fun of music. Once he was engaged in the instrument again, slowly increased the level of difficulty to maintain his confidence as his skills grew.

French

Student – 53 year-old psychologist who had not taken French since college
Goal – Refresh French language proficiency for upcoming conference presentation in Paris while balancing a very busy personal and work schedule
Approach – Conducted 1:1 French lessons over dinner to accommodate busy schedule

Student – Accomplished attorney with frequent business trips to France
Goal – Build advanced conversation skills for conducting business abroad
Approach – Rehearsed upcoming business meeting discussions

Students – 3 executives from a Japanese clothing company
Goal – Rapidly develop basic French proficiency to conduct import / export commerce with French suppliers
Approach – Created intensive, immersion experiences to replicate the business setting including meetings, dining, and negotiations

Students – 2 toddlers
Goal – Build French language proficiency for upcoming family move to Switzerland
Approach – Conducted weekly group lessons and provided individual activities to complete with parents in between lessons to accelerate progress

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