kit b.

students should expect to be in a safe, and creative environment when it comes to my lessons. when it comes to songwriting you are not just learning how songs work, but how to create them yourself, and thats can be a fragile and personal process. you can spend all day, figuring out chord structures, and song forms, but at the end of it all it won't show you how to actually make meaningful music. I want to explore the music that the student is interested in, I find forcing kids to learn music they don't care for to be a useless practice. but if you show them how all music is connected through the genres they like they may just start appreciating more types of music which will in turn strengthen their songwriting abilities. we will focus on lyric writing, song structures, and even the recording of songs if they are interested. through that we will identify those ideas in already existing music so the information sticks, and the lessons are not robotic. I also believe the way you write music informs how you play your instrument, and vice versa. so I can work on teaching them guitar, and bass which are most times in modern songwriting the way songs are written. and for any instrument I dont play, it will make no difference cause its all music so it won't impede my ability to teach them.