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Year-end Private Music Lesson Specials

 

Hello!

It’s time for my Holiday Specials!

If you’ve been putting off starting some private music lessons, now is your opportunity to take action and START SOME LESSONS!

You could grab a few hours to get a clean-up in your desired area, or get a larger package and have me give you a program that will directly lead you to your musical goals.

To see what I do:

Click here for bass, guitar and piano.

Click here for general musicianship if a singer or other instrumentalist.

Click here if you’ve had confusions about music in any fashion and would like to clear things up.

Now is your time!

 

Here are my Holiday Specials for New Students:

  • Normal rate: $60 / lesson (an hour)
  • Holiday Special #1: $50 / lesson — Buy two lessons (minimum) at $100
  • Holiday Special #2: Same price with a four-lesson package at $200
  • Holiday Special #3 A five-lesson package for $250 and you get one free! (This is a good deal.) This applies to anyone paying before the end of the year and starting by the first week in January. (If you are out of town for the holidays we can work something out.)

All lessons need to be weekly, at least one a week. (More is always fine.) Until a student is stable with the learning process, it’s easy to get off track when a week is missed. Once someone is grooved in, occasional misses aren’t an issue.

 

Take advantage of this offer!
Offer good until Dec 31st

 

Music lessons also make great gifts
Giving someone lessons as a gift, who you know might not do this on there own, would be a wonderful thing.

Contact me for more information, then download this Gift Certificate, fill it out and present the present!

 

 

(Click here to download and print the gift certificate.)

Marty B.
(818) 242-7551
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(And keep in mind that I deliver long-distance correspondence lessons to your out-of-town friends and family.)

 

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Give the Gift of Music… Lessons!

 

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Hello!

It’s time for my Holiday Specials!

At this time of the year, people often give loved ones music lessons as a gift.

Many people either want to study and haven’t, or used to play and would like to again: there are many situations.

The common factor here, is they would like to get some private instruction… but haven’t!

Now is your time to give them the chance to take their musical lives to the next level.

Browse through my teacher pages to see what I do, then get some lessons as a gift!

 

Here are my Holiday Gift Specials:

  • Normal rate: $60 / lesson (an hour)
  • Gift Rate #1: $50 / lesson — Buy two lessons (minimum) at $100
  • Gift Rate #2: Same price with a four-lesson package at $200
  • Gift Rate #3: A five-lesson package for $250 and you get one free! (This is a good deal.) This applies to anyone paying before the end of the year and starting by the 1st week in January, whether a gift or not.

All lessons need to be weekly, at least one a week. (More is always fine.) Until a student is stable with the learning process, it’s easy to get off track when a week is missed. Once someone is grooved in, occasional misses aren’t an issue.

 

Take advantage of this offer!
(Click here to download and print the gift certificate.)

Marty B.
(818) 242-7551
Email
(And remember that I deliver long-distance correspondence lessons to your out-of-town friends and family.)

 

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Balancing a Music Lesson

My last student of the night was Mike on guitar. It ended up being a perfect example of aligning his lesson to his goals, and I wanted to share that with you.

He came to his lesson feeling good about what he had practiced that week. He looked happy, but not REAL happy, so I dug into his “head” to see where he was at.

He was tracking with what he was learning, but really needed the scales and chords and technical stuff to directly relate to a particular song and we hadn’t done that yet. Fine. So I had him pull out his iPhone and play me a few songs he liked, picked one that was in the same “key” as something that was on his lesson and said, “Let’s apply everything tho this song.”

He said, “Great!”

Well… I related everything on his lesson to some part of the song: the theory, chords, rhythm and ear training. Then I taught him the opening guitar lick… and he blew out.

Super happy.

That’s how I like to end a lesson!

MB

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Can Music Lessons Ruin Your Originality?

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I believe that people are natively creative and original: taking lessons should increase your originality rather then blunt it. (After all, there is only one you!)

Quality music instruction promotes understanding, practical skill, creativity, thinking on your own and fully expressing yourself. The more freely you express your ideas, concepts and feelings the more original you will be. Anything that inhibits your personal expression can blunt your creativity, therefore ruin your originality.

In my twenty-eight years of teaching I have found that students who had little success with music lessons probably experienced one or more of the following:
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The Fascinating Thing About Teaching

The most fascinating thing about teaching, is how different everyone is. Different levels of alertness, interest, ability and aesthetic levels.

There are two main categories of teaching that I apply: pure enhancement and correction.

 

Pure Enhancement

I guess you can call this straight-ahead teaching. I know what the student want’s to do and I show him the skills needed to accomplish that.

 

Correction

Though there are various levels of correction possible, this mainly entails fixing up any bad habits or incomplete knowledge or skills a person could have. For example: I had a guitar student once who had developed some really bad picking technique and wanted to fix it. Another student didn’t understand what she was playing on the piano and kept on getting confused in the middle of songs. I just needed to fill in her theory holes.

I could go on and on.

In following through with this post topic, people respond in all different ways. Some are resistive, some gladly accept whatever I give them to do, while others learn so fast they end up teaching me something!

And people have asked me If I ever get bored teaching? I don’t think so.

Student’s have cried when they didn’t like some music they wrote, or rejoiced from playing something perfectly.

I could on and on, but it’s time for dinner.

What kind of student have you been?

Marty B.
Personalized Music Lessons

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