A teacher imparts knowledge and skills through structured lessons, focusing on subjects and assessments. A coach, on the other hand, focuses on personal growth, skill improvement, and goal achievement, often using a more hands-on, motivational approach tailored to an individual’s specific needs. Anyone can give you a set of music workbooks and babysit you while you work through them, I’m here to guide you to develop a system that incentives YOUR success.

A workshop is my favorite way to teach! There’s something about the community environment that makes students so much more engaged with the music, so much more inspired to grow.

Workshops are something I started doing a few years ago, where a group of students (typically max of six) share a lesson hour covering topics they all have an interest in learning. Students can bounce ideas off each other, share writings with each other, we’ll do exercises as a group so we can all have a space to be vulnerable and make mistakes without consequence or judgment.

These workshops can be over specific categories (Advanced Guitar Improvisation, Theory for Songwriters) or can also be a group of friends who want to save a bit of money and get high quality coaching together.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with learning a few of your favorite Led Zeppelin or Taylor Swift songs and having fun with them a couple times per month. If that’s you, I would be super happy to recommend some incredible teachers that can help you get those basics down for half the price.

But my students don’t typically come to me just starting out. This community has found its way here because some students have questions other teachers can’t answer. Many of my students have been going in the same circles for years and can’t break the cycle. Many of my students are preparing for tour and don’t know if they’ve accounted for all the variables that will come up yet. Many of my students are getting ready to record their original music and aren’t sure if they can perform what they’re hearing in their head. My coaching exists to guide extraordinary musicians into being their best selves, and that’s a level of dedication not just any teacher can offer.

I ask the same question to dozens of students asking me if they should go to music school. Truth is, we live in an information age where pretty much everything you could go to school for is already available somewhere online for free or a low cost.

What you may have more trouble with, is figuring out which information is accurate or not. Figuring out which verbiage translates to professional contexts, figuring out which concepts are important to innately understand compared to the ones that don’t come up so much. Perhaps most importantly, figuring out how to disseminate this mass of information into an efficient and effective system of musical fluency; that’s where I come in.

Your instrument, a camera ready device (smartphone or laptop is perfectly fine), a notebook (ideally one with staff paper but we’ll make it work regardless), and a comfortable space to learn in! Creative coaching should feel safe and inspiring, so equipment never needs to be something that’s holding you back. That said, if you’re looking for any advisement on equipment in a professional context, I’m happy to help there as well.

Absolutely! I get a lot of students looking for prep work before college or grad school and I’m even happy to help tailor your studies in the direction your school tends to focus.

In most cases, being adequately prepared for academic programs means a much deeper understanding of fundamentals and core concepts than many programs are able to offer in bulk to their students. I often come in to help students fill in gaps and build a rock solid foundation so the time and money they put into school is well spent!

My services are intended to be a premium option for musicians seeking the best. If you’re starting out and wanna learn some cool tunes, I know a ton of wonderful teachers I can recommend! But my students continuously come back to me because music is a core element of their being and they owe it to themselves to give it their all.

His name is Wilfred! He’s a 165lbs English Mastiff mix and he loves popping his head on screen at incredibly inconvenient times when he feels he isn’t getting enough attention.