Creative practice
How to have ideas on purpose, and what to do with the ones that arrive strange. Getting past the blank page, past the first four bars, past the point where you normally stop and start over. How to finish things.
Lessons
The subject is creativity. Music is how we get at it.
Learning how to make things
This is the centre of it, and it’s what most lessons are actually about. You can start here with no instrument, no experience, and no idea what you want to make yet.
Improvisation
Playing without a plan and not panicking. This is the fastest way to find out what you actually sound like — and the quickest cure for the voice that asks whether every note is correct.
Composition
Taking a strange feeling, a chord, a rhythm, an image, or a half-formed idea and building a world out of it. Structure, arrangement, and knowing when a thing is done.
Songwriting
Words, melody, and the parts of a song that carry meaning. Writing something honest rather than something that sounds like the songs you already know.
Developing your own taste
Learning to hear what you actually like and why, so your decisions come from you rather than from whatever the algorithm served up this month. Listening as a skill.
The craft underneath
Learn the rules well enough to use them, bend them, or completely ignore them. Take as much or as little of this as you want — it’s in service of the work, not the other way round.
Piano & keyboard
Technique, ear, and the ability to sit down and play something that isn’t on a page. Classical grounding if you want it, none if you don’t.
Drums & rhythm
Drumset, groove, independence, and the timing instincts that carry over into everything else you play.
Music theory
Theory as a tool for hearing more, not a set of walls. Learned through music you already care about.
Production
Recording, arranging, and mixing your own work so the idea in your head survives the trip to the speakers.
How it works
Kids and adults. Complete beginners through players who already know their way around. One to one, online.
$45
45 minutes · online · one to one
One session at a time — no packages, no commitment. There’s no audition and no level you need to reach before you’re allowed to start. The first session is a conversation as much as a lesson — bring something you want to work on, or nothing at all.