Piano Lessons are tuition based and include 2 annual recitals and all student materials for the year.
Once enrolled, students also gain access to my student portal for tons of additional resources like practice notes from our lessons, student events calendar, video lessons, additional popular sheet music, and more.
PIANO LESSONS
ABOUT MY TEACHING STYLE
PROFESSIONAL PIANIST | PIANO TEACHER | MUSIC ARRANGER | COMPOSER
Teacher
Hi! My name is Laura Reynolds, and I have been teaching piano professionally since 2005 - first in Las Vegas and Houston, now in Austin, and online.
During my music career, I have noticed there are two linear ways of thinking when it comes to teaching and learning music:
You are either an improviser and mostly play by ear
You can read and play classical pieces as the composer intended
But rarely are BOTH found, encouraged, and blended in music lessons.
When I wanted to play soundtracks and popular songs, creatively arrange, and compose my music, little of that was taught or encouraged until much later in my education.
So when I began teaching piano, I wanted my studio to focus on a more well-rounded approach to music education. I want my students to discover all aspects of music and decide who they are as musicians.
My piano lessons focus on giving students the tools needed to play many different music genres, improvise, compose or write a song, and especially have the theory to understand how to use it all where it matters - in their music.
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Teacher, Music Arranger, and Sheet Music for Students
As a piano teacher first, I arrange popular songs into sheet music beginner piano students can easily learn.
I love making these because they reinforce learned concepts from our lessons like:
chord structures
new rhythms
new notes and the relationship between each other
key signatures
scales
These beginner versions integrate with music lessons and method books and open their eyes to the fact that those music theory ideas not only apply to classical music and technique but ALL music.
Having the ability to see and apply this gives them a new appreciation for music and also makes students stronger musicians.
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Composing in the Classroom
I’m also a composer and encourage my students to express their creative side through improvisation and songwriting projects each year. Each student’s compositions have guidelines to help them progress and are adapted to the level each student is currently performing at each year.