Natalie performs and records as an independent artist, and receives rave reviews for her songwriting and vocal style. She uses her skills as a full-time working musician, as well as her Bachelor’s in Music and her ongoing continuing education with ASCAP’s “I Create Music” Expo and as a featured artist for the Sisters in Songwriting forum, to create a rich learning environment for her students.
Teaching Piano
Voice
Using one's voice as a musical instrument can be invigorating, uplifting and healthy for the mind and body as they get in touch with their vocal health.
Voice lessons will be covering:
- Proper Posture
- Breath Management
- Pitch Matching/ Warm Tones/ Vowel Formation
- Harmonizing
- Songwriting
- Stage Presence (Concert Etiquette)
- Recitals/ Live Performance Experience
- Microphone Technique
- Sight Singing
Piano
Piano is a great musical foundation that encompasses every instrument involved in the musical family.
Piano lessons will be covering:
- Chords (Major/ Minor)
- Scales (All Modes)
- Music Theory (in depth chord analysis, dynamics, time signatures, key signatures, etc…)
- Sight Reading (Notes and Staff)
- Transposition
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Learning out of the Bastien Piano Basics Books
- Recitals/Live Performance Experience
Guitar
Natalie teaches beginner guitar in addition with ukulele. Aside from voice, the guitar is a mobile instrument which is very much loved and popular with most musicians.
Guitar lessons will be covering:
- Maintenance (Tuning and Stringing of the Guitar)
- Electric vs. Acoustic
- Picking Your Guitar
- Learning Frets/ Different Chord Placements
- Strumming/ Picking
- Bar Chords
- Note Reading
- Improvisation (Within the Scales)
- Recitals/ Live Performance Experience