Learn Music Here!

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never touched an instrument or if you’ve been playing for years, I will help you get to the next step of your Musical journey. No student is too young or old, no dream is too bold. You CAN achieve your musical ambitions, just like so many before you. I believe in your potential and passion already, or you wouldn’t be reading this website- don’t wait any longer to get some help with your Music! My lessons are about more than just learning technique, timing, and tuning- listening is at the center of everything I teach. I will listen to you and we will listen to Music- the Music teaches most of the lessons. I care about my students. Your progress and your spirit are important to me. I offer individual and group lessons on instruments, composition, engineering, production, Music theory, improvisation, rehearsal techniques, and listening. I prefer to teach hour-long lessons, my rate is $50. Check out my specialized courses below.

-Casey

Educational Courses

If regular lessons aren’t for you, try out one of our 10-hour programs. These seminars are focused on a specific topic and broken into five 2-hour sessions with flexible scheduling. Available to individuals and groups.

$100/Session Individuals or groups

Check out the calendar for public group sessions and specials!

Home Recording Seminar

Learn everything you need to get started making your own recordings at home. In 5 sessions, we will create a finished song from scratch, going over each necessary step in the process. This course is aimed at Musicians trying to record on a budget.

  1. The basic gear you need, where to get it, and how to set it up in your home

  2. Miking/DI/MIDI techniques for common instruments and voice

  3. Track your song, a cover, or a house song

  4. Mixing, panning, plugins, and outboard effects

  5. Mastering, publishing, promoting

Songwriting and Arrangement Seminar

Whether you’ve been writing songs for years, or have yet to finish your first tune, this course will give you the constructive feedback to take your songwriting to the next level! We will write one or more songs together through the process of completing this course. Great for bands!

  1. Where to find inspiration? Saying yes to musical and lyrical ideas

  2. Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony

  3. Style, Form, and Orchestration

  4. Arrangement, voicing, partwriting

  5. Collaborating and communicating with other Musicians

Percussion Seminar

Add a little spice to your Music with this course that focuses on basic techniques and patterns for a wide variety of percussion instruments. You don’t need to be a full time drummer to brighten up your band’s sound with some hand drums or percussion effects!

  1. Djembe, Congas, Bongos

  2. Shaker, Tambourine, Triangle

  3. Frame Drums and Tablas

  4. Tuned Percussion

  5. Cymbals and Sound Effects

Play Any Instrument Seminar

Why just play an instrument when you could be playing Music? Casey plays every instrument in his house, learn his method for approaching basic technique on instruments from each family and creating strong vibrations, pleasant tone, and Musical sounds.

  1. Voice as Instrument, Percussion

  2. Keyboards

  3. Strings

  4. Woodwinds

  5. Brass

Performance Coaching

You and your band already know what you’re doing- you’re booking shows, you’ve got your set all figured out, but you know that you can take it to the next level. We will come out to your show or rehearsal (or invite you here) and give honest, helpful feedback on what we see and hear, along with suggestions of things we might enjoy as audience members or listeners. Available by request.

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