Summer music lessons available with Max Schwartz

Needham MA

06 June, 2022

7:26 PM

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SUMMER MUSIC LESSONS with Max Schwartz Heard on NPR, the Grammy Awards, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Newly-hired bass instructor at the Instrumental Music School of Concord-Carlislie “I just finished my Master of Music degree in Jazz Pedagogy at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where I taught private bass students, a jazz big band, a couple of small jazz ensembles, and a lecture called “The Evolution of Jazz” to 159 great students. I have recently had private students who studied piano, violin, cello, guitar, banjo, singing, songwriting, and jazz theory/composition with me, ranging in age from 5 to 50+. I love it all!” Max Schwartz is a musician, composer, and teacher now based in Needham, MA, and is highly acclaimed as both a bluegrass and jazz musician. He has been called “an acoustic master” by the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, has won Downbeat Awards for both performance and composition, is a two-time member of the GRAMMY® Jazz Combo, and was the winner of the 2019 Rockygrass Banjo Competition. I am accepting new students ages 5+ on: Upright/Electric Bass: Jazz, classical/technique, French and/or German bow, American folk music, orchestra repertoire, funk, Afro-Carribean Banjo: Three-finger picking, repertoire, accompaniment, roll patterns, soloing vs. backup Guitar: Chord shapes, backup vs. lead, soloing/improv, backing up singers Violin/Fiddle: by-ear aural training, fiddle tunes, reading music and orchestra repertoire I am accepting new students ages 10+ for: Jazz Piano/Harmony: Useful voicings to hear upper structures, repertoire, comping, and soloing! Jazz Theory/Composition: Non-instrument-specific lessons on soloing devices, upper structures, motific development, and more! Ages 13+ Singing/songwriting: Generating ideas for songs, discovering and utilizing personal connections to music, strategies to develop core song ideas quickly! Individual lessons are $60 all summer! Lesson packages are available at a rate of $55 per lesson when you pay for eight lessons or more!** For more information, please visit maxschwartzmusic.com! Or, email me at [email protected] **Lesson packages require prepaying each month of lessons on the first of the month.