Teaching

Rocky is grateful to mentor and educate students of all ages, crafting organized, creative and engaging learning environments. Rocky ensures that the lesson atmosphere creates fun, focus, and joy while building practice schedules that help students track their growth. Rocky offers in-person and online drum set, piano, composition, and improvisation lessons- in addition to presenting clinics, giving concerts, and coaching rhythm sections and jazz ensembles across the country.

Rocky believes that students should play a role in leading their own curriculum, discovering the right tools and techniques for achieving any musical goal. General focuses include speed, learning by ear, chart reading, coordination/independence, flexibility, posture, relaxation, overall health/wellness in relation to the instrument, cultivating a sense of purpose and life path, etc. Through developing groove, feel, reading, listening/ ear training, transcription, sight-reading, rudiments, melodic scales, intervals, sight singing and singing technique, tune learning, memorization strategies, and chart creation, healthy habits are established to help students bloom as confident and capable musicians and human beings.

Contact Rocky to schedule a virtual one on one trial lesson here