Teaching

Rocky is grateful to mentor and educate students of all ages, crafting organized, creative and engaging environments of reciprocal learning. Rocky ensures the lesson environment creates fun, focus, and joy while crafting practice schedules that keep students fully absorbed in the study of the music. 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 in Seattle, Chicago, Indiana, New York City.

Rocky believes that students should help lead their own curriculum, building tools, resources, and practice techniques for achieving any musical goals. General focuses include maximizing flexibility, posture, relaxation, overall health/wellness in relating to the instrument, cultivating a sense of purpose and life path, curating a nurturing routine of steady growth. 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, reliable practice routines are established to help students flourish as confident and capable musicians and people.

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