Bo's Teaching Methods

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I am passionate about helping students understand the foundations of music while also discovering their creative flow.

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"Flowstate" is a state of mind that balances ease and challenge. It's a state of mind where someone is totally engaged in the activity. Getting into a flow state is a great way to reduce stress and increase focus. 

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I work well with students who have anxiety about learning an instrument and performing. ​

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To help students understand the foundations of music I offer the following: ​​

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1. Work with student goals and skills. Pick a few songs to learn and to use as a platform for learning music theory

2. Foundations in harmony, dissonance and consonance. Ear training.

3. Major scales in common keys, minor scales, pentatonic scales, and blues scales

4. Blues and jazz phrasing 

5. Intervals knowledge

6. Combination of chord shapes with chord theory

7. For guitar: Arpeggio patterns, bending, sliding, faster picking

8. All instruments: Picking up songs quickly

9. Basics of Songwriting

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I teach both online and
in-person lessons. 

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