Hunter
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Experienced tutor in Piano in Philadelphia, Hunter offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
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About Hunter
How long do you think it takes to learn to play the piano? Correct! Just a few lessons.
I remotely teach my own improv piano method, especially for people who feel it is too late or too long to learn. My students know 0 piano and learn to play moving music in a few lessons, or they know some (or a lot of) piano and I can help them learn to actually express themselves.
My students learn to attend to their inner response to their playing and then move their music to reflect it. After all, if how you feel about how your playing doesn't change what you do next, your feelings are irrelevant.
One student said: "Hunter is excellent at what he does! His listening skills and tailored feedback were so potent that just after a single hour-long session, my playing had improved significantly. You’ll relish learning from such a wise, efficient, and joyful instructor."
Another: "I did a series of lessons with Hunter on learning improv piano. He was able to break down many concepts for me such that I was able to catalyze a huge amount of material about piano playing. Importantly, he broke these concepts down by introducing them at a manageable pace and with relevant practices that made them stick much better than otherwise. I would easily recommend learning from him. I went from knowing very little about music to now being able to hear and deconstruct what songs I want to crib from are 'doing' structurally and so able to add to my musical vocabulary of techniques over time."
But my favorite said: "Hunter gave me music!
He is the best piano teacher I’ve ever had or even heard of!
If you are someone who has always wanted to play piano but the idea of taking anything like the classical piano lessons of your youth, complete with hours of boring scales and practice, sounds awful to you, definitely book some time with Hunter!
I had always wanted to be able to just *play* music the way some people could.
I had taken piano lessons as a kid, so I had some very basic music theory. I could find “c” on the keyboard and plunk out the first 30% of “The Entertainer” after about 5 tries but that was about it.
I had also tried to pick up other instruments but bounced off for the same reason I kept bouncing off piano; I found it fun to learn and to play basic songs sometimes, but spending hours memorizing large pieces, practicing scales, studying theory, and repeating the same drills over and over again was prohibitively boring, nearing on oppressive to me.
We didn’t start with scales or simple songs or anything like that. Hunter started with teaching me a few simple guidelines, rails maybe is a better term, to play inside of that made it so that most anything I played came across as musical and not grating, or dissonant. Then, he gave me some pointers and we started experimenting with the different elements of musicality. All of a sudden I was hitting keys in sequence and rhythm that sounded…good(?!?), pretty even! I was blown away…but I felt like it was too good to be true…
- Beginner to “experienced-sounding” in 2 weeks! -
Hunter encouraged me to explore and express and listen to what I was playing. I loved that I could make things sound pretty, and so fast, but I was convinced that it couldn’t be so easy… I wasn’t good… I couldn’t be, right? What I was playing was so simple. So basic and I felt *so awkward*.
It’s strange but I seemed to have no sense or ability to tell if what I was doing was embarrassingly simple or on it’s way to good. Hunter kept telling me that it was sounding great and he’d pull up famous pieces and show me how simple pieces were some of the most beloved but I wasn’t buying it. Of course he would say so, he was my friend and teacher. I wasn’t convinced. What finally convinced me?
Well, Hunter was very clever at figuring out how to get over this particular sticky spot for me and I’m so grateful he did. It cleared up my self doubt and finally hooked me for life on the piano. He took a recording of me playing one day and sent it to an old friend of his who is a professional pianist and teacher. With the message “Trying to get a read on how long this person has been playing. What do you think?”
The reply came a few days later “Sounds like 2-3 years at least”. I was blown away! I went from beginner to *making music* in 2 sessions and ~6 hours of practice. Not boring practice. Joyful, playful, expressive, and deeply gratifying practice!!! *mind blown emoji*. I was hooked.
I’ve been playing for 2 years now and I’m not sure I will ever capture how much it has enriched my life. Sometimes I describe it by saying that I feel as if there is a way that I will never feel alone again so long as I have a piano.
There are times when sitting and playing the piano is the only way I can express or release an emotion or hard to feel mood. I can tell jokes on the piano. I can experiment. I can jam with other musicians. I can swap keys seamlessly, make up songs and participate in the most delightful improvised duets!
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Piano lessons offered by Hunter are tailored to each student's needs and level. Lessons can also be held online. Lessons are also available in Philadelphia. The first lesson is free to define learning goals and methodology.
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- L817
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- 5h: L4085
- 10h: L8170
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