Study privately with an experienced professional musician with a long list of performance, recording and writing credits. Fine tune your craft and even record your work in a casual but state-of-the-art keyboard recording room. In fact, all the music youÕll hear in the Music Library was recorded here.

Centered around a fast, dual-processor Macintosh G5 computer with MOTU Digital Performer and Finale notation software, there are plenty of hardware and software synths and samplers, plus all the effects and mastering plug-ins youÕll need to reach your educational goals. And who knows, you may end up recording the next big "hit" in the process.

For more information or for scheduling, email me.



Visit the School of Music and learn to play and write.
Photo Gallery includes a few people Dean's met on his journeys. Foyer – Dean Who? Come on in. It's like home in here.
Bookstore is now offering a best seller, Between the Lines!
Music Library, Shhh! Listen to MP3's
Performance Hall with live engagements and booking office
Studio - Work, Work, Work!
If youÕve already had traditional piano lessons and are ready to move up to the "next level"

 Intermediate thru advanced piano / keyboard:

       • Jazz piano / keyboard

       • Pop and Commercial piano / keyboard

       • Contemporary and Traditional Christian piano / keyboard

       • How to play from a chord chart

       • How to add your own "improvements" while reading standard notation

       • How to accompany a singer

       • The differences between playing solo, with a small group or with a large ensemble


 Curriculum especially designed for church pianists / keyboardists:

       • How to improvise a more "pianistic" arrangement from your hymnal

       • How to improvise "meditative" music, such as during prayer

       • How to improvise keyboard strings from a chord chart

       • How to improvise keyboard brass from a chord chart

       • How to play "second" or auxiliary keyboard (organ, electric piano, etc.)

       • How to MIDI sequence complete accompaniment tracks (see below)


 Piano / keyboard for songwriters, composers and arrangers

         The focus here is not mastery of the instrument, but rather using the piano as a
         writing tool.


 Composition (from song development to instrumental jazz)

        Basic keyboard skills required, except for song development.
        Must be proficient at reading standard music notation, except for song development.


 Arranging for any size ensemble

        Basic keyboard skills and proficiency at reading standard notation required.


 MIDI sequencing, MIDI arranging and hard-disk recording

        Learn in a state-of-the-art keyboard recording suite, complete with all equipment and
        software necessary for hands-on learning. All mp3s on this site are entirely MIDI
        sequenced with the addition of acoustic and electric guitar on some tracks. To hear
        the full potential of MIDI sequencing and recording, go to the Music Library.

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