Improvisation Lessons

Improvisation Lessons:
I grew up through my mid-teenage years improvising on the piano, learning what's important and what's not - both technically, and philosophically. Improvisation is a freedom in music that people are often wishful for, but terrified of. With an understanding of theory and some ear training, anyone can learn to improvise. The most important thing to reach this goal is experimentation - which means it will require experimentation at home with any concepts you are taught.
I am patient, understanding and flexible and love teaching improvisation techniques!

Hey, I'm Hayden! I'm a friendly and patient piano/keyboard teacher with years of experience in the Canberra music industry. Teaching is a passion I've had since primary school.

I teach privately from home on my professional-grade digital keyboard (Kurzweil PC4) with weighted touch and high quality sounds.

I create a lot of teaching resources for my students which I provide throughout lessons. These include colourful, high quality diagrams of all major, minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor and pentatonic scales, and various types of chords.

I also create notated charts for many songs that I like to give to students to learn particular styles or concepts.
I'm happy to look at whatever songs someone wants to look at.

Although I can help with classical music, my expertise and personal taste lies more in jazz and contemporary styles.
I don't often teach from method books, as I like to tailor lessons individually to students.