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Since August 2020
Instructor since August 2020
Banjo Lessons to Enhance Your Life and Help You Reach for Your Dreams!
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From 103.04 C$ /h
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Our mission is to provide music lessons, educational classes, and life enrichment at an affordable price to anyone interested, regardless of ability, disability, aptitude, or cognitive ability, and to foster connections between students and families for individual and community growth.

Guitar lessons focus on hand/wrist health, proper technique, exploring a love of music, how music works, different musical types and genres, why things work together they way they do, and composing music if interested. We individualize lessons and work with students as a team to reach goals they set for themselves. We encourage students to select additional pieces that they’d like to learn, teaching technique and skill while working on fun songs, too. We simply go at whatever pace is comfortable for you and go step by step together. We often upload audio/video to help during practice and are available between lessons to answer questions.
Extra information
Students must have a Banjo on which to practice and use during lessons and internet access for practice and attending lessons.
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Online from United States
About Me
My studio is Malena's Music & More, offering music lessons, homeschool classes, and life enrichment!
I am a strong believer that everyone CAN and should have the chance to learn and grow, and that music adds enjoyment, satisfaction, and pleasure to people's lives.
Having a good rapport with students and families is of utmost importance.
I tailor all lessons to student's abilities, knowledge, interests, and preferences, while integrating music theory, and technique.
I offer several types of lessons online or in my studio in southern Maine, including piano, voice, trumpet, and flute. I have 2 other music teachers working with me, offering guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, and violin.
I allow for students to declare a specialty, including but not limited to: classical, pop, musical theater, composition, improvisation, performance, and graded exams.
Education
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
2012 Bachelor's Degree in Psychology; cognates in Special Education and Christian Counseling.
2017 Master's Degree in Human Services Crisis & Trauma with focuses on addiction, counseling, and special needs.
Experience / Qualifications
I've been teaching music lessons for over 30 years, both privately and at private schools. I am also Music Director at church, planning and leading worship weekly.
Age
Children (7-12 years old)
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Duration
30 minutes
45 minutes
60 minutes
The class is taught in
English
French
Skills
Availability of a typical week
(GMT -05:00)
New York
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Online via webcam
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
00-04
04-08
08-12
12-16
16-20
20-24
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This course teaches the basics of French, conversation, and culture. This is the second half of high school French 1 and can be taken in middle or high school, or as an adult if you want to learn French at a slower pace (contact us for adults taking the class to be scheduled at a separate time).

This is a blended course; you'll have online assignments, and the class meets online Thursdays from 2-3pm from September through June.
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Our mission is to provide music lessons, educational classes, and life enrichment at an affordable price to anyone interested, regardless of ability, disability, aptitude, or cognitive ability, and to foster connections between students and families for individual and community growth.

Trumpet lessons focus on proper embouchure, breathing, and technique, exploring a love of music, how music works, different musical types and genres, why things work together they way they do, and composing music if interested. We individualize lessons and work with students as a team to reach goals they set for themselves. We encourage students to select additional pieces that they’d like to learn, teaching technique and skill while working on fun songs, too. We simply go at whatever pace is comfortable for you and go step by step together. We often upload audio/video to help during practice and are available between lessons to answer questions.

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