Developing Relationships At Lessons In Your Home, we have a core value: to make a connection — to develop a relationship — that has more value than the lessons we teach. Some music teachers might find this idea a little crazy. After all, we’re being hired to teach a student how to play music, right?
Being Part of a Family That Isn’t My Own As a teacher at Lessons In Your Home, we become part of the families we teach. After all, we go into our students’ homes once each week, and while it’s only for a short time, the consistency is enough to make us feel like part of
Where Music Teachers Come From Every music teacher starts as a musician with a story. Maybe it began in a school choir, a marching band, an orchestra, a rock group, or a private lesson at home. No matter where it started, there was always a community — a group of people who shared a love
Raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Leandro began exploring guitar and percussion as a teenager and was soon drawn into a lifelong pursuit of rhythm, creativity, and learning. By 2000, he was teaching professionally, and in 2006 he completed a degree in music education. Since then, his focus has been on guiding students to find their
Jordan’s journey with music has always revolved around teaching. Trained as a percussionist and equally at home on the piano and guitar, he describes himself as a jack of all trades. From a young age, he was drawn to the energy and structure of band life, especially the tight-knit world of marching band. In his
Humberto’s musical journey began in Brazil with a piano and a lot of curiosity. At just seven or eight years old, he was already mimicking his neighbors’ lessons so well that their father noticed he was playing better than the kids who were actually enrolled. His own formal instruction began soon after, and he’s been
Ozzie’s journey into music began in public school, where he was encouraged to take up the upright bass. What started as a simple suggestion quickly turned into a lifelong passion. He felt a deep connection with the instrument from the beginning and followed that path all the way through college, studying under world-class musicians and
If your child is starting music lessons, you may find yourself wondering:“What is music theory, and does my child really need it?” The short answer? Yes—and it’s probably not what you think. At Lessons In Your Home, we don’t treat music theory like a separate, stuffy subject. Instead, we weave it into every lesson in
If your child is new to music lessons, you’ve probably heard strange new words floating around your home:Whole note. Half note. Quarter note. Rest.Maybe you’ve even seen them scribbled in a practice notebook or music book. To a young learner, rhythm might seem like the most confusing part of reading music. But here’s the secret:
If your child is learning music—whether it’s singing, violin, trumpet, or cello—they’ll eventually come face-to-face with the two most important symbols in music reading: the treble clef and the bass clef.
To us, these might look like fancy swirls and dots. But to your child, they can be confusing gates to the music world—unless someone helps make sense of them.
At Lessons In Your Home, we teach young musicians not just what to play, but how to read the language of music.
