Online Piano Lessons from Woodbury, Woodbury, CT

I have been teaching music professionally since 1978. That means I have spent nearly five decades inside lesson rooms, rehearsal studios, recording sessions, classrooms, and stages—guiding students of every age and ability toward clarity, confidence, and genuine musical fluency. Teaching is not something I fell into. It has been my life’s work, my laboratory, and my ongoing conversation with the art of music itself.

Over the years, I have taught children, teenagers, working professionals, retirees, hobbyists, aspiring touring musicians, and people who simply always wished they had learned. I have worked with complete beginners who had never touched an instrument and advanced players preparing for professional careers. What I have learned is simple and powerful: musical growth is not about age. It is about the approach.

Teaching Experience: Nearly Five Decades of Practical Musicianship

When you teach for this long, patterns become clear. You see what works. You see what confuses students. You see what accelerates progress and what slows it down. That accumulated experience allows me to diagnose quickly, explain clearly, and design lessons that build momentum from day one.

I am also the author of 18 instructional books covering bass technique, music theory, harmony, ear training, and applied improvisation. Writing those books required me to refine complex ideas into digestible systems. Students benefit from that refinement every week. I do not teach from vague inspiration; I teach from organized, field-tested frameworks.

My professional credits include performing and recording with artists such as Stephen Stills and Peter Frampton, as well as working alongside members of Humble Pie and numerous other respected musicians. Working at that level reinforces something essential: fundamentals matter. Time, tone, harmonic understanding, and deep listening are what separate confusion from confidence.

Those same fundamentals are what I teach beginners.