Piano Lessons in Bartlett

Dave started teaching piano and organ lessons when he was 15 years old. After leaving teaching in his early twenties to take on a corporate job for 23 years, he retired and returned to teaching. Aside from teaching private piano lessons, Dave is the Music Specialist at Kensington School in Naperville. At this preschool/kindergarten, Dave teaches music classes and performs seasonal shows with the students. Dave is also the keyboardist for the popular local band “This End Up”, performing most weekends in the area.

Dave’s specialty is teaching younger children, (ages 5 and up), beginning piano lessons. He uses a storybook method that relates memorable children’s characters to the notes on the piano. Children identify with these characters and become excited to learn new notes and songs each week. Though these characters the children learn the basic notes of the treble and bass clef. As their skills improve, basic chord theory is introduced.

For the more advanced students Dave uses some of the standard method books to teach children to read treble and bass clef. He also writes out simplified arrangements of youngsters pop songs so they can learn to play music they identify with. Though these songs, chord theory and simple arranging ideas can be taught. He is open to teach any style of music that the student wants to learn. As students advance they may bring in their own sheet music of songs they desire to learn. Dave can also create backing tracks for the students to play along for many popular songs.