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If you are interested in playing jazz, and learning from a NYC-based jazz musician in NYC or Online? I can help! The best way to learn Jazz is studying with an active player. My name is Yoichi. I am a jazz pianist based in New York City. I can find ways to fit your needs to be a better Jazz player through my experience both performing with top players such as Ornette Coleman and Pharoah Sanders and teaching at college. Monthly rate is also available. 日本語でもNYCやOnlineでレッスンします! NYCで活動している本物のジャズミュージシャンに教わってみませんか??

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What makes a good song? This is exactly what we are going to find out. Exploring many of same techniques that are dealt with during our Composition Lessons, but in a broader more macro way. These lessons are geared to bring out your inner storyteller. By analyzing the great songs of the past and learning what makes them so effective, students will be able to internalize those tricks and techniques and add them to their own musician's toolbox. These tools will prove to be invaluable not only in crafting and shaping their musical stories, but also in overcoming writer's block. This program will ultimately help your songs reach their full potential and give you the ability to reach people on a deeper, more profound emotional level.

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This is a hands-on surgical exploration into what great songs are and how to create them - from lyrics to music. Great songs are not merely popular songs, or catchy songs, or best-selling songs - great songs are enduring creations that stand the test of time, and which cross all boundaries of genre and style. In order to create them, we need a unique combination of skills and sensitivities - the ability to execute our ideas effectively on an accompaniment instrument of our choice, whether piano, guitar, organ, harp or other almost always polyphonic (multiple sounding) instruments - but equally the ability to craft poetic and compelling lyrics that are neither cliche nor predictable, and not least, the ability to create effective rhyme patterns without compromising either the original intent or flow of the song. In truth, creating a great song is as or more difficult than creating a great story, because it requires the meeting and melding of word and music in a mutually resonant way. In this quest, the class will enlighten beginning as well as seasoned songwriters on harmonic vocabularies available to them, basic musical resources such as rhythmic figures and variation techniques, basic and advanced song structures, from Bach to the Beatles to Bernstein, and perfecting the art of lyric-writing. Students will learn both fundamental notations so they may present their songs in a true musical format, as well as short cuts enabling them to sketch ideas in a simple form when in the heat of creation. Vocal ranges, transposing, vocal and instrumental ranges will be addressed so that students create songs capable of being sung by either professionals or amateurs.

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For artists, songwriters, and creatives ready to shape their vision. Are you working on your own songs and feeling stuck? Do you have a head full of ideas but struggle to bring them together into one clear artistic story? Or maybe you’ve already created something you're proud of, but you want to take it further — deeper, bolder, more you. I'm here to help you connect the dots. As a singer, songwriter, producer and creative director working on my own debut album, I know how overwhelming the creative process can feel. There’s so much more to being an artist than just making music. Your sound, your visuals, your story, your live performance — it’s all connected. That’s where I come in. In our sessions, we can explore whatever part of your creative world needs support: 🎵 Songwriting – melody, lyrics, structure, harmony 🎧 Production Direction – from early sketches to refined ideas 🌙 Artistic Identity – visual storytelling, aesthetics, branding 🎤 Performance & Presence – connecting with your audience 💡 Creative Strategy – organizing ideas and unlocking new ones 🌀 Intuitive Guidance – sometimes you just need a sounding board You don’t have to do this alone. Whether you're a beginner or a more advanced artist, we’ll work with what’s already inside you — your instincts, your taste, your questions. Sessions are fully personalized and can be a one-time deep dive or part of a longer creative journey together.