Lessons and Consultations

Ed Garcia has been offering lessons to students of all ages, musicianship levels, and backgrounds since 2009. Lessons are available upon request, and both in-home and online lessons are available. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in fun, professional, and effective music education!

1. Music Theory: sight-reading, sight-singing, harmony, analysis, history

2. Research: how to find and hone your academic research topic; consolidating and improving your written/presentation material

3. Drum Set: from “how to hold a drum stick” to “I wanna rock!”

4. Orchestral Percussion: excerpts, techniques, mallet advice

5. Mallet Percussion: 2- and 4-mallets; learn solo repertoire, how to become a better sight reader

6. Solo Percussion: how to approach a complicated piece; how to learn pieces faster

7. Gamelan: the ins and outs of the world of traditional Indonesian music

8. Sundanese Kendang: the art of gamelan drumming

9. Composition: how to improve your compositional approach; learning to write for specific instrument groups

10. Consultations: for composers seeking to improve the quality of their percussion and gamelan writing