

Balancing My Hobbies And My Music Career
My music career has allowed me to have such a flexible schedule with my hobbies. My main hobby is martial arts. In fact, it is more than just a hobby. It has been a part of my life since I was five-years-old, even before I was interested in playing music! Since then, I have become one of the head instructors at my karate school in my hometown of Maywood, NJ. I train three times a week, and I help with teaching on Mondays, Wednesdays, and some Thursdays. I have my own cl


What It Is Like To Teach Private Students
When I went to college, I really thought I wanted to teach in the public school system. As I was going through college, I became more aware of the hardships that music teachers have to go through, and I decided not to go that route with my degree. I decided to take my talents to the business side of the industry, and I could not be any happier with my decision. I learned so many ways how to promote my talents as a musician, and those courses have helped me pave the way of


What It Is Like Being A Freelance Musician
Believe it or not, I have only had two jobs - event staff at my high school, which was a student-worker job, and being a musician. Both my brother and I took the student-worker job because it got us so many perks in school like getting out of class, running events, and driving the golf carts around to name a few. Despite having an incredible time messing around with my brother and my friends, I still gravitated towards playing music, even before I knew I wanted to be a musi


Engineering in My Home Studio
Do you need recording done for your musical theater project, original EP, or track you’ve always wanted to lay down? Well, my home recording studio is set up for tracking high-quality works. I offer extremely affordable hourly rates and mixing fees with a very fast turnaround. Because of my ability to follow along with your recording musically, I am able to run an extremely efficient recording session to make you feel comfortable when laying down your tracks. I understand

What Online Lessons Are Like With Me
Skype lessons can be pretty intimidating to people who want to study music, but can’t physically be in my studio. Understandably, the tradition is to have an in-person lesson at the teacher’s home studio. People often think of certain issues - “Can you see me?” “How can you hear me?” “How am I supposed to be able to see you clearly?” “Where can you write the notes down for our lesson?” While all of these are valid questions, these issues and concerns have been addressed by