Private Lessons

If you would like to take private lessons with me for any reason, send me an email at “connorthetrumpetist@gmail.com”. In the email, please put “Private Lesson Inquiry” in the subject line. What I offer private lessons for:

  • Trumpet

  • Trombone (Bass and Tenor)

  • Euphonium

  • Tuba

  • French Horn

  • Music Theory

  • Improv

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Who Should Consider Taking Private Lessons?

To be incredibly honest, one of the primary reasons why so many musicians push for students to take private lessons is because the money to make on private lessons is quite good, especially compared to all of the other choices that musicians have to make a living. Private lessons pay really well, and as someone who had pretty awful experiences with private lesson teachers for years on end, I’m not one to emphatically push for all students to be taking them. That being said, if you or your child is someone who wants to get better at an instrument/something music-related, private lessons can be a really great way to fast track that process IF the teacher is a competent instructor.

One of the most important things I ever heard about education is that the teacher-student relationship is not a marriage; it’s okay to leave at any time. It’s perfectly normal to outgrow a particular teacher, so continued lessons with said individual might not make sense after a certain point. Who I would recommend to give private lessons a try:

  • Anyone who has a difficult time motivating themselves to practice; virtually every human being relates to not having as much discipline as we would like to on most days, and having a private teacher is sometimes an effective motivator for people to practice more often. Also, some people just need to have a “personal trainer” that forces them to play the same thing over and over again for 30/45/60 minutes. If this describes you or your student, I would recommend letting whatever private teacher you decide to take lessons with know that so they can play that role well.

  • If you’re trying to do something “unique” on your instrument(s), it would be worthwhile to find a teacher who has experience doing said thing. To give an example, I’ve known how to circular breathe for nearly a decade, and that’s something that a lot of people really struggle with learning on their own. From my experience teaching others how to circular breathe, everyone’s journey is wildly different, and though I’m all for people learning from online resources, it can be a bit of a slog sifting through all the crappy advice out there to find that one gem of an idea you need.