The piano lessons are usually 45 minutes long or 1/2 an hour. You will need to have a piano to practice on and be able to set aside daily practice time.

Classical, Reading Music, Understanding Musical Notation

You will need to read music to learn to play new songs in most styles of music, but in particular, if you would like to play chamber music with other people or accompany an instrumentalist or vocalist in the Classical Repertoire, sight reading music is essential.

Skills: Fingerings, Rhythm, Dynamics, Theory, Scales, Chords, memorization

To retain what you study at lessons, I try to get you to understand what skills you are learning. 

Most people can learn simple melodies and play them using muscle memory, but to retain it for long term use, it helps to understand in your own learning style, and the theory behind the music you are memorizing.

Improvisation/Jazz, Pop/Rock, Style/Grooves, Lead Sheets

The Lead Sheet is a way to write down the skeleton of a piece of music, using a notated melody for the right hand and chords symbols to be played as an accompaniment using the left hand.

We draw on theory and understanding scales to understand what the chord symbols mean.

Each type of music has a style or a groove to learn, to make the music sound like it was intended to sound.