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Experienced tutor in Guitar in Santa Monica, Chris offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
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About Chris
The Black Tree School is a music, creativity and arts educational experience founded in 2004 by New England Conservatory of Music Graduate and professional musician/teacher Chris Murphy. Our approach combines classical, jazz, folk, ethnic and Zen teaching styles into an effective, powerful and inspired journey into the world of music, designed to promote and inspire the creative spirit.
I’ve been taking private music lessons since I was 14 years old. I am STILL taking private lessons after 25 years of being a professional musician and enjoying it more than ever. I’ve been teaching music for the last 10 years and over the course of the last decade I’ve developed an approach and methodology I call THE BLACK TREE SCHOOL.
When I was in my early 20’s I went to great music conservatory for college and got through 4 years of intense education to get a Music Degree in Jazz from the New England Conservatory of Music. While studying Jazz at NEC, I became obsessed with folk, ethnic, world, and classical music and began taking private lessons from all great teachers in the Boston and NYC areas. Along the way I’ve taken private lessons from every conceivable type of teacher out there. Some were great, some were ok, some were terrible, but I learned and was inspired from them all.
My own personal teaching style is based on a combination of all the things I’ve gathered and learned from all my teachers, professors, mentors and heroes, the workshops I’ve attended, clinics and research and readings I’ve sought out and books I’ve read. I’ve taken the best of Classical, Jazz, Folk and Ethnic teaching traditions and approaches and integrated ideas from Western Philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Tai Chi, Boxing, The Artist’s Way, The Suzuki Method, Yoga, Martial Arts, Surfing and Visualization practices. In addition to building a strong technique and solid musical foundation for all my students, I put a special emphasis on developing the creative spirit, teaching people how to open up creatively (in all aspects of their lives), improvise, compose their own music, develop an artistic identity and become artists.
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Here is some insight into my approach, background and philosophy:
There is nothing in the world as rewarding, satisfying, gratifying, joyful, sexy, spiritual, engaging, interesting and entertaining as playing music (especially true when it’s done well).
Music provides the most bang for your buck in terms of fun fulfillment, personal satisfaction, emotional rewards, creative options.
Learning to do anything well takes guidance, direction, support.
The fastest, deepest, most efficient way to learn is to study with an experienced Ninja master.
I believe in slow, graceful, methodical, loving, organized musical growth, refining and polishing a stone into a gem.
I believe in variation, adaptation, improvisation and patience in the learning and teaching process.
You are never too old to learn!
Part of my role as a teacher is to function like a personal trainer would, training and coaching you to get in the best possible shape you can to become a more musical and creative person. I begin with diagnosis of your different skill sets, natural and unnatural strengths, rhythmic sensitivity, ear training, cognitive and neurological skills, creative intuition, motor coordination. These are the small tools that make up the larger and more complicated act of actually playing an instrument, playing with others, and successfully communicating something with music.
Then I develop a personal and comprehensive training program designed to strengthen and empower all the skills you need to work on to become a better musician, to play an instrument, become musically strong, to play music with other people and compose and perform your own songs. In reality, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I DO is make sure you DO these things. By having a two hour lesson I can cover three different topics with you and MAKE SURE you are growing.
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- TSh 132,833
Pack prices
- 5h: TSh 660
- 10h: TSh 1320
free lessons
The first free lesson with Chris will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
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- TSh132,833/h
Details
I teach a two hour private lesson for $150.00
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