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- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Bass guitar
- Classical Guitar
Experienced tutor in Guitar in Palos Hills, Kevin offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Bass guitar
- Classical Guitar
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About Kevin
Please note, due to excessive non-responses, spam, and fraud on the site, I will not contact non-local requests unless request options are solely for online lessons. You can see my location on Google Maps McMusic Lessons & Performances
Hello, my name is Kevin McClain of McMusic Lessons & Performances mcmusiclessons fot com. I appreciate you taking the time to view my profile. With studies in music and cognition, I save my students years of time and money by implementing studies and exercise to strengthen the cognitive tools used to learn and play.
I offer online, in studio, and house call music lessons for children and adults followed by step by step practice outlines and custom video examples of songs and exercises. Single music lessons and discounted enrollment plans are available with discounts based on the length of enrollment purchased.
My students enjoy flexible scheduling, free make-up lessons, weekly progress reports, step by step practice outlines, custom video examples, and online student profiles. Learn to play by ear, read and write music, theory and application to songs of interest, or simply play you favorite song.
I hope to have the chance to show you all how my lessons vastly out perform you average music lesson today. I currently have new availability. As the sole proprietor of McMusic Lessons & Performances, time slots are limited. Send me a message. I would love the chance to discuss how and why my lessons are the most optimized path to learning music for beginning hobbyists and serious musicians.
McMusic Lessons & Performances was established by musician, composer, and teacher, Kevin McClain in 2008. "I've been playing music ever since I can remember. Playing by ear in my earlier years and growing up on the music of Frank Zappa, Led Zepplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Guns n' Roses, and Phish. I started to love sharing my discoveries with friends and family. As I matured musically, I played music in various amateur bands all through grade school and High School and began expanding my interests to jazz, classical, bluegrass, folk, and just about any style I could get my hands on. By the time I was ready for college, I was fascinated with writing, music theory and cognition. I Majored in composition, while I focused on techniques of the classical guitar, jazz guitar, rock guitar, country, bluegrass, classical piano, violin, and flute. I moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 2012 to support my wife and her commitment to the US Military. I began providing music lessons to my students in Chicago and all of the United States with online music lessons followed by custom video examples of songs and exercises in addition to step by step practice outlines to assist with practice between lessons. I moved back to Chicago in 2018, residing in Palos Hills further pursuing studies in music theory and cognition researching how music affects the brain and potential medical uses for musical therapy. McMusic Lessons & Performances now provides guitar and piano lessons to any location with in-studio, house call, or online music lessons available to any location. My online music lessons have become so successful that even our local students have converted to online. This is due to the custom video examples of songs and exercises along with the step-by-step practice outlines received after each lesson for our online students.
I am classically trained, but also have extensive experience playing, writing, and teaching in all styles. I have dedicated my life to the study of music theory and cognition. I've always been fascinated with how music affects the brain and it's potential medical uses. As a composer and full-time musician/teacher, I study, write, and perform jazz and Improvisation, blues, funk, rock, fusion, bluegrass, folk, country, reggae, alternative, jam band music and more... I received my associates at Moraine Valley Community College and was recommended to DePaul university's School of Music in 2009. I am currently working towards my masters in music theory and cognition at Northwestern Bienen School of Music in Chicago, IL. My constant study of Music Theory uncognition allows me to provide a much deeper Insight on the best methods of study and learning musical concepts and techniques is to perform an advance and skill.
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Availability is provided in order of registration. No payment information is required to register. This simply provides an official time and date of contact to prioritize requests in the order they are received. Trial lessons are subject to availability at the time of request. Customers will be contacted within 24 hours of registration to discuss musical goals, enrollment options, and availability before purchase. Customers receive an invoiced quote with options to make payment and book the availability discussed.
Most of my students are beginning level children but I have had experience teaching all ages as young as 3 and as old as 95. I have tutored college level students in theory I - IV. As a composer, I am well versed in analyzing any style of music. I have experience teaching and performing rock, alternative, classical, jazz, jam-band, improvisation, country, bluegrass, and folk.
Theory is just as, and sometimes more important than pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is only one skill among many. Be sure to focus on ear training, spatial orientation, and thinking intervalically in addition to pattern recognition and memorization.
I love performing. Most recent performance required a classical guitar performance at a wedding and classic rock cover band performance at the reception. I've also performed in bluegrass, rock, alternative, classical, reggae, jam band music and more.
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Time and effort produces results. Make sure you have both to experience progress. Be patient with exercises and songs. Rushing only creates bad habits that will impede progress.
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5 (3 reviews)
Perfect! Kevin is very detailed developing my fundamentals so I can enjoy better long term performance!
Perfect! Exceptional learning experience to date as an adult beginner. Applies a great balance between performance and theory to accelerate the learning process. Great virtual teaching / communication skills.
Perfect! Kevin has a very laid back and patient approach. He always includes some music theory in the lessons as well.
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- $84
Pack rates
- 5 h: $420
- 10 h: $840
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This first lesson offered with Kevin will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hrs
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- $84/h
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Rates and discounts are based on the length of enrollment with options to pay as you go or prepay for discounted rates based on the length of enrollment purchased.
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