Meet Your Teacher
It's Just You and Me, Folks!
Hi, my name is Alex, owner of Step By Step Music. This isn't a big fancy company...it's just me. My passion is teaching music and it's my pleasure to serve you. Wherever you are in your musical journey, I’m happy to meet you there. I offer private and group music lessons over Zoom, promising you a fun and easy-going educational experience. I’m your musical advocate, always in your corner helping to foster the best musical you.
Philosophy of Learning
Teach a person to fish, right? That's what I do for my students (but without the fishy smell). I don't teach you to just play a piece of music; I teach you how to approach learning a piece - finding the beat, thinking about the rhythm, and making any necessary adaptations. I always tell my students, "I don't teach you how to play, I teach you how to teach yourself." You are the master of your own journey. My job is not just to show you how, but to also explain why. Only then can you truly be free (musically speaking, I mean).
My Life in Music
As a young adult I realized I wanted to make my living in music, so I moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. While at Berklee I focused my studies on bass performance and composition, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor's of Music in Film Scoring. It was a fantastic experience to be fully immersed in an environment tailored to musical education and to be surrounded by people who shared my musical passions. There I learned to unlock the secrets of musical success: technical mastery of an instrument and a theoretical understanding of my musical choices as both a performer and a composer. Once in possession of this powerful information, I realized that anything was possible.
After Berklee, my musical focus was on bass performance. I enjoyed playing upright and electric bass in a variety of genres including Rock, Big Band, Punk, Country, Swing, Jazz, and Orchestral. In 2012 I founded Step By Step Music to teach private music lessons to students of all ages and skill levels. I currently enjoy growing my skills on guitar, bass, piano, and ukulele as well as writing and recording my own compositions.
A Note From Your Teacher...
It’s my great pleasure to impart a multitude of musical skills on a wide variety of students of all ages, backgrounds, and musical inclinations. There’s no subject in music we can’t cover and no person is beyond the reach of musical growth. I help you put one foot in front of the other, always meeting you where you are at and leading you to the next level in your musical journey. It’s easy when we work together going Step By Step!
Sincerely,
Alex Atwood
