Coaching

Take your composition to the next level. Hiring Piotrek as your private composition coach, allows you to address your specific needs, questions, and confusions. Piotrek will support you in breaking through your challenges, limitations and blockages. Piotrek brings not only his knowledge as a musician and composer but also his gift of working with you as a unique individual. Investing in coaching with Piotrek is a huge asset to developing your creativity as a musician and composer as well as sharing who you are with the world.

Benefits of Coaching

  • Unblock your channels of creativity and logic using your DAW.

  • Navigate your DAW with ease.

  • Develop shortcuts for your own workflow.

  • Take the fast track from conceptualizing an idea to manifesting it.

  • Develop your music and writing style.

  • Create sketches together.

  • Raise the bar of your potential.

  • Expand your creativity, based on who you are as a composer.

  • Develop confidence in yourself as a composer.

What I bring to the Studio

  • 30 year career of playing music professionally: Bass, Piano, French Horn, Voice.

  • 30 years of composing and arranging music for Big Band, Latin & Jazz Quintets, Musical Theater, Symphonic Orchestra and String Quartets.

  • Knowledge of a variety of DAWs including Luna, Logic and ProTools.

  • An individualized approach to you as a composer.

  • A plan for your development that meets you exactly where you are and helps you to grow into your greatest potential.

What to expect with Piotrek

  • 1:1 Coaching via Zoom for 60 minutes

  • Breakdown of your questions, goals and aspirations.

  • Create a plan that is specific to your needs.

  • Support with using technology.

  • Support with harmony, music notation, development of chords.

  • Support in learning your instrument, taking your instrument to its fullest potential and developing relationships with other instruments.

  • Support with composition, arrangement.

  • Setting you up for success between lessons.

  • Practice exercises between lessons.

 
 

Pricing: $120/1 hour lesson or $600/6 lessons, 1 hour each


Jazz Improvisation Lessons

Piotrek offers private music improvisation lessons for those who are specifically interested in expanding their improvisation skills. Piotrek will support you on any instrument of your choosing. He will provide scales, exercises, drills and insight through harmony movement. Improvisation is the key to really getting inside the music. Piotrek has a high regard for balancing knowledge and education with your personality, supporting you as you take your creation into your own hands. Piotrek feels strongly that his own lessons in Jazz Improvisation are one of the best things that ever happened to him!

Benefits of Jazz Imrpov Coaching

  • Develop your ear training: dissonance and consonance

  • Learn to look at music from an exceptional harmonic perspective

  • Create a balance between form and freedom

  • Become fluent with your instrument, integrating the instrument as an extension of your mind

  • Discover the full potential of your creativity and your instrument

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the rules, techniques, range, tone and quality of sound of your instrument in order to expand rhythmic pattern, rhythmic structure, melodic structure and harmony movement

  • Explore your own uniqueness and creativity through jazz improv

  • Become confidnet in your boundless capacity as a musician and improvisor

 
 

Pricing: $120/1 hour lesson or $600/6 lessons, 1 hour each