MODERN PIANO SCHOOL + PUBLICATIONS

PIANO LESSONS Classic / Jazz & Pop for Beginners &  Advanced

MODERN PIANO SCHOOL offers highest quality lessons for beginners, with experienced teachers The school offers Jazz & Pop as well as classical lessons (book & video publications).

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Most beautiful COLLECTION, classical & modern

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For children & adult beginners we have compiled the best classical and popular repertoire, incl. CDs with listening examples and playalongs.

LOCAL & ONLINE (2 cameras). WORKSHOPS: ear-training, Band, harmonics, ...

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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMM/ Coaching for Teachers / University Preparation with Professors from the Frankfurt Music University

For advanced students we offer highest quality lessons with very  versatile teachers (classical music / pop / jazz / latin, ...) up to Coaching for Teachers & University Preparation.

Our teachers  have played with Branford Marsalis (sax `Sting´), with Mike Stern (Miles Davis-Band), Derrick James (sax for Whitney Houston), with Ernie Watts (2 x Grammy Award Winner, Steely Dan, ...),  for the President of Germany, in the »German Pavillion /  EXPO 2000«, at the TV-Sportsgala (ARD), ...

For university preparation we have students from all over Europe. Lessons are mainly given on a grand piano. By using modern keyboards and playalongs, you can prepare yourself for playing with a band (later in different ensembles). Themes like, voicing, ear training, harmony, scale theory, improvisation, arrangement and composition can be integrated into the piano lessons or be taken separately as a course.

The school offers all resources of a modern music school: from a rehearsal
room with PA & drum set, to a digital recording studio.  The MODERN PIANO SCHOOL is directed by Axel Kemper-Moll who is bestselling author of piano books, look at the youtube-video, as well as an accomplished performer, arranger and composer.

Offers:

10-lesson ticket, introductory offer

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Flurstr. 65/ 63073 Of-Bieber:

soccer stadium OF, in Bieber 1. right= Hamburgerstr. 1. right Konrad Adenauerstr., 2. left=Flurstr. Nr. 65, [altern. in Hamburgerstr. 4. right (Einfahrt verboten), Flurstr. 65]

with Bus & S-Bahn to Of-Bieber:

S1 & S2 via Offenbach-Ost till Offenbach-Bieber.

you can walk in 10 min.:  Flurstr. 65. 63073 Offenbach

Courses (group lessons) for all instruments, singers or additionally to the piano lessons

Jazz & Pop Harmonics I

Subjects: circle of fifth, scales, intervals, chords, chord symbols, voicing, music theory, functions of the chords, ear training, play from a lead sheet.

Entry qualifications: you should be able to read music, and be an intermediate musician - not for absolute beginners

Jazz & Pop Arrangement for Bands

Subjects: harmonic arrangement, improvisation scale theory, bass lines, ear training, lead sheet & ensemble. The main questions are: How do i get nice voicing & left-hand patterns? How do I find good lines (melodie, improvisation lines, bass lines...) corresponding to the chords? How can I make the given chords more sophisticated? Standard chord progressions/ How can chords be combined to achieve a desired sound/ How can chords be connected? ...

Entry qualifications: you should be able to read music, be an intermediate musician (not for absolute beginners), have knowledge about  intervals, circle of fifth,  chords (symbols), function of the chords, II V I-progressions, cadences, chords on the seven steps of a scale, voicing, lead sheet play, improvisation.

Jazz & Pop Arrangement 2

Subjects: harmonic arrangement,  arrangement, composition, application of scales, rhythmics, ear training, ensemble situation.

Entry qualifications: improvisation, have knowledge about harmonic arrangement, linear chord progressions, suspended, passing and substitute chords, scale theory

Music & Audio Engineering Workshop

Subjects: midi, hard disk recording, microphones, using of equalizers, compressors, ... post-production.

Live Playing Workshop I (for beginners playing in bands)

Subjects: pop, soul, blues, fusion  & jazz standards, role allocation in the band, interaction, voicing, improvisation, practise, groove design, ...

Entry qualifications: you should be able to read music, and be an intermediate musician, (not for absolute beginners), drummers should play different basic rhythms, knowledge about intervals, circle of fifths,  chords (symbols), function of the chords, knowledge about  II V I-progressions, chords on the seven steps of a scale, voicing, leadsheetplay, improvisation.

Liveplaying Workshop II (for advanced)

Subjects: pop, soul, blues, fusion  & jazz standards, role allocation in the band, interaction, voicing, improvisation, practise, groove design, ...

Entry qualifications: you should be able to read music, be an intermediate musician (not for absolute beginners) drummers should play different basic rhythms, knowledge about  intervals, circle of fifth,  chords (symbols), function of the chords, knowledge about  II V I-progressions, chords on the seven steps of a scale, voicing, lead sheet play, improvisation.

COMBI-SOLUTIONS

Piano lessons (every 2 weeks) can be taken alternating with a course (every 2 weeks).
At the end of the course the piano lessons continue with the normal conditions.