When I was teaching 40+ students every week I learned what nearly everybody struggles with in their learning experience. I found myself repeating the same things over and over for every student. Several years into teaching I realized I had to teach differently if I didn’t want to burn out from nagging and pleading with my students.

I knew that if I could just help them understand the “why” of piano technique, and of music literacy, they would govern their own behavior and wouldn’t need constant badgering from me.

​I also knew that my own practice boiled down to just a few good habits repeated consistently. The simplest of approaches had always given me the best results, so I stripped my teaching of extra nonsense (stuff I’d always been told I “should” do as a player and teacher) and instead focused on just a few principles. The result turned into what I offer in the Measure by Measure “Principles” lessons.

First, we’ll simplify your approach with low-effort, high-leverage practices that are guaranteed to advance you in the music. Not only will you have a systematic way of working through your music, you’ll have a framework that you can apply to any music at any stage of your learning.

Turn the note-learning process into an easy warm-up that you’ll do first thing, then summon your creativity early in your practice to make every new phrase fun to learn. You’ll play expressively and beautifully every day with less effort. You’ll validate your new practice system by learning and recording (and sharing if you choose) newly-learned sections of your music.

When you know the actual visual, tactile, and aural mechanics that maximizes your practice, reading music feels fun! Developed over 17 years (and more than 10,000 hours of observing people learn to read music), Sight Reading Secrets will teach you the “secrets” only the best sight readers know (but can’t actually express it to you, even if you ask them). You will engage your personal music strength (you have one, and if you don’t know it I’ll help you discover it). Taking that personal strength you’ll learn to exploit it while you read sheet music. You will support your new Super Power in the context of spontaneous sight read and learning the repertoire of your choice to summon your latent skills and let them blossom.

With a high-yield practice and a newfound super power in place, you'll unlock the ability to learn new music faster than ever. With The Repertoire Refinery you'll then put the mechanics of piano playing into context. You’ll learn the ability to dismantle any music into its essential parts and solve every problem, all while refining music you can play and perform. You validate your Repertoire Refinery by learning pieces of your choice, then sharing magical moments from your practice with the Measure by Measure community.