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Why Chuck for a Teacher?
  • International Steinway Artist
  • A professional performer for over 40 years
    • Jazz clubs and concerts
    • Soloist with Dover DE Symphony
    • Accompanist for several major singers
    • Private parties
    • Wedding ceremonies
  • Has taught private students (all ages) for over 30 years
  • Active professionally in the Atlanta Metro Area
  • Church pianist for over 30 years. Currently keyboardist for First Baptist Church, Douglasville, GA since 1993
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What Does This Mean?


Simply this:

"My teaching methods are based on sharing my experiences as a learner and a performer.

My experience is not limited to formal lessons or performing at recitals. I have performed professionally in many situations that includes jam sessions. A jam session is where much learning takes place that includes all genres (jazz, gospel, classical, etc.) and how to perform. That is where I met many of my mentors".

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Student Testimony

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Chuck,

I recorded several songs (hymn arrangements) before I took your class but I don’t think that "Savior like a Shepherd" was one of them. I'll either try and recreate that one the way I use to play (which may be tough) or re-record one of the others for a comparison (maybe "What a friend" or "His eye is on the Sparrow"). I played for someone yesterday and they were blown away with how much my playing has changed in 6-8 months, and they mentioned not not only the tonality was much better, the fluidness of my playing had dramatically become better, that I was playing effortlessly and not struggling or being choppy.

I just want to say thanks for getting me going in the right direction. I actually enjoy playing the piano now, and play everyday. I play at the jam sessions often, I play for a jazz trio, I playing at a new church now (paid also), I play for a rock and roll band about once a month, I just finished playing for the "king and i" (which they paid me for) plus I'm working on a couple of CD projects with some other people.

I will say though, that for anyone wanting to advance their playing, and of course you know this, that it requires not only practice, but they need to study and learn as much about music improv as possible and listen to other good players and try and understand what they are doing.
Anyway, thanks again and I'll send you the recordings.

Tim.Cooper@worldspan.com

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
  June 1, 2010 - June featured member of the Greater Marietta Music Teachers Association
May 10, 2010 - Chuck launches his Piano Studio at Southern Keyboards. Click for info.
May 1, 2010 - Chuck releases his latest CD "I Take Requests". Click to Listen

KEY PERFORMANCES
March 13, 2010 - Chuck concert at Southern Keyboards, Marietta, GA 7pm for prospective piano students
November 9, 2008 - Chuck inducted as an International Steinway Artist
October 12, 2008 - Chuck plays the Georgia State University Jazz Pianists Summit



QUOTES
"Information without inspiration is useless." - Dwight Keith
"The heart has a thousand strings that can only be played with love." Hafiz
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.  I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians." - President Harry Truman
"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson
"Music touches places in the soul that words will never reach"
"Teaching is not a science; it is an art. If teaching were a science there would be a best way of teaching and everyone would have to teach like that. Since teaching is not a science, there is great latitude and much possibility for personal differences."
- From The Goals of Mathematical Education by George Polya (circa 1969)
"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."
- Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fifth Evangelist.

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy: but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.”
- Plato
“GOOD teachers are costly; BAD teachers cost even more.”