Mobile Music Lessons – Bringing the Music to You!
Oakville's First Mobile Music School
Mobile Music Lessons is Oakville’s first fully accredited and completely itinerant music school that provides in-home Guitar lessons, in-home Piano lessons, as well as lessons for Ukulele, Brass, and Violin! Start your child’s musical journey with us today!
Mobile Music Lessons – About Us
About Mobile Music Lessons, Oakville
Put your music education first with Mobile Music Lessons the premier alternative music school! Mobile Music has been serving Oakville, ON since 2010; We specialize in providing the highest quality and most convenient music education in Oakville, on site! Save time and learn a musical instrument in the comfort of your home.
What Makes Us Unique?
At Mobile Music Lessons, your educational experience is our number one priority. This means we provide incredible attention to detail that is never diverted or compromised in order to sell products such as guitars or amplifiers, which is typical in a traditional studio environment in order to help cover the lease or simply to maximize profits.
Quality of Instructors
All of our instructors have a very thorough background in education and have many years of teaching experience. Our instructors are highly qualified professionals whose livelihood revolves around teaching, composing, arranging and in general... simply making music! Every teacher at Mobile Music Lessons is passionate about music and just as passionate about transferring that love of knowledge to our students. Student achievement is our number one focus, therefore we seek out instructors who are committed to this vision.
Online Learning Spaces
The renowed Canadian professor and cognitive researcher Brent Davis has noted that "We are smarter collectively than we are individually." Have you ever played a trivia game as a team? If you have, you would conclude that each player brings a different level of knowledge based on his or her experiences. When this happens we are able to pool our ideas together and stand a better chance of having the correct answers. What if we made music education this way? A collective process where students can get together, collaborate and share ideas?
At Mobile Music Lessons we provide a free online learning space to promote this sharing of ideas. Mobile Music Class is a place where students can find video lessons online, listen to recorded audio files, and do much more, all to enhance the learning experience and promote their accomplishments.
Lessons from Mobile Music Lessons, Oakville
PIANO
A great place to start your musical journey. Children begin as early as four years old learning the black key method. Children six and up learn the Middle C Method with an emphasis on traditional melodies that all kids know!
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UKULELE
A fun and joyful instrument that kids love! Ukulele is a great jumping-off point for children who want to learn any string instrument. Students learn simple, popular songs that will encourage them to keep strumming!
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GUITAR
Guitar lessons for your child are designed to encourage discovery. We start with a chord approach that utilizes the first three strings on the instrument and a focus on melodies.
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ELECTRIC GUITAR
Guitar lessons for your child are designed to encourage discovery. We start with a chord approach that utilizes the first three strings on the instrument and a focus on melodies.
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BRASS & WIND
Brass & Wind instruments are super fun! From recorders to clarinet to trumpet and trombone. We can start your child with an instrument that is playful and not intimidating.
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VIOLIN
On the surface, the violin might appear like a daunting instrument for children – but we make it fun! From learning the classics to playing the “fiddle” based folk songs of yore!
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Our Approach
Piano
A great place to start a musical journey. Children begin as early as four and five learning the black key method. Children six and up learn the Middle C method with an emphasis on traditional and modern melodies.
After successful evaluation, students can switch to familiar method books and progress towards studying the Royal Conservatory Method, an internationally recognized curriculum.
Guitar
Our Guitar lessons for your child are designed to encourage discovery. We begin with a melodic approach that uses the first three strings of the instrument. We then switch to simple three and four string chords so the student can jam along with the teacher. We teach simple scales in order to learn how to improvise to the blues!
The guitar is an instrument where students can sometimes become overwhelmed due to the visual similarity between the strings. Therefore, our students are taught to visualize the guitar in small ‘boxes’ to help group the overall shapes of chords.
Meet our Oakville Mobile Music Lessons Teachers
B.Mus.(McMaster), B.Ed.(University of British Columbia), Dip.Music Performance
Owner and operator of Mobile Music Lessons, Carl graduated from McMaster University (2003) summa cum laude with an Honours Bachelor of Music Degree and a Diploma in Music Performance.
After graduating, Carl volunteered at T.A. Blakelock Secondary School, writing arrangements for the concert band. He later traveled to Vancouver to study at The University of British Columbia and graduated with a Bachelor of Education. Since 2007 he has had classroom experience from teaching in West Vancouver (Grades 7 to 12) and as a secondary school teacher in the arts community of Stratford, Ontario (2009).
Qualified to teach special needs children within Ontario schools (OSIE Certified Special Education Part 1). Carl is particularly interested in musically gifted children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and children with Asperger Syndrome. As well, he is most interested in curriculum design and teaching using the differentiated instruction method.
In his spare time, Carl writes arrangements for anything his students would like to learn. He also has a working knowledge of many instruments such as the Trumpet (RCM Grade 6 certificate), Violin (RCM Grade 2 certificate), Clarinet, Ukulele, and Classic Guitar.
Carl volunteers at Oakville's Safety Net Children and Youth Charities, providing music lessons to refugee families who have recently relocated to Canada in search of a better life.
B.Sc. (Ryerson)
Troy brings over ten years of guitar playing experience and many years of playing shows in the local GTA circuit. Troy's primary musical interests include guitar-based music genres such as heavy metal, punk rock, hard rock, neoclassical, and progressive rock.
Troy brings over ten years of guitar playing experience and many years of playing shows in the local GTA circuit. Troy's primary musical interests include guitar-based music genres such as heavy metal, punk rock, hard rock, neoclassical, and progressive rock.
Troy's teaching philosophy is all about getting students motivated by learning the music they love. "If students love what they're learning, they're going to want to practice their music because it means something to them."
Troy is currently studying Environmental Science at Ryerson University.
Mobile Music Lessons, Oakville – News
01.Music Lessons Registration – Fall 2021
COVID-19 has made life difficult for everyone, however we are enthusiastic about starting back up again this academic year. All of our teachers are fully vaccinated and have proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
While we have resumed in-home lessons in Oakville, Mobile Music Lessons continues to offer online lessons for families that prefer to learn remotely.
02. Mobile Music Lessons Online Classroom Expanded
Mobile Music Lessons is pleased to announce that our online classroom has expanded with all new content for our guitar lessons section. In addition, we continue to add online sheet music for our other guitar and piano lessons students as our students continue to request more new songs.
This free online component is available to all students enrolled in our music lessons. All online guitar lessons are written for use with the iPad or the Android app Guitar Pro.