Phil Kramer
Phil Kramer is a Multi-Instrumentalist, Content Creator, and Music Educator.
SERVICES
Virtual Teaching
While the love of music is universal, the love of music lessons… ehh Not so much. Gone are the days in which you would have to physically drive to your music teachers house and sit in their flower print living room reeking of cats. With the advent of the internet you can now take Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo, or Bass lessons from the comfort of your own home. Do you need to wear real pants? Whose to say. Is there whiskey in your coffee mug? Only time will tell.
Consultation
It has been my lifelong goal in my creative career to have every job in the music industry at least once. So far my resume has included being a pre-school music teacher, bassist of a house jazz combo at a martini bar, member of a faculty string quartet, concertmaster and bassist for Dinner Theaters, and full time freelancer. Because of this, I have had the great opportunity to collaborate and counsel many recording artists, theater productions, and freshly graduated music majors on how to find work, make products that sell, and be fun members of their musical communities.
Listen up!!!!!!
A growing list of artists whose albums I have played on.
Mission Statements
Trust Your Intuition, Follow your Curiosity.
What kind of musician do you want to be?
As soon as you tell someone you are a musician, one of the inevitable questions will always be, “Are you any good?”
When you are a kid that question is easy, someone just categorizes you as a Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. When you are an adult that question is harder. Someone can be a killer player, but have zero interest in playing for anyone other than themselves. And there are singer songwriters who only know 5 chords who are paying their bills with the money they make streaming their music online.
As an adult, it’s more important to identify what role music is going to take in your life.
Is it going to be apart of your everyday life? (ie, Playing everyday, making music on the porch)
Your Social life? (Playing in a amateur garage band, going to jams/sessions.)
Your Professional Life? (You want music to be a part of your financial and professional life.)
The skillsets you build for one, may not be the same you build for others. I believe that we all deserve to learn and enjoy music, and it’s my goal as a teacher to support you no matter what role music has in your life.
Be the person, you needed when you were younger
When you first start teaching music lessons, you dip your feet into almost every genre, age group, and instrument you can to find the right fit for your studio. Slowly, but surely, you do end up finding “your” clientele.
My case had an extra dose of serendipity in the sense I started teaching a lot of folks who related to me and my story.
I can categorize these folks in two ways.
The Begin-againers (Folks who were quite musical younger in life but struggled to find a place for music in adulthood)
The Recovering Academics. (Folks who studied and may have actually graduated with a degree in music, but haven’t touched their instrument once since graduating and have a lot of trauma attached to their musicality.)
These were both struggles I had as I was leaving school and finding my way as a professional musician. It has been one of my best joys of my professional career to help these students find a healthy relationship with music again.
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