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Travis Taylor is a professional musician and music teacher with over 20 years of experience playing live, recording studio albums, and teaching musical instruments and music theory to students of all ages and levels of experience. He specializes in Bass, but teaches and plays a wide variety of instruments including: electric and acoustic guitar and bass guitar for genres like Rock, Country, or Hip Hop, as well as upright string bass for Classical or Jazz. He is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and teacher. He has been active in music his whole life since he first began lessons as a child. In addition to guitar, upright bass, and bass guitar, he also sings and plays piano, ukulele, and drums. Travis prioritizes live performance and practical music theory to help achieve the various desired sounds of different students.
Mr. Taylor has performed throughout the country in a wide variety of different types of venues as a professional musician. He also studied music in college when earning his degree in fine arts. Travis has also recorded numerous studio albums and has had his original music featured in documentary films. As an instructor, Travis has worked with hundreds of students over the last 20 years in private lessons, as well as group sessions. Travis teaches and creates music from a wide variety of musical genres and on various musical instruments. His styles include, but are not limited to: classical, jazz, blues, rock, punk, metal, country, bluegrass, folk, pop, Hip Hop, and more.
Teaching Style
Travis will demonstrate a wide variety of instrument techniques such as: slides, bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, proper grip and attack of pick, palm muting, how to ornament chords, how to sing while playing instruments, alternative tunings, ergonomics of finger placement, alternate picking, finger picking, tremolo picking, string skipping, tapping and more.
Students will also learn music theory and song structure. Topics include, but are not limited to: Keys, key changes, scales, octaves, modes, intervals, triads, arpeggios, chord progressions, chord construction with the differences between major, minor, dominant, stacked thirds, alternate fingerings, inversions, strategies to improvisation, how to communicate musical information with other musicians and understand what notes are appropriate in any given moment, as well as how to achieve the vast array of unique sounds that are possible on various musical instruments and how to structure songs when writing music.