Greg Madison Music Studio

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My Commitment To Excellence
Welcome to my site. Greg Madison Music Studio is a place where continual teaching improvement, expert music instruction and quality customer service are the highest priorities. I strive for excellence in music instruction, technique, theory, improvisation, ear training and music writing. When you come to my studio you will find an extensive array of studio equipment and teaching aids. To see a full description of our studio visit Our Studio page. I provide the very best instruction available for children and adults through innovative teaching methods, fun learning concepts and an ongoing expansion of services, including student teacher jams and ensemble classes. I provide musical experiences that are versatile, fun and repeatedly elevate my students' passion and desire for playing music.
I love my work as a music teacher!
This is a job that I like and I have fun doing what I like. This helps make me a very patient teacher and it makes it a lot more fun for my students to learn. I always let them know that if they are having a problem with something, the last thing I want to do is add to their confusion. I do truly enjoy my teaching and the relationships that develop with the students and members of their families. Teaching to me is both a pleasure and reward.
It is not only the endless music possibilities, because of the unlimited ways you can play songs, that always keep things fresh and new but also the people that you meet as students & others because of music. I try to make students and people in general, feel like they have known me a long time and consider me a person they like a lot. Many of these relationships have continued long after students have left the music program. Sharing their future has been an additional reward for me.
I tell my students that I am their biggest fan and that it excites me to see them get what I am teaching. This is especially true if I know it is one of the harder things to learn. I enjoy the responsibility and challenge to see my students learn and strive to live their dream. Watching them advance from such meager beginnings to what they eventually can do is such an incredible rush of excitement. I knew the moment that I taught my first lesson that this was going to be something I really wanted to do. It reminded me of how I knew by my third week of guitar lessons, as a thirteen year old, that this was what I wanted to do for a career. It was an instant love affair for teaching. I get to work with such a multi-cultural and diverse group of people that have one of the many interests that I do. Sharing some of their life's other interests is also a fun part of teaching.
My hard and relentless work, in improvement, has paid off in the respect that students and their families have conveyed over the years (see the testimonial page). Music lessons are an enrichment for both myself and my students. I don't just try to teach music but how to analysis, approach, study and practice the material to get more effective results from student's efforts.

Hopefully you will get to enjoy the closeness that has been experienced by so many past and present students. I want students to remember the special attention that I have given them and that their lessons were a very positive experience and special time in their lives.

By taking lessons people can avoid forming bad habits. Learning the correct
techniques can save a lot of lost time and the frustration of trying to learn on your own. The guitar is the one instrument that needs the right technique to play with any degree of accuracy. I spend a good amount of time in the early stages teaching the proper use of hands. I can only think of a very few students around (2), that did not need a lot of work in the proper use of their hands in all the the years I have been teaching. This includes students with several years of lessons. If the student¹s hand use is not working efficiently they can¹t play without making mistakes and looking at their hands fairly often. Keeping constant time and playing with any degree of speed is another problem when proper technique is not used. The sound quality of the notes also suffer.

Students of violin and viola have problems when they don¹t use their hands efficiently. The left hand has similar problems as the guitar and the right hand problems are due to the bowing techniques that have not been perfected. Poor sound quality is a common problem for violin and viola students due to problems with both hands.

On the brass and woodwind instruments, the biggest problem is due to the students not breathing properly and not using the air flow effectively. Proper breathing and breath control is very important for a good sound and a contributing factor for your overall playing and control of the instrument.

As you properly practice your technique, the physical and mental parts used to activate what is needed to play correctly are developed and become more and more spontaneous. The necessary muscles will grow, new coordination skills and the thought processes will develop. The instrument will become closer to another extension of a persons body. This can develop to the point where a person and their instrument can become almost united as one . This does not happen over night and it will not happen without the proper technique and enough practice. I am sure you have seen musicians who can play an instrument in such an unbelievable effortless way. They are playing with the same ease that the average person talks.
On guitar, the time I spend on technique actually helps the students play easier just about immediately over the way they would attempt to play in

You can use music to motivate yourself or change your mood. Different people will get this stimulation from different styles of music and different music within that style. This is an area where you can try and experiment. When you find the music that energizes you, or relaxes you, or makes you happy, keep it ready for when you need it. This is a very natural way to help yourself feel better.
I believe that the study of music promotes a sense of achievement, therapeutic value, and the development of self-discipline, concentration, creativity, self-confidence, imagination, coordination, tactical skills, and the ability to analyze and evaluate information. There are many medical studies that prove that studying a musical instrument improves a person's ability in mathematics, long and short term memory retention, scientific and other skills. As students progress to the point of being able to play with other musicians they will learn about the team work and conflict resolution skills required for success. This skill will always be a valuable asset and useable in a persons life in additional to music. The goal of Greg Madison Music Studio is to be one of the very best music learning facilities around. I will consistently provide a valuable education, as well as the motivation that will keep my students playing their instrument throughout their life time. I encourage them to listen, appreciate, and let music have a positive and calming effect on their lives.
Greg Madison welcomes you to a
totally different approach to learning music.
I hope to make your learning experience easier, more understandable and thorough just like I have for all my other students. A student will have an opportunity to work with a teacher who plays and teaches styles from early Rock-n-Roll through the Famous Classics, Show Tunes, Broadway Plays, Jazz, Blues, Latin and many more styles.
It is my hope that you find a lot of useful ideas from the vast amount of informative information on my site. You may need to go through the site several times in order to benefit from all that's written here. This site will be expanding constantly, so come back from time to time.
The Greg Madison Music Studio teaches students from 5-years old through adults of all ages and beginners through professional levels of learning. The studio is located in Bergenfield, NJ and students have come from the entire Metropolitan Area.

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Do you see the dedication that I put into this website material? This is what you will get from my lessons. I work like no effort on my part is totally good enough for my students.