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Christine

5 (9 reviews)

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Number of students Christine has accompanied since joining Superprof
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Number of students Christine has accompanied since joining Superprof

5 (9 reviews)

R990/h

1^st lesson free

Piano

Experienced tutor in Piano in New York, Christine offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Piano

Lesson location

- online

About Christine

Hello, I’m Christine Smith and I’m very excited to invite you to my personalized online classes for all ages called Music with Miss Christine. I’ve been teaching piano, drums and vocals for 24+ years now, and even though I’ve been performing in public since age 6, teaching is truly my passion. My current students range in age from 6 to 60 and I’m especially great with Early Learners. My teaching style is energetic, fun, patient, nurturing and encouraging, and I love helping people of all ages achieve their musical goals. Lessons are weekly, 1 hour, and online only.

I’ve devoted my entire life to music and I believe my lessons are unique because of my wide range of experience. Originally from NYC, I’m a singer/songwriter and classically trained pianist (Juilliard) who has spent over 20 years touring internationally and recording with many famous Rock n Roll bands and artists. These opportunities led me to be a record producer and studio engineer as well. Although piano is my main instrument, I also play drums, guitar and accordion. In London I spent over a decade playing Jazz piano and working as a Musical Director in comedy theater and radio. I’ve also played Carnegie Hall twice and I’ve been on the Conan O’Brien show three times. It’s been quite a journey!

Here’s how my method works:

The lessons are structured with warm up exercises and we work together on building a repertoire of songs you love. No matter what style of music, I believe the main ingredients of a song are melody, chords and rhythm, and I teach all this music theory and harmony through ear training, sheet music (John Thompson) and/or my handwritten charts (Nashville Number System) that I provide for free. Depending on your goals and learning style, I always offer personalized choices to give my students confidence and fast results, and to help them truly understand what they’re playing! I’ve also created fun and effective games and exercises for melody, chords, patterns and rhythm using letters and numbers and hand signals.

Music is so important for us all, and teaching is so rewarding to me. Let’s make music together!

About the lesson

Piano lessons offered by Christine are tailored to each student's needs and level. Lessons can also be held online. Lessons are also available in New York. The first lesson is free to define learning goals and methodology.

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5 (9 reviews)

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Lydiann
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Perfect! I would highly recommend Miss Christine to anyone.She is an amazingly talented musician and teacher.She is very passionate about music and teaches a lot of theory behind music which is awesome and makes it interesting.She makes learning a lot of fun.I don't know how other piano teachers are out there but I definitely think she's one of the best.
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Lydiann

Perfect! I would highly recommend Miss Christine to anyone.She is an amazingly talented musician and teacher.She is very passionate about music and teaches a lot of theory behind music which is awesome and makes it interesting.She makes learning a lot of fun.I don't know how other piano teachers are out there but I definitely think she's one of the best.
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Carrie
- 5
Perfect! Miss Christine is a wonderfully knowledgeable, fun, and patient teacher for my 10 year old who is learning the drums. She tailors each lesson for him and whatever he is wanting to focus on/work towards. She sends over helpful documents for him that she made, and she even looked up some songs in her free time to get familiar with the songs he likes even managing to find the sheet music for them as well. She remembers what they have worked on and new things they are learning and most importantly, makes it enjoyable!
Miss Christine really goes above and beyond, which is hard to do via Zoom, and she a very talented teacher that my whole family highly recommends!
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Carrie

Perfect! Miss Christine is a wonderfully knowledgeable, fun, and patient teacher for my 10 year old who is learning the drums. She tailors each lesson for him and whatever he is wanting to focus on/work towards. She sends over helpful documents for him that she made, and she even looked up some songs in her free time to get familiar with the songs he likes even managing to find the sheet music for them as well. She remembers what they have worked on and new things they are learning and most importantly, makes it enjoyable!
Miss Christine really goes above and beyond, which is hard to do via Zoom, and she a very talented teacher that my whole family highly recommends!
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Robert
- 5
Perfect! Very easy to work with! Allows you to give input and she also meets you on whatever level you’re on musically, so if you’re not on level one, she won’t put you through the basics all over again. She extremely good at what she does.
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Robert

Perfect! Very easy to work with! Allows you to give input and she also meets you on whatever level you’re on musically, so if you’re not on level one, she won’t put you through the basics all over again. She extremely good at what she does.
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Jake

Christine is wonderful and patient with both my kids. And she has guided them seamlessly through guitar, piano and drums. She teaches the theory behind the music in understandable ways, so that they are truly learning vs just repeating. She has been our music teacher for 5 years and we hope she continues to be for many more. I can’t recommend her enough.
-Jake Camozzi
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Jake
Christine is wonderful and patient with both my kids. And she has guided them seamlessly through guitar, piano and drums. She teaches the theory behind the music in understandable ways, so that they are truly learning vs just repeating. She has been our music teacher for 5 years and we hope she continues to be for many more. I can’t recommend her enough.
-Jake Camozzi
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Kelley

I love how Christine met me where I was musically and skill wise and right off the bat started me playing songs that I wanted to play and liked rather than some basic piano book songs I would never be playing outside our lessons . Love how she keeps
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Kelley
I love how Christine met me where I was musically and skill wise and right off the bat started me playing songs that I wanted to play and liked rather than some basic piano book songs I would never be playing outside our lessons . Love how she keeps
Real!
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Maria

I began working with Christine a few years ago when I was given an accordion. My accordion is a diatonic button accordion. Christine effortlessly learned the keyboard on my accordion, took out time to write out all the keys and hand placement for me and explained music theory in a way a beginner like myself could understand.

She is professional, flexible, patient, and most importantly makes every lesson fun.
Thank you for trusting me with every song I requested from Happy Birthday to songs of The Pogues and The Clash:-)
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Maria
I began working with Christine a few years ago when I was given an accordion. My accordion is a diatonic button accordion. Christine effortlessly learned the keyboard on my accordion, took out time to write out all the keys and hand placement for me and explained music theory in a way a beginner like myself could understand.

She is professional, flexible, patient, and most importantly makes every lesson fun.
Thank you for trusting me with every song I requested from Happy Birthday to songs of The Pogues and The Clash:-)
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Sheila

Christine is an amazing and talented instructor. She's so patient with my daughter, and is able to keep her engaged for the full hour. She's also willing to flex on different instruments which is great for our beginner musician in building her confidence and creativity.
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Sheila
Christine is an amazing and talented instructor. She's so patient with my daughter, and is able to keep her engaged for the full hour. She's also willing to flex on different instruments which is great for our beginner musician in building her confidence and creativity.
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Mercedes

Christine is absolutely an excellent musician and it clearly translates in her teachings. Our daughter started at age 7 and has been her student for over 2 years. Christine is beyond engaging and knows how to teach from a distance which has been extremely successful for us. Our daughter has advanced so much. We love Christine, her patience, her dedication, professionalism and of course her ways of teaching a very curious 9 year old.
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Mercedes
Christine is absolutely an excellent musician and it clearly translates in her teachings. Our daughter started at age 7 and has been her student for over 2 years. Christine is beyond engaging and knows how to teach from a distance which has been extremely successful for us. Our daughter has advanced so much. We love Christine, her patience, her dedication, professionalism and of course her ways of teaching a very curious 9 year old.
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Victor

Miss Christine taught my kids AND my niece and nephew. We tried other music teachers before. There is no comparison. Miss Christine intuitively finds the method that best works for the student, making the learning fast and fun. Both my kids are diagnosed ADHD. She was able to keep them completely engaged and keep them progressing when other teachers could not. Both my children have gone on to have a lifelong love of music, and continued musical proficiency, and we owe it all to Miss Christine.
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Victor
Miss Christine taught my kids AND my niece and nephew. We tried other music teachers before. There is no comparison. Miss Christine intuitively finds the method that best works for the student, making the learning fast and fun. Both my kids are diagnosed ADHD. She was able to keep them completely engaged and keep them progressing when other teachers could not. Both my children have gone on to have a lifelong love of music, and continued musical proficiency, and we owe it all to Miss Christine.
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