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Music Village has been providing music education in Northern Utah for over 35 years. We are proud to have enhanced the lives of thousands of students through music and consistently strive to make our lesson programs the best around, with attention to details not found in other learning environments. Our unique mix of retail, service/repair, and lesson capabilities gives students a one stop location for all of their music related needs. Come study in Northern Utah’s most complete music product, service, and lesson facility.
What makes our lesson programs so good?
Great program choices, highly qualified, enthusiastic instructors, and a technology enhanced learning environment.
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Our music instruction program consists of a mix of private instruction, group classes, and clinics. Organizing our instruction this way allows us to create the maximum opportunity for learning all of the different aspects of a specific instrument . . . and music making, in general.
Our private lesson programs feature individualized instruction that is completely geared towards meeting the needs and interests of our students. While we stress the importance of fundamentals, such as learning to properly read music notation, the concepts are often presented in different ways, and tailored to fit the student's age, previous experience, learning patterns, and musical interests. Contact us to sign up.
Group classes, clinics, and workshops are great ways to get initial exposure to learning an instrument, or to study a specific topic in greater detail. Additionally, group classes offer the benefit of a fun and relaxed social atmosphere. While the curriculum for these classes is a little more pre-planned, our instructors still seek to present the topics in a way that best fits the selection of students in the class.
Clinics and workshops are offered on a wide range of topics that are constantly evolving and expanding. These sessions are very focused in nature, and are a great enhancement to private instruction or just to add to a player's knowledge base.
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We strive to make all aspects of the learning experience the best it can be. While students do need to bring their own instruments to lessons, many other items are available in our lesson studios for enhancing the learning experience. These items include the latest in technology products to help the learning process.
Technology has provided great opportunities to enhance the learning experience for any musical instrument. From electronic drum sets, to modeling amplifiers and the latest recording technology we try to expose students to those tools that will enhance their learning experience.
Items for recording and digital playback have made learning songs infinitely easier than it used to be. Some of us actually remember having to rewind tapes to play back a song over and over again, or trying to lay a record needle on the exact groove to hear a passage again. These hassles are no more with immediate access to song locations, looping of difficult passages and the ability to slow down audio, learning is much easier and more fun. Experience the difference!
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People make the difference--and our teaching staff is top notch. You will find a wide range of musical styles and experiences represented in our instructors. Most importantly, these are all people who love music and have a strong desire to share the magic of learning an instrument with their students.
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Adam Kozlewski has been playing guitar for the last 22 years. Brought up in Montana, Kozlewski began by teaching himself to play. He was also guided by his stepfather, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Paul “Dr. Mongo” Garrison.
Kozlewski started by playing rock, later adding blues, folk and jazz to his repertoire. Kozlewski draws his influence from guitarists ranging from electric bluesman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, to jazz virtuoso, Emily Remler, along with his stepfather, Garrison.
Full Adam Kozlewski Teacher Bio
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Clint Stanger has been playing music in the Ogden area for over 14 years now. Growing up in Roy, Utah, he began taking guitar lessons from Dan McKay at teh age of 13, and never looked back. The first song he learned was Nirvana's version of The Man Who Sold the World. He got started on a healthy dose of grunge/alternative, but soon branched out into folk, blues, jazz, and classical guitar.
Clint has been teaching guitar since 2004 and has picked up the drums, bass, and even a little piano on the side, making him a well-rounded musician. Specializing in a variety of styles, Clint likes the challenge of rock, blues, folk, western, and jazz.
Full Clint Stanger Teacher Bio |
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Dan McKay is a 1989 graduate from Weber State University in music performance, and a 1999 graduate in music education. He is a former student of Todd Woodbury and Don Ayers. Dan was chosen to participate in master classes with Christopher Parkening, Ricardo Iznaola, Benjamin Verdery, Carlos Barbosa-Lima and Andrew York. Currently, Dan McKay is a private guitar instructor at Music Village, Weber State University, and teaches band at Highland Junior High School.
Dan McKay Teacher Page |
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David Owen recently moved to the Ogden area from Ohio after many years of touring internationally, ; sharing stages with Plain White T's, Blue October, Shiny Toy Guns, Sparta, Switchfoot, and Panic at the Disco! . Alternative Press magazine admired David's talent, saying his "massive and muscular" guitar solos are "Truly Inspired Guitar Work". David's music has been featured on MTV and provided emotional backdrops in suspenseful television moments.
David's expertise lies in classic/pop/alt-rock and indie genres, but he also harbors a passion for blues, jazz and eclectic sounds from around the world.
Full David Owen Teacher Bio |
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Jay Rubin is a graduate from Weber State University, holding degrees in management, finance and nursing. He is an adjunct guitar instructor for Weber State University and has been teaching private lessons for the University for more than 20 years. Jay and his brother, Daryl, were the founders and owners of Music Village for more than 30 years, prior to the sale of Music Village in 2007. Jay has taught private guitar lessons for Music Village for more than 30 years, and teaches all styles of guitar, from beginner to advanced. He enjoys making arrangements of popular songs for his students so they can learn songs in which they are interested. Jay takes pride in seeing how fast his students can progress.
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Mike Johnson has been performing, composing, recording and providing instruction since 1978. Taking up formal study at the age of 11, he began forming his own musical groups at age 15, experimenting with his own rock and jazz-rock compositions. He became a guitar instructor at the age of 18 at the Master Conservatory of Music in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Simultaneously, he began the study of the classical guitar there with Tim Phelan and music harmony with Boris Borgstrom. From there he studied music at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, giving equal time to both the jazz and classical approaches to harmony, history and performance.
After graduating, he performed in a touring musical group and later obtained another college degree, this time in electronics.
Full Mike Johnson Teacher Bio |
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Alex Henry started playing drums in her first year of junior high in the school band. She soon realized that this was not enough to nurture her desire to play, so she got a drumset and started lessons at Music Village. Playing drums has been a passion for her ever since. Because of this passion, she later began teaching lessons to share her love for drums with others.
Having taken five years of lessons at Music Village, Alex feels that she can relate well to the students now coming there. She enjoys watching her students progress and hopes to instill in them a love of drumming.
Full Alex Henry Teacher Bio
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Dave Gilbert has been involved with the Music Village lesson program since 1986, when he began his own lessons at age six. In 1996 while still in high school, Dave began teaching drum lessons and found his passion for teaching.
With his experience and love of teaching, Dave strives to make lessons constructive, fun, and worthwhile. His main focus is teaching students everyday principles that not only apply to drums, but other aspects of life. Other areas of focus are reading, rhythm, technique, coordination and creativity. Applications of these principles can be applied to snare drum, rudiments, drum set, playing in a band or other requests.
Full Dave Gilbert Teacher Bio |
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Tim Mason is originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. When he was 5 or 6, his mother taught him piano lessons, which he enjoyed to a degree. It wasn't until High School and he started playing music that he liked, that he got much better at the piano.
He started playing snare drum in the 5th Grade, and loved to play with his School's Symphonic Band and Orchestra. He took lessons on snare drum for a couple of years, and continued to pursue being a musician throughout his Elementary, Middle School and High School years. He learned to play all the usual symphonic percussion instruments, such as the concert snare drum, concert bass drum, crash/suspended cymbals, bells/xylophone, and timpani/kettle drums.
Full Tim Mason Teacher Bio |
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William Lyons has been a drum instructor at Music Village for over 25 years teaching snare drum and drum set. William's dad had him start taking drum lessons in the 4th grade from Herb Hillier. He has also studied under Dave Beckham and Doug Wolf while at Weber State University. He has played in the concert, stage and marching bands at T.H. Bell Junior High, Bonneville High School and on a music scholarship at Weber State University. William has also performed with the Golden Spike Youth Symphony and Rocky Mountain Community Orchestras as well as playing in a local dance band for 10 years. During the week he works for the US Forest Service and just teaches on Saturdays. William really enjoys the drums and helping other students of all ages develop their talents and achieve their goals.
William Lyons Teacher Page |
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Brittney Wood has been singing and performing since she was five years old. She has studied with man teachers across the country, including in California, Las Vegas, and Nashville. Brittney has studied with renowned vocal coaches like Brett Manning and Dave Brooks. Brittney started coaching students in 1999 in Utah, and 2002 in Nashville, Tennessee. She now resides and coaches primarily in Utah, but still travels to Nashville.
Brittney is known for her unique technique that gets results fast. She takes what seems difficult and simplifies it and demonstrates it in a way that is tailored to each individual student. She gets her students to break through barriers in their range that they thought they never could. She also helps with various other vocal problems.
Full Brittney Woods Teacher Bio |
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