Cello Lessons
Cello lives close to the body.
The cello is one of the few instruments that vibrates directly into the player. It's held against the chest, played from a seat, and resonates at frequencies the body feels before the ear catches them. Lessons here build that physical relationship from the first session.
Who cello tends to fit.
Cello at Resonate runs across ages. Kids start as young as the half-size and quarter-size instruments allow. Adults come in for the first time in their lives, or come back to it after years away. The classical literature is deep, but cello shows up across a lot of music. Pop arrangements, indie folk, film scores, jazz combos, singer-songwriter records. The path students take depends on what they want to play and where they want to end up.
Pricing snapshot
Weekly membership includes make-up flexibility with at least one week's notice and one complimentary recording studio hour every three months.
Cello lessons here are taught by a gospel and jazz musician.
Jack Lumayor teaches cello, piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, voice, and theory at Resonate. He's a gospel and jazz musician with a BFA in music and over a decade of teaching, both in private lessons and Edmonton schools. Gospel, jazz, R&B, soul, and bossa nova are the music he plays, and lessons here often draw on the connections between cello and those styles.
For Jack, music is a conversation. Technique is what gives a player the language to say something in it. Lessons start by checking in on what someone has been practicing and how they're hearing it, and the pacing follows from there. Mistakes are part of the path; Jack often points out that being okay with them is what makes the rest of the playing possible.
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Starting is simple
Tell us a little about who lessons are for and what you have in mind.
You do not need everything figured out first.