online personalized music lessons live in real-time via skype webcam chat

Interactive and personalized music instruction on the internet, customized for you!

40 YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE - PROVIDING ONLINE LESSONS SINCE 2010

Online lessons and in-home instruction for children, teens and adults:
For beginners, intermediate and advanced levels

Experienced and dedicated music artist and educator Andy Wasserman opens his teaching studio to the whole world 24/7 through a high-speed internet in his recording studio for personalized, one-on-one webcam private lessons via real-time streaming video, audio and file sharing

This online distance learning can be accessed using your choice of the free call service platforms Skype or Zoom video conferencing for face-to-face webcam streaming. Your lessons can be recorded during the call and archived, stored on your device for future reference. Or if you prefer, we can communicate via phone calls and email too.

Wasserman's studio configures an Ethernet-wired connection, two Hi-Def webcams (switching views between face and Steinway grand piano keys) a studio condenser microphone and Pro-Audio USB interface for smooth, superb sound and picture.

Andy has 3 free services available by request to supplement the video chat for an enhanced learning experience: a whiteboard web program, with audio, document upload and text-chat functions for charts and sheet music (Andy draws on whiteboard in real-time during lesson with Wacom Tablet) ; music notation software file sharing, and cloud storage for custom video and audio practice files he produces individually for each student.

Highly interactive, customized and personalized programs of study in piano, music theory, composition, arranging, improvisation, percussion and rhythmic training, and George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. Specializing in Jazz, Classical and Pop styles and the connections between them, including Jazz improvisation, Song Writing and Classical Repertoire interpretation.

Andy is an seasoned music educator with 35 years experience. He currently provides individual instruction to over 20 students per week in addition to giving master classes as a visiting artist at schools, universities, colleges and festivals throughout the United States. Andy is a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) and was mentored for over 30 years by virtuoso pianist Dwike Mitchell of the Mitchell-Ruff Duo. He has performed and recorded as a full-time professional pianist since 1974.

For Private Parties, Fundraising Benefit Concerts, Community and Business Special Events, Family Holiday celebrations! Book a custom concert where you can design and co-create a one-of-a-kind concert experience for you, your family, your friends, co-workers, colleagues and event planners in a truly interactive musical environment along with Andy Wasserman.

His solo piano compositional and improvisational style fuses spontaneity, expressive nuance and subtlety, harmonic intimacy, rhythmic intricacy, and an eloquent spectrum of polished dynamic gradation. Andy Wasserman began exploring piano at age 3, and started lessons at 7 in the innovative Robert Pace multi-key method.

Andy Wasserman solos, compositions and arrangements for piano TRANSCRIBED from recordings!. The videos in the gallery below allow you to enjoy note-by-note transcriptions as they scroll, synchronized to the audio tracks. Watch, follow and listen! All transcription notation and videos produced by Chris Bandy.

MUSICIAN: Composer, Arranger, Recording Artist, Performer, Educator, Producer
INSTRUMENTS: Piano, Keyboards, World Music (wind~string~percussion), Drums, Electric Bass
PRODUCTION: Studio Owner, Sound Design, Multimedia Content Creator, Studio Musician

STYLES & GENRES: Jazz, World Music (African, Asian, Middle East, Native American, Latin & Afro-Cuban, South American), Fusion, Funk, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Blues and Boogie, New Age, Gospel, Adult Contemporary, Television/Radio themes, Web & Digital Media, Corporate.