Heather Paxton
About
[4.77 rating over 35 reviews from another lesson platform]
Welcome! Interested in starting a musical journey with an enthusiastic, degreed, experienced teacher? You can learn whether you are an elementary beginner, retiree, a high school student, a musician with special needs, or an out of practice musician. Whatever your level, just sign up and begin! For real life performance experience, there are two recitals for family and friends, Christmas and Spring. Community service recitals take place in the summer. In the past, students have performed at local Earth Day Celebrations, at Festival of Trees, and at Disney World. If you like to compete, there are piano and vocal competitions available. There are two acoustic pianos (spinnets) for vocal accompaniment or piano duets. Appropriate seating for both vocalists and instrumentalists. Comfortable seating available for parents of younger students. Your music lessons are available in the following genres: Voice - Classical, Broadway, Inspirational Piano - Classical, Broadway Clarinet - Classical and Pop Saxophone - Classical, Pop, and some Light Jazz
Reviews from Another Lesson Platform
We love Ms. Heather! She is so dedicated and patient with my daughter and my daughter has grown leaps and bounds in a very short time. She is wonderful!
Heather is great! It was our first lesson and she made my daughter feel so comfortable! Heather is clearly very knowledgeable about all styles of music. We are eager to continue with her.
Heather is/was great....patient, friendly, kind and experienced. I had to break from my lessons after 2 years but plan to be back. Joe
Granddaughter enjoy her time and knowledge of teacher looking forward to next lesson
Heather is a great teacher; she is able to gauge ability and keeps the lessons varied and interesting, always pushing you just at the edge, beyond what you thought you were capable of. Friendly, amiable, and laidback in style, she makes learning in a comfortable atmosphere fun. You can tell she has a real passion for music and teaching, and results after just a few lessons proves she knows what she is doing. I am a beginning singer, my only prior experience was singing with the congregation in church, not the choir.
She's really nice, and makes warm-ups before starting the lesson for your voice range. The variety of songs you can sing is pretty big, you want to sing in Italian? There's plenty! Want to sing in Latin? I'm pretty sure there's a few! There are songs from various musicals, too. All in all, she's a pretty great teacher.
awsome
Great experience despite an internet outage!
Heather has been doing online voice lessons for my daughters for several months now and we are extremely happy with her teaching and how well the lessons are going! She is very knowledgeable and patient and their singing has improved so much. They love their voice lessons!
Very encouraging teacher
As an adult piano student, I found Heather to be a knowledgeable and supportive teacher, from whom I took lessons for many years. She is friendly and patient. Had I not moved, I would still be taking lessons from Heather.
I am so thankful to have Heather as my vocal teacher. She knows exactly what her students need to reach their maximum potential and she helps them to build a strong and solid foundation. Heather is not only an outstanding teacher, amazingly gifted vocalist, and a beautiful woman, she is also very encouraging, motivating, fun and caring. I absolutely love her. She is an answer to prayer, a blessing beyond words!!
Very nice!!
Great Experieince
Heather is amazing! She is super nice and I love her instruction for singing.
Heather is very nice, she sings very well and she is a very good music teacher!
Heather answered all my questions and did a good job adjusting the lessons to my level of playing piano
Same thing over and over
she is very nice and the songs she selected are classical. I will continue my classes with her.
My daughter likes her singing lessons with Heather.
She is an excellent teacher. She is very patient with my son.
Need to know a little bit more about how the singing process works without going into the students class time thank you
Heather is such a nice, professional and sweet teacher! Thank you so much for your accommodation of my time issue! Q and Panny are sooooo adorable and Q even sings along when we sing. You should come check her out haha!
Heather is a marvelous teacher. She has a great personality that really puts you at ease. She shows great patience and always has an encouraging word about your progress. Lessons tend to go by so quickly because they are a lot of fun. I highly recommend her.
Piano Lessons Heather is a wonderful teacher. She has patience, kindness and puts me at ease when I play for her. She makes me laugh, too!
Heather is a great teacher Heather is one of the most encouraging teachers I have come into contact with. My children love to practice because of her encouragement. She has the sweetest temperament and deals with her students with patience and kindness.
Love taking lessons with Heather! Heather's teaching style is relaxed yet with the utmost professionalism. She has offered so many techniques to make an older gal like me learn easier. She communicates in such a way that I understand what I previously thought to be intimidating and difficult to a way that I understand. She is so patient with me, I know how long I am taking to learn even the most simple notes and reading music but she encourages me, she makes me feel confident that (even at my age) I can and will and am learning! I look forward to seeing her each week. I may also take voice lessons from her too soon!
I love my teacher! Heather has helped me in so many ways,even in the short time I have had her as my teacher.She has helped me work on ''rejoice greatly'' with the timing and some of the fancy work that you have to do in that song with your voice. And also on mozart's ''Allelujah'' she has helped me to refine some of the technique work involved with your voice also. She is going to teach me to cite read music,because i cannot at this time read the notes on sheet music when they are all goofed up on the page of music.
She is a very good teacher Heather has a very sweet temperament, she makes my shy daughter feel comfortable. We have only had 3 lessons and I have already seen so much improvement in her playing! I am very excited!
Feedback I think Heather is a good teacher.
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Teaching Style
I teach both online and in person lessons here at my home studio. All of the lessons are individually planned for each student. As music is an expression of one's self, no 2 people learn the exact same way. All recitals are voluntary. If a student does not wish to participate, that is okay. Music, above all else, is for the musician. I have had many students over the years choose not to be in recitals.
when a student is first beginning lessons, it doesn't matter which instrument, it is really important that they learn to love what they are playing. If the student does not love what they are playing, it will be harder for the student to grow as a musician. Age doesn't matter either. Building the foundation is what is important.
Curriculum
The Method Books I use for Piano depend on the age and experience that they have with piano. Generally, the youngest I teach is 5 years old. Once a student reaches about Level 3, the selection of music becomes more of what they would like to learn. With the advent of online publishing, gone are the days where you had to buy a book for one song. It truly has opened up a new world of possibilities.
For Clarinet and Saxophone, if the student is in their school band, or any band for that matter, that music takes precedence always, especially when there is a playing test or an audition coming up. As for method books, there are several I use, again, it depends on how the student plays. For Voice lessons, I use so many different books that if a student was to purchase all the books I use, they would need a file cabinet like the four I have.
Credentials & Affiliations
Education
Bachelor of Music
Sep, 1989 - May, 1993
Wayne State University
Masters of Business Administration
Sep, 1999 - Dec, 2000
Davenport University
Saxophone, Clarinet, Vocal, Piano Music Teacher
Teaching Experience
Sep, 1986 - Present
Heather's Music Room
I teach all music lessons, plan concerts, take students to concerts. In 1999 and 2008, I took a group of students who became a choir to perform in Disney World at the Epcot Center.
Voice, Piano, Saxophone, Clarinet Music Teacher
Jan, 1992 - Aug, 2008
American Music Academy
I taught all music lessons, planned concerts, kept track of accounts. I also created all playbills for the concert. I took students to competition yearly.
Music and Dance Teacher
Sep, 1986 - Jun, 1993
Backstage Performing Arts
I taught Dance and Voice classes. From Preschool to high school. We did musicals, musical reviews, as well as competition pieces for both dance and vocal music. We won many awards.
Michigan Music Association
Michigan Music Association was founded in 1967 as a non-profit, educational organization to perpetuate through high standards an annual competition for students in the state of Michigan. Its goals are to provide the public the opportunity to hear students in competition, to uphold a high standard in music education, provide a public outlet for the artistic talent of music students, and most importantly to help students gain the experience and confidence to develop their musical talents.
Mu Phi Epsilon
April 1989
Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity. Today, Mu Phi Epsilon has chapters both nationally and internationally. The fraternity supports achievement in music through the awarding of grants and scholarships, as well as music competitions, concerts, and summer music programs. Much of this work has been supported by the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, an organization that has been in existence since 1963, as well as fundraising and donations.