Violin Lessons (Classical, Bluegrass, Jazz)
Recording artist with 40 years experience now accepting students. Hear this teacher at:
www.bandmix.com/tim-mackey
When
Usual availability/office hours:
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Type
- 1:1 / Private Lessons
Skill level
All difficulty levels
Ages
10 year olds or older
Where
SW 72nd Ave & SW Locust St, Portland, OR 97223, USA
Portland, OR 97223
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"Tim is a great teacher, patient and instructive!"
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- Ed Foltyn
Review of Violin Lessons (Classical, Bluegrass, Jazz), June 10, 2009
I am a 55-year old adult starting to learn violin/fiddle. I have played guitar for a few years and wanted to learn to play fiddle music. What I am slowly learning is that a violin is an instrument made up of more than multiple parts...there is the violin itself (which doesn't have frets to help with fingering), a bow, and the player (both bowing and fingering the strings); it is like trying to rub your head and belly at the same time while walking backwards whistling a tune. And all four must work together in perfect unison. I have only been taking lessons for a couple of weeks, so I am not very far down the path,but I am starting to make more than just cat scratching on the violin. It's fun to hear the progress even just being able to play scales better this week than last week.
I would highly recommend Tim to anyone trying to learn violin or fiddle.
Ed
I am a 55-year old adult starting to learn violin/fiddle. I have played guitar for a few years and wanted to learn to play fiddle music. What I am slowly learning is that a violin is an instrument made up of more than multiple parts...there is the violin itself (which doesn't have frets to help with fingering), a bow, and the player (both bowing and fingering the strings); it is like trying t...
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- Helpful, Engaging, Encouraging, Patient, Good communicator
- How was this location?:
- Awesome
- How was the price?:
- Great value
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- Tim Mackey
First let me explain a little about my musical background. I have played the guitar since I was 9 years old. At ag...
First let me explain a little about my musical background. I have played the guitar since I was 9 years old. At age 14 I began appearing regularly on local live Radio and TV shows on the affiliates of CBS (KOIN) and ABC (KATU) as a guest soloist all during high school.
During college I appeared locally on stage as the lead guitarist in traveling shows with Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Sherri Lewis, Burl Ives, and other shows including the Ice Capades orchestra, Rose Festival Concert orchestra and others. I also was hired at times as a studio musician to record music for TV and radio commercials.
The summer I graduated from PSU I appeared with Della Reese for two weeks at the grand opening of the GreenWood Inn. I also had a full load of guitar and banjo students and I worked full time at Portland Music Company for several years.
In the late 70’s I used my education and transitioned into the “hi-tech” marketing jobs, climbing the corporate ladder at companies like Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard and others -- leaving my music behind.
After 18 years of that I went into business for myself, running an ad agency for 9 years and then getting my real estate license in 1999.
The nice thing about my work in real estate is the ability to make my own decisions as to how to spend my time. I have been fortunate enough to be able to make a good living in real estate with time left over to again pursue my love for music.
For the last 8 years I have been studying the violin with Hugh Ewart, the retired CONCERTMASTER of the Oregon Symphony.
My in home recording studio includes a 32 track digital recording platform, a digital drum machine, a full set of Hart Dynamics electronic drums and a guitar synthesizer that allows me to create almost any instrument or voice sound with a special guitar plugged into it that drives the synthesizer.
I play, record and teach ALL styles of guitar (acoustic, electric and classical), mandolin, violin, bass and 5-string banjo.
My dream is to get some record producer somehwere to "discover" me and help me launch a recording career like George Benson, Earl Klugh and Larry Carlton have enjoyed..... as there are not that many good instrumental guitarists producing albums these days with "listenable music" for "adults".
You can order any of my CD's for $10 plus $3 shipping/handling to anywhere in the U.S. Just email me for a list of my CD's and the song lists on each to make your selection(s).
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