Your Instructor
I’m Lauren Rioux, How Do You Do?
I help musicians (mostly string players) unlock their inner voice and achieve their potential. I help you understand and appreciate that the work of becoming a musician is honest and rewarding. It’s not about being THE best, it’s about being YOUR best. I believe in you, and I’ll help you believe in yourself. I know that everyone has the ability to create a sound that they love, experience the joy that your sound produces, and express what you’re unable to articulate with words.
I began teaching solely classical violin but went to a fiddle camp after seeing and hearing a multi-generational old-time jam at a teacher’s convention. I was floored and devastated my musical education was one dimensional and lacking basic, hands-on skills like sitting down in a jam circle. I got to work and luckily for me my training as an educator helped me become my own teacher, recognizing my independence and creating a step-by-step system to help make sure my students were on a pathway full of open doors.
As a performer, I’ve traveled all over the United States, parts of Sweden, Spain, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At all my performances, I request to give workshops to local string players. I consistently hear from attendees that my methods of understanding theory and hearing chord progressions are the most useful and helpful skills these musicians have acquired. I’m always asked for long-distance learning lessons such as Skype and FaceTime. At a certain point, I realized there weren’t enough hours in the day to teach EVERYONE who wanted to take lessons with me, practice for myself, exercise, be a wife and a mother.
SO, I created JamWithLauren. For musicians at any level who hope to gain a practical understanding of how to play traditional American music.
My experience as a performer and as a music educator has informed this curriculum and repertoire (tunes) selection. The repertoire is organized in a step-by-step progression that allows students to build their skills by hearing both melodies and chord changes.
I’ve been teaching for 20 years, and online for 5 years. I’m invested in making sure you are successful at learning how to become musically independent.
Let’s do this- JamWithMe! (umm, Lauren)