Hello everybody.

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I apologize for the angle.

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I'm current, currently sitting on my bed. Okay.

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Um, I wanted to make this quick introduction video

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and um, really tell you a little bit about myself.

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Um, kind of my philosophy with teaching, my experience

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with teaching, and kind of I guess my plans.

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If there's time, I do tend to talk a lot. Um, okay.

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So, hello, my name is Elena.

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I am a second year student at LSU.

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Um, I'm a graduate teaching assistant

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and I also am studying piano pedagogy.

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Um, what that basically means is that I'm learning how

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to teach, and more specifically, I'm learning

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how to teach piano.

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So I've been in the music world for a really long time.

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Um, and I actually studied music for my bachelor's degree.

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So I have a lot of experience learning about things like

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music history, music theory skills, anything

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that encompasses a, uh, a music degree.

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I have learned it. Um,

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and now in my master's degree I'm learning a lot about

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teaching methods, strategies, approaches, um,

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different types of learners

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and really how I could be the most effective in my teaching

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in both private setting and also a group setting.

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Um, some of my core values are community building, um,

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collaboration and really

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having an open environment for learning.

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Um, I'm a teacher, but first and foremost I'm a student.

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I'm always going to learn and I love to learn

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and I think that it's important for me to be upfront

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with the fact that, you know, I'm learning there are gonna

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be things that we're going to work through, um,

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with the students that I teach

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because I'm always going to be a student first.

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Um, but with that being said,

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I do have experience teaching both in private

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and group setting from students as young as five

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to their mid thirties in both a private setting

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and a group setting.

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And, um, I have experience teaching beginner level

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to like early advanced.

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Most of my experience comes from teaching

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like really beginner level students at a college level, um,

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specifically with piano, but a lot of them have, um,

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I've helped a lot of students with music theory concepts,

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so composition, um, improvisation, music theory,

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harmonization, um,

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really learning the fundamentals of music and piano.

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That's kind of my specialty right now.

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Um, but anyway, that was kind of a lot,

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but I hope that that kind of gives you a little bit

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of a more insight of who I am, what I'm about.

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And, um, if you have,

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sorry, my phone's about to die.

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If you have any questions, feel free, free to email me.

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We can schedule a free trial lesson, um,

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outside of Lesson Pal.

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Um, and I'm really glad and hopeful

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and excited to meet everybody.

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Alright, bye.

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