Music Lessons and More

Private Music Lessons

Kara has 6+ years of experience teaching private lessons and teaching music in the public school setting. She's taught everything from voice, piano, ukulele, guitar, songwriting, audition prep, musical theatre, and music theory. Kara is an expert in her craft, and specialties include pop/rock/R&B, musical theatre and classical techniques.

Lesson Pricing:

$90 per hour - In-Person Lesson rate

$80 - Zoom Lesson rate

Lesson Packages & Family/Group discounts available. Contact Kara for more info

A Beginner's Guide to Ukulele

Accessible Pop Music Curriculum

Kara has taught ukulele, songwriting, and secondary general music for 5+ years.

Whether you're a music teacher looking to get started teaching ukulele, OR you are learning ukulele at home on your own, look no further for your comprehensive ukulele guide & song library!

Vocal Arranging

Audio/video editor

While teaching virtually, Kara became proficient at editing audio and video files to create virtual choir experiences for her students, and layer vocals and instruments for her own original projects. Book her for your next audio project, or to make practice tracks for your students!

Audio - Logic Pro X

Video - iMovie

Arranging - Finale

The Taco Bell Canon

4-part vocal round/choral warm-up

Graduate Scholar

Music Education

Kara holds bachelors and masters degrees in music education from James Madison University.

Her graduate thesis is entitled:

Secondary music educators’ perceptions of and relationships with dominant narratives through personal philosophy, pedagogy and practice

Book Kara as your next Guest Lecturer in Music Education

Presentation Topic Offerings:

Opening up the Music Classroom for all: a closer look at dominant narratives in Music Education

How to Direct an Entire Choral Rehearsal Using Only Your Voice

Teaching Guitar from a Singer’s Perspective

Music & Colors: Creative Music Education for Special Learners

Music Theory Workshop: Using Chord Progressions to get Songwriting Quick