Sara Chasse Harpist
Piano Teacher
Professional harpist & music teacher
Weddings, Special Occasions
Sara spent more than 5 years running and maintaining the former non-profit music school known as Harp4all Music Conservatory. Before that since 2005 Sara has been performing as a free lance harpist throughout Southern California for such gigs as the Stan Lee Documentary "With Great Power". She has performed with the RCC Wind Ensemble at Disney Hall. As a dedicated harp teacher and piano teacher her professional affiliations are with the American College of Musicians Piano Guild and the American Harp Society. Now relocated back in her home town of Bloomington, Indiana she is continuing to make a difference for young aspiring musicians through private lessons. She enjoys playing for weddings and other special occasions.
Piano
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Sara encourages clients to start with an acoustic upright piano from Cannon Pianos in San Bernardino.
And American Piano Factory in Bloomington, Indiana.
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She does not begin piano lessons with the same method for every student. Piano lessons begin with an evaluation on music background. Little children usually are started with Alfred's Music for Little Mozart's, but that not every case; again it depends on the student.
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The most common piano method for youngsters is the Alfred's Piano Premier series. Later she supplements with scales, Hanon's Virtuoso Piano skills book, or Fingerpower depending on the student. The students can continue with this method and/or join the Piano Guild to perform in the Auditions to achieve certificates and various awards.
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Next are the adult students. Either we use the Adult Alfred's piano method or college textbooks and method books. Adult students are encouraged to start classical training before they advance to Jazz and Blues.
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Violin
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Click on image on the right side of the screen to go to luthier Brown's Violin website.
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One of the most challenging music instruments is the violin family. Before you buy a violin, please make an appointment with a certified violin maker aka Luthier to ensure the proper violin family instrument is sized to the student. A violin is not complete without the proper bow. The bow is the most essential part of the violin. Just as a mouthpiece is essential to a wind-instrument to create the sound needed, the bow too is needed to create that beautiful singing from a violin.
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Don't assume that every violin method book is the same and every teacher is the same. Violin training requires years of painstaking work to achieve the success. The most important aspect of a violin player is the ability to listen and hear.
Jascha Heifetz
Beethoven Collection

Great Violin Concertos

Bruch Violin Concerto

Heifetz: It Ain't Necessarily So

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Arthur Grumiaux
Beethoven Sonatas

Mozart Sonatas

Bach Sonatas

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Fabio Biondi
Vivaldi works

Corelli works
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Alessandro Scarlatti

Georg Frideric Handel

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Brass winds
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The tradition for great trumpet players has always started with the Bb cornet. I too started with the cornet for wind instruments. Though the cornet is shorter that the trumpet, its sound is more rewarding for soprano brass instruments. Cornets were created in the 19th century and blossomed into one of the most revered brass wind instruments of all time. Cornets can come in various music keys (tonic) A, B flat, C, and E flat. The cornet player is generally the lead part of a brassband aka cornet band.
Cornet
Trumpets date back more than 2000 years even to the time used in the Holy Bible by the priests of the Holy Temple. Trumpets were fanfare music instruments until the early 1900's. Trumpets are made in various music keys like the cornets. Trumpets were first natural horns without valves to change notes, only partials could be used like a bugle. Now modern trumpets can come in various sizes and valve keys (piston or rotary) and used from Classical to Jazz genres. Trumpets also come as piccolo which makes the trumpet a true soprano instrument in the orchestra.
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Trumpet
