Private Music Lessons

Total beginner, or just looking to challenge your current abilities? No matter where you are at in your creative pursuits, take the next step on your musical journey online, or in Russell Ontario.

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✔  Learn your favorite songs on guitar/bass

✔  Refine your skills with Music Theory, Exercises and Custom Backing Tracks

✔  Hone your Songwriting / Performance abilities

✔  Music teacher who has presented SHSM approved workshops at over 100 schools across Canada

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My name is Brock, and I have been drawn to music for as long as I can remember.

Upon graduating high school, I launched my own record label (Colfax Music) and pursued a career of original music. Eventually, I signed a joint deal with Jeff Burns (Universal Music Canada), who had originally discovered and signed bands such as Nickelback and Loverboy.

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It wasn’t long before I was performing all over the world; not just Canada, but the UK, Western Europe, and the USA. In fact, some of the biggest performances of my life have involved learning material within an hour before playing it to crowds in the 1000’s. Some of my proudest endeavors in the live music sector culminated in a Hamburg, Germany based music festival. There, I represented MusicOntario at the CanadaHouse, showcasing with the Ottawa-based band Double Experience.

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My biggest passion in life is to educate and guide young creatives however I am able. In 2010, I developed a SHSM-approved program dubbed “The EducaTOUR” which I delivered to over 150 highschools and colleges across Canada (and even the UK!). This series of workshops opened my eyes to the uphill battle of modern music education. To my horror, many underfunded communities have paid the ultimate price and have been forced to abandon music classes entirely.

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I have been fortunate enough to collaborate with critically acclaimed producers, songwriters and players including Jayson DeZuzio (Imagine Dragons), Chris Birkett (Sinead O'Connor) and Anton DeLost (Highly Suspect). In 2022, I received a nomination at the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition awards for Best Songwriting for Double Experience's song “Bill Murray”.

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In the same year, Twitch Music selected my band's channel in the launch of their artist incubator program, "The Collective", which develops the abilities of music streamers from all over North America. I also received formal sponsorship from the legendary guitar electronics company Seymour Duncan Pickups and Canadian luthiers Godin Guitars.

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Many of the lessons I have learned as a musician have been costly, yet invaluable. My duty is to pay this forward however I can, and the final frontier of my skillset is to impart these lessons other creatives as many abilities associated with the above as I possibly can.