Uncover your own individual sound

About Empathetic Harmonics

My name is Ben McNee and I have been teaching now for around 16 years. I started playing Piano about 20 years ago and since then I have picked up the guitar and have been writing songs for around 14 years.

I want you to know what kind of teacher I am.
I have had training in classical piano for 3 years. In that time I took the ABRSM Grades 5 and 7 – theory and practical.
After that I studied with a music professor for 1 year.
She helped open my eyes to what music really is about – feeling and expression.

I have taught chorus, played in bands, played solo with guitar and piano to hundreds of people.
I have enjoyed learning and playing some of the most challenging classical music by composers such as: Chales Valentin Alkan, Balakirev, Grunfeld, Rachmaninoff, Chopin etc

I have learnt that:
Music – is an art.
Art – is expression.
Expression – is YOU.
In spite of this, Music is often taught primarily as a skill, not as an art.
I have developed and continue to develop a teaching process to build your expressive abilities as well as your skills.
Learn the art of expression first, then learn about the techniques, languages and tools of your trade to improve your own art.

I have developed this teaching perspective over the last 20 years through playing and working with people of many different ages, cultures and backgrounds.

I have always had a great interest in the physics of music and how it affects us both emotional and physically.
I believe that everyone has an artistic gift – you just have to find a way to let it out.
When we give our artistic streak room to breathe, we not only grow as a person, but we encourage each other to do the same!

Do you want to get out of a musical “box” you’re in?
Are you afraid? Confused? Lost? Frustrated?

“Empathetic Harmonics” will change that for you.