Watch the music teacher perform music in a variety of styles and genre. The instructor is formally educated in classical, jazz, blues, and folk music. As a composer and songwriter, he has had extensive experience playing, writing, and teaching in all styles. As a music theorist, majoring in musical composition, Kevin McClain actively studies, writes, and performs jazz, blues, funk, rock, fusion, bluegrass, folk, country, reggae, alternative and more. Watch the music teacher at play different styles and genre below.
“As a composition major in college, I studied the evolution of various styles and genre throughout the different eras of music. The Insight I gained proved invaluable, not only as a musician and songwriter, but also as a versatile teacher.”
– Kevin McClain
The teacher studies formal styles of music such as finger style guitar. The instructor uses both jazz and classical techniques to play blues, swing, ragtime, and others. Check out the video below to see various musical examples on the guitar and piano.
The Music teachers performs in a solo project called Hooked.
The music instructor performs improvised music inspired by the “hooks” of favorite songs and melodies in a solo act he likes to call Hooked. Like, Share, Follow, and subscribe at Hooked on Jams and McMusic Lessons to help Kevin build his YouTube channels. You can find the music instructor on social media at the following links. McMusic on Facebook / Hooked on Facebook / Hooked on Twitter / Hooked on Youtube
In college the teacher’s interests gravitated towards music theory and composition, taking to the works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Franz Schubert, and others. Though the guitar is the music teachers primary instrument, he has also studied the piano. He has written original compositions, songs, and piano sonatas in college and as an amateur freelance composer.