Ryan Lee Reid

Hi, I'm Ryan Lee Reid. I'm a pianist, composer, music teacher, arranger, singer, producer, beat maker, and performer in all things music across all styles ✨.  

I take careful COVID precautions am fully vaccinated 💉💪 😷.

After decades of learning, playing, creating, performing, and teaching piano, I approach music in a different way I’ve found most effective and enjoyable to my students. I developed a modified Bach teaching method because he was the OG improv musical mastermind 🎹. 

I make learning music simple, easy, and fun...even when teaching online ✨🎶.  I offer lessons in piano, electronic music, song writing, music production, music theory, vocal coaching, beat making sessions, and performances (both live and virtual) 🎶. 

I created a visual online teaching method for music lessons that has helped my students learn successfully during this crazy covid pandemic 😷! I teach across genres- classical, jazz, funk, R&B, electronic, country, and anything with a groove that makes you want to move ⚡.

During our sessions, I break down music into 3 parts like an orchestra or band: bass, harmony and melody. You get to choose the songs you want to play because why spend time learning songs that don’t bring you joy?!

By learning music this way, instruments like the piano are unleashed to create anything you want, even without sheet music 🎼👍👊. My method makes it incredibly easy for you to understand, play, and compose your own music  🎼. This methodology transcends genre and ability regardless of if you want to become a classical concert pianist, a jazz improvisational sensation, a pop piano star, a talented trap beat maker or simply just want to play a song you like on the piano. 

My method has helped my students and me progress in our musical journeys with focus, fun, boundless creativity, and endless possibilities.

I teach beat makers, DJs, music producers, and sound engineers piano and music theory specific to helping improve work flow and creating music whether it’s for beats to sell, perform, or songs for yourself or others.

I’ve created a different approach for these sessions because you don’t need to become a concert pianist or play like Mozart to sound like one. It’s streamlined and builds on your existing knowledge to optimize your process to help you get where you want to go faster with flexible building blocks that transcend musical medium and genre. 

Regardless of your ability, what style music you want to play, sing, create, or why you want to learn, I believe it is important that you get to choose what songs you play and what music you want to create. If you’re making the effort to learn music, then I will always make the effort to teach you what you want to learn in a meaningful way tailored to you.

As for live performances, I’ve performed locally and internationally, and with safe social distancing. I've been performing at various virtual, zoom, and outdoor events with diligent COVID protocols in place.

I have a portable keyboard set up that sounds great for locations without piano 🙌. So if you don’t have a piano or a tuned piano, no worries because I can bring my own...BYOP 🎹🧳✅! I even have a keytar to play some grooves on the move when needed 🏃🏻‍♂️🎶✨💨

I live and love music. I hope to help you experience music in different forms- not just listening to music, but seeing, creating, and transforming it in new ways ✨🎶✨.

Watching students of all ages accomplish their musical goals, cultivate a passion by playing music the student is interested in playing, and utilizing new technologies to make practice more fun, less monotonous, and more efficient.

I teach all genres classical, pop, jazz, gospel, electronic, ect. That's one of the benefits of being a musician and not just a pianist, because you understand how music is put together at such a deep level. Since this is the crux of my teaching methodology it allows the student to play any style of music, since tastes can easily change over time as students progress.