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I've taught pop piano since 2011, with over 500 students taught to date. My teaching is flexible and built around each student's goals.
I didn't touch a piano until I was 19.
Before that, I was a boy with no plan B. The plan was simple: decent O-level results, a poly course, whatever job came after. Then the results came out. Top in history for the whole school, and a D7 in both maths and science. Just like that, poly was gone.
I still remember the walk home that day. I felt hopeless, like the future had closed its doors on me before I'd even started. My dad, trying his best to comfort me, said that one day I could be his taxi co-driver. I laughed, but inside I was lost.
The years that followed didn't get much better. A fashion design course at NAFA that I couldn't finish. One part-time job after another. People around me who quietly decided I was going nowhere, and some days I believed them.
Then one ordinary shift at a supermarket changed everything. There was a DVD shop nearby, and on its little TV screen, Jay Chou was sitting at a piano, playing and singing 擱淺 live. I stood there and couldn't look away. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. In that moment I knew, with a certainty I had never felt about anything, that I was going to learn the piano. No matter how hard it was. No matter how long it took.
That night I searched for a piano teacher, contacted the very first one I found, and sat for my first lesson the next day. I can still feel it: my fingers on the keys for the first time. I played badly. It didn't matter. It was magic.
I had no instrument and no money for lessons, so I worked longer hours at jobs I hated and saved every dollar I could for a keyboard. Then I practised. Two, three, four hours a day, every day, because for the first time in my life I had something I truly wanted.
And slowly, the boy with no direction became a pianist, and then a piano teacher.
The piano gave me everything I thought I'd lost: a career, a direction, my confidence, my happiness. When I'm down, when there are feelings I can't explain to anyone, the piano is still there. Honestly, I think it saved my life.
That's why I do what I do. Many of my students come to me thinking it's too late, or that they're just not the musical type. I was that person too. And I'd love to pass this gift on to you.
Rather than spending weeks or months on one song, I build the core skills behind every pop song: left-hand patterns, harmonies and fill-ins. You learn them through songs you love, on a lesson plan made for you.
Every lesson covers one pop song as a piano solo and one as an accompaniment. I also cover music theory, so you understand what you're playing and can use it on any song. All my students are adults, and many started as complete beginners.
I wrote my own curriculum, Improvisation Pop Piano: a two-year course in four levels, from your first left-hand pattern to full harmony, fill-ins and playing by ear. It's the same path every student follows, adjusted to your pace and the songs you want to play.
Some of the music schools I've worked for include:
As a wedding pianist I've performed at venues such as:
Reeves is a passionate and amazing pianist who played during my wedding cocktail reception ! The atmosphere was definitely a lot more romantic with his music ! Thank you for accepting my special song requests too ! :)
Reeves was my pianist for my wedding and all of the songs that he played were romantic and breath taking. I have very high admiration for his piano skills and I highly recommend him for any type of events!
I've also taken on many assignments outside weddings, including:
Message me on WhatsApp with your experience level and a few songs you'd love to play. I'll reply with available slots and how we'd get started.
+65 8876 3831