ABOUT US

JBM provides high quality instrumental tuition and music education taught by industry professionals.

Our focus is teaching modern music and contemporary music theory in a relaxed and supportive environment – forget Mozart, you’re more likely to find Jimi Hendrix, Adele, and Elton John amongst our library!

All of our teachers are highly regarded and experienced performing musicians, and have been chosen by James Baker for their industry experience, musical knowledge, and communication skills.

Simply put, when you’re learning at JBM, you’re learning from the pro’s.

WHO DO WE TEACH

We teach beginners through to advanced players from the ages of 8 up – yep, we teach adults too!

THE 9 LESSON TERM

As our staff are working musicians, they occasionally have to take leave for gigs, tours, and recording sessions. To accomodate this we teach 9 lessons scheduled throughout the NSW school term – when a teacher takes leave we simply reschedule that weeks lessons for “Week 10” of the school term.

WHERE ARE WE LOCATED

20 Wilks Ave, Kooringal, NSW 2650

OUR STAFF

PIANO/KEYBOARDS & MUSIC TECHNOLOGYJames Baker

James Baker is an award winning musical director and accomplished contemporary keyboardist. From recording sessions, to live gigs, cabarets, and music theatre, James’ wealth of experience shines through in his playing and his interactions with students.

With a keen understanding of industry required skills, James endeavours to help students understand modern keyboard techniques, functional chord theory, and improvisation to allow them to flourish into the best possible contemporary musicians.

James works with students to bring out their personal musicality. Whilst he works with every student to develop a solid note reading literacy, there is a much heavier focus on musical theory principles – specifically the interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. In short, his experience as a jazz pianist places less focus on the “dots on the page”, and more on creating beautiful, soulful music.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

BASS & BEGINNER GUITAR Tom Ocskowski

Tom is an accomplished bass player, and has been a fixture of Wagga’s music scene for over a decade. Having first picked up a bass 15 years ago, he has been involved in a multitude of performances including School Spectacular, Mamma Mia, Oliver, Hairspray and supporting The Rubens as part of band Le Ghouls. Tom currently helps guide HSC music students through their HSC performances as part of the Kildare HSC band.

Tom’s musical philosophy focuses on what makes the song tick, and what can be done to help the musicians around him shine. Tom’s students learn to approach music from this angle to give them an understanding of not only what makes someone a good player, but also what makes someone a good musician.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

VOCALS Nathan Lamont

Nathan is a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter with a wealth of industry experience. He was previously in the top 36 of the APRA Professional Development Awards for songwriting, is a 2 times grand finalist of Toyota Star Maker, has featured on X Factor, Young Talent Time, and seasons 3 and 5 of The Voice (Team Madden), graduated from the Talent Development Project (2011) and Academy of Country Music (2011) featured as contestant on Young Talent Time (2011), and has been mentored by Keith Urban.

Nathan works with his students to build on vocal techniques, stylistic approaches, stage craft, and confidence.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

Our Rates for 2023

One On One Lessons

"Term Paid In Advance"

30 Minute Lessons

$404.82 per term

60 Minute Lessons

$809.64 per term

each 9 week term is billed in advance

your regular lesson slot is guaranteed

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023


Payment Options

Our smart invoicing system provides multiple ways to pay your account

Invoices are emailed out 2 weeks before the start of term, with a due date of the first day back of term

Paying in full? We accept payment via bank transfer or credit/debit card

Prefer to split payment over the term? You can create your own custom payment. The best bit? You don’t even need to talk to us! Just click “pay now” on your invoice, select “payment plan”, and create your personalised plan

Creative Kids Vouchers: We are a proud Creative Kids Provider and can accept the $100 Creative Kids Vouchers as partial payment towards your account. Simply reply to your invoice email with your child’s Creative Kids Voucher number and DOB and we’ll get it knocked off the account


Student Registration

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

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Contact Us

You can contact JBM by either texting or emailing us. We’re quite busy in the studio, so are unable to take or make phone calls.


M: 0400 735 677
E: [email protected]
F: www.facebook.com/jamesbakermusic
James Baker Music, 20 WIlks Ave, Kooringal, New South Wales, Australia

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