About
about instructor
Grady Hill
My name is Grady Hill and I have been teaching music for over 30 years. I first started showing an interest in playing the piano from my Mother at the age of 6. My Mother was taking piano lessons in our home and when she finished her lessons, I went to the piano and repeated what her teacher had taught her. From the age of 6 to 9, my Mother shared with me what she learned and I took it upon myself to learn more. After my Mother saw how determined I was, she enrolled me into music lessons at the Wimberley School of Music at the age of 9.
I started playing the piano at my Father’s church at the age of 9 and teaching music during the summer at my Mother’s house at the age of 13. At the age of 16, I started teaching on weekends at a fellowship hall because my students had grown to be too many at my Mother’s house. I also started playing for two churches as part-time jobs.
I played for the Jazz band at my Junior High School under the direction of Mr. Hardee. From there, I played with the Jazz band at my High School. I received a Music scholarship to attend Bishop College in Dallas, Texas. At the age of 17, one of my music professors, T Bird Gordon, approached me to play with his band on weekends. As his keyboardist, I learned to play all types of music from R&B, Pop, Blues, Funk, Rock n Roll, Reggae, Classical and etc. During this time, I learned to play the Hammond B3 organ and keyboard synthesizers. Through my travels from the east coast to the west coast with T Bird as his keyboardist, I also learned different music styles of playing the piano/keyboard and organ.
After playing the keyboard and organ with T Bird for several years, I went back to teaching private piano and organ lessons. I taught piano lessons in the privacy of my home. Then I moved into my first music studio on Kiest Blvd. I purchased my first organ and incorporated teaching private organ lessons. After expanding my studio with more pianos, keyboards and organs, I moved to my second location on Red Bird Lane where my wife, Donna and I started our Music School teaching piano, keyboard and organ classes with all types of music including Gospel, Blues, R&B, Jazz, Pop, Rock n Roll and Classical.
We have taught all ages from 3 to 80+years, the blind and the hearing impaired. Because of our abilities to teach piano/keyboard and organ lessons, locally in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, it is a privilege to be able to teach piano/keyboard and organ music lessons online.
I look forward to showing you the pleasure of creating music too!