transformusical
Evolved Musical Instruction coupled with Transformational Work
- Singing. Guitar. Piano. Bass. Ukulele. Songwriting. Recording.
- Online Community
- Online Group Cohort Workshops & Self-Study Courses
- Private Lessons
- Inspiring Interviews, Videos & Articles
COMPILATION ALBUMS OF STUDENT WRITTEN & RECORDED SONGS
Compliation albums of songs written and recorded entirely by students! Many of these songs were the first they've ever done! I hope you take some time to listen on your preferred music service:
It should also be available on most streaming services worldwide. Just search for "transformusical" on 7Digital, Amazon Mp3, Anghami, AWA, Bugs!, Claro-musica, eMUSIC, Gracenote, iHeartRadio, iTunes, Kanjian, Kuack Media, Melon, Napster, Netease, Nuuday, Qobuz, Saavn, SoundCloud, Tencent, TikTok or YG.
You may notice this site is looking unfinished. Here’s the story:
My name is John Shapiro. I’ve been teaching singing, guitar, piano, ukulele & bass lessons AND songwriting & recording workshops out of my studio in Denver, Colorado (and since the pandemic online) since 2004 via
Meanwhile, I’ve long since been a big meditator, super interested my own evolution and ever increasingly desirous to help others. Though various continuing ed explorations and trying on some additional professional options (like mediation and running a universal health care non-profit startup), I landed on some stuff I really love, which I would name simply as “helping groups and people get unstuck”. I do that through one-to-one coaching, group conflict resolution/facilitation and “personal growth” workshops via
Over my years of teaching, I noticed the students I felt the most satisfaction working with and vice versa where those who were open to address the whole of their experience. With them, I could bring full set of skills beyond music into the room. And not only where they able to improve musically, our work together echoed positively across their whole lives. And by work, I mean everything from building healthy self-esteem via a child’s piano lessons that greatly improves their ability in school and foster a genuine love of music to addressing an adult ukulele student’s challenges in lessons that expanded into reclaiming their long-lost “badass-ness” and leading them to make giant life changes that they’d wanted to make for years. Now I’m starting to do the same.
transformusical is my overt merging of my connections to music and transformational work. It’s a work in progress: Right now I’m offering live, online, small group workshops in songwriting or home studio recording. And I’m in process of finishing this super fancy website that has an online community, online video self and cohort courses for singing, guitar, songwriting and recording, and a video/writing series about people’s transformational experiences via music.
