For a limited time, I will be taking on a small number of students who wish to study the guitar. Our goals will be to improve your playing enjoyment while learning to make more effective musical choices. We will study music theory to facilitate your own improvisational ideas into your playing style. After all, improvising, or soloing, is basically creating your own melodies that work with the harmony, rhythm, and maybe the original melody of the song.
My Background
I have been performing, studying, and teaching guitar for over thirty years. I have studied multiple guitar techniques including country fingerstyle with Robert Smith and Brazillian fingerstyle with Nelson Faria. Since I have learned so many different ways to approach music on guitar I can offer different solutions. I have spent many years learning improvisational skills and various chord-melody approaches to tunes.
I teach both electric and acoustic styles of guitar to all ages. I have been formally trained and possess a Bachelors Degree in Commercial Music and Masters of Fine Arts in Music Composition.
Jam Sessions
Because there is NO substitute for playing with other musicians, as a student of mine, you will gain exclusive access to the student only periodic “Jam sessions” if you are local.
Lessons
I teach various styles of guitar but not limited to:
- Rock guitar styles and soloing
- Delta and Mississippi Blues guitar styles (Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King)
- Contemporary Blues styles (Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Robben Ford)
- Chord theory and soloing
- Improvisational fundamentals – Rock/Blues/Jazz/Country
- Beginner to Intermediate jazz tunes comping and improvising
My approach to lessons is simple and fun. I will answer any question you may have while explaining the concepts behind it. This will help you develop your own style and personal voice on the guitar. If you know specifically what you would like to study, we can work together to get you up and running in a very short amount of time.
All my lessons are 45 min long and are offered either on-premises at my studio, or online via video conferencing Skype, FaceTime, or Zoom.
Can’t you just learn from Youtube? Sure you can. But you will have to waste tons of time sorting though videos that don’t have what you want. A teacher can cut that time in half.
For a limited time I will be offering one free lesson to anyone interested please mention this in your message to me.
