Lessons

I am available for online and in-person lessons. My online teaching rate is $50 per hour, and my in-person teaching rate is $60 per hour. If you can't afford this but would still like lessons, please contact me and we can try to work something out. 

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My approach is based on the goals of each individual student. I always ask students what their skill level is and what their goals are, and I use that information to create the right lesson for each person. I try to keep everything relevant to every student's personal goals, and I am never bothered if someone doesn't like something or wants to do things differently. In other words, every student is the captain of their own ship, and I am just an advisor helping to guide them on their way to a better understanding of the guitar. There is no judgement here!

Below is a list of some subjects I can cover. This isn't an all-inclusive list, just an example of the possibilities:

•Knowledge of the notes on the fretboard

•Scales (Major, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Pentatonic, Modes, etc)

•Scale shapes (three note per string, CAGED positions, and single string)

•How to practice and use scales

•Improvisation

•Chords (All types and qualities)

•Chord voicings

 

•Chord scales (Major, Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Modal, etc)

•How to practice and use chords

•Recognizing chord names and reading chord charts

•Modes

•The Circle of Fourths/Fifths

•Arpeggios

•Intervals

•Songs/specific styles

•Various levels of techniques including basic fretting and strumming to more advanced techniques such as alternate picking, bending, vibrato, hammer ons/pull offs/legato, and ascending sweep picking

•Basic standard notation