Each year, I take on a limited number of beginning and intermediate guitar students for weekly or biweekly in-person lessons. Students have ranged in age from 8 to 70+.

 

You could be picking up the guitar for the first time, or just be ready to move beyond those first months (or years!) of being stalled out on the basics. Either way, there's no better time than now to make music a bigger part of your life.

All lessons are designed and paced according to each student’s age, skill level, and time commitment.
 

Here are some of the skills and knowledge I frequently teach beginners:

• The care and feeding of your instrument
• Chords (Open and Barre)
• Chord Progressions
• Strumming Patterns
• Playing up, down, and across your fretboard
• Hybrid picking technique
• The proper uses of the capo

• The basics of solo design
• Key selection (to suit your vocal range)
• Quick tips for learning songs
• Learn songs you want to play
• How to develop your own style and interpretive flair
• Becoming a confident vocalist
• Performance-proofing your songs for the stage
• Most genres: rock, folk, Americana, blues, pop, alternative

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Rates:

$40 for one 30-minute lesson

$140 for four 30-minute lessons (paid in advance)

$65 for one 50-minute lesson

$235 for four 50-minute lessons (paid in advance)