Private, In-Home Guitar Lessons

I offer In-home guitar lessons that run for 30 or 60 minutes depending on the needs of the students. I offer Guitar (acoustic and electric), Bass, Mandolin, and Ukulele lessons in most any style requested.

In all guitar lessons, I teach six essential components of playing guitar:

* Campfire songs: If you’re going to learn acoustic guitar, you want to be able to play music that people can recognize and sing along to around the campfire—because that’s cool! I focus on teaching my students how to do that so they can experience the joy of playing for their friends and family.

* Skill & endurance exercises: I teach specific exercises that I use to build up strength in the fingers so students can play faster and with more skill as time goes on. Practicing these exercises consistently can be a bit boring but they help a lot and you’ll see great improvements as a result.

* General soloing: Depending on a student’s skill level, there may be interest in learning how to improves. I teach the scales, how notes respond to one another and fit with chords, how to transition from one chord to another, and how to steal from other players to create your own sound.

* Performance skills: Performing is very different from playing guitar for your friends. I teach basic performance skills that make performing more comfortable and help you give the best performance possible.

* Recording: Creating your own music is a treasure that most people believe is out of their hands and nearly impossible to break into. That is wrong, all you need is your phone and the will to create.

* Theory: From day one of a beginner level in-home guitar lesson or in-studio lesson, I teach basic theory and ear training. Some people will not want to learn more advanced theory, but understanding the basics will help everyone learn the music they wanna play much faster.