Private Lessons

Thanks for your interest in online guitar lessons with me! I love helping people around the world to achieve their goals on the instrument and have fun along the way.

A majority of people who come to me have been playing for a number of years and feel stuck in a rut. They feel like they have are playing the same thing and never improving, overwhelmed by the amount of information available and have no idea where to start or how to work through that information. Many students have never had a teacher with a lesson plan.

I divide lessons into three parts:

1. Repertoire - Building repertoire is essential for every musician regardless of genre. It’s important because not only do we learn more songs to be able to perform, we are building the necessary skills of time, groove, technique, and confidence. We’ll work through classic blues and blues rock tunes that you can use right away and play them from start to finish.

2. Technique and Applied Theory - Understanding basic theory is a must for any player and generally not that difficult. It is the application of that theory to the fingerboard that people find most challenging. I will work with you to help open up the neck to you and in turn expand your freedom on the instrument. We’ll do all of this by learning scales, chords, triads, and more. Any concept we discuss I will give you a way to immediately start to apply it. I feel that is essential.

3. Vocabulary - Music is a language. Like any language it’s important to learn phrases and ideas to speak fluently, music is the same. We’ll work on building your lick vocabulary and learn solos from some of the greats. The end goal is for you to be able to play fluently in any situation.

By combining these three concepts we will cover all the skills you need to move you to the next level in your playing. I strive to make lessons fun and educational.

The platform I use is www.zoom.us. I choose Zoom because it has clear audio and video quality, it is cross platform, easy document transfer, simple scheduling, and you can record the lessons and keep them on your computer.

Please use the contact from for rates and available times.

Thanks,

Jeff