Guitar Lessons in Gilroy, CA

Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Synthesizer Keyboard Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

My style of teaching varies from student to student depending on age, development, and experience with their instrument. While there are some students that can easily be inspired by the idea of playing music, there are others that require a little more patience at first. Either way, it's important for me to understand how I need to adapt my style of teaching depending on the student in order to help them achieve realistic goals. Read More

Instruments: Piano Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

I said yes. I started lesson at 6 with a local teacher that would come around to all the kids in my neighborhood. I took lesson for 6 years and then went on to explore sports. At 18 I went back to my guitar and relearned by myself all the lessons I had gone through. I also started taking lesson at a local music store and I attended the college of San Mateo and took 4 semesters of Theory and musicianship. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar

My students generally comment that I am patient. I try to go at the right speed for the student, pushing them where it works but slowing down when needed. I'm very methodical and try to break things down to focus on the details so each piece of information is easily digestible and easy to grasp. Read More

Instruments: Piano Guitar Violin

I like to teach at the student's pace or what their parents have in mind. When I learned piano, my parents wanted me to learn at a high pace, and forced me to rush everything. As a result, I was able to play a lot of pieces, but the quality of the songs were not the best. I ended up slowing down and spent time to actually work on the tiny details of each song. Read More

Instruments: Guitar

Vitchevs artwork for Familiar Fields is impressionistic, haunting and autumnal, the same qualities that characterize his latest collection of tunes. The foursomes interplay is highly intricate, resulting in emotive tunes that wax and wane in intensity. Whether you call it post-bop or post-fusion, Vitchevs brand of jazz is passionate and ethereal. He has developed into a formidable guitarist and intelligent composer, and since hes only 32 years old, his best work may be yet to come. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar

My teaching experience began 2 years ago when I started teaching a few neighborhood kids that my family knew. By word of mouth I gained 3 more but then I moved to Santa Cruz so I could attend Cabrillo College. These were private lessons all in the homes of the students. But now that I have my own studio, I have been inviting students over to study in my studio. I have been playing guitar for 10 years beginning with professional lessons, electric bass for 7, and drums for 5. Read More

Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums Organ Accordion Recorder Conga Music Keyboard Djembe Acoustic Guitar

Having started on the accordion in 1964, I moved to drums in the late 60s because they were so much fun. My family were all singers and I learn to accompany them at a very early age, so piano became my most comfortable instrument. Throughout the 70s I played in bands and on stage as well as doing musical direction for theater companies throughout California. The late 70s and 80s I started a band in Los Angeles called Lt. Read More