Guitar Lessons in Glenwood, NY

Instruments: Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar

My teaching experience Began in 1986, when my own private teacher began giving me his younger beginning students to coach as his popularity and demand increased. In 1994, I relocated to Charlotte NC and worked as a Theater and concert lighting rigger, and in 1998 attended Luthiers International Guitar Repair and Building school and went to work as a full-time Luthier, serving the Charlotte Metro area's finest musicians and teaching 8 apprenticed who all ended up in the business. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar

For all students, I begin with asking them to show me what they already know, and to explain to me where they want to take their playing and what their goals for the future are. I then design a curriculum unique to each student's interests and needs to keep them engaged and having fun. For beginner students I like to emphasize fundamentals through playing simple and recognizable chords and riffs instead of only focusing on exercises, which can makes students bored and discourage them. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Voice Bass Guitar

I have experience in rock, pop, metal, blues, funk and country when it comes to bass guitar and can teach beginner to advanced bass. I teach beginner to intermediate guitar and also beginner to intermediate voice. I have taught for over ten years now. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Electric Guitar Classical Guitar

For younger students I employ the Suzuki Method which comprises a series of books and particular approach to teaching that I've found to be quite effective. The books provide a very well thought out sequence of pieces that help the student learn all of the necessary skills to play the guitar in the context of actual music rather than abstract exercises, and the method encourages a lot of parental involvement which helps to make at home practice (the most important part of learning any instrument) much more effective. Read More

Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Bass Guitar Ukulele Conga Latin Percussion Keyboard Electric Guitar Djembe Acoustic Guitar

To reiterate, nothing is more rewarding than to see one of my students naturally develop with the tools they already have. I encourage musical exploration and to see my students retain the fundamentals and advanced technique I teach in my lessons. Every student is different, with different comforts, and different predilections. I believe in strengthening what is lacking, or better yet, holding a student back from being the musician they dream to be. Read More

Instruments: Guitar Electric Guitar Classical Guitar

I've always loved the art of music and how it's a language that anyone can relate too. That is what motivated me to get a degree in Performing arts, with the focus on classical guitar. Preforming and teaching has been one the most gratifying experience of my career. I've had the opportunity to play in Europe and all over the United States. But, teach is my true passion and the excitement when a student is excelling can't not me matched. Read More

Instruments: Guitar

From ~1998 to 2009 I studied under Jason Beaudreau starting at Jackson Music on Grand Island, NY and ending at the Guitar Woodshed in Niagara Falls, NY.  In 2006 I began my academic life at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY. During that time I had "worked my way up", so to speak, to teaching at the Guitar Woodshed under Jason until I moved to New Paltz, NY in the fall of 2009. Read More