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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Guitar lessons in Mission Viejo . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I try to adapt my teaching style to however I see the student (or peer) is most effective in learning. Some people are more chart based, and like the bars written out in time so they can follow it in a more technical manner. Some have a hard time reading music, so they go off of feel. This is more of an intuitive approach to learning. Both are fine for me, but depending on how the student is, one may be better than the other. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Bass Guitar Harmonica Banjo Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I use Alfreds guitar method books for guitar and bass. Piano I use the Bastian and others. I teach from both my song books, and by thier cd or audio tracks. I teach each student individually and move them forward to performance level. I teach how to read music and music ear training. Theory training is also available at lessons as needed. Once I get the student past the basics on to intermediate level, I can listen to cd or audio recordings and reproduce the instrumental part on the spot. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar
Since an early age I have had mentors and teachers show me by example how important music education is to preserving culture. I have been teaching for five years, first teaching middle school students at music summer camps in New Orleans like the New Jazz School. After graduating from Loyola University I opened a guitar studio, teaching all ages and talent levels. I also taught guitar and piano lessons to students (5-50) at the New Orleans Music Academy. Read More
Instruments: Guitar
One of the most popular instruments of our today musical world is guitar but it is not an easy instrument to play at the advance level. I actively taught classical guitar in some of the top music institutes in Spain from 2005 to 2014 up until relocating to California. I have learned through experience that many students have difficulty getting started with effective practicing. I have made this my essential goal to help them be more motivated towards this task. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Drums Bass Guitar Ukulele Recorder Conga Music Keyboard Acoustic Guitar
I've had the opportunity to teach Ensemble music in a High school for students between 12-16 years old. Also did master classes for adults looking into genres like Boleros, Vals and Classical Music (Nylon Guitar). I've had 50= students doing private lessons with me and couldn't be happier of the results that they made with me. I've also found that a combination of classical and modern music can go a long way in helping students enjoy the piano and motivate them to practice and continue to learn. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Flute Bass Guitar Music Keyboard
It is important for me that the student is motivated and enjoys the lesson since they have to keep loving playing and practicing at home everyday to be able to progress properly. Learning music as learning anything is about exploration and repetition. Once you understand something you have to be able to do it correctly a few times before moving on. This can only be achieved if there is a certain amount of practicing involved. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Violin Cello Viola Trumpet Trombone Saxophone Flute Clarinet Drums Bass Guitar Organ Synthesizer Harp Accordion Harmonica Lap Steel Guitar Banjo Ukulele Mandolin Recorder Lute Electric Violin Fiddle Double Bass Euphonium French Horn Tuba Piccolo Mallet Percussion Orchestral Percussion Shakuhachi Oboe Bassoon English Horn Conga Latin Percussion Keyboard Electric Guitar Djembe Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
Hello and thank you for having an interest in my teaching profile! My name is Derek, and I am a 24-year-old musician originally from Indiana. I am a passionate and motivated instructor and look forward to meeting you and sharing my love of music with you. I have been teaching students of all ages for 10 years now. If it would interest you, please take a minute to read my biography to find out more about me! Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Clarinet Bass Guitar Organ Ukulele Mandolin Recorder Double Bass Keyboard Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
What is your favorite style/genre of music to play and why?
This almost an impossible question as I enjoy playing in many genres.
I would have to say that I like best the contemporary Lutheran church music
that has roots in tradition and classical music but also allows me to incorporate all the genres I like such as European-American folk music as well as many world folk and ethnic musics.
I love bluegrass and old country-rock, Latin, soul, gospel, bossa nova, Western swing, polka and gypsy jazz and enjoy incorporating all of these, when appropriate, to service music.
If you play more than one instrument, how did you decide to start playing the second? (Or 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc)!
I added clarinet because I loved the sound and admired players such as Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Pete Fountain. The clarinet appeared, to me at age ten to be an instrument that fitted a variety of styles. At this point my goal was to be a college professor that played in the local orchestra and had a Dixieland jazz band on the side.
I added bass (double and electric) in high school because that would allow me to play in stage band.
Out of high school I added guitar so that I could accompany myself in singing.
Later adding mandolin, recorder, darbuka, tar and dobro because I love music instruments.
Does music run in your family? Tell us a little about your musical family members.
Yes, music runs in my family. On my father’s side my great-grandmother used to play piano for silent movies and my grandfather played violin and saxophone in a polka/dance band in Minnesota.
My grandmother on my mother’s side played piano for Sunday School and at around age sixty-five decided to learn to play guitar.
Both of my parents played music but only at a level for entertainment at home.
Some of the best times I remember is when all the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins would get together play music in association with holidays and family celebrations.
When did you decide to become a professional musician? Was it a gradual decision or was there a defining moment for you?
I avoided being a professional musician because, as my parents, grandfather and great-grandmother would say, “Music is a good hobby but not good work.”
So I tried other occupations until I was in my early thirties. At that time I had a series of crisis in my life that included an ending of a relationship two weeks before the wedding and my gardening business was failing.
At that point I was making enough as a bass player to support myself and so decided to be a professional musician. After making that decision I was offered a position as a church pianist and to teach at a local music store.
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