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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Guitar lessons in Oakland . 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 Voice
I have always loved music and have sung many kinds of music throughout my life from choral and musical theater to folk, jazz, and even opera. I learned to play several instruments along the way but came to playing guitar as my primary instrument because of its versatility and portability. My clear tenor voice led to my becoming a member of two nationally known folk groups that toured the U.S. and Japan. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums Bass Guitar Organ
It is important that each student progresses at their own pace with reasonable and realistic goals that they can reach. Acknowledging accomplishments helps fuel a students desire to achieve even greater challenges. My desire is to find what motives the student and create a curriculum that will refine them based on their desire. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Bass Guitar Synthesizer Music Keyboard Electric Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I Love teaching music, and love helping others progress on their musical journeys! I've played music for as long as I can remember, and spent my childhood learning just about every instrument I could get my hands on. As a young adult, I rigorously practiced piano and studied music theory, eventually writing an 80 page thesis analyzing jazz piano improvisation in college. Now, I like to spread my love of music by showing others how much joy it has brought to my life, and helping them to experience that same joy. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar
Flowing between the presentation of new information and the actual active playing music is very important to the way I conduct lessons. Especially for the young, I place much more emphasis on facilitating musical experiences rather than the integration of musical nomenclature and conceptualization. When we learn to speak, our ears guide us first, and we imitate. Writing and reading comes later. I've found that this pertains to music as well, if not even moreso. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
I'm a 20 year old college student from Austin, Texas. I'm currently studying at the world famous San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with a specialization in Classical Guitar Performance. Performing and teaching are my main passions with music, and I think its such an important aspect of what we musicians do. I was luckily able to have opportunities to open for Grammy nominated artists such as, Mak Grigic, and Nino de Pura. 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: Piano Guitar Keyboard Acoustic Guitar
My teaching style is one of deep listening to the student in their musical process, and from this creating the conditions for them to expand into new dimensions of musicality. I am an expert in creative process, and love working with students especially on songwriting, composition, electronic music production, and other such creative domains. In addition, my professional work is focused on a leading edge of musical education that is just emerging and beginning to be understood: developing the listening faculty as a pathway to musical excellence; for as the perceptual foci is polished, so does the sensori-motor engagement discover new possibilities. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Voice Ukulele Acoustic Guitar
Did you have a teacher that inspired you to go into music? How did they inspire you?
All through my childhood I was blessed with teachers and parent who encouraged me to try new things. I first got turned on to music when my second grade teacher said that the choir was going to travel to see a show on Broadway, so if, you wanted to go, you had to join the choir! Indeed, join I did--and here i am today, a music professional....
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Humans being what we are, HABIT can be a definite plus in advancing one's skill level--So I strongly recommend that students set up a disciplined--but realistic-- schedule of daily practice. Everyone's Circadian rhythm is different, so, to advocate for "Early Morning Practice "or "After Dinner Practice," would be assuming that I KNOW the rhythm of the student and their real-world life...But, that said, REGULARITY is imperative!
When will I start to see results?
Whether it is sports, or chess, or drama, whatever, so many activities that eventually end up giving us great joy depend upon a GRADUAL-- and not immediate-- acquiring of skills. It's hard for young people to get this concept--especially when they are so constantly bombarded with examples of "famous" youth who display what could appear to be an easy excellence--be it in sports or performance, or even appearance... That said my experience is that there is still a rationality in the minds of teens that realizes that NOTHING happens immediately! Helping a child understand the concept of GRADUAL advancement--and the curious reality that so often improvement can spike after a certain critical mass of skill has been acquired---is the key to a child'd willingness to hang in during the "pain" of the "no pain--no gain" reality...
How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
This is an important question, indeed! My answer is not meant to be evasive, but my 25 years of experience caution me to counsel parents to be NEITHER overly aggressive NOR overly permissive about their children taking lessons.
I can see a parent saying "Well, that vague answer is of no help!" I do understand!
What I mean is that any encouragement of a parent must be coming from a place of seeking the CHILD'S best interest, not the parent's...
Indeed, it is age-appropriate for children to be unsure of who they are, and what is in their actual beat interest--Maturity is the often painful process of defining such. ..
But EXPOSING children to the world of possibilities around them is indeed the purview of parents, and so I frequently recommend that parents frame the introduction of lessons as a "TRIAL" experience, where the child is invited to experience the possibility of such an exploration with an open mind for a brief series , and THEN an assessment of interest and actual potential can be made...
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Joseph
I am interested in guitar and drum lessons for my son (4 yrs old). He has both a Drum set and an Electric Guitar w/ Amp. Prefer in-home lessons. Reside in the Northeast.
Bruno
I just won a guitar so i want to learn how to play it, from christian songs to clasical rock. I dont know if i got what it takes but i will give it 100%
JONATHAN
I HAVE A 7 YEAR OLD CHILD WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR. HE HAS ONE AT HOME AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IT THEN SEE IT JUST SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM.