Daniel Z
Instruments: Guitar, Conga, Latin Percussion, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Pop, Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, R&B, Gospel, Latin, Funk, Hip Hop, Salsa, Showtunes, Spirituals, Reggae, Merengue, Swing, New Age, Samba, Bossa Nova, Soul, Marching Band, Punk, Mariachi
Daniel Z
Instruments: Guitar, Conga, Latin Percussion, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles:
Pop, Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, R&B, Gospel, Latin, Funk, Hip Hop, Salsa, Showtunes, Spirituals, Reggae, Merengue, Swing, New Age, Samba, Bossa Nova, Soul, Marching Band, Punk, Mariachi
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 5-80
Undergraduate, Berklee College of Music, Contemporary Writing and Production
My name is Daniel M. I'm originally from Valparaiso Chile, I study composition in Berklee College of Music with guitar as my principal instrument. I focus mainly on funk, rock, blues and a a big amount of Latin rhythms (Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia Bachata, etc). Im living currently in Roxbury and im willing to travel if my students can't arrive to my house. I've been teaching guitar for 8 years with great reviews from the beginning since i was playing in school bands so that encouraged me to pursue it as a career from an early stage of my life (16 years old) and i've always had a big passion for the academic world as a hole and i've always seen college as an intellectual hub that i wanted to be a part of.
My teaching experience started when i was 16 years old and i was known as a rock guitar player around the school when all the sudden i had friends of mine approach me asking for lessons, i started teaching beginner lessons since it was an area i could master easily and i also wanted to get in touch with what being a teacher was in the first place. As i grew older and gained more experience on the matter i started teaching for complex and in depth classes that even went beyond guitar like techniques in popular composition and how to orchestrate for different styles of music (Swing, Latin, Baroque, etc) and now im currently in my last year of college studying composition and production in Berklee in order to work as a performer, composer and academic.
Individual classes are always going to become personalized since thats the time when you can really focus on your own goals which pretty much vary as much as people do so i would have to say that my approach would depend on what the student wants to get out of the instrument and what he/she wants to learn. An understanding of the fundamentals is usually wise so i always encourage the students to take a more dogmatic approach to the instrument since thats what has worked for me, now being that said it would't be the first or last time that we see a guitar player master his instrument by ear like we've seen with greats like Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson and B.B King so to restrain a student from a more popular approach would be naive and time has taught me to mingle in both styles of learning since either way it is required a lot of discipline and practice.
Again like i said before my style would have to be personalized, of course it is always good to take things gradually, if there's something that really made Berklee stand out from other colleges is that it has a really gradual approach to really complex subjects for example if you wanted to learn Jazz in other schools you would be required to know a lot about Jazz harmony beforehand in order to proceed with the classes but in Berklee you can really start from point 0 which is a method that schools around the world have been copying for decades.
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