David S
Instruments: Guitar, Voice, Music, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, R&B, Electronic, Showtunes, New Age, Bossa Nova, Soul, Punk
David S
Instruments: Guitar, Voice, Music, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles:
Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, R&B, Electronic, Showtunes, New Age, Bossa Nova, Soul, Punk
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 6-80
Bachelor Degree: Berklee College of Music
Lee Ritenour Six String Theory Competition Finalist
Top of Berklee Dean's List
I've been playing and studying the art of guitar since I was 14. In 2012, I began teaching private guitar lessons teaching basic theory, technique, songwriting, and approach to improv. I began pursuing my musical career more thoroughly after getting admitted into Berklee College of Music in 2018. I graduated on May 8th, 2021 and ever since then I've been getting involved performing in conventions and collaborating with fellow musicians from across the globe. I recently moved back to San Angelo and hope to share my passion, skills set, and everything I learned throughout my musical journey in hopes that other aspiring musicians can implement it into their own career.
As stated before, I began teaching as a private guitar instructor from 2012 to early 2018. Students' age ranged from 8 to 32 year olds. I taught basic music theory from intervallic relations between certain notes via guitar fretboard to the clear understanding of triads and scales. Mainly Ionian and all its other modes. Plus 12 or 16 bar blues, soloing concepts, covering songs while understanding the written development from a melodic and harmonic standpoint. And of course becoming familiar with all the notes on the fretboard and being able to sight read standard sheet must notation and chord charts.
For students who are just beginning to learn guitar, aside from teaching said students how to properly hold the guitar, I provide fun single note exercises from open and first position to help them get comfortable with the top of the neck. Also teaching the students different parts/sections of the guitar (example pickups, body, neck, fretboard, nut, etc. For more advanced students I assess their skills and playability to see what they know or don't know and then work from there. Example, introduction to triad inversions both closed and spread voicings, harmonic considerations for improv, forms of comping, etc.
Dedication, perseverance, preparation, and practice always pay off as long as you're using the correct methods for practicing, staying in time and being consistent. I'm not the kind of teacher who gets angry if the student didn't practice the homework or lesson material they were given. What matters is the students being able to get a general idea and understanding of the lesson where they can continue moving forward in their musical/artistic career and possibly apply what they learned in their own journey.
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