Name: Chord Strumming and Picking
Uploaded: 2023-12-18T00:54:55.311Z
Duration: 21 s
Description: Great rhythm guitar playing is essential for all styles of music and it's one of my favorite subjects to focus on!

Great rhythm guitar playing is essential for all styles of music and it's one of my favorite subjects to focus on!

Guitar

Hi.
I'm Eric and I give online guitar lessons from my home studio in Chicago, IL!

I specialize in working with beginners of any age as well as intermediate and advanced students who are interested in taking their playing to the next level. 

Chord Strumming and Picking

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Best little shop in the burbs. This place was my stomping ground as a kid and I was honored to serve them as a full time instructor for more than ten years. I even managed a 'Rock University' program there for young musicians to jam after school!

Music Instructor

This is my private studio in Elgin, IL. It's my home away from home. My studio is probably one of the best outfitted private lesson studios in the area. I keep tons of instruments on hand. Multiple guitars, basses, mandolins, ukes, etc! I also like to keep an electronic drum set and piano set up there for when students want to learn on a new instrument. It has a fully functional recording studio so we have a lot of fun recording students lessons for them to take home. my studio is my favorite place to be and I think you'll have fun there too!

Owner

Back in 2008 there was a nasty rumor going around Chicago that I was friendly, knew how to play well, and was rarely late for a gig...so I got a call to do work on probably the biggest theater production country at the time! What a blast. I got to play with...and make some mistakes in front of the best players in the entire region. The 17 shows I played are some of my fondest musical memories.

Swing Musician on Guitar, Drums, and Mandolin

What a fun gig. I don't take a lot of theater gigs on bass but I just HAD to take this one because the material is really fun to play and I really wanted to get a selfie with the big talking plant at the end of the show! Joey Z was my musical director and he's probably my favorite person to be conducted by!

Bass Guitar

This one has a funny story behind it. Hands on a Hardbody is a two guitar show. I was assigned guitar book 2 but was mailed guitar book 1 by mistake. I didn't find out until I met the other guitar player and we were both confused why we had the same book. Turns out guitar book 2 is all slide guitar, dobro and pedal steel and other 'country' type guitar parts. Being someone who doesn't know how to play a lick of pedal steel, I naturally panicked.

I adapted all the pedal steel to my electric as best I could. I learned to play a dobro properly and built my own lapsteel guitar specifically for the gig. Between the last minute scrambling to master an instrument I've never played and the experience of building my own lapsteel guitar I think it's safe to say this gig as a kooky, unusual and awesome place in my heart.

Guitar/Slide/ Dobro Chair

Word to Your Mother is the best 90's tribute band around. I was their go-to bass sub for years and now I play for them as a full time member. It's a great show that's suitable for all ages and plays all your favorite hits from your favorite decade.

Bass Player

A 'jobber' is a musician who pays his bills by taking any gig he can. It's kind of romantic if you ask me... The jobber gets a call when a regular band member can't make the gig. You call him because he's really good and can adapt to any style and is easy to get along with. He's a musicians' musician. One night he's playing jazz in a smokey club and the next he's playing Lady Gaga cover tunes for a corporate event. He slips in, plays like a champ, gets his check and slips back into the night, only to resurface for the next gig. 

I am a jobber. Do you need a jazz player to sit in with a saxophonist for cocktail hour at your wedding? You hire me. Do you need someone to learn a hundred 80's pop tunes for a last minute retro gig? You still need me. Are you a rap artist from the South side who needs someone to play funky drums at a club in the city? ...yep...I'm still your guy.

Much of my performing work is of the 'jobbing' variety. I am a musical gun for hire and as a result I've played tons of gigs on every end of the musical spectrum. The list is long and not worth listing here but let's just say I've gigged pretty much every instrument and every style apart from brass/wind/and orchestral strings.

'Jobber'

We just wrapped this show in August. I played the guitar chair with some amazing musicians by my side. The show is a jukebox musical featuring female fronted pop songs from the 60s. It was a blast to play. I always love working with the crew at the Raue Center. I've uploaded some pics from the show below.

Lead Guitar Chair for Beehive: The 60's Musical

Last year I joined the one of the hippest bands in the midwest, the Tripping Billies. It's a Dave Matthews tribute band. They send me around the country playing a ton of really great tunes and I get to play with some amazing musicians!

Lead Guitar Player

English

Hi. I'm Eric. I've been a full time performer and music educator my entire adult life.  My heart is in jazz but most of my pro work is in pop/rock/blues. I have experience with and am confident in teaching any style of music on guitar or bass. Like any good music educator, my teaching methods are goal-based and properly graded. Students can expect a fun, enriching musical learning experience at any skill level. I love helping get beginners started with the language of music just as much as I love teaching advanced students the skills the pros use. I'm comfortable teaching children as well as adults and have experience working with students with special needs.

He did a good job making guitar interesting.

My son is thrilled. Eric was friendly, funny and patient. Josh is so excited for his next lesson.

I met with Eric at his studio in Elgin, and he was extremely friendly and welcoming. He gave me a very good and informational lesson on some specific musical questions I had about progressing in my saxophone career. He gave me specific instructions on places to visit, useful websites, and names of people. This information may seem trivial, but I was at a personal stopping point on some issues, and Eric provided the tools for me to continue. I highly recommend Eric to anyone looking to learn what it means to be a professional.

Great teacher. He is knowledgeable and patient with kids.

Great instructor if you ever need lessons you should definitely call him!

He is very patient with my beginner teen student.  He also knows how to make the lesson fun by having them learn simple songs they know right away.  Keeps them interested.

Eric teaches my 9 year old daughter who can sometimes lose focus.  She is just learning (six weeks in) and he's been great about teaching her fun songs she knows and now he's progressed into teaching her to read music.  He's great about balancing the fun with the learning to keep her engaged!  I'm learning things too!

Eric is very enthusiastic and does a great job of building his lessons around the student's music interest.

Very comfortable atmosphere, Eric listened and tailored lessons to my needs

Taking lessons with Eric is awesome. He shows me how to play my favorite songs but he also shows me how to understand  the music theory behind the songs. This makes learning songs so much easier. Eric always finds a way to keep me learning the things I SHOULD know while teaching me the stuff I WANT to know.

Lessons with Eric provided me with the tools I needed to become a more complete musician – not just a better guitarist. In broad strokes, I read music, developed a much better ear, learned how to construct chords, got exposure to the Real Book, possessed a nice repertoire of scales, and could tackle songs without the assistance of tabs after taking lessons from Eric for a few years. The structure of each lesson built on previous material and can be presented at any pace; Eric's attention to detail makes sure every student masters the material to the best of his or her ability before moving on to a more advanced topic, which helps ensure legitimate progress is made lesson-to-lesson. Eric's emphasis on music theory and jazz allowed me to pick up the piano rather easily, and dynamic lessons where he got behind a drum kit to teach me odd time signatures helped me develop a fantastic sense of timing and the confidence to sit behind the drums as well.

Advanced rhythm guitar and soloing techniques.

Heavy Metal/ Shred

Rhythm guitar is the backbone of a good hard rock n roll song. 

Hard Rock Riffs and Rhythm Guitar

I love teaching blues and improvisation. 

Eric J.

Chord Strumming and Picking

Eric's Guitar videos

Heavy Metal/ Shred

Hard Rock Riffs and Rhythm Guitar

Chord Strumming and Picking

Blues Guitar and Soloing

Teacher Reviews (13)

Book online lesson

Orange Colored Sky- Nat King Cole tutorial

Rest-stroke Picking

How To Play The Blues!

Play The C Major Scale!

Harmonic Minor Scale on Electric Guitar

Honesty

Pull off's, Hammer on's, and open strings

BLueSY PiCK & FiNGeRPiCKiNG

Warm up with "call and response" improvisation.

Teaching Introduction

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