Guitar with CHRISTOPHER V.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE * Basic Electric Guitar technique * Music Theory (harmony/melody, chord/scale construction, intervals, rhythms, arpeggios, altered chords) * Stylized techniques (tapping, picking, legato, riffs) * Stylized blues techniques (bending, turnarounds, dom7 chords, slide) * Stylized shred techniques (economy/sweep picking, alternate picking, harmonic minor, dominant phrygian, diminished, harmonized lines, string skipping, etc) * Stylized rock techniques (drop tunings, open tunings, grunge/nu-metal, ska, reggae) * Basic Jazz/Fusion (ii-V-I, modes, odd-time signatures) * Music as an Art (not technique, but concepts in music, music history, classical, jazz) * Ear Training (intervals, harmony, learn songs with no guitar on hand) * Basic Reading (chord charts/symbols, notation, rhythms) * Songs (transcribing, learning by ear, tab, writing your own) * Being in a Band (live performance, singing/playing, stage presence, dealing with band members, rehearsals) * Gear (guitars, amps, pedals, effects processors)