Private Blues Guitar tutoring lessons Merritt Island, FL.

Electric, Acoustic, Slide? What language does your soul speak? There are folks that play the blues professionally six nights a week and have for the last 50-plus years. While there are many exceptions to the rule, a majority of Blues songs use but three chords. Often these same three chords are played in the same order....song after song.... night after night.. Seems like it would get boring right? NO WAY!

The Blues is its owe musical beast! Born of the human body; vocals, stomps, claps, early Blues musicians took the strongest chordal resolve of Western Classical Music, the "five to one" (a G chord resolving to a C chord for instance), and built an entire musical mentality around it. Borrowing 'what you want' from Classical music and adding syncopation or 'emphasis on weak beats' (tap quarter notes to "Who Do You Love?" by Bo Diddley. Notice that only the first and last notes of the riff hit with your tapping, the rest are 'syncopated') makes for a freedom of expression never ...

A full understanding of Bass Guitar fundamentals is taught, while learning to play in a real time studio and public environment. The student will perform with other musicians while learning songwriting techniques.

Learn proper technique, how to read sheet music and guitar tabs, how to play scales and chords, music theory, and more!

Hello! Learning to play an instrument can change your life. Whether its by learning a song to play for someone you love, finding a creative outlet after a long day, or mastering the solo of your favorite artist, the guitar can quite literally lead you to a better state of being. Let me be your guide on the incredible journey of learning music, and together we'll empower the future!

We will study the 12 bar blues progression, it's many variations and how to comp, chord, and solo over theses progressions. We will also cover technique and tone as needed.

Rapid results. . .

With both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in music, and decades-long expertise in both classical, folk & many styles inbetween, I can equip the student with excellent technique and help them avoid the many pitfalls of unskilled, self-taught guitar-performers, who, alas, comprise most of the present on- and off-line teachers. The student will learn how to hold, position and play the guitar without needless stress, hunched spine, or dysfunctional habits which can slow down a student's progress by light years.

The student's hearing is trained intensively and with it the ability to transpose music from recordings onto the fretboard, even without the aid of tablature or notated sheet music.

Finally, the student will learn, quickly and virtually painlessly, how to read and write music notation, as well as how to begin composing original pieces and songs.

One such semester will be worth more than a year of bad teaching, or of misguided self-efforts - guaranteed!