Private Classical Guitar tutoring lessons Baltimore, MD.

Classical guitar is warm, rich, and beautifully complex. It is a self-contained artform which needs no accompaniment. Classical guitar music is instantly gratifying, even at the beginner level. To unlock your highest potential, I'll help you learn proper picking as well as fret hand technique, sight reading, music theory, and fretboard logic. We will also study and learn chord voicings, voice leading, ear training, and sight-singing.

My teaching style is friendly, patient, and inclusive. I believe in a well rounded teaching approach through reading, as well as learning to play by ear.
I prefer to use these books for reading and developing good technique:

Aaron Shearer Classic Guitar Method vol. 1 and 2
Classical Guitar Duets: Charles Duncan
Franz Wohlfahrt Violin Etudes: 60 Studies
Frederick Noad Classical Guitar Technique, vol. 1 and 2
Matteo Carcassi: 25 Melodic And Progressive Studies
Andres Segovia: Twenty Studies For Guitar
Giuliani's 120 Studies For Right ...

I combine the styles of music that you prefer with some kind of method book for reading and theory. No purchasing of music is required. Normal lessons start with the previously assigned material, determining what we need to work on, new material, and ending with things to do at home.

Based on my experience as a working professional guitarist and music educator, with extensive experience touring in the U.S. and Europe, I have come to believe that every student has the ability to rapidly grow and flourish into an accomplished guitar player. The trick is to find the type of music that the student is most excited about playing, and then to teach them the basic skills they will need to play in that style. I always do this through a combination of working with students to learn the songs or pieces they love, and teaching them some of the underlying principles of music theory and instrumental style that define that genre of music. Through this process, I want to ensure that students acquire a skill set that allows them to continue teaching themselves, even outside of our lessons, learning new songs by ear, and even writing their own music using the techniques we practice in lessons. I make a point of ensuring that, after every lesson, my students come away with a new ...

I’ve been playing guitar professionally and teaching for over 20 years. I started taking piano lessons from the age of 5 because I could match songs that were playing on the radio before even touching a piano yet. I can translate the similarities between guitar and piano to teach students much more easily.

Refined and more studious, the classical guitar brings romance and class to any player.

From beginner melodies using rest stroke to advanced chord melody players welcome.