Duquesne, PA Blues Guitar Lessons

I tailor all my lessons to the individual students interests and wants.
Whatever your goals are, I'll help you get there.

Basic out line of blues guitar approach touching on the I IV V progression and pentatonic scales to play lead lines, solos and melodies. Heavy investigation of note bending, breathing and space. Learning to let the notes "breath" and speak is key to good blues.

We will study the great blues guitarists in order to absorb the most from their playing. I will teach you various approaches and techniques as well as exercises that will help you improve. I will also provide backing tracks, pdf and printed material as well as some suggested listening.

Blues chords, rhythms, scales, licks, bends, slides, pull-offs, hammer-ons, bottleneck slide tunings and basic licks

Steel string, Spanish and electric

I've been teaching and playing professionally in many countries as well as the US. I know how to see what the student needs to advance their playing. I offer expertise in several types of guitar playing from folk finger picking to blues, country and city styles as well as soul and funky grooves and how to practically apply what you learn both with bands and solo. I am passionate about music and love to convey that enthusiasm to my students as learning should be first and foremost fun and a joyful experience. Besides live lessons I also give 30,45 online lessons.

My name is Robert, most call me Rob for short! I’ve been teaching independently for 5 plus years now. I teach all ages and styles of the the instrument. All of my students always leave satisfied and eager to learn more!

I have been an active performing musician in Pittsburgh for over ten years now. I am extremely versatile and have played in many varying styles of bands. I am not strict on a specific way to learn the different aspects of playing the guitar. There are many ways to approach the proper way to play whatever songs or styles you gravitate towards. I am well versed in blues, rock, metal, jazz, country, and folk styles. I am currently studying music composition at University of Pittsburgh, while at the same time playing in an original Punk/Metal band and the Pitt small Jazz ensemble. Whatever it is you are trying to learn on the guitar I can provide with the proper information and explanations to help you get there.

I have been a guitarist for the past 5 years, becoming well versed in Rock, Funk, Blues, Jazz, Indie, pop, disco, country, and folk styles. I also offer the tools to students to not only learn the material I present to them well but also be able to teach themself through the use of ear training and exposure to many different types of musical situations. This will allow an outlet for the student to not only be playing the songs they’re learning(good way to keep the student Interested) but also gives them exsposure to real life playing situations! I also cater to the tastes of the student and will help them learn the styles they are interested in as well as exposing them to new types of music.