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Guitar with Bele B.

Yonkers, New York

Teaches online
Teaches all skill levels
Age: 21-70
Speaks Spanish
Teaching since 1982
Film Scoring

    About Bele B.

    Bele lives in New York and started teaching private lessons in the 80s in Uruguay were a few of his students became instructors and session players themselves. Every year he travels back to give seminars and intensive lessons to select intermediate and advanced students. He is currently available to teach lessons online. Bele has helped students connect the natural impulse of the blues improvisation with the theory of music and composition and jazz performance since the early times of his career by mirroring his own chronological process of learning with his original method. Bele received his classical music training at the University School Of Music of Uruguay, toured in South America with famous artists before coming to the US. In 1990 attended UCLA program of Film Scoring. Bele's latest CD is called Dreamland Mechanism with Gary Husband and Lincoln Goines. He's also a member of the Prog-Rock band Circuline. With all of his worldly knowledge he looks forward to helping new students achieve their goals sooner than they expect. Bele's teaching style is extremely hands on with no gimmicks.

    Instructor details

    Location:
    Teaches Online
    Teaches Online

    Teaching Hours

    Monday
    7:30 AM-5 PM
    Tuesday
    7:30 AM-1 PM
    2 PM-5 PM
    Wednesday
    7:30 AM-5 PM
    Thursday
    7:30 AM-1 PM
    2 PM-4 PM
    Friday
    7:30 AM-5 PM
    Saturday
    7:30 AM-5 PM
    Sunday
    7:30 AM-5 PM
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    Pricing
    30 minutes
    $45
    60 minutes
    $80
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    Experience

    Music instructor

    Sep, 2017 - Present

    Guitar Center Lessons

    Teaching students of all ages, guitar, bass, ukelele, piano

    Guitar Instructor

    May, 2017 - Present

    Riverdale Country School

    Music instructor for Lower School after school program private lessons

    Education

    guitar, piano, composition

    Mar, 1978 - Nov, 1985

    Escuela Universitaria De Musica (Montevideo, Uruguay)

    Film Scoring

    Jan, 1991 - Dec, 1991

    U.C.L.A.

    Certifications

    Taught Masterclass

    Mar, 2005

    Escuela Universitaria de Música (Uruguay)

    Bele taught a masterclass of harmony, composition and improvisation to classical music students from the perspective of Jazz and popular music.

    Awards

    MOROSOLI award of Uruguayan Culture

    Dec, 2018

    Fundación Lolita Rubial

    Affiliations

    Broadcast Music Inc.

    May, 1990

    One of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. In FY 2013, BMI collected more than $944 million in licensing fees and distributed $814 million in royalties.

    Associated Musicians of Greater New York - Local 802

    Mar, 1996

    The Associated Musicians of Greater New York, American Federation of Musicians Local 802, is one of the largest local unions of professional musicians in the world. They unite to fight for the common interests of all musicians by advancing industry standards that dignify our labor and honor and enrich our art. They seek to organize a community of all musicians and aspiring musicians, and we reach out to all who share our interests and our passion. They are committed to upholding the integrity of live musical performance and to advancing the vital role of music in education, and in the economic, cultural and social life of our community and beyond. We advocate for economic and social justice for musicians and for society as a whole.

    Languages

    Spanish

    Native Proficiency

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