Guitar with Brett R.

MUSIC INSTRUCTION AND ENJOYMENT ARE OFFERED. Very enthusiastic and experienced musician available for instruction offering the following: # In-depth written music theory coupled with an equivalent of ear training and tone recognition # Introduction to performance skills with instruments that include: Guitar - electric & acoustic scale and riff patterns, chord shapes and progressions, picking and strumming patterns, learning songs and song-writing. Drum Kit and percussion rhythms snare rudiments, basic kick,snare,hi-hat beats, learning full drum parts. Piano/Keyboard scale and chord structures, finger exercises, ear-training, learning complete piano pieces # Group lessons or private instruction, depending on personal preferences and age groups Personal experience includes: 1) 25 years of GUITAR: professional performance and composition. Styles include rock, folk, blues, chord progressions, and alternate tuning. 2) 20 years of DRUMS and PERCUSSION: Latin, swing, blues, as well as rock, funk, punk, and reduced top forty beats. 3) 25 years of PIANO: which utilize several years of personal instruction in classical, popular, and some ragtime, in addition to an intimate knowledge of Piano Proficiency (scales & modes, chord structures & inversions, common chord progressions, intervals, circle of 5th, and finger exercises) 4) 2 years of MUSIC THEORY and COMPOSITION at the college level. Lessons will include additional materials to the primary instrument such as sheet music for sight-reading, rhythm patterns, tablatures, and chord charts. ***Above all, I encourage students to select those pieces, tunes, or songs that have appealed to them the most; perhaps even inspiring them to learn a musical instrument in the first place. Adaptations are a common and enjoyable part of the teaching process. *** Lesson Details *** Expect efforts, on my part, to steer learning into areas of the student's particular interest as well as conventional genres such as classical, popular, folk, blues, etc... Moreover, I rely on ear training as a strong complement to written music theory and sight-reading; often using recorded music samples or simple patterns on a piano. I try to balance method-type published lesson books with beginner, intermediate, or original composition sheet music to specifically selected pieces. Ideally, with a reasonable practice schedule each week, full comprehension of the written music grand staff and an ear to catch a false note will become second nature. By then, more opportunities to learn actual pieces and styles become greater, having got the initial learning curve under the student's belt. *** Studio Equipment *** *snare drum *electronic keyboard/piano *** Travel Equipment *** lesson material/music media samples can be provided for copy the student should have their own instrument *** Specialties *** Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Drums, Percussion, Music Theory fingerpicking styles and chord progressions - guitar lead and rhythm patterns - electric guitar Latin, blues, rock, jazz styles - drum kit & percussion classical & popular tunes - piano/keyboard