Private Classical Guitar tutoring lessons Alpine, UT.

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

From Renaissance to Beatles.

I have been teaching Classical guitar for 50 years. I've played classical guitar in theater productions and for weddings and formal dinners. I teach from the great progressive Suzuki method and then beyond to the great classical pieces from the renisaunce on through to the contemporary. Along with the pieces, we study scales and chord theory. For those who love the classical music, this is a fun energy packed study that moves at the peak of your pace. You will love it.

I use a really fun and fast approach to getting any student to the next level by improving their technique and tone, increasing their fret board knowledge, and expanding their repertoire. 26 years experience teaching beginner to university and professional level students.

Classical guitar is perfect for the beginner as well as for more seasoned players wanting to expand their musical abilities.

I hold a Masters Degree in Music, am a certified North Carolina Teacher, and have been playing the guitar for the past 15 years. We will figure out at what level you are currently playing within the first lessons and then decide together what you want to focus on. This is YOUR lesson, and I am here to guide you down the path that you choose.

Lessons will be based on what YOU want to learn! Together, we will articulate these goals and create a curriculum to achieve them. Lessons and practicing should be fun, and my experience of teaching many many different students taught me that structured and goal oriented practice is necessary in order to play the music you want to learn.
Your part is to bring up this effort and practice regularly.
My part is to help you learn HOW to practice and master the instrument with proper technique.

My method of teaching starts with the assessment of where the student's current level of comfort with the instrument is. After that, we go over the students goals and the most efficient ways to achieve them! The exercises are concise and will incrementally get more difficult, as to not overwhelm the student. Often times, aspiring musicians will get bored from practicing nonmusical exercises or they will become frustrated from attempting to play pieces that are above their skill level. The way I combat this is to put the emphasis on PLAYING! Practicing will always be incredibly important, but if you're not having fun, then what's the point?!

Learn about classical right hand technique, legato, arpeggios, repertoire... .

A few blocks from the ocean Simon keeps busy teaching and performing, often with his longest-running band, Simon and the Bar Sinisters, a stalwart of New York bars since 1991. Mr. Chardiet’s style runs from surf guitar to blues to rockabilly, not to mention punk and bebop.

Mr. Chardiet said he began playing in bars at age 14 and fell in with the Lower East Side punk and rock scene, often working as a bike messenger to scrape by.

“I did everything on the street level,” he said in his apartment as his cat — a stray that Mr. Chardiet adopted and named Dee Dee, after the Ramones’ bassist, Dee Dee Ramone — strolled through. Mr. Chardiet recalled jamming with Mr. Ramone, as well as with many other prominent rockers.

Mr. Chardiet has lived all over this town, from the Lower East Side to Williamsburg to Bushwick, always trying to keep a step ahead of the gentrification, he said.

He began surfing as a youngster after finding a board in the trash on Long Island. He would often surf in the ...