Acoustic Guitar Lessons Online
Maybe you’re self-taught?
Maybe you’ve been playing 5 years, and now you’re in a pickle?
I can help!
Maybe you’re a singer and all of your songs are sounding the same these days? It doesn’t take much-a few new chords, a new perception, and VOILA, a new sound for your listeners.
My Pledge To All Of My Online Guitar Students:
We’ll work on material that you’re interested in. Too many times I’ve heard the story of, “My old teacher was making me learn these songs and genre that I wasn’t interested in.” I don’t do that.
Not to say I don’t have things I have students learn regardless of their interests (me looking out for YOUR best interests).
My Acoustic Guitar Background
ABOUT ME: I teach both flatpick and fingerstyle guitar. Styles include popular, bluegrass, jazz, and acoustic contemporary.
Some famous players who I listen to and are representative of what I can help you with:-Doc Watson, David Grier, Billy Strings, Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Alan Gogoll, Adrian Legg, and Rick Foster.
I’m a three-time Georgia State Flatpick Guitar contest winner. I’ve played guitar on the stages of Carnegie Hall, The Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium. I studied jazz improvisation and arranging under Kevin Bales (world class pianist and educator) for 6 years.
What we can cover in our Online Guitar Lessons?
- Jazz-Improvisation, Arpeggios, Repertoire, swing, hearing chord changes, and not getting lost in the form. The challenge of jazz is keeping your place and not sounding like you are just running scales.
- Bluegrass-Fiddle Tunes, taking breaks on vocal songs, increasing speed, and appropriate backup and rhythm. One of the challenges of bluegrass guitar is do you learn by licks? Scales? What are people like Tony Rice and Bryan Sutton doing?
- Popular-Songs you might hear at a wedding or on the radio for $500 Alex :). There are songs everyone has heard, perhaps you want to play a few tunes for family and friends?
- Hymns/Gospel tunes. Think Unclouded Day, Amazing Grace; Holy, Holy, Holy, and more. I work on fingerstyle arrangements of these classics.
- Movie Themes/Video Game Music-Superhero music, Zelda, Love Ballads, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Nintendo, Playstation, and more. Put the controller down and give me a ring!
- Contemporary Fingerstyle acoustic
What techniques can we work on?
- Chord Melody-Critical for playing solo guitar and arranging for fingerstyle guitar.
- Arranging Popular/Jazz/Hymns for solo guitar
- Bluegrass or Jazz Licks
- Increasing your musical vocabulary for your songwriting-maybe your songs sound stale, time for some NEW LIFE!
- Composing/writing your own songs
- Fingerboard knowledge-Triads/Scales/Arpeggios/modes/Chord theory/visualizations
- Technique-increasing speed, dynamics, tone, and playing with less effort. Here is where you can waste a lot of time doing things wrong if you aren’t careful.
Acoustic Guitar Playing Examples
Popular solo guitar arranging
Contemporary Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar
An original song I wrote:
Flatpick Bluegrass Guitar
Let’s get you started on the right path to becoming a serious ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYER today.
CONTACT ME NOW and I promise- I’ll open up your guitar abilities, enable you to freely improvise and create the music you’ve always wanted.
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