FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Helping people to learn the guitar in a new, fun way. Wrangling virtually any song of your choice to help you play it, while coming to understand and apply the note theory and beat theory behind it. Showing players how to figure out most popular songs, as well as improvise -- groovily and with feeling. Hosting two kinds free jams: Acoustic and the Band Jam. Everyone's welcome! These jams let players experience the thrill of group playing, and are designed to be comfortably easy.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I saw the need for a more relaxed, yet accelerated approach to playing for today's busy student. I taught people in bands how to play their repertoires for about 30 years before turning to offer my services to the general public. My calendar is always full. Very few teachers in my field here in Colorado Springs at this time approach the process of teaching music in ways that are tailored to the individual's needs, fun, progressive and effective.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Left- and Right-handers; the Left- and Right-Brained; Left- and Right-Winged players; Science fanatics and flat Earthers; terrestrials and ETs... Children with Autism and Aspergers; accident victims with TBI; combat veterans with PTSD; terminally ill patients who died while learning... Protégés and proto-stars, composers and comptrollers; the rapt and therapists... Toddlers to Dawdlers; girls, boys, teens and in-betweens; haves and have-nots; deep thinkers and foul-smellers; the tone-deaf and the beat-deaf... The one thing all my players have had in common is that they walk a path of personal creative growth - and I'm constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to have the job that I do.