FAQs
- What types of customers have you worked with?
What I do for my clients is teach, mentor and coach them to become the guitar players they want to be. Some students ask me to prepare them for an audition for a school band, or a college audition. Sometimes it will be to teach a young student the fundamentals of reading music. Sometimes its a player who wants to learn, for examples, Beatles songs, in which case I'll start with the more simple ones and use that as a jumping off point to teach relevant technique, theory and history, then proceed onto the more sophisticated songs. Sometimes the job will emphasize jazz theory and technique. Other times it will be how to construct a rock lead guitar solo and the techniques used by various artists of that genre.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
The guitar teaching market is flooded with amateurs, sometimes even at music stores who offer lessons, who don't really know how to teach you. Check to see that it's not just some guy who can play some guitar and is trying just to earn extra money. Find out how long he's been playing and how long he's been teaching. If you can, try to find out what others who have studied with that teacher have to say about their experience. An experienced and knowledgeable teacher with a track record gives the student far more bang for the buck. Once you find one, make sure that you're both on the same page. I can't tell you the number of students I've taken on who studied for a time with someone else who opted to teach them the music they knew rather than concentrate on the student's own interests as well as filling the student's notebook with a bunch of stuff not relevant to the student's level of understanding, but rather happened to be what that teacher knew, but again not relevant to the student, at least at that point in time.