Private Lessons

Whether you're picking up an instrument for the first time, preparing for auditions, or looking to take your playing to a professional level, lessons are tailored to your individual goals, interests, and experience. Instruction combines strong technical foundations with practical musicianship, helping students become confident, versatile, and independent musicians.

GUITAR INSTRUCTION

Guitar instruction is available for beginners through advanced players on both acoustic and electric guitar. Lessons are individualized and may focus on a single style or incorporate multiple genres depending on each student's interests and goals.

Classical Guitar

Drawing from formal conservatory training and decades of teaching experience, classical guitar instruction emphasizes the technical and musical foundations required for serious study.

Areas of study include:

  • Classical guitar technique and tone production

  • Right- and left-hand development

  • Reading standard notation

  • Interpretation and musical expression

  • Scales, arpeggios, and technical studies

  • Solo repertoire spanning the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods

Jazz Guitar

Jazz instruction develops the practical skills necessary to understand, perform, and improvise within the jazz tradition.

Areas of study include:

  • Jazz harmony and chord theory

  • Improvisation and Soloing

  • Chord melody

  • Standard repertoire (The Great American Songbook)

  • Rhythm playing and comping

  • Transcription and Arranging

  • Ear training

  • Ensemble playing

Folk, Rock & Contemporary Guitar

Learn the songs and techniques that define popular music while building practical musicianship applicable to both acoustic and electric guitar.

  • Chord vocabulary

  • Rhythm guitar

  • Lead guitar

  • Famous Riffs and solos

  • Improvisation and shredding

Repertoire may include artists from classic rock through modern rock, pop, indie, alternative, and contemporary music.

PIANO INSTRUCTION

Piano instruction is available for beginning through advanced students of all ages.

Lessons may follow a traditional classical curriculum, contemporary approach, or a combination of both depending on each student's interests and goals.

Areas of study include:

  • Classical piano

  • Contemporary and popular styles

  • Jazz piano fundamentals

  • Technique

  • Reading and sight reading

  • Music theory

  • Harmony and chord theory

  • Improvisation

  • Ear training

  • Songwriting

  • Composition

  • Arranging

  • Performance preparation

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Bass Guitar

Bass lessons focus on developing strong musicianship and a solid rhythmic foundation while learning to perform in a variety of musical styles.

Instruction includes:

  • Electric bass fundamentals

  • Technique

  • Reading and rhythm

  • Groove development

  • Walking bass

  • Rock, blues, jazz, funk, and pop styles

  • Ear training

  • Performance skills

Ideal for beginning and intermediate students.

Ukulele

Ukulele lessons provide an enjoyable introduction to music and make a perfect transition instrument to the acoustic or electric guitar.

  • Strumming of the “basic chords” - a handful of shapes that unlock dozens of songs

  • Reading notation and tablature

  • Popular songs

  • Hawaiian, folk, pop, and contemporary repertoire