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RATES

• $30 per 45 minute session

Not currently accepting new students.

PHILOSOPHY

• Individual lesson plans based on assessment, skill level and the musical goals of the student
• Begin with and build upon on solid fundamentals and musical foundations to support the music you like to play
• Develop an understanding and comprehension of your instrument
• Leverage the first 3 items listed and what others have done to influence your own creativity, but don’t be a copy cat – be you!
• Apply the constructs and techniques of music to play any genre

“Life is about creating yourself”
~~ Bob Dylan

  WORK SHOPS

• Flatpick 101 (20S-MUS-002)
• Flatpick 102 (21F-MUS-001)  — January 2023
• Introduction to Resonator Guitar (19F-MUS-004)
• Dance of the Slants
  “Try not to slant after you drink”
  ~  Bobby Ingano – Hawaiian Music Master
• Constructing Flights of Fancy
• Applied Music Theory – Dobro
• Applied Music Theory – Weissenborn
• Applied Music Theory – Guitar
• Intervals as a Second Language
  • Contrapuntal Motion
• The Daunting Realm of the Fretboard Skating Rink
• Melody Development
• Creating Arrangements from Melodies: from Simple to Complex
• Modes, Toads and Scaly Things
• Song Structure
• Dynamics: When, Where, Why and How
• Expression of Musical Emotions
• The Bass Clef and The Dobro
• Recording with Garage Band
• Rhythm Workshop
• Improvisation 101:  Going Beyond the Melody Notes Within the Melody
• Advanced Improvisation 102
• Introduction to Scales
• Far Flung and Flung Far Tuning
  • Alternate Tuning: Open D (D-A-D-F#-A-D) for Resonator
  • Alternate Tuning: DADGAD/Dsus4
  • Alternate Tuning: Drop D for Guitar
  • Alternate Tuning: C6 for Lap Steel
    “If tuning could speak for itself, it would probably say: “I just work here!””.
    ~ Ashkan Mashhour
• Mapping the Fretboard with Scales
• The Muse, The Music and the Mystical Skittering Squirrel
• Travis Picking the Dobro – Beyond the Thumb
• SUSPENDED ANIMATION – A study of suspended chords in Dobro Open G Tuning
• The Secret Fretboard Decoder Ring — Decoder Ring Included!
• The CAGED System
• The FDAA System
• Navigating the Fretboard with Triads (a.k.a. Groovy Tunes)
• How to Practice 
  • Practice Plan

Call for workshop rates and availability.

• . . . Many times you’ll find that you learn more about music from life than from music.

— Mick Goodrick