Are you ready to make playing music a great part of your life? Take your first step forward by reading how private instruction with a teacher with thousands of hours of stage, studio, and teaching experience can help you achieve that goal.

You’re in the right place

Private students receive one-on-one attention that allows them to learn to level up on their own, improvise and play with others, learn new songs, or if you’re new, to build a rock solid foundation on which to play for years to come.

There are plenty of great ways to learn music online today, but nothing beats custom tailored instruction and insight of private lessons.

The short list of what you can learn

• Instruments

  • Guitar (electric and acoustic) - beginner to advanced

  • Banjo (electric and acoustic) - beginner to advanced

  • Bass Guitar - beginner to intermediate

  • Ukulele - beginner to intermediate

  • Mandolin - beginner to intermediate

• Songwriting

• Reading Music

• General Musicianship

• Music Theory

• Recording and Stage Audio

  
  
  

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

- Ben Franklin

Why private lessons …

I have gained a wealth of advanced playing and listening skills through my experiences earning a Bachelor’s degree at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, touring the US playing concerts, and recording with a wide array of artists, including Grammy winners.

I strive to identify and emphasize the skills and techniques that have turned out to be the most useful and to modify or reject those which have not …

In private lessons you will receive the benefit of my victories and my defeats, shortening the distance between desire and ability. My teachers were able to distill in moments lessons that took them years to learn. I am proud to do the same for my students every week.

Philosophy …

Teaching has been part of my mission as a musician from early on. I gave my first lesson when I was 15 years old and have had students ever since. I follow the adage, “If you give a man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you’ll feed him for life.” I want to help make playing music a part of your life.

It’s not about learning a song. It’s about learning how to learn a song …

By securing strong fundamentals and understanding, we build techniques for learning and playing music that can be used from beginner playing through to advanced improvisation and professional performance.

Anyone with a genuine desire to learn, can. My goal is to make the most powerful concepts relatable for everyone willing to work on them. To get started, click the button below …

An in-depth look at what I teach,

Scroll past the instruments to see the other areas where I can help you learn!

• Instruments

  All instruments include an approach focused on strong fundamentals that set you up to learn on your own no matter what direction you ultimately take

  • Guitar (electric and acoustic) - beginner to advanced

    • pick and fingerstyle

    • rock, country, and jazz specialties

    • BASICS

    • Technique (for beginners and advanced players)

    • Scales, chords, arpeggios

    • reading and finding good tabs

    • Rhythm

    • Soloing

    • Improvisation

    • Amps, pedals, and gear

  • Banjo (electric and acoustic) - beginner to advanced

    • 5-string

    • 3-Finger Style

    • Single-String Specialty

    • Techniques for playing banjo outside of country and bluegrass and developing creative uses of basic scale and chord patterns

    • BASICS

    • Technique (for beginners and advanced players)

    • Scales, chords, arpeggios

    • reading and finding good tabs

    • Rhythm

    • Soloing

    • Improvisation

    • Amps, pedals, and gear

  • Bass Guitar - beginner to intermediate

    • BASICS

    • Technique for beginners

    • Scales, chords, arpeggios

    • reading and finding good tabs

    • Rhythm

  • Mandolin - beginner to intermediate

    • BASICS

    • Technique for beginners

    • Scales, chords, arpeggios

    • reading and finding good tabs

    • Rhythm

  • Ukulele - beginner to intermediate

    • BASICS

    • Technique for beginners

    • Scales, chords, arpeggios

    • reading and finding good tabs

    • Rhythm

• Songwriting

  • Writing Lyrics

  • Song Structure

  • Learning by Ear

  • Getting Ideas

  • Stretching Possibilities

• Reading Music

  • How to read and write in standard music notation

• General Musicianship

  • Listening skills

  • Learning by ear

  • How to practice

  • How to memorize

  • Time signatures

  • Key signatures

  • Jam session and open mic skills

  • Building strong rhythm

  • Playing a “part”

  • Instrument care and maintenance

  • Researching songs

• Music Theory

  • High school music theory tutoring

  • Chords and Harmony

  • Voice leading

  • Scales and modes

  • Chord numbering systems

  • Transposing (changing keys)

  • Chord extensions

  • more

• Recording and Stage

  • Home recording

  • How to find a good studio

  • How to research gear

  • Live audio and Stage gear

  • How to have good sound, strong presence, and FUN onstage