Kalamazoo Guitar Lessons

What I Offer

  • All lesson material will also be available in the cloud and via apps that allow you to play along with the sheet music, available for both android and iPhone.
  • Basic Pro Recording (all backed by drum style of your liking)
    • I record Tracks for you to take home and play along with. These include:
      • Jam tracks to practice improvisation
      • Slowed down sections of songs you wish to learn
      • Scales and exercises
      • Any song you have written and wish to record
        • Unlimited Multi Track recording so you can add fills, solos and whatever you want over your song.
    • Anything you want!! All mixed down and burned to a CD (Included with lesson @ No Extra Cost).
Contact Me
  • Guitar Lessons
    • Improvisation and soloing lessons.
      • Improvise a solo over any song, with any musician, In any setting on the fly with little effort.
    • Exercises designed to:
      • Build finger strength
      • Accuracy
      • Speed
      • Technique
      • Ability to make full use of ENTIRE neck without having to think about it.
    • I will teach you how to play genre styles of
      • Rock Guitar
      • Blues Guitar
      • Electric Blues
      • Finger style Blues
      • Finger style Guitar
      • Metal
      • Reggae Guitar
      • Bluegrass
      • Celtic Guitar
      • Classical Guitar
      • Country Guitar
      • Jazz Guitar
      • Modern Alternative
      • Or What you would like
    • Alternate Tunings
    • Any song you want to learn
      • I will pull up any song during lessons
      • Give you detailed instructions on how to play the song
      • Play and Record each section of the song (slowed down to desired tempo) for you to take home and practice with
  • Music Theory
    • How to read music (not just tablature)
    • How to build scales
      • Modal Scales
      • Altered Scales (i.e.: Harmonic Minor, Altered Locrian)
      • Pentatonic Scales
    • Composition
      • What chords and notes sound good together and why
      • Modulation
        • Pivot chord modulation
        • Secondary Dominants and their use in key changes
        • Relative keys and parallel keys
    • How to build Chords
      • Triads
      • Dominant Chords
      • Augmented Chords
      • 7th Chords
      • Many others that are too many to list
    • Transpose Music from one key to another quickly
  • What YOU want to learn

In Addition:

I also make a point to cover the basics of your guitar:

  • Proper Maintenance
  • Description and Function of all the parts of your instrument
  • How to set up and adjust the hardware of your guitar for optimum performance and playability.