Toronto Guitar Lessons

ROCK IS ATTITUDE AND TONE. YOUR FINGERS NEED THAT ATTITUDE. YOUR GUITAR/AMP NEED THAT TONE.

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• Control the basics like chords and beginner songs

• Master the fretboard: Learn your scales, know your positions.

• Integrate the scales and chords in a musical and improvisational context.

• Learn to lead a band or play with others.

• Explore tabs or notation: Learn to read music and explore independently.

ACOUSTIC CAMPFIRE TUNES ARE OLDIES AND GOLDIES, ROMANTICS AND CASUAL STRUMMERS ARE WELCOME.

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• Learn how to maintain consistent tone and the easiest and efficient way to play chords, pick, and strum.

• Next we can explore reading tabs, notes and learning songs from playback and playing with others (singers or a band).

• We can keep it purely practical and build your techniques and explore trickier tunes – we can delve into the theory of chord progressions, how to write harmonically beautiful chords changes etc.

METHODICAL CLASSICAL GUITAR TRAINING. BEGINNER TO ADVANCED.

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• Most of my teaching literature is digitally scanned and available for all classical music skill levels. Royal Conservatory of Music training resources also available.

• We can combine theory and practical lessons; or for those who rely on tabs, we can learn classical guitar with tabs and playback.

• Royal Conservatory of Music guitar grade training also offered.

• Learn ear training/sight singing (solfege), theory, harmony and sight reading, yay!

TAKE YOUR MUSICAL PERCEPTIONS AND SOUNDS TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

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• From beginner to advanced lessons in Composition.

• Analyzing Musical Form

• Orchestration / Arrangement and Score engraving 

• Electric guitar tone / pedals

• Approach to outside playing, and advanced licks and techinques.

• Classical analysis, classical and ensemble scoring.

 

20 years composing from Jazz-Fusion to Rock and Classical; trained at Mcgill and Concordia University in Composition.