guitar lesson programs

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With this membership, student will receive:

• One weekly skills lesson
• All materials
• Weekly practice strategy and schedule
• Audio recording of entire lesson to refer back to

With this membership, student will receive ALL Basic Membership Benefits PLUS:

• Access to one weekly additional class or program of your choice
• Access to additional recorded audio and video lessons on a wide range of topics

This is the top-shelf membership option! Highly Recommended!  Platinum students will receive ALL Basic and FastTrack Benefits PLUS:

• One weekly one-on-one private lesson
• Student may attend any/all additional classes and  programs on any day, at any time it is offered
• Live online  video lesson options
• Access to additional recorded audio and video lessons on a wide range of topics

Anyone interested in playing electric rock guitar can pick up in this awesome class and get started right away. Beginning concepts include rock theory, technique, power chords, rhythm guitar and licks. Intermediate concepts include harmony, scales and modes. Advanced techniques include pentatonic extensions, arpeggios, legato, speed, intervals, tapping, and bending. Whether you are just starting to learn or an advanced player looking to improve your playing, this is the class for you.

Anyone interested in playing acoustic guitar can pick up in this well-paced, comprehensive class and get started right away. Beginning concepts include technique, improv, chords, picking and arranging. Intermediate concepts include alternate tunings, scales, positions, and styles like funk, Gypsy, Celtic, bluegrass and more. Advanced concepts include muting, tapping, slap harmonics. If you are just starting to learn or looking to improve your playing, this is the class for you.

If you want to play fingerstyle or want to enhance your knowledge, you can pick up in this well-paced class and get started right away. Beginning concepts include theory, modes, drop tuning, bass lines and more. Intermediate concepts include alternate tunings, patterns, barre chords, bass lines and arranging.  Advanced techniques include free and rest stroke, shifting, tremolo, planting, tapping. If you are just starting to learn or looking to improve your playing, this is the class for you.

This class addresses everything technique. You will learn systems to build the raw skills you need to achieve your goals, no matter what they are. Your accuracy, dexterity, strength and speed, left and right-hand optimization, effortless guitar playing strategies, skills-specific daily drills and warmups and so much more will all be addressed. 

This class is so needed by everyone that it has been requested. Rhythm is an essential component of music. It is an essential component of life. Chord changing, strumming and syncopation problems plague many guitarists. Not anymore. This class will catapult your playing and improve every single aspect of it. 

In this class we will explore a variety of improvisational concepts and techniques, backed up with fingering patterns, exercises, lick examples, and complete solo ideas. We will work in many styles including rock, blues, jazz, country and many more. We will work on amp/effects/guitar tones as well, giving you suggestions to get the right sounds for the styles that you are learning. Many audio examples will be included. 

In this class we will explore all the main concepts necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases to help you express yourself on the guitar, just as you do when you speak. We also examine how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered – rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, ethnic, funk, and more – and all of the concepts will be backed up with musical examples.

Practicing correctly, effectively and efficiently is THE KEY to success at any level on the guitar. 90% of all the time you ever play the guitar, even as a professional, is spent practicing. In this class we’ll dive deep into the elements of a perfect practice routine. The elements of available time, skill levels, determining the items you need to focus on and ones you can put on hold, when and where to practice, and how to construct your own practice schedule.

This ongoing class WILL change your experience and journey to seeing the big picture and to literally transform your playing. Knowledge of Theory and how to apply it (not just reading it in a book or doing a stodgy "assignment”), in addition to training your musical ear, is a necessary component. By knowing it, hearing it and thus being able to action it and actually use it, is a giant hub of the wheel. It is THE #1 skill that 90% of guitar players don't have, or don't use.

If you want to learn songs, this is the way! With the new ASCM classes, you will learn tons more songs than you ever could in private lessons. Each month there will be many classes dedicated solely to learning songs the correct way, studying the artists that created them and increasing your song repertoire.