Dave The Guitar Guy

Hi my name is David and I love and enjoy teaching guitar lessons to students of all ages. My goal in life is to enrich people's lives with music. I can come to your home in a 50 mile radius or teach you online. I create a individualized customized guitar lesson workbook to meet each students individual needs in a wide range of student ages, ability and learning styles and keeps my students focused and organized. I teach in many different music styles. I have over 18 years teaching experience teaching acoustic and electric, especially to beginners, children, teens, and adults. I have worked actively as a school teacher for 18 years. I graduated from a Conservatory of Music at Purchase College NY. I received a B.A. in Music - Concentration (Studio Composition) in 2001. In 2008 I earned my Master's in education from Manhattanville College NY, M.A.T. / Adolescence Education (Grades 5-12) deans list 3.56 GPA. I teach my students theory, technique, songs, song form, song writing skills. Students learn about chords, rhythm, scales, melodies, riff's, exercises and good practice habits and students explore a variety of different styles of music. What I like to do first is interview my students. This gives me a wealth of information to create a custom organized guitar toolbox that meets that students individual learning needs and helps them to learn and understand how to play the guitar in a fun and interesting exciting way. This way when my students have issues playing their guitar for example technique, chords, scales, theory, songs, and exercises or they are struggling in a certain area on the guitar. They will have a wealth of resources, knowledge, and information that will help them reinforce the good habits and skills needed to become a successful guitar player. What is this guitar toolbox? It is a very simple no gimmick straight forward custom organized guitar lesson workbook that I have created and improved for my students over many years of teaching guitar lessons to students ages 6 to 70 years old. What I have learned from teaching my students, is there are many ways to learn. I teach that music is a creative process and we need to open our minds to all music that is possible. All we need to do is take one step at a time and you will be amazed at what you can create. I even won an award in college for being the most improved studio composition student. I have been worked for over 20 years as a teacher, musician, composer, and a performer. Why should students pick me as a guitar teacher? I believe that my education, skills, music experience as a guitar teacher, songwriter, musician, and performer will go a long way in helping my guitar students become informed and educated guitar players. I have many years of experience playing and teaching guitar, I have the patience and understanding as a educator to understand how students learn and can teach to many different learning styles and my main goal is to teach my student how to play songs they like and to have a lot of fun playing the guitar. If they have music as part of their lives I have accomplished my job.