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Featured Guitar Teachers Near Oakland, CA

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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Guitar lessons in Oakland . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!

Christopher A

Instruments: Guitar Trumpet Trombone Euphonium Tuba Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

My teaching styles revolves around the student and his/her needs. But above all, I love to see the joy of music speak through the students own earned skill through hard work. Achieving goals, and succeeding is the platform for building confidence and gaining great joy from the learning and playing of music. All students will be required to learn scales, etudes, solos, and other repertoire to bolster his/her musical goals abilities; but beyond that, I open to what the student wants learn, and what he/she is able to bring to the table. Read More

Kevin R

Instruments: Piano Guitar Bass Guitar Synthesizer Ukulele Double Bass

 I enjoy teaching and feel I can be a great fit for reverb lessons! thank you. I have been teaching piano, guitar, bass and music production from my house studio in Berkeley for over 5 years now. I currently teach from my graduate studio at Cal State University East Bay.  I also have taught for groups for a former organization called Music Camp Rocks in Pleasanton, California. In music camp rocks we taught kids to work together in a band and perform songs. at the end of their session they would perform on stage. Read More

Robert L

Instruments: Guitar Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

I have often received complements from my students parents, thanking me for my passion in teaching and that they noticed great improvement in their childs playing. I have fun with the children but also encourage discipline, concentration, and constant effort for improvement. I like to connect with each student and try to find a way to inspire them to want to play music. Acknowledging accomplishments helps fuel a students desire to progress. Read More

Jacob P

Instruments: Piano Guitar

Flowing between the presentation of new information and the actual active playing music is very important to the way I conduct lessons. Especially for the young, I place much more emphasis on facilitating musical experiences rather than the integration of musical nomenclature and conceptualization. When we learn to speak, our ears guide us first, and we imitate. Writing and reading comes later. I've found that this pertains to music as well, if not even moreso. Read More

Cole T

Instruments: Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar

I began giving lessons after graduating from high school in 2017 and continued offering lessons both in-person and online when I went off to study at the University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music. After graduating, I spent about 5 months working with my local Guitar Center offering lessons to people of all ages and in a variety of genres and styles. I primarily teach guitar, but as a music therapist, a significant portion of my experience includes singing with guitar accompaniment, so I am always open to teaching guitar students who are also interested in developing their vocal skills (all instrumentalists should know how to sing!). Read More

Hristo V

Instruments: Guitar

I'm very easy going and very understanding. I have a true passion for teaching and helping others and patience is one of my virtues. I have a real undesrstanding as to how much different we can be from one another in our learning abilities, and it is my main goal to tailor each lesson to the specific student and individual at hand. I do my best to get into the position (point of view) of each one of my students and take into consideration every single aspect of their personality when I'm teaching them. Read More

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Robert G

Instruments: Guitar Voice Ukulele Acoustic Guitar

Did you have a teacher that inspired you to go into music? How did they inspire you?
All through my childhood I was blessed with teachers and parent who encouraged me to try new things. I first got turned on to music when my second grade teacher said that the choir was going to travel to see a show on Broadway, so if, you wanted to go, you had to join the choir! Indeed, join I did--and here i am today, a music professional....

What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Humans being what we are, HABIT can be a definite plus in advancing one's skill level--So I strongly recommend that students set up a disciplined--but realistic-- schedule of daily practice. Everyone's Circadian rhythm is different, so, to advocate for "Early Morning Practice "or "After Dinner Practice," would be assuming that I KNOW the rhythm of the student and their real-world life...But, that said, REGULARITY is imperative!

When will I start to see results?
Whether it is sports, or chess, or drama, whatever, so many activities that eventually end up giving us great joy depend upon a GRADUAL-- and not immediate-- acquiring of skills. It's hard for young people to get this concept--especially when they are so constantly bombarded with examples of "famous" youth who display what could appear to be an easy excellence--be it in sports or performance, or even appearance... That said my experience is that there is still a rationality in the minds of teens that realizes that NOTHING happens immediately! Helping a child understand the concept of GRADUAL advancement--and the curious reality that so often improvement can spike after a certain critical mass of skill has been acquired---is the key to a child'd willingness to hang in during the "pain" of the "no pain--no gain" reality...

How do I know if my child is ready to start lessons?
This is an important question, indeed! My answer is not meant to be evasive, but my 25 years of experience caution me to counsel parents to be NEITHER overly aggressive NOR overly permissive about their children taking lessons. I can see a parent saying "Well, that vague answer is of no help!" I do understand! What I mean is that any encouragement of a parent must be coming from a place of seeking the CHILD'S best interest, not the parent's... Indeed, it is age-appropriate for children to be unsure of who they are, and what is in their actual beat interest--Maturity is the often painful process of defining such. .. But EXPOSING children to the world of possibilities around them is indeed the purview of parents, and so I frequently recommend that parents frame the introduction of lessons as a "TRIAL" experience, where the child is invited to experience the possibility of such an exploration with an open mind for a brief series , and THEN an assessment of interest and actual potential can be made...

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