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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!
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
Instruments: Piano Guitar Voice Drums Bass Guitar Conga Latin Percussion
I like students to learn their favorite songs while learning technique, such as scales and chords, as well as music theory. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Music Electric Guitar
Hi! My name is Gian, and I would like to help you in your musical journey. As a music artist, producer, and educator, there are several ways I can help you achieve one, some, or all of your music objectives. In my professional experience I have the chance to collaborate as performing musician in several music projects, as well as produce my own music and beats. In 2017, I collaborated as studio producer and featuring artist, along side Tercer Tipo, an independent hip-hop, acid jazz band from Santiago, Chile. Read More
Instruments: Piano Guitar Saxophone Flute Clarinet
I've been playing music, teaching, and performing over a variety of ways across the bay area for over 12 years. I received a degree in Jazz Studies and Composition from Sonoma State University in 2006 and have been utilizing my degree as a creative artist and sharing my knowledge with students since 2002 where I grew up in the foothills sound of Yosemite National Park. I play Saxophone, Clarinet, and Flute, along with Piano and Guitar for deeper ways of relating music to my life. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Music Electric Guitar Classical Guitar Acoustic Guitar
For all of my students, I like to blend what they need to know and what they want to know. I find that especially teaching guitar, learning it is very goal oriented. My students and I always come up with their goals during each lesson so they can have something to work up to for each week. Practice does make perfect, so I do strongly encourage practicing at least a couple hours a day. Read More
Instruments: Guitar
I design my lessons with the specific student goals in mind.For Beginner students: we will start by exploring rhythm concepts and understanding how to read music. Learning the physics of the guitar and exploring the notes in the first few positions. Learning open position chords, and simple chords progressions, major and pentatonic scales,etc.For Intermediate students: we will continue expanding our knowledge of the higher positions of the guitar, as well as develop better sight-reading skills. Read More
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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JONATHAN
I HAVE A 7 YEAR OLD CHILD WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR. HE HAS ONE AT HOME AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IT THEN SEE IT JUST SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM.
Bruno
I just won a guitar so i want to learn how to play it, from christian songs to clasical rock. I dont know if i got what it takes but i will give it 100%
Joseph
I am interested in guitar and drum lessons for my son (4 yrs old). He has both a Drum set and an Electric Guitar w/ Amp. Prefer in-home lessons. Reside in the Northeast.