Margot D  
Instruments: Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, Funk, Electronic, Punk

I have been teaching guitar for 6 years now. My teaching experience started in high school, when I was 17 years old. I worked at the Boys and Girls club and taught basic guitar and songwriting to kids aged 8-14. In college and in my first year out of college I taught private lessons to students of various ages. My main goal, especially for younger students, is to make lessons as fun as possible in order to retain interest. I do this by getting students excited about playing songs that they like and collaborating with other musicians.

For beginning students I start out with an introduction to the fretboard and tuning the guitar. We then move on to basic chords, strumming and one-line melodies. Intermediate students will move on to more complex riffs, fingerpicking and arpeggios, as well as learning how to improvise using different scales. For me it's important that we work on proper technique and musical concepts, but to do so while learning songs by artists that you like. For older students, I will introduce some basic music theory especially if a student is interested in songwriting, but in a non-intimidating and gradual way.