Guitar Lessons California

Instruments: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

During his lessons, Gabriel covers topics ranging from learning how to play starting from the basics, strumming patterns, chords, scales, modes, sweep picking, tapping, alternate and economy picking, bending, harmonics, hybrid and fingerpicking, how to create bass lines, songwriting, improving your technical chops, your ear, sight-reading, theoretical knowledge, and improvisation, as well as guitar maintenance, amplifiers, and effects.  He has plenty of handouts and sheet music to aid your progress. Read More

Instruments: Guitar, Bass Guitar

My teaching style is very laid back yet structured. Music is fun and is taught that way!!! I use various methods for different students because everyone learns different. There is no "Best" way to teach. Read More

Instruments: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

I have found that when a student has incremental goals laid out, it encourages them to take music from an abstract idea to something they truly enjoy doing! Watching them showcase their progress in a live performance setting is something I have been lucky enough to witness, and do my best to facilitate. By taking each students' individual musical tastes and using them to illuminate common musical concepts, both my students and I have a good time learning! Read More

Instruments: Guitar

During my trips to international guitar festivals I have had opportunities to participate in masterclasses and communicate with major guitar teachers from various parts of the world in person. Thus, I have gathered information and was introduced to the different teaching approaches and was able to see, hear and summarize the degree of efficiency of each approach, trying to extract the most useful and important features from each encounter. In my lessons I usually refer to guitar methods of M. Read More

Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice

Since 2006 I have been teaching vocals in music schools and for the last 5 years as private vocal coach in my home studio and in a second studio location. I have been teaching in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County and Austria and am very passionate about singing and vocal coaching. I want to share my experience and expertise with my students and help them develop their voice and become the best singers they can possibly be and most imporatantly have fun with it. I always encourage my students to participate in recitals, sing and play in bands, choir, musical theaters etc to explore as many genres as possible and experience different situations like recording in a studio and performing live. Read More