Sebastian Z
Instruments: Guitar, Drums, Bass Guitar, Synthesizer, Keyboard, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Musical Theater, Latin, Funk, Hip Hop, Electronic, Reggae, Swing, New Age, Soul, Punk, Avant-garde

I began teaching occasional guitar and bass lessons while in high school, and toward the end of high school, During summers in between years of college, and before college, I taught/coached several groups of young musicians in fledgling bands, guiding them through the steps required for both cohesive performance and original songwriting. Since then, I've continued teaching private students, and have expanded my teaching domain to include (and often focus on) songwriting, composition, music production, and music theory. I love sharing the amazing feeling of mastering a new musical skill and integrating it into your vocabulary with any student of any age or skill level, as these experiences were extremely formative for me as a young musician, and those same skills have brought me endless joy and satisfaction over the years.

Because every student learns differently and processes music in different ways, I tend to try to build an entirely new curriculum for each student, based on their interests, age, and skill level. For beginning classical guitar students, I use Aaron Shearer's "Classic Guitar Technique", and then move onto simple repertoire, but for other less classically-oriented instruments (Electric Bass, for example), I use music that the student is already interested in to build lessons in instrument technique, music theory, listening skills and more. I'm also an enormous advocate of communal learning, so developing skills playing, performing, and composing with other musicians, both more advanced musicians and similarly-skilled colleagues, are important skills that I focus on in my teaching.