I am always eager to meet dedicated students of the guitar. Most of the people I have success with are either performing guitarists or younger students considering admission to music school.

Please contact me for lesson availability or for a more complete outline of my guitar curriculum, including recommended texts and listening assignments.

As this site develops, I will be posting musical examples from the following lessons:

Sample Jazz/Classical Lessons:

• Efficient Practicing Techniques

Sample Jazz Lessons:

• The Basis of Harmony in Jazz Standards
• Don’t Chase the Changes – Reduce Them to Their Common Key Centers
• Guidelines for Compositional Soloing
• Sight Reading on the Guitar – It Seems Harder Because it Is – Subtitle: Tablature Will Rot Your Mind
• Quartal Structures and Their Application
• The Metronome is Your Best and Most Swinging Friend

Sample Classical Lessons:

• PAMI Scales – the Multi-purpose Exercise
• The Beautiful Sound Exercise – Courtesy of Jonathan Trotta
• Tension and Release in Interpretation
• Performance Anxiety and Developing a Constructive Focus