mdallenw@yahoo.com

Available upon reque

The teacher's studio or the student's home

South Eastern Michigan. Livingston County.

Electric guitar

Rock Guitar, Blues Guitar, Alternative Guitar, Metal Guitar, Pop Guitar, Jazz Guitar

Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Fingerstyle, Performance, Improvisation, Music Theory, Scales and Exercises, Song Writing, Guidance In Equipment Selection

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

• Success driven lessons individualized for every student. • Incorporating a balance of music theory, technique, harmony in an interactive environment. • All styles explored: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Heavy Metal, Acoustic etc. • In depth analysis of chord-scale relationships, and building techniques. • Picking techniques: Alternate picking, economy/sweep picking, hybrid picking and finger picking. • Essentials of guitar anatomy and history. ========================================= Sweep Picking. • Understand arpeggios, how to construct them, moveable forms including rhythmic variations. • Major, minor, diminished included, accompanied by altered tones and fretboard extensions. • Functional picking approaches. Legato. • Different uses of legato. • How to strenghten left hand and use diverse rhythmic variations to incur optimal fluency. • Hammer on's from nowhere. • Pick hand tapping, slides and bends. Alternate Picking • Single string. • Inside and outside string transitional approaches. • String skipping with intervallic leaps. Theory. • Uses of diminished (w/h, h/w), melodic and harmonic minor, Phrygian dominant, major scales and modes etc. • Examination of melodic and harmonic intervals. • Chord progressions used in various styles of modern rock and metal guitar.

Dream Theatre (John Petrucci), Rusty Cooley, Marty Friedman, Nevermore (Jeff Loomis), Rob Marcello, Gary Moore, Ritchie Blackmore...

$35.00 per hour.

1 day advance notice required.

Cash, Checks, Money Orders

3 Year(s)