TEACHER:

       Mike believes in teaching students how to achieve healthy growth in fun and disciplined ways. Having been a Teach for America Corps member and middle school science teacher, he brings a different set of skills to his private lessons than most music teachers. Mike creates personalized lesson plans for all his students, ranging from age 4 to 94. He has experience teaching all levels of guitarists, from beginners to professionals looking to continue honing their art. Mike offers instruction in a multitude of genres, including rock, jazz, metal, blues, funk, fusion, rhythm and blues, progressive, music theory.

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       Mike offers in-person lessons in the greater Nashville area, as well as Skype/Facetime lessons. Please contact for availability and pricing! 

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Examples of Lesson Topics and Skills:

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Beginner Lesson Topics:

-Basic Dexterity

-Beginning Chord Structures

-Basic Chord Chart Reading

-Playing With Recordings

-Basic Rhythm Reading and Performance

-Tab Reading

-Finger Picking

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Intermediate Lesson Topics:

-Minor Pentatonic Scale Navigation

-Chord Construction

-Metronome Use

-Major Scale Harmonization

-Minor Scale Harmonization

-Introduction to Modes

-Alternate Picking

-Basic Tapping

-Blues Phrasing

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Advanced Lesson Topics:

-Sight Reading on Guitar

-Modal Interchange

-Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Hungarian Minor Modes

-Double Thumping on Guitar

-Extended Range Guitar Fingerboard Navigation

-Rhythm Integrated Alternate Picking

-Sweep Picking

-Rhythmic Phrasing

-Transcribing

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