School is back in session. Now that our schedules are getting back to " normal" now is a great time to begin music lessons. I offer private music lessons for the following: guitar, voice, piano and keyboards, 5 string banjo, mandolin and lap steel guitars. Also, I teach music theory in a way that helps you understand the whys and how's of music. My students range from as young as 5 year old (guitar) to 57 and older ( I won't say who is the oldest) All of my students have this in...

Thinking about private guitar lessons? What kind of guitar should I purchase? How much should I spend on my first guitar? These are questions that come from all of my beginning students. The photograph attached to this blog is my 1973 Gibson J 45 deluxe. It was a pawn shop rescue: it needed some major repair. But one of my friends purchased it from a pawnshop in Nashville, Tenn. Got the J45 into a shop, repaired it and sold it to me. It still has some cracks and scratches, but has...

Lately I have been adding a lot of new students to my music lesson schedule. Starting with 5 string banjo, guitar, voice, keyboards and mandolin, it seems like everyone is ready to get back into private music lessons. One of the most asked questions I get is: " how much time should I spend practicing each day?" That's a good question and I will answer with the following: With a student roster of 25 students with ages ranging from 6 to 57 and above, all of our schedules are...