Great Guitar Lessons w/Pro from NYC, SF, NOLA, LA

18th near g street, Arcata CA

Description

I specialize in helping beginner and intermediate guitarists, learn a "Master Guitar Playing Foundation Made Fun & Easy, Guitar Synergy ©2021". Take your guitar playing to the next playing level. I enjoy helping passionate disciplined students meet their musical goals using proven guitar techniques and learning strategies! If any of these scenarios ring true, I guarantee you will love having me as your guitar coach! • Do you know some parts of a few songs or know a few songs but, that's it? • Frustrated with prior guitar lessons where the instructor lacked organization, bounced all over the place, never finished a concept or song? • Need a structured instructor to break down core guitar playing techniques with proprietary drills and handouts that grow your technique and musicianship skills to help get you to the next level to achieve your musical goals? • Not interested in "focusing on" reading music notion but want to learn “great guitar playing techniques"? • Want to learn how to practice more efficiently? • Want to learn the most solid guitar playing techniques and musicianship foundation, and use the guitar as a creative meditative tool to relax and enjoy the joy of creating music? • Want to learn how to practice more efficiently? • Want to grow your song repertoire and play the songs you love ASAP!? • Stuck in an improvisational rut, bored with minor pentatonic scales, and want some jazz harmony to spice up your blues and rock playing? • Want to get your rhythm, timing, beat awareness, and phrasing more together, and learn how to most efficiently practice with a metronome? • Looking to incorporate music theory in your guitar playing and use more song forms to grow your songwriting? About me... I'm passionate about helping people learn excellent guitar playing techniques and musicianship skills in a supportive and goal-oriented environment. I love to help budding guitarists and all level guitar players on their journey to express themselves through music and experience the joy and confidence that making music through the guitar can bring into one's life. I've been a full-time guitarist, singer-songwriter, and music educator with 40-years of playing experience, 25-years, as a career professional, in performance, composition, recording, and guitar and music teaching. My real-world musicianship and guitar playing chops help me provide my students with fast results in a supportive, goal-oriented learning environment, using performance-based learning. The way I teach is kind of summed up in my "Guitar Synergy Method ®2020", which is unique in that the 1,000's of hours I've spent teaching and performing helps me to target and layer foundational guitar and musicianship information creating accelerated learning. I provide and create propriety exercises and drills tailored to fit each students learning style and musical interests, as well as learning songs and all that entails, providing disciplined enthusiastic guitar students with a "Master Guitar Playing Foundation Made Fun & Easy!" ©2020 Enjoy 40+ Audio and Video samples at www.JohnChapmanGuitarist.com Learn more about Guitar Lessons at www.JohnChapmanMusicEd.com John Chapman Band - Josie (Live@Asilomar, Carmel CA - Oct 15th, 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPxU4terA8 John Chapman Band - Come Back Jack (Live@Asilomar, Carmel CA - Oct 15th, 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR54StFPPFY "Quando Quando Quando" - John Chapman - Solo Nylon String Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNh5_kkZOc John Chapman Band – 2016 Debut New Orleans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW4tjIRupfY I'm Accepting "ONLY" Disciplined Guitar Students who seek excellent lessons! • Beginner & Intermediate Guitar Lesson Specialty through Advanced • Ages 10 and Up • Flat-picking and Finger-picking • Acoustic and Electric, Steel and Nylon 6-string guitars and Electric Bass • Songwriting and Music Theory • Learn to sing and play guitar together • Your home, school or office, my Arcata Studio, or Online STYLES: Blues, Brazilian Bossa Nova; Samba, Country, Light-Classical, Folk, Funk, Gospel, Jazz, Metal, Nuevo-Flamenco, Reggae, Rock, R&B, Ska, Soul, Spanish, Swing, Pop, Punk and World Learn: • Master practicing techniques used by top pros; foundational guitar playing techniques (picking and fretting) • Music theory for all guitar styles; beat awareness, playing in time, using a metronome • Fretboard logistics, scales, arpeggios, chords, progressions • Reading music notion, charts, lead sheets, and chord symbols • Navigate the guitars entire fretboard in just three lessons • Play your favorite music as soon as possible! • Build confidence, expand your learning capacity and communication skills • Share your music with the world! Learn to Play the Guitar with great skill, confidence, enjoyment, and ease like you've always wanted to! For Questions or to Book a Trial Lesson at your home, my Arcata Studio, or online, call . I look forward to speaking with you. Stay healthy and safe and have a great day! Kind regards, John Chapman www.johnchapmanguitarist.com www.johnchapmanmusiced.com www.johnchapmansmusic.com