r/guitarteachers

Hello everyone! For many years I was traveling to houses giving in person lessons. Last year I decided to give it up. I felt that the traveling just wasn't becoming worth it anymore. So now I have just been teaching lessons online, but have found it harder to find new students. I just thought I would throw this out there for anyone interested. If you'd like to discuss your guitar goals with me over Zoom to see if I could be of help, there would be no charge. If you decided to do lessons, I charge on a week by week basis, so you could stop lessons at any time. I'm looking for beginner to intermediate level students. I specialize in music notation, rock, blues, and fingerstyle guitar. Please no negative comments just send a private message if interested. Thank you.

I’m looking for a good guitar teacher to help take my playing to the next level. I’m focused on blues, bluegrass and folk genres. (I caught Gillian Welch last night and was blown away! 😀)
I’d be up for bi-weekly or monthly sessions. I can schedule evenings, but I’m also in the position to do daytime sessions during the week. I’ve taken lessons before, and I’ve found that an instructor who is a friendly and personable is almost as essential as the musical acumen. I realize that’s a two way street, so if you have a recommendation for someone or are someone that may be a match, DM me or post contact info for a conversation. Thanks all!

Hi all,

I made this to help me learn, maybe it can help others here.
If there are any features you think would make it better let me know.

https://fretwork.org

I've been learning electric guitar for a couple of months and I want to try playing with other people. There's someone much more skilled than me who is willing to play with/help me learn; he composes his own music but doesn't teach guitar, so I'm trying to figure out what we could actually do together at my level.

My current skillset/inclinations:

— I can play open chords relatively cleanly and switch between the ones I've practiced without losing the rhythm too often.
— I'm learning barre chords, but they're still muddy about half the time.
— I can hold several basic rhythms.
— I can fingerpick a bit.
— I understand intervals theoretically and can find octaves, fifths, and major/minor thirds from a given root.
— I know some notes on the fretboard but can't find them quickly yet.
— My theoretical understanding is ahead of my motor skills.
— I mosfly prefer fingerpicking to strumming.

I'm not really interested in functional harmony. The kind of music I'm drawn to tends to be harmonically complex (Elliott Smith is the clearest example), I'm learning some of it on my own but its not something I would practice with other people just yet. Right now I'm interested in playing together as a kind of musical conversation rather than songwriting/performing. I also tend to panic when I play in front of someone and don't trust my ear very much yet, so I'd like exercises where the point is simply to listen, respond and experiment.

So, if you were working with someone at my level, what two-person exercises/games/activities would you use?

It may be stupidly simple and it doesn't even need to sound good— I want activities that help me connect theory and practice and overcome my freeze response.
I'm also getting some basic looper pedal soon, so any advice about getting where I want with it is very welcome as well.

Basically: if you had a beginner player in a room with you and they asked you to play together, how would you approach that?

Anybody in Gainesville offering private guitar lessons?

Hi, 31M. I have a music performance degree in saxophone, and I still play somewhat regularly, but my first instrument was guitar… I took guitar lessons from 1st grade through around 6th grade, but I stunted my growth I think by stopping lessons when I did, using a lot of tabs, not learning/applying music theory on the fretboard… things like that. Eventually, I found it difficult to continue playing guitar intuitively with the tools I had because I couldn’t read music on it, didn’t proficiently know where notes fell on the fretboard, basic things like that. I just felt like I was guessing a lot of the time, and despite having some good coordination and skills, I didn’t have a lot of important fundamentals that I had built on saxophone.

Now I find myself longing to play some guitar again, specifically nylon string classical stuff (and maybe even some jazz?). At some point I think I would probably like to find a private teacher to work with, but first I’m wondering if there is a book that might be good for me to work out of for a while to get some of the fundamentals that I’m missing? I feel like starting with basics would be good for me despite “knowing” how to play in a lot of ways… Are there any method books that are widely recommended by guitar teachers who work with adult beginning students that might be good for someone like me?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have!

Hi
Is there a young guitarist in lucknow preferably female who wants to do something part time, I want to take guitar lessons as a hobby.
I am a married female, a doctor. Spent most time studying but now I want to do what I always wanted since childhood. Play guitar.

If someone is interested, kindly let me know.