We love finding motivational songs and applicable technique for your guitar lessons. We will cater to your goals and balance with new ideas we have to challenge you.
Acoustic Guitar Lessons
- Focusing on strumming patterns
- Playing with an accompaniment or metronome
- Working with finger picking styles
- Applying skills and technique to student’s song choice
Electric Guitar Lessons
- Learning riffs and improvisation often working on a duet with your teacher to learn band skills
- Working on tone and color
- Applying theory and ear training techniques
- Learning tabulator reading and song structure from your favorite tunes
Chord Playing and Chart Reading
- Learning to play with song demos or recorded vocalists
- Understanding the chord chart style of music notation (not standard music notes but more of a road map for the song)
- Working on improvisation techniques like right hand rhythms and finger picking that fit with the song of your choice
- Focusing on left hand chord structures and increasing finger strength
- This style of playing works well as accompaniment for the vocalist and is often what we work on with our mixed lesson students
Note Reading and Tablature
- Learning to read guitar tabs (music notation for guitar players)
- Learning to read standard treble clef notes
- Theory and ear training techniques to apply to your songs
- Focusing on melodic lines and melodies verses chords only
Nathaniel Marshall has experience teaching guitar as well as performing in local bands. You will find that he has patience and skill to meet you on any level and help you work towards the next goal. Nathaniel is contracted at our Loveland studio. To learn more about his background and teaching visit Nathaniel’s profile page.
