Guitar and Bass Lessons

Brett Gordon: Instructor

 

Musical Education:

• Youth: Learning songs from (and scratching up) my record collection.
• High School: Band Chorus - voted most talented in high school.
• College: Berklee College of Music - Arranging Composition. Studied guitar with Lance Gunderson at Berklee
• Continued self-studies on lap & pedal steel guitars.

Personal Experience:

• BMI member radio ad jingles, perform on a regular basis.
• Performed in TV commercial for Holiday Inn.
• Guitar with house band on WNZN sports radio (The Zone)
• Music published with Decidedly Superior Music Publishing, NY, NY.
• Music on Lennon & McCartney's fried chicken restaurant skit on SNL 

Teaching Aspects Covered: 

• Elementary Guitar
• Intermediate Guitar 
• Bass Guitar
• Tuning Theory
• Reading
• Scales
• Chords
• Chord patterns
• Flat picking
• Finger style picking - Travis
• Folk, Rock, Blues, Country & Jazz
• Song form composition
• Performance

Methods:

• Book materials plus my own methods derived from my college background and from working in the real world of professional music. Students develop and learn at their own pace. Students will be taught according to their own individual abilities.

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