{"id":15,"date":"2014-08-18T00:59:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T00:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flatnine.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2014-08-29T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T02:27:45","slug":"lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons are normally one hour in length.\u00a0 This allows time to have an in-depth discussion of the topic at hand, and allows plenty of time for interaction and question\/answer.\u00a0 Often students need help with a technical problem, or have questions about specific material they are exploring.\u00a0 1\/2 hour lessons do not allow much time for that.<\/p>\n<p>I also build in a little extra time if needed, so that students (hopefully) are not sent home with unanswered questions.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to keep lessons fun while working to become a better guitar player.\u00a0 I try to address the musical interests of each student while looking for the shortest path to get everyone up and playing.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my guitar students commit to a weekly 1-hour lesson.<\/p>\n<p>1-hour lesson: $30<\/p>\n<p>1\/2- hour lesson: $20<\/p>\n<p>Lesson topics may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic organization of the guitar, including tuning, chord construction, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Finger-picking, flat-picking, strumming styles and techniques<\/li>\n<li>Music Theory in general and as applied to guitar (basic and advanced &#8211; not required, but I do talk about it)<\/li>\n<li>Improvisation in various styles (Jazz, Rock, Country, Folk, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Guitar accompaniment techniques in various styles<\/li>\n<li>Composition<\/li>\n<li>Music reading (not required)<\/li>\n<li>Coaching for High School and College jazz orchestra guitarists is a specialty.<\/li>\n<li>Just about anything else that might come up (I&#8217;m not a metal guy or a shredder, although I&#8217;ve had students who are.)<\/li>\n<li>Rather than teach from a book, I prefer to use music familiar to each individual student for examples and as practice material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons are normally one hour in length.\u00a0 This allows time to have an in-depth discussion of the topic at hand, and allows plenty of time for interaction and question\/answer.\u00a0 Often students need help with a technical problem, or have questions about specific material they are exploring.\u00a0 1\/2 hour lessons do not allow much time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatnine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}