I love performing!  There are pictures of me playing guitar at four years of age, but I started taking lessons at the age of ten and continued weekly instruction for eight years. I learned to play Rock and Roll on the road as a traveling musician, meticulously duplicating the chords and solos of my mentors; Eric Clapton, Mick Ralphs, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, and countless others. I also developed a solo acoustic performance with music by the Beatles, James Taylor, Jim Croce, and many other songwriters that we all are familiar with. The lessons in playing that the road experience gave me, helped me develop my ‘ear’ for playing and I teach my students how to have that same ability. Every lesson is built around understanding how to improve player techniques and enjoying the process, how to ‘hear’ what their part is in the song and how to duplicate it, how to understand the key that they are in and the way to ‘Jam’ along with it.