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| Lessons for beginners include: |
| For the more advanced student: |
- Notes on the guitar
- Introduction to musical notation
- Playing melodies on the guitar
- Picking and strumming
- Proper tuning of the guitar
- Basic right- and left-hand techniques
- Care and maintenance of your instrument
- Open chords
- Chord progressions
- Introduction to tablature
- Choosing songs to learn- based on the students musical
interest and skill level
- Using proper amplifier settings to achieve a professional
sound (for electric players)
- Introduction to musical notation
- Playing melodies on the guitar
- Picking and strumming
- Proper tuning of the guitar
- Basic right- and left-hand techniques
- Care and maintenance of your instrument
- Open chords
- Chord progressions
- Introduction to tablature
- Choosing songs to learn- based on the students musical
interest and skill level
- Using proper amplifier settings to achieve a professional
sound (for electric players)
- Basic scale patterns for aspiring lead guitarists.
These are the basis for most rock, country and blues
- Barre chords
- Introduction to music theory
- Chord construction formulas
- Fingerpicking, hybrid picking
- Slide guitar techniques
- Techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends,
slides, vibrato, two-handed tapping etc.
- "Nashville number system" - easily follow chord charts
or transpose a song to any key
- Ear-training or "playing by ear" - learn a tune while
playing along with CDs and the radio
- Use of dynamics, tension/resolve, and other "nuance"
techniques to create a dramatic guitar solo
- Using effects processors (distortion pedals,
compressors, digital delay, reverb, etc) to achieve a
professional sound
These are the basis for most rock, country and blues
- Barre chords
- Introduction to music theory
- Chord construction formulas
- Fingerpicking, hybrid picking
- Slide guitar techniques
- Techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends,
slides, vibrato, two-handed tapping etc.
- "Nashville number system" - easily follow chord charts
or transpose a song to any key
- Ear-training or "playing by ear" - learn a tune while
playing along with CDs and the radio
- Use of dynamics, tension/resolve, and other "nuance"
techniques to create a dramatic guitar solo
- Using effects processors (distortion pedals,
compressors, digital delay, reverb, etc) to achieve a
professional sound
| Bass Lessons: |
| Banjo Lessons: |
- Notes on the bass
- Introduction to musical notation- Bass Clef
- Proper tuning of the bass
- Basic right- and left-hand techniques
- Care and maintenance of your instrument
- Chord progressions
- Introduction to tablature
- Choosing songs to learn- based on the
students musical interest and skill level
- Using proper amplifier settings to achieve
a professional sound
-Introduction to Pop & Slap Style
-Scales & Arpeggios
- Introduction to musical notation- Bass Clef
- Proper tuning of the bass
- Basic right- and left-hand techniques
- Care and maintenance of your instrument
- Chord progressions
- Introduction to tablature
- Choosing songs to learn- based on the
students musical interest and skill level
- Using proper amplifier settings to achieve
a professional sound
-Introduction to Pop & Slap Style
-Scales & Arpeggios
- Proper tuning
- Use of finger picks
- Proper right and left hand positions
- Chords and melodies
- Reading tablature
- Left-hand techniques such as hammer-ons,
pull-offs, bends,slides, etc.
- "Scruggs-style" fingerpicking rolls
- Playing standards like Cripple Creek (mp3),
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (mp3), Dueling Banjos
- Improvisation (jamming)
- Use of finger picks
- Proper right and left hand positions
- Chords and melodies
- Reading tablature
- Left-hand techniques such as hammer-ons,
pull-offs, bends,slides, etc.
- "Scruggs-style" fingerpicking rolls
- Playing standards like Cripple Creek (mp3),
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (mp3), Dueling Banjos
- Improvisation (jamming)
$20 per 1/2 hour lesson.
Call 720-277-5336
Call 720-277-5336
Meet the instructor:
My name is Phil Nadeau. I have been playing guitar for more than 30 years.
My father gave me my first electric guitar in 1973.
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-Playing professionally since 1983 - I have performed at nightclubs, fairs
and casinos across the country- from Nashville to Las Vegas, Milwaukee to
Amarillo.
-Multi-instrumentalist - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, bass, banjo,
mandolin, dobro
-Music producer/songwriter - I've recorded many song demos for myself
and other songwriters in my home recording studio. My original guitar
instrumental "highlight" music was heard by a nationwide television
audience during the CBS broadcast of the 2003 NCAA basketball
tournament and during the 2004 NBA playoffs on TNT.
click links below to hear samples of my music:
-Guitar-builder - I build and sell custom electric guitars with the help of my
father, who is also a guitar picker and a very skilled woodworker.
- Guitar repair - I can also perform minor repairs, adjustments and set-up
work on your guitar including: setting intonation, string height, truss rod
adjustment, fret dressing, nut slot adjustments, lacquer finish touch-ups,
pickup replacement, electronics repairs.
Very reasonable rates. click here for repair info
My name is Phil Nadeau. I have been playing guitar for more than 30 years.
My father gave me my first electric guitar in 1973.
read more>>...
-Playing professionally since 1983 - I have performed at nightclubs, fairs
and casinos across the country- from Nashville to Las Vegas, Milwaukee to
Amarillo.
-Multi-instrumentalist - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, bass, banjo,
mandolin, dobro
-Music producer/songwriter - I've recorded many song demos for myself
and other songwriters in my home recording studio. My original guitar
instrumental "highlight" music was heard by a nationwide television
audience during the CBS broadcast of the 2003 NCAA basketball
tournament and during the 2004 NBA playoffs on TNT.
click links below to hear samples of my music:
-Guitar-builder - I build and sell custom electric guitars with the help of my
father, who is also a guitar picker and a very skilled woodworker.
- Guitar repair - I can also perform minor repairs, adjustments and set-up
work on your guitar including: setting intonation, string height, truss rod
adjustment, fret dressing, nut slot adjustments, lacquer finish touch-ups,
pickup replacement, electronics repairs.
Very reasonable rates. click here for repair info
Indian-owned
and operated!
I am a proud
member of the
Little Traverse
Bay Bands of
Odawa Indians.
and operated!
I am a proud
member of the
Little Traverse
Bay Bands of
Odawa Indians.
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NADEAU GUITARS
"If you build it, they will strum."
"If you build it, they will strum."
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santana style - performed by Phil Nadeau