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+1 415-845-5471
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143 Turk St, San Francisco, CA, 94102
b/t Jones St & Taylor St
Tenderloin
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0.2 miBig Bus Tours Stop 6, Hilton Hotel
0.2 miPowell
0.3 miCivic Center
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Specialties
Guitar Lessons in Rock, Blues, Metal, and Singer-Songwriter Folk styles. Individual instruction for guitarists of all levels from absolute beginner to rock star.
History
Established in 2001.
If you are expecting a story on how I took guitar lessons when I was younger and it made me into the player I am now, you will be disappointed. I took lessons as a kid, hated them, and learned nothing. When I finally learned how to really play from professional players, I had to unlearn most of the stuff that had been ‘taught’ to me.
Fast forward to 2001: I had been teaching SAT, GRE, and LSAT test prep for 5 years when the bassist in my band having seen me explain a particularly complex theoretical topic to a fellow guitarist, suggested I teach guitar.
«Guitar lessons are worthless,» I said. «Its a clueless industry built on keeping players mediocre.»
«Why don’t you revolutionize the industry?: he replied.
Taking that as a challenge I began taking on students, took a job in a music school, and was teaching full time by 2003.
My success with students of all levels has been unparallelled,
10 years of full time teaching has proved that there is a better way to learn guitar.
Meet the Business Owner
Jay S.
Business Owner
I am an experienced musician, teacher and performer with lots of patience and a strong memory of not being able to tune my guitar, let alone communicate with it.
Years later I can play and express things on the instrument I couldn’t even conceive of when I first started. When I first learned how approach the instrument properly I made more progress in 3 months than I had in 3 YEARS of playing. I had tried lessons but they just showed me what to learn, not HOW TO LEARN IT.
I learned a better way, largely from almost famous rockers and professional New York Jazz musicians. I quickly learned that Rock, Folk, Metal, and Blues require a much different perspective from Jazz and Classical. So I spent years adapting their methods to popular music styles, both for my own playing and writing and for my students.
My goal has always been to teach my students (and myself) how to express themselves on the guitar, find their own voice, and, quite simply, play the hell out of the damned thing.
