Experienced tutor in Guitar in St. Louis, Greg offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

"Greg is as original a musician as you can get it. His concepts and musicality are very personal and his approach to music and teaching is incredibly proficient, honest, unique and most importantly, inspiring. As a fellow profesional musician, I find every occasion that I've had to share knowledge with him incredibly enriching, and feel fortunate to have been able to do so."

Greg has years of experience and offered me tons of insight into my guitar playing habits. He offered me some great new ways of thinking laterally and exploring new ideas.

"Greg is as original a musician as you can get. His concepts and musicality are very personal and his approach to music and teaching is incredibly proficient, honest, unique and most importantly, inspiring. As a fellow professional musician, I find every occasion that I've had to share knowledge with him incredibly enriching, and feel fortunate to have been able to do so."

“Greg is a profoundly knowledgeable guitarist. His passion for music shows when he teaches. He will answer questions with a vast amount of musical ideas and information and consistently gauges the student’s comprehension to make sure the lesson is still effective. With such an advanced skill set as a jazz player, Greg is aware of the different levels to knowledge of musical systems-presumably from having to learn them himself, so his inclination to to check in with students and ask them questions to help them specifically apply new knowledge is a useful and mature approach. Personally, I walked away with more information than I could practically retain and would have benefited from recording the lessons; all of the information that did stick was very impactful to my playing and opened up my musical mind helping me learn how to play and make sense of sounds I’d heard but never understood in jazz music. I walked out of each lesson with practical things to work on-both specific and general.”

Greg helped me discover new harmonic ideas and ways to approach composing contemporary music on guitar. I often struggle with abandoning pieces or losing focus and inspiration when trying to keep track of ideas, and we discussed strategies to address these issues and how to effectively bring compositions to completion. During the lesson, Greg brought up specific examples using pieces from his own repertoire. Towards the end of the lesson, we discussed an interesting harmonic concept and how to systematically explore it to discover interesting chord voicings through experimentation, as well as a concrete call to action to finish a composition using the ideas we discussed. The insight and ideas I got from this lesson are the perfect jumping-off point I needed to begin exploring the guitar in a new way and start developing my own solo guitar repertoire.

Greg is such a creative person. The ways he explores, explains, and goes deep into exercises and practice ideas are really inspiring!

I'm writing because I recommend Greg. He took the time to hear my concerns about guitar and my struggle, and he created a personalized approach to the lesson, based on how I think about music. He gave me some really helpful tips to make it easy, and also helped me to understand how all of these elements were connected to what I was striving for. He knows how to make people comfortable in the growing process!

Greg is an awesome instructor who really knows his stuff. He is easy-going, kind, and enthusiastic about your improvement. Greg makes learning guitar feel really exciting and understandable, even if you're a beginner like me! He creates an environment that challenges you but also supports you so that you feel encouraged when trying out new techniques. Cannot recommend him enough.